Do You Agree With This List Of The 50 Best Universities In The World?
11 years ago

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I have come to accept that my beloved DeVry University will never make any of these “Top Whatever” lists besides ones ranking obesity, worthlessness of degree, and party chatrooms. I know you folks will want to see the results of this list, though, so without further ado, here are the Center for World University Rankings’ top 50 ranked universities in the world.

1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. University of Cambridge
5. University of Oxford
6. Columbia University
7. University of California, Berkeley
8. University of Chicago
9. Princeton University
10. Yale University
11. Cornell University
12. California Institute of Technology
13. University of Tokyo
14. University of Pennsylvania
15. University of California, Los Angeles
16. Kyoto University
17. New York University
18. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
19. Johns Hopkins University
20. University of California, San Diego
21. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
22. Hebrew University of Jerusalem
23. Northwestern University
24. Seoul National University
25. University of Wisconsin-Madison
26. Duke University
27. University of California, San Francisco
28. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
29. University of Texas at Austin
30. University College London
31. University of Toronto
32. University of Washington-Seattle
33. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
34. Keio University
35. École normale supérieure – Paris
36. École Polytechnique
37. Rockefeller University
38. Weizmann Institute of Science
39. Imperial College of London
40. Waseda University
41. University of Virginia
42. McGill University
43. Osaka University
44. Dartmouth College
45. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
46. Pennsylvania State University
47. Ohio State University
48. Lomonosov Moscow State University
49. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
50. University of Paris-Sud

The U.S. bringing home 18 of the top 25 “best university” spots. It’s a TFM. Even if you’re like me and your school didn’t make this list, you’ve gotta respect that. Click here to see the full top 1000 ranking.

[via the Center for World University Rankings]

  4. SPEal Team Six

    “Quality of Education, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university’s size [25%]”. Worst way to measure quality of education I’ve ever seen.

    11 years ago at 12:15 pm
  6. Cockmeatsandwich

    How in the hell is Wisconsin 25th in the world, ahead of Duke and Dartmouth? I know they’re a solid school, but they aren’t that good.

    11 years ago at 12:33 pm
    1. Frattylight_94

      They’ve spent billions on Engineering and Physics programs, UW is the home for most of the Nuclear Fusion research. So that might be why

      11 years ago at 1:10 pm
  7. Dthesmith

    Bullshit, schools that are considered pubic ivy’s ranking around 550, below some shittier schools that happen to have 5-10 thousand more students. No way SUNY Albany is a better school then U Dayton or RIT. This list is bogus.

    11 years ago at 12:37 pm
    1. ShepMM

      So if someone double posts the site fucking loses it, but we’re gonna let “pubic ivy’s” slide?

      11 years ago at 2:57 pm
    1. Fratastic_Mr_Fox

      Not defending Rutgers or Wisconsin, but look at their budget differentials and amount of research published (which is what this ranking is based on).

      Dartmouth is an undergraduate institution, which is not the focus of this list.

      11 years ago at 4:21 pm
    1. Col_Reb_is_my_mascot

      For all intents and purposes, Dartmouth is a research university but keeps the college name. Dartmouth University (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_University) actually existed for a short time when the state of New Hampshire attempted to force the college to become a public school. This formed the basis for the landmark Supreme Court decision in Dartmouth College v. Woodward ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College_v._Woodward) that has implications far beyond the American university system.

      11 years ago at 1:16 pm
      1. Fratastic_Mr_Fox

        You’re technically correct, but when I think “research university”, I think Johns Hopkins or Michigan. Schools like that are where the real research is happening and billions of dollars are being spent + generated. Dartmouth is a small fish in a big pond if we’re talking about research and grad school.

        11 years ago at 4:26 pm