2006 Rank 2005 Rank University Country Overall Score
1 Harvard University US 100.0
2 Cambridge University UK 96.8
3 Oxford University UK 92.7
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 89.2
4 Yale University US 89.2
6 Stanford University US 85.4
7 California Institute of Technology US 83.8
8 University of California, Berkeley US 80.4
9 Imperial College London UK 78.6
10 Princeton University US 74.2
11 University of Chicago US 69.8
12 Columbia University US 69.0
13 Duke University US 68.3
14 Beijing University China 67.9
15 Cornell University US 65.9
16 Australian National University Australia 64.8
17 London School of Economics UK 63.9
18 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France 63.3
19 National University of Singapore Singapore 63.1
20 Tokyo University Japan 63.1
21 McGill University Canada 62.3
22 Melbourne University Australia 61.6
23 Johns Hopkins University US 61.3
24 ETH Zurich Switzerland 59.7
25 University College London UK 58.7
26 Pennsylvania University US 57.8
27 University of Toronto Canada 57.7
28 Tsing Hua University China 56.1
29 Kyoto University Japan 56.0
30 University of Michigan US 56.0
31 University of California, Los Angeles US 55.9
32 University of Texas at Austin US 55.0
33 Edinburgh University UK 54.8
34 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 54.8
35 Carnegie Mellon University US 54.6
35 Sydney University Australia 54.6
37 Ecole Polytechnique France 53.0
38 Monash University Australia 52.6
39 Geneva University Switzerland 49.9
40 Manchester University UK 49.0
41 University of New South Wales Australia 48.2
42 Northwestern University US 47.9
43 New York University US 47.6
44 University of California, San Diego US 47.5
45 Queensland University Australia 47.2
46 Auckland University New Zealand 46.8
47 King's College London UK 46.8
48 Rochester University US 46.7
49 Washington University, St Louis US 46.7
50 University of British Columbia Canada 46.4
51 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 46.4
52 Sciences Po France 45.6
53 Vanderbilt University US 45.3
54 Brown University US 45.0
54 Copenhagen University Denmark 45.0
56 Emory University US 44.9
57 Indian Institutes of Technology India 44.5
58 Heidelberg University Germany 44.3
58 Hong Kong University Sci & Technol Hong Kong 44.3
60 Case Western Reserve University US 44.2
61 Dartmouth College US 43.7
62 Nanyang Technological University Singapore 43.7
63 Seoul National University South Korea 43.6
64 Bristol University UK 43.2
64 Ecole Polytech Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 43.2
66 Boston University US 42.9
67 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 42.1
68 Indian Institutes of Management India 41.6
69 Amsterdam University Netherlands 41.3
70 School of Oriental and African Studies UK 40.4
70 Osaka University Japan 40.4
72 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon France 40.1
73 Warwick University UK 40.0
74 National Autonomous Univ of Mexico Mexico 39.8
75 Basel University Switzerland 39.7
76 Catholic University of Louvain (French) Belgium 39.4
77 University of Illinois US 39.3
78 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 39.1
79 Otago University New Zealand 38.5
80 University of Wisconsin US 38.5
81 Glasgow University UK 38.4
82 Macquarie University Australia 38.3
82 Technical University Munich Germany 38.3
84 Washington University US 38.2
85 Nottingham University UK 38.1
86 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 38.0
87 Vienna University Austria 37.8
88 Pittsburgh University US 37.6
89 Lausanne University Switzerland 37.3
90 Birmingham University UK 37.2
90 Leiden University Netherlands 37.2
92 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 37.1
93 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 37.0
93 Pierre and Marie Curie University France 37.0
95 Utrecht University Netherlands 36.7
96 Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish) Belgium 36.6
97 Wageningen University Netherlands 36.5
98 Munich University Germany 36.4
