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Top European universities for 2011-12

By Lin Liyao: 0 Comment(s)Print E-mail China.org.cn, October 12, 2011

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California Institute of Technology has been ranked the world's best university for 2011-2012 in a list published in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine in early October. It is the first time that CIT has outranked Harvard University on the list, as the latter slipped to joint-second with Stanford after having topped the list since 2004.

In order to capture the full range of university activities across the globe, the rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators which are grouped into five headline categories: teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 percent of the overall ranking score), research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 percent), citations — research influence (worth 30 percent), industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 percent) and international outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 percent).

Apart from an overall ranking of the world's top 400 universities, the magazine also lists the best universities by region and subject.

? Full list: Top 400 universities in the world 2011-12

? Top universities by region: Asia, North America

The following are the Times Higher Education magazine's top European universities for 2011-12:

Rank	World Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall Score
1	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.6
2	6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.4
3	8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.7
4	15	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	85
5	17	University College London	United Kingdom	83.2
6	32	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	73.1
7	36	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	72
8	45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München	Germany	67.6
9	46	école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	66.3
10	47	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	66
11	48	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	65.7
12	56	King's College London	United Kingdom	63.2
13	59	école Normale Supérieure	France	62
14	61	University of Zürich	Switzerland	61.9
15	63	école Polytechnique	France	61.5
16	66	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	60.9
17	67	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	60.8
18	68	Utrecht University	Netherlands	60.4
19	69	Georg-August-Universit?t G?ttingen	Germany	60.3
20	73	Universit?t Heidelberg	Germany	58.7
21	75	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	57.4
22	79	Leiden University	Netherlands	57
23	80	Lund University	Sweden	56.9
24	83	Durham University	United Kingdom	56.4
25	84	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	56
26	85	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	55.7
27	87	Uppsala University	Sweden	55.2
28	88	Technische Universit?t München	Germany	55.1
29	91	University of Helsinki	Finland	54.8
30	92	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	54.7
31	99	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	53.9
32	101	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	53.6
33	102	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	53.4
34	104	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	53.1
35	106	Ghent University	Belgium	53
36	107	Royal Holloway, University of London	United Kingdom	52.9
37	109	Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin	Germany	52.6
38	111	Universit?t Basel	Switzerland	52.2
39	112	University of Bern	Switzerland	52.1
40	115	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	51.3
41	116	Université de Lausanne	Switzerland	51.2
42	117	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland	51.1
43	121	University of York	United Kingdom	50.4
44	125	Aarhus University	Denmark	50
45	127	Queen Mary, University of London	United Kingdom	49.9
46	127	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	49.9
47	130	University of Geneva	Switzerland	49.8
48	131	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	49.7
49	131	Stockholm University	Sweden	49.7
50	133	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	49.5