Top Universities In The World

Education is the one most important aspect in anyone's life. Good education is the path to the brighter future. In the world, there are thousands of universities and educational institutes but there are few dream institutes for the learners / scholars from all over the world. To rank the various educational institutes and universities various organizations have started ranking through various methodologies. Points are given to various universities on different parameters and finally the ranking is done. The popular few world universities ranking are THE QS World University Ranking, US News Universities Ranking, ARWU/ Shanghai Ranking are few popular methodologies and ranking list.

The list of Top 50 Universities in the world according to QS World University Ranking 2011 / 2011:

• University of Cambridge
• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Yale University
• University of Oxford
• Imperial College London
• UCL (University College London)
• University of Chicago
• University of Pennsylvania
• Columbia University
• Stanford University
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• Princeton University
• University of Michigan
• Cornell University
• Johns Hopkins University
• McGill University
• ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
• Duke University
• University of Edinburgh
• University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
• University of Hong Kong
• University of Toronto
• Northwestern University
• Australian National University
• King’s College London (University of London)
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
• The University of Manchester
• University of Bristol
• The University of Melbourne
• Kyoto University
• École Normale Supérieure, Paris
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
• École Polytechnique
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• The University of Sydney
• Brown University
• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Seoul National University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• New York University (NYU)
• Osaka University
• Peking University
• Tsinghua University
• The University of Queensland
• The University of New South Wales
• The University of Warwick

QS Ranking 2011 Link: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011

Visit the official websites of the universities for details.