TOP 200 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2006 The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in partnership with the

research resources of, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the international education and career development group) has recently published the Top 200 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS for the year 2006.This is the third year that the THES QS World University Rankings has been published by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES). From India, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and the Jawaharlal Nehru University figure in the top 200 universities and are ranked at 57, 68 and 183rd positions respectively. Here it may be pertinent to mention that the Jawaharlal Nehru University which ranked 192 in 2005 has moved to the 183 rd rank this year, while IIM from rank 84 in 2005 has now moved to the 68th position. The IIT meanwhile had slid from the 50th rank in 2005 to 57 rank in 2006. However, among the world's 100 best technology universities. survey for 2006 published by the THES, IITs have retained their number three ranking while IIM are placed at rank 68. In the process of identifying the top universities worldwide for 2006, the research methodology adopted by QS included peer review of 3703 research-active academics worldwide who identified up to 30 universities in the world - best for research within their own field of expertise ; recruiter review of over 736 graduate employers, from all regions of the world ; ratio of international to total faculty; ratio of international students to total students and ratio of total students to total faculty. The THES applied weightings to each of these factors to create an overall ranking.
Asian Universities in the Top 200:

Among the Asian Universities , 34 universities comprising , China with 6, Japan with 10, Singapore with 2, Hongkong with 4, India with 3, South Korea with 3, Taiwan with 1, Israel with 2, Thailand with 1 and Malaysia with 2 have made to the top 200 list. Tsing Hua in China has made the biggest jump amongst this group rising from 10th in Asia last year to 4th in Asia this year (and 28th overall). In Asia-Pacific, Japan has the three new entrants - Keio University at 120, Kyushu University at 128 and Waseda University at 158 -joining the Top 200, bringing the total of Japanese Universities represented to a record eleven institutions. Worlds top 100 Social Science Universities 2006. Worlds top 100 Biomedicine Universities 2006. Worlds top 100 Science Universities 2006. Worlds top 100 Arts & Humanities Universities 2006

TOP 200 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2006

2006 RANK 1 2 3 4= 4= 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19= 19= 21 22 23

2005 RANK 1 3 4 2 7 5 8 6 13 9 17 20 11 15 14 23 11 24 22 16 24 19 27

NAME

COUNTRY

Harvard University University of Cambridge University of Oxford Massachusetts Institute of Technology Yale University Stanford University California Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley Imperial College London Princeton University University of Chicago Columbia University Duke University Beijing University Cornell University Australian National University London School of Economics and Political Science Ecole Normale Suprieure National University of Singapore University of Tokyo McGill University University of Melbourne Johns Hopkins University

United States United Kingdom United Kingdom United States United States United States United States United States United Kingdom United States United States United States United States China United States Australia United Kingdom France Singapore Japan Canada Australia United States

24 25 26 27 28 29= 29= 31 32 33= 33= 35= 35= 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46= 46= 48= 48= 50= 50= 52

21 28 32 29 62 31 36 37 26 30 41 44 38 10 33 88 35 40 46 56 42 47 52 73 73 58 38 51 69

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich University College London University of Pennsylvania University of Toronto Tsing Hua University Kyoto University University of Michigan University of California, Los Angeles University of Texas at Austin University of Edinburgh University of Hong Kong Carnegie Mellon University University of Sydney cole Polytechnique Monash University University of Geneva University of Manchester University of New South Wales Northwestern University New York University University of California, San Diego University of Queensland University of Auckland King's College London University of Rochester Washington University in St. Louis University of British Colombia Chinese University of Hong Kong Sciences Po Paris

Switzerland United Kingdom United States Canada China Japan United States United States United States United Kingdom Hong Kong United States Australia France Australia Switzerland United Kingdom Australia United States United States United States Australia New Zealand United Kingdom United States United States Canada Hong Kong France

53 54= 54= 56 57 58= 58= 60 61= 61= 63 64= 64= 66 67 68 69 70= 70= 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79= 79= 81

114 71 66 141 50 45 43 109 117 48 93 49 34 54 70 84 58 103 105 92 77 95 127 88 58 111 186 73 101

Vanderbilt University Brown University University of Copenhagen Emory University Indian Institute of Technology Universitt Heidelberg Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Case Western Reserve University Dartmouth College Nanyang Technological University Seoul National University Bristol University Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne Boston University Eindhoven University of Technology Indian Institute of Management University of Amsterdam School of Oriental and African Studies Osaka University Ecole Normale Suprieure Lyon University of Warwick Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico University of Basel Catholic University of Louvain University of Illinois Trinity College Dublin University of Otago University of Wisconsin University of Glasgow

United States United States Denmark United States India Germany Hong Kong United States United States Singapore South Korea United Kingdom Switzerland United States Netherlands India Netherlands United Kingdom Japan France United Kingdom Mexico Switzerland Belgium United States Ireland New Zealand United States United Kingdom

82= 82= 84 85 86 87 88 89 90= 90= 92 93= 93= 95 96 97 98 99= 99= 101 102= 102= 102= 105= 105= 105= 108 109= 109=

67 105 88 97 53 65 193 133 143 138 57 79 88 120 95 108 55 112 64 124 159 150 143 80 112 100 114 136 85

