World University Ranking 2006

It has been the talk of the academicians of higher institutions in Malaysia of how Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia has toppled Universiti Malaya to become the Malaysian premier university based on the report of the world university rankings by Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and QS Quacquarelli Symonds.

To me, it's also personal as my alma mater reached the 9th while the university i am attached with leaped from the 289th position to 185th. A remarkable achievement, i have to say. It is by far a great feelings for me to have the opportunity to be part of the best in malaysia and among the ten world best. Obviously such an achievement is the result of a mutual cooperation and commitment from all the staff both in the academic and non-academic lines.

Table below shows the result of the 2006 world university rankings:

2006 RANK	2005 RANK	NAME	COUNTRY
1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
4=	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
4=	7	Yale University	United States
6	5	Stanford University	United States
7	8	California Institute of Technology	United States
8	6	University of California, Berkeley	United States
9	13	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	9	Princeton University	United States
11	17	University of Chicago	United States
12	20	Columbia University	United States
13	11	Duke University	United States
14	15	Beijing University	China
15	14	Cornell University	United States
16	23	Australian National University	Australia
17	11	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
18	24	Ecole Normale Supérieure	France
19=	22	National University of Singapore	Singapore
19=	16	University of Tokyo	Japan
21	24	McGill University	Canada
22	19	University of Melbourne	Australia
23	27	Johns Hopkins University	United States
24	21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
25	28	University College London	United Kingdom
26	32	University of Pennsylvania	United States
27	29	University of Toronto	Canada
28	62	Tsing Hua University	China
29=	31	Kyoto University	Japan
29=	36	University of Michigan	United States
31	37	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
32	26	University of Texas at Austin	United States
33=	30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
33=	41	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
35=	44	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
35=	38	University of Sydney	Australia
37	10	École Polytechnique	France
38	33	Monash University	Australia
39	88	University of Geneva	Switzerland
40	35	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
41	40	University of New South Wales	Australia
42	46	Northwestern University	United States
43	56	New York University	United States
44	42	University of California, San Diego	United States
45	47	University of Queensland	Australia
46=	52	University of Auckland	New Zealand
46=	73	King's College London	United Kingdom
48=	73	University of Rochester	United States
48=	58	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
50=	38	University of British Colombia	Canada
50=	51	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
52	69	Sciences Po Paris	France
53	114	Vanderbilt University	United States
54=	71	Brown University	United States
54=	66	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
56	141	Emory University	United States
57	50	Indian Institute of Technology	India
58=	45	Universität Heidelberg	Germany
58=	43	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	Hong Kong
60	109	Case Western Reserve University	United States
61=	117	Dartmouth College	United States
61=	48	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
63	93	Seoul National University	South Korea
64=	49	Bristol University	United Kingdom
64=	34	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
66	54	Boston University	United States
67	70	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
68	84	Indian Institute of Management	India
69	58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
70=	103	School of Oriental and African Studies	United Kingdom
70=	105	Osaka University	Japan
72	92	Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon	France
73	77	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
74	95	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Mexico
75	127	University of Basel	Switzerland
76	88	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
77	58	University of Illinois	United States
78	111	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
79=	186	University of Otago	New Zealand
79=	73	University of Wisconsin	United States
81	101	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
82=	67	Macquarie University	Australia
82=	105	Technische Universität München	Germany
84	88	University of Washington	United States
85	97	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
86	53	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
87	65	University of Vienna	Austria
88	193	University of Pittsburgh	United States
89	133	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
90=	143	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
90=	138	Leiden University	Netherlands
92	57	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
93=	79	Moscow State University	Russia
93=	88	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie	France
95	120	Utrecht University	Netherlands
96	95	Catholic University of Leuven	Belgium
97	108	Wageningen University	Netherlands
98	55	Universität München	Germany
99=	112	Queen Mary and Westfield College	United Kingdom
99=	64	Pennsylvania State University	United States
101	124	University of Southern California	United States
102=	159	Georgetown University	United States
102=	150	Rice University	United States
102=	143	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
105=	80	University of Adelaide	Australia
105=	112	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany
105=	100	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
108	114	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
109=	136	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
109=	85	University of Zurich	Switzerland
111=	133	University of Maryland	United States
111=	180	Uppsala University	Sweden
111=	199	Wake Forest University	United States
111=	80	University of Western Australia	Australia
115	217	University of Twente	Netherlands
116=	72	Fudan University	China
116=	62	University of Helsinki	Finland
118	99	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
119	77	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
120	215	Keio University	Japan
121	103	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
122	180	Lund University	Sweden
123	143	University of North Carolina	United States
124=	68	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States
124=	109	University of York	United Kingdom
126	138	University of Aarhus	Denmark
127	61	Purdue University	United States
128=	222	Kyushu University	Japan
128=	129	Nagoya University	Japan
130=	164	Tufts University	United States
130=	105	University of Virginia	United States
132	83	University of Durham	United Kingdom
133=	149	University of Alberta	Canada
133=	259	Vrije University Brussels	Belgium
133=	157	Hokkaido University	Japan
133=	168	University of Newcastle upon Tyne	United Kingdom
137	177	Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen	Netherlands
138	86	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
139	119	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
140	234	Cranfield University	United Kingdom
141=	159	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
141=	228	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
141=	219	University of Ghent	Belgium
141=	206	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
145	147	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
146	82	RMIT University	Australia
147=	166	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
147=	188	Tel Aviv University	Israel
149	172	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany
150=	184	Korea University	South Korea
150=	125	Texas A&M University	United States
152	179	University of Notre Dame	United States
153	130	University of Bath	United Kingdom
154	178	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
155	184	McMaster University	Canada
156=	101	Curtin University of Technology	Australia
156=	114	Universität Göttingen	Germany
158=	194	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
158=	240	Universität Ulm	Germany
158=	202	Waseda University	Japan
161=	121	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
161=	131	Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I	France
163	121	Michigan State University	United States
164	219	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia
165=	76	Université libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
165=	93	University of Science and Technology of China	China
165=	175	State University of New York at Stony Brook	United States
168=	199	George Washington University	United States
168=	136	Tohoku University	Japan
170=	206	University of California, Davis	United States
170=	260	Universität Tübingen	Germany
172=	172	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany
172=	157	University of Maastricht	Netherlands
172=	196	Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
172=	254	Yeshiva University	United States
176	261	Queen's University	Canada
177	138	University of Oslo	Norway
178	228	University of Bern	Switzerland
179	169	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
180	150	nanjing University	China
181=	172	Kobe University	Japan
181=	132	University of Montreal	Canada
183=	192	Jawaharlal Nehru University	India
183=	186	Free University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
185	289	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	Malaysia
186	165	University of Innsbruck	Austria
187=	213	Brandeis University	United States
187=	142	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany
187=	150	University of Minnesota	United States
190=	240	University of Barcelona	Spain
190=	248	University of Reading	United Kingdom
192=	169	University of Malaya	Malaysia
192=	118	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
194	154	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
195	267	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
196	308	University of Wollongong	Australia
197	125	Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza	Italy
198=	254	University of California, Irvine	United States
198=	143	Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea
200	305	Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)	France

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