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Top 300 universities in the world 2011

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Cambridge came in as the top dog of the leading universities in the world for the second consecutive year, followed by Harvard, MIT and Yale, according to the latest world's university rankings released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a London-based global company specializing in education and study abroad.

The QS currently evaluates over 700 universities in the world and ranks the top 400 based on the following six indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty student ratio, proportion of international students and proportion of international faculty. This is the 8th year the QS published the world's university rankings of its kind. To produce this year's rankings, the QS surveyed more than 33,000 global academics and 16,000 graduate employers.

Despite Cambridge's most coveted performance, the U.S. universities maintain the dominant position, taking 20 of the top 50 spots and bragging 70 of the top 300. The United Kingdom has a total of 37 universities making their way into the top 300, second only to the U.S., and followed by Germany (24), Japan (15) and the Netherlands (12).

This year's top 5 Asian universities include: University of Hong Kong, China (22nd), University of Tokyo, Japan (25th), National University of Singapore (28th), Kyoto University, Japan (32nd) and Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (37th).

A total of 16 Chinese universities are included in this year's top 300 list, with 8 from the mainland, 6 from Hong Kong and 2 from Taiwan. Of the Chinese mainland universities, Peking University is the best performing one, taking the 46th spot, ahead of Tsinghua University (47th) and Fudan University (91st).

Besides the overall rankings, the QS also ranks the universities in five broad faculty areas: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences & Management.

? Full list: world’s top 300 universities 2011

? Top 300 universities by faculty area:

? arts & humanities ? engineering & technology ? life sciences & medicine

? natural sciences ? social sciences & management

Following are the top 300 universities in the world compiled by the QS:

Rank	Institution	Country	Domestic Fees ($)		International Fees ($)		Score
			undergrad	postgrad	undergrad	postgrad
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	20,000 - 22,000	100
2	Harvard University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	99.34
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	99.21
4	Yale University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	32,000 - 34,000	38,000 - 40,000	32,000 - 34,000	98.84
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	98
6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	30,000 - 32,000	32,000 - 34,000	97.64
7	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	6,000 - 8,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	97.33
8	University of Chicago	United States	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	96.08
9	University of Pennsylvania	United States	40,000 - 42,000	26,000 - 28,000	40,000 - 42,000	26,000 - 28,000	95.73
10	Columbia University	United States	42,000 - 44,000	38,000 - 40,000	42,000 - 44,000	38,000 - 40,000	95.28
11	Stanford University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	93.44
12	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	93.02
13	Princeton University	United States	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	91.91
14	University of Michigan	United States	10,000 - 12,000	16,000 - 18,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	91.28
15	Cornell University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	90.72
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	89.96
17	McGill University	Canada	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	14,000 - 16,000	89.56
18	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	89.5
19	Duke University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	89.25
20	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	2,000 - 4,000	6,000 - 8,000	16,000 - 18,000	18,000 - 20,000	87.83
21	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	87.64
22	University of Hong Kong	China	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	14,000 - 16,000	14,000 - 16,000	87.04
23	University of Toronto	Canada	10,000 - 12,000	12,000 - 14,000	32,000 - 34,000	28,000 - 30,000	86.16
24	Northwestern University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	85.91
25	The University of Tokyo	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	85.9
26	Australian National University	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	40,000 - 42,000	28,000 - 30,000	85.69
27	King’s College London (University of London)	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	6,000 - 8,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	84.96
28	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	34,000 - 36,000	6,000 - 8,000	40,000 - 42,000	18,000 - 20,000	84.07
29	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	8,000 - 10,000	18,000 - 20,000	22,000 - 24,000	83.97
30	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	6,000 - 8,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	83.65
31	The University of Melbourne	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	28,000 - 30,000	24,000 - 26,000	83.63
32	Kyoto University	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	82.86
33	école Normale Supérieure, Paris	France	< 1,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	82.44
34	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	81.86
35	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	81.75
36	école Polytechnique	France	< 1,000	6,000 - 8,000	12,000 - 14,000	8,000 - 10,000	80.54
37	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	China	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	12,000 - 14,000	12,000 - 14,000	79.5
38	The University of Sydney	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	30,000 - 32,000	28,000 - 30,000	79.3
39	Brown University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	79.23
40	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	8,000 - 10,000	4,000 - 6,000	79.09
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	8,000 - 10,000	10,000 - 12,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	78.98
42	Seoul National University	Korea, South	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	78.65
43	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	42,000 - 44,000	36,000 - 38,000	42,000 - 44,000	36,000 - 38,000	78.46
44	New York University (NYU)	United States	40,000 - 42,000	34,000 - 36,000	40,000 - 42,000	34,000 - 36,000	77.71
45	Osaka University	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	8,000 - 10,000	77.55
46	Peking University	China	< 1,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	77.44
47	Tsinghua University	China	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	4,000 - 6,000	6,000 - 8,000	76.25
48	The University of Queensland	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	22,000 - 24,000	12,000 - 14,000	75.88
49	The University of New South Wales	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	8,000 - 10,000	28,000 - 30,000	28,000 - 30,000	75.67
50	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	8,000 - 10,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	74.86