Macquarie University Technische Universitt Mnchen University of Washington University of Nottingham Delft University of Technology University of Vienna University of Pittsburgh University of Lausanne University of Birmingham Leiden University Erasmus University Rotterdam Moscow State University Universit Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Utrecht University Catholic University of Leuven Wageningen University Universitt Mnchen Queen Mary and Westfield College Pennsylvania State University University of Southern California Georgetown University Rice University University of Sheffield University of Adelaide Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin University of Sussex National Taiwan University University of St Andrews University of Zurich

Australia Germany United States United Kingdom Netherlands Austria United States Switzerland United Kingdom Netherlands Netherlands Russia France Netherlands Belgium Netherlands Germany United Kingdom United States United States United States United States United Kingdom Australia Germany United Kingdom Taiwan United Kingdom Switzerland

111= 111= 111= 111= 115 116= 116= 118 119 120 121 122 123 124= 124= 126 127 128= 128= 130= 130= 132 133= 133= 133= 133= 137 138 139

133 180 199 80 217 72 62 99 77 215 103 180 143 68 109 138 61 222 129 164 105 83 149 259 157 168 177 86 119

University of Maryland Uppsala University Wake Forest University University of Western Australia University of Twente Fudan University University of Helsinki Tokyo Institute of Technology Hebrew University of Jerusalem Keio University University of Leeds Lund University University of North Carolina University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of York University of Aarhus Purdue University Kyushu University Nagoya University Tufts University University of Virginia University of Durham University of Alberta Vrije University Brussels Hokkaido University University of Newcastle upon Tyne Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Vienna University of Technology University of Liverpool

United States Sweden United States Australia Netherlands China Finland Japan Israel Japan United Kingdom Sweden United States United States United Kingdom Denmark United States Japan Japan United States United States United Kingdom Canada Belgium Japan United Kingdom Netherlands Austria United Kingdom

140 141= 141= 141= 141= 145 146 147= 147= 149 150= 150= 152 153 154 155 156= 156= 158= 158= 158= 161= 161= 163 164 165= 165= 165= 168=

234 159 228 219 206 147 82 166 188 172 184 125 179 130 178 184 101 114 194 240 202 121 131 121 219 76 93 175 199

Cranfield University University of California, Santa Barbara Cardiff University University of Ghent University of Southampton Georgia Institute of Technology RMIT University Chalmers University of Technology Tel Aviv University Freie Universitt Berlin Korea University Texas A&M University University of Notre Dame University of Bath City University of Hong Kong McMaster University Curtin University of Technology Universitt Gttingen Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Universitt Ulm Waseda University Chulalongkorn University Universit Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I Michigan State University Saint-Petersburg State University Universit libre de Bruxelles University of Science and Technology of China State University of New York at Stony Brook George Washington University

United Kingdom United States United Kingdom Belgium United Kingdom United States Australia Sweden Israel Germany South Korea United States United States United Kingdom Hong Kong Canada Australia Germany Israel Germany Japan Thailand France United States Russia Belgium China United States United States

168= 170= 170= 172= 172= 172= 172= 176 177 178 179 180 181= 181= 183= 183= 185 186 187= 187= 187= 190= 190= 192= 192= 194 195 196 197

136 206 260 172 157 196 254 261 138 228 169 150 172 132 192 186 289 165 213 142 150 240 248 169 118 154 267 308 125

Tohoku University University of California, Davis Universitt Tbingen Rheinisch-Westflische Technische Hochschule Aachen University of Maastricht Royal Institute of Technology Yeshiva University Queen's University University of Oslo University of Bern Shanghai Jiao Tong University nanjing University Kobe University University of Montreal Jawaharlal Nehru University Free University of Amsterdam Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia University of Innsbruck Brandeis University Universitt Frankfurt am Main University of Minnesota University of Barcelona University of Reading University of Malaya Queensland University of Technology Technical University of Denmark University of Aberdeen University of Wollongong Universit degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza

Japan United States Germany Germany Netherlands Sweden United States Canada Norway Switzerland China China Japan Canada India Netherlands Malaysia Austria United States Germany United States Spain United Kingdom Malaysia Australia Denmark United Kingdom Australia Italy

198= 198= 200

254 143 305

University of California, Irvine Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)

United States South Korea France

Source: THES QS World University Rankings 2006/7 * Figures for 2005/6 are shown in brackets ( )

RANK OF ASIAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE TOP 200 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2006

2006 RANK 14 19= 19= 28 29= 33= 50= 57 58= 61= 63 68 70= 108 116= 118

2005 RANK 15 22 16 62 31 41 51 50 43 48 93 84 105 114 72 99

NAME Beijing University National University of Singapore University of Tokyo Tsing Hua University Kyoto University University of Hong Kong Chinese University of Hong Kong Indian Institute of Technology Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Nanyang Technological University Seoul National University Indian Institute of Management Osaka University National Taiwan University Fudan University Tokyo Institute of Technology

COUNTRY China Singapore Japan China Japan Hong Kong Hong Kong India Hong Kong Singapore South Korea India Japan Taiwan China Japan

120 128= 128= 133= 150= 154 158= 158= 161= 165= 168= 179 180 181= 183= 185 192= 198=

215 222 129 157 184 178 194 202 121 93 136 169 150 172 192 289 169 143

Keio University Kyushu University Nagoya University Hokkaido University Korea University City University of Hong Kong Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Waseda University Chulalongkorn University University of Science and Technology of China Tohoku University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Nanjing University Kobe University Jawaharlal Nehru University Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia University of Malaya Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

Japan Japan Japan Japan South Korea Hong Kong Israel Japan Thailand China Japan China China Japan India Malaysia Malaysia South Korea