2006 RANK        2005 RANK        NAME        COUNTRY 1        1        Harvard University        United States 2        3        University of Cambridge        United Kingdom 3        4        University of Oxford        United Kingdom 4        2        Massachusetts Institute of Technology        United States 4        7        Yale University        United States 6        5        Stanford University        United States 7        8        California Institute of Technology        United States 8        6        University of California, Berkeley        United States 9        13        Imperial College London        United Kingdom 10        9        Princeton University        United States 11        17        University of Chicago        United States 12        20        Columbia University        United States 13        11        Duke University        United States 14        15        Beijing University        China 15        14        Cornell University        United States 16        23        Australian National University        Australia 17        11        London School of Economics and Political Science        United Kingdom 18        24        Ecole Normale Superieure        France 19=        22        National University of Singapore        Singapore 19=        16        University of Tokyo        Japan 21        24        McGill University        Canada 22        19        University of Melbourne        Australia 23        27        Johns Hopkins University        United States 24        21        Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich        Switzerland 25        28        University College London        United Kingdom 26        32        University of Pennsylvania        United States 27        29        University of Toronto        Canada 28        62        Tsing Hua University        China 29=        31        Kyoto University        Japan 29=        36        University of Michigan        United States 31        37        University of California, Los Angeles        United States 32        26        University of Texas at Austin        United States 33=        30        University of Edinburgh        United Kingdom 33=        41        University of Hong Kong        Hong Kong 35=        44        Carnegie Mellon University        United States 35=        38        University of Sydney        Australia 37        10        Ecole Polytechnique        France 38        33        Monash University        Australia 39        88        University of Geneva        Switzerland 40        35        University of Manchester        United Kingdom 41        40        University of New South Wales        Australia 42        46        Northwestern University        United States 43        56        New York University        United States 44        42        University of California, San Diego        United States 45        47        University of Queensland        Australia 46=        52        University of Auckland        New Zealand 46=        73        Kings College London        United Kingdom 48=        73        University of Rochester        United States 48=        58        Washington University in St. Louis        United States 50=        38        University of British Colombia        Canada 50=        51        Chinese University of Hong Kong        Hong Kong 52        69        Sciences Po Paris        France 53        114        Vanderbilt University        United States 54=        71        Brown University        United States 54=        66        University of Copenhagen        Denmark 56        141        Emory University        United States 57        50        Indian Institute of Technology        India 58=        45        Universitat Heidelberg        Germany 58=        43        Hong Kong University of Science & Technology        Hong Kong 60        109        Case Western Reserve University        United States 61=        117        Dartmouth College        United States 61=        48        Nanyang Technological University        Singapore 63        93        Seoul National University        South Korea 64=        49        Bristol University        United Kingdom 64=        34        Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne        Switzerland 66        54        Boston University        United States 67        70        Eindhoven University of Technology        Netherlands 68        84        Indian Institute of Management        India 69        58        University of Amsterdam        Netherlands 70=        103        School of Oriental and African Studies        United Kingdom 70=        105        Osaka University        Japan 72        92        Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon        France 73        77        University of Warwick        United Kingdom 74        95        Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico        Mexico 75        127        University of Basel        Switzerland 76        88        Catholic University of Louvain        Belgium 77        58        University of Illinois        United States 78        111        Trinity College Dublin        Ireland 79=        186        University of Otago        New Zealand 79=        73        University of Wisconsin        United States 81        101        University of Glasgow        United Kingdom 82=        67        Macquarie University        Australia 82=        105        Technische Universitat Munchen        Germany 84        88        University of Washington        United States 85        97        University of Nottingham        United Kingdom 86        53        Delft University of Technology        Netherlands 87        65        University of Vienna        Austria 88        193        University of Pittsburgh        United States 89        133        University of Lausanne        Switzerland 90=        143        University of Birmingham        United Kingdom 90=        138        Leiden University        Netherlands 92        57        Erasmus University Rotterdam        Netherlands 93=        79        Moscow State University        Russia 93=        88        Universite Pierre-et-Marie-Curie        France 95        120        Utrecht University        Netherlands 96        95        Catholic University of Leuven        Belgium 97        108        Wageningen University        Netherlands 98        55        Universitat Munchen        Germany 99=        112        Queen Mary and Westfield College        United Kingdom 99=        64        Pennsylvania State University        United States 101        124        University of Southern California        