THE–QS World University Rankings, 2006

This is the 2006 THE–QS World University Rankings list of the top 200 universities in the world.

Top 200

Rank	2005 rank	University
1	1	Harvard University (Cambridge)
2	3	Cambridge University
3	4	Oxford University
4	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)
4	7	Yale University (New Haven)
6	5	Stanford University
7	8	California Institute of Technology
8	6	California University, Berkeley
9	13	London University – Imperial College
10	9	Princeton University
11	17	Chicago University
12	20	Columbia University (New York City)
13	11	Duke University
14	15	Peking University
15	14	Cornell University
16	23	Australian National University (Canberra)
17	11	London University – School of Economics and Political Science
18	24	Paris École Normale Supérieure
19	22	Singapore National University
19	16	Tokyo University
21	24	McGill University (Montreal)
22	19	Melbourne University
23	27	Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)
24	21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
25	28	London University – University College
26	32	Pennsylvania University
27	29	Toronto University
28	62	Tsing Hua University
29	31	Kyoto University
29	36	Michigan University
31	37	California University, Los Angeles
32	26	Texas University, Austin
33	30	Edinburgh University
33	41	Hong Kong University
35	44	Carnegie Mellon University
35	38	Sydney University
37	10	École Polytechnique (Paris)
38	33	Monash University
39	88	Geneva University
40	35	Manchester University
41	40	New South Wales University
42	46	Northwestern University
43	56	New York University
44	42	California University, San Diego
45	47	Queensland University (Brisbane)
46	52	Auckland University
46	73	London University – King's College
48	73	Rochester University
48	58	Washington University in St. Louis
50	38	British Columbia University (Kelowna/Vancouver)
50	51	Hong Kong Chinese University
52	69	Paris Institute of Political Studies
53	114	Vanderbilt University (Nashville)
54	71	Brown University (Providence)
54	66	Copenhagen University
56	141	Emory University (Druid Hills)
57	50	Indian Institutes of Technology
58	45	Heidelberg University
58	43	Hong Kong Science and Technology University
60	109	Case Western Reserve University
61	117	Dartmouth College
61	48	Nanyang Technological University
63	93	Seoul National University
64	49	Bristol University
64	34	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
66	54	Boston University
67	70	Eindhoven Technology University
68	84	Indian Institutes of Management
69	58	Amsterdam University
70	103	London University – School of Oriental and African Studies
70	105	Osaka University
72	92	Lyon École Normale Supérieure
73	77	Warwick University (Coventry)
74	95	Mexico National Autonomous University (Mexico City)
75	127	Basel University
76	88	Louvain University
77	58	Illinois University
78	111	Dublin University – Trinity College
79	186	Otago University
79	73	Wisconsin University
81	101	Glasgow University
82	67	Macquarie University
82	105	Munich Technical University
84	88	Washington University
85	97	Nottingham University
86	53	Delft Technology University
87	65	Vienna University
88	193	Pittsburgh University
89	133	Lausanne University
90	143	Birmingham University
90	138	Leiden University
92	57	Rotterdam University
93	79	Lomonosov Moscow State University
93	88	Paris 06 – Pierre and Marie Curie University
95	120	Utrecht University
96	95	Leuven University
97	108	Wageningen University
98	55	Munich University
99	112	London University – Queen Mary
99	64	Pennsylvania State University
101	124	Southern California University
102	159	Georgetown University
102	150	Rice University
102	143	Sheffield University
105	80	Adelaide University
105	112	Berlin University
105	100	Sussex University
108	114	Taiwan National University (Taipei)
109	136	St Andrews University
109	85	Zurich University
111	133	Maryland University
111	180	Uppsala University
111	199	Wake Forest University
111	80	Western Australia University
115	217	Twente University
116	72	Fudan University
116	62	Helsinki University
118	99	Tokyo Institute of Technology
119	77	Jerusalem Hebrew University
120	215	Keio University
121	103	Leeds University
122	180	Lund University
123	143	North Carolina University (Chapel Hill)
124	68	Massachusetts University, Amherst
124	109	York University
126	138	Aarhus University
127	61	Purdue University (West Lafayette)
128	222	Kyushu University
128	129	Nagoya University
130	164	Tufts University (Medford/Somerville)
130	105	Virginia University (Charlottesville)
132	83	Durham University
133	149	Alberta University
133	259	Brussels Free University (Dutch-speaking)
133	157	Hokkaido University
133	168	Newcastle University
137	177	Nijmegen University
138	86	Vienna Technical University
139	119	Liverpool University
140	234	Cranfield University
141	159	California University, Santa Barbara
141	228	Cardiff University
141	219	Ghent University
141	206	Southampton University
145	147	Georgia Institute of Technology
146	82	RMIT University
147	166	Chalmers University of Technology
147	188	Tel Aviv University
148	172	Berlin Free University
150	184	Korea University
150	125	Texas A&M University
152	179	Notre Dame University
153	130	University of Bath
154	178	City University of Hong Kong
155	184	McMaster University
156	101	Curtin University of Technology
156	114	Göttingen University
158	194	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)
158	240	Ulm University
158	202	Waseda University
161	121	Chulalongkorn University
161	131	Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg)
163	121	Michigan State University
164	219	Saint Petersburg State University
165	76	Brussels Free University (French-speaking)
165	93	China University of Science and Technology
165	175	New York State University, Stony Brook
168	199	George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)
168	136	Tohoku University
170	206	California University, Davis
170	260	Tübingen University
172	172	Aachen RWTH
172	157	Maastricht University
172	196	Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
172	254	Yeshiva University (New York City)
176	261	Queen’s University (Kingston)
177	138	Oslo University
178	228	Bern University
179	169	Shanghai Jiao Tong University
180	150	Nanjing University
181	172	Kobe University
181	132	Montreal University
183	192	Jawaharlal Nehru University
183	186	Amsterdam Free University
185	289	Malaysia National University (Bangi)
186	165	Innsbruck University
187	213	Brandeis University (Waltham)
187	142	Frankfurt University
187	150	Minnesota University
190	240	Barcelona University
190	248	Reading University
192	169	Malaya University (Kuala Lumpur)
192	118	Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane)
194	154	Denmark Technical University
195	267	Aberdeen University
196	308	Wollongong University
197	125	Rome University – La Sapienza
198	254	California University, Irvine
198	143	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon)
200	305	Paris 04 – Paris-Sorbonne University

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