99 Queen Mary, University of London UK 36.3
99 Pennsylvania State University US 36.3
101 University of Southern California US 36.2
102 Georgetown University US 36.1
102 Rice University US 36.1
102 Sheffield University UK 36.1
105 University of Adelaide Australia 35.9
105 Humboldt University Berlin Germany 35.9
105 Sussex University UK 35.9
108 National Taiwan University Taiwan 35.8
109 St Andrews University UK 35.7
110 Zurich University Switzerland 35.7
111 Maryland University US 35.6
112 Uppsala University Sweden 35.6
113 Wake Forest University US 35.6
114 University of Western Australia Australia 35.6
115 University of Twente Netherlands 35.5
116 Fudan University China 35.4
117 Helsinki University Finland 35.4
118 Institute of Technology Japan 35.3
119 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 35.2
120 Keio University Japan 35.1
121 Leeds University UK 35.0
122 Lund University Sweden 34.8
123 University of North Carolina US 34.6
124 University of Massachusetts Amherst US 34.5
124 York University UK 34.5
126 Aarhus University Denmark 34.4
127 Purdue University US 34.2
128 Kyushu University Japan 34.1
128 Nagoya University Japan 34.1
130 Tufts University US 33.9
131 Virginia University US 33.9
132 Durham University UK 33.8
133 University of Alberta Canada 33.6
133 Brussels Free University (Flemish) Belgium 33.6
133 Hokkaido University Japan 33.6
133 Newcastle upon Tyne University UK 33.6
137 Nijmegen University Netherlands 33.5
138 Vienna Technical University Austria 33.3
139 Liverpool University UK 33.2
140 Cranfield University UK 33.0
141 University of California, Santa Barbara US 32.9
141 Cardiff University UK 32.9
141 Ghent University Belgium 32.9
141 Southampton University UK 32.9
145 Georgia Institute of Technology US 32.8
146 RMIT University Australia 32.5
147 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 32.4
147 Tel Aviv University Israel 32.4
149 Free University Berlin Germany 32.3
150 Korea University South Korea 32.2
150 Texas A&M University US 32.2
152 Notre Dame University US 32.0
153 Bath University UK 31.8
154 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 31.7
155 McMaster University Canada 31.6
156 Curtin University of Technology Australia 31.5
156 Göttingen University Germany 31.5
158 Technion — Israel Inst of Technology Israel 31.4
158 University of Ulm Germany 31.4
158 Waseda University Japan 31.4
161 Chulalongkorn University Thailand 31.2
161 University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg France 31.2
163 Michigan State University US 31.1
164 Saint Petersburg State University Russia 30.7
165 Brussels Free University (French) Belgium 30.5
166 University of Science & Technology of China China 30.5
167 State University of New York, Stony Brook US 30.5
168 George Washington University US 30.4
169 Tohoku University Japan 30.4
170 University of California, Davis US 30.3
171 University of Tubingen Germany 30.3
172 Aachen RWT Germany 30.2
173 Maastricht University Netherlands 30.2
172 Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 30.2
172 Yeshiva University US 30.2
176 Queen's University Canada 30.0
177 Oslo University Canada 30.0
178 University of Bern Switzerland 29.8
179 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 29.7
180 Nanjing University China 29.6
181 Kobe University Japan 29.4
181 Université de Montréal Canada 29.4
183 Jawaharlal Nehru University India 29.3
183 Free University of Amsterdam Netherlands 29.3
185 niversity of Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia 29.2
186 Innsbruck University Austria 29.1
187 Brandeis University US 29.0
187 Frankfurt University Germany 29.0
187 University of Minnesota US 29.0
190 University of Barcelona Spain 28.9
190 Reading University UK 28.9
192 Malaya University Malaysia 28.6
192 Queensland University of Technology Australia 28.6
194 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 28.5
195 Aberdeen University UK 28.3
196 University of Wollongong Australia 28.2
197 La Sapienza University, Rome Italy 28.1
198 University of California, Irvine US 28.0