United States 102=        159        Georgetown University        United States 102=        150        Rice University        United States 102=        143        University of Sheffield        United Kingdom 105=        80        University of Adelaide        Australia 105=        112        Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin        Germany 105=        100        University of Sus***        United Kingdom 108        114        National Taiwan University        Taiwan 109=        136        University of St Andrews        United Kingdom 109=        85        University of Zurich        Switzerland 111=        133        University of Maryland        United States 111=        180        Uppsala University        Sweden 111=        199        Wake Forest University        United States 111=        80        University of Western Australia        Australia 115        217        University of Twente        Netherlands 116=        72        Fudan University        China 116=        62        University of Helsinki        Finland 118        99        Tokyo Institute of Technology        Japan 119        77        Hebrew University of Jerusalem        Israel 120        215        Keio University        Japan 121        103        University of Leeds        United Kingdom 122        180        Lund University        Sweden 123        143        University of North Carolina        United States 124=        68        University of Massachusetts, Amherst        United States 124=        109        University of York        United Kingdom 126        138        University of Aarhus        Denmark 127        61        Purdue University        United States 128=        222        Kyushu University        Japan 128=        129        Nagoya University        Japan 130=        164        Tufts University        United States 130=        105        University of Virginia        United States 132        83        University of Durham        United Kingdom 133=        149        University of Alberta        Canada 133=        259        Vrije University Brussels        Belgium 133=        157        Hokkaido University        Japan 133=        168        University of Newcastle upon Tyne        United Kingdom 137        177        Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen        Netherlands 138        86        Vienna University of Technology        Austria 139        119        University of Liverpool        United Kingdom 140        234        Cranfield University        United Kingdom 141=        159        University of California, Santa Barbara        United States 141=        228        Cardiff University        United Kingdom 141=        219        University of Ghent        Belgium 141=        206        University of Southampton        United Kingdom 145        147        Georgia Institute of Technology        United States 146        82        RMIT University        Australia 147=        166        Chalmers University of Technology        Sweden 147=        188        Tel Aviv University        Israel 149        172        Freie Universitat Berlin        Germany 150=        184        Korea University        South Korea 150=        125        Texas A&M University        United States 152        179        University of Notre Dame        United States 153        130        University of Bath        United Kingdom 154        178        City University of Hong Kong        Hong Kong 155        184        McMaster University        Canada 156=        101        Curtin University of Technology        Australia 156=        114        Universitat Gottingen        Germany 158=        194        Technion - Israel Institute of Technology        Israel 158=        240        Universitat Ulm        Germany 158=        202        Waseda University        Japan 161=        121        Chulalongkorn University        Thailand 161=        131        Universite Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I        France 163        121        Michigan State University        United States 164        219        Saint-Petersburg State University        Russia 165=        76        Universite libre de Bruxelles        Belgium 165=        93        University of Science and Technology of China        China 165=        175        State University of New York at Stony Brook        United States 168=        199        George Washington University        United States 168=        136        Tohoku University        Japan 170=        206        University of California, Davis        United States 170=        260        Universitat Tubingen        Germany 172=        172        Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen        Germany 172=        157        University of Maastricht        Netherlands 172=        196        Royal Institute of Technology        Sweden 172=        254        Yeshiva University        United States 176        261        Queens University        Canada 177        138        University of Oslo        Norway 178        228        University of Bern        Switzerland 179        169        Shanghai Jiao Tong University        China 180        150        nanjing University        China 181=        172        Kobe University        Japan 181=        132        University of Montreal        Canada 183=        192        Jawaharlal Nehru University        India 183=        186        Free University of Amsterdam        Netherlands 185        289        Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia        Malaysia 186        165        University of Innsbruck        Austria 187=        213        Brandeis University        United States 187=        142        Universitat Frankfurt am Main        Germany 187=        150        University of Minnesota        United States 190=        240        University of Barcelona        Spain 190=        248        University of Reading        United Kingdom 192=        169        University of Malaya        Malaysia 192=        118        Queensland University of Technology        Australia 194        154        Technical University of Denmark        Denmark 195        267        University of Aberdeen        United Kingdom 196        308        University of Wollongong        Australia 197        125        Universita degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza        Italy 198=        254        University of California, Irvine        United States 198=        143        Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology        South Korea 200        305        Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)        France