The Times Higher Education Supplement

Hazem Azmy's Selections from The Times Higher Education Supplement

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

The world's top arts and humanities universities 

Check out this link: http://www.thes.co.uk/statistics/international_comparisons/2005/arts_and_humanities.aspx

 

International comparisons   The world's top arts and humanities universities

2005 rank	2004 rank	Institution	Country	Peer score
1	1	Harvard University	US	100
2	2	Oxford University	UK	84.7
3	5	Cambridge University	UK	81.2
4	3	University of California, Berkeley	US	77.8
5	4	Yale University	US	77.4
6	7	Beijing University	China	70.9
7	6	Princeton University	US	69.2
8	49	Melbourne University	Australia	60
9	10	London School of Economics	UK	58.7
10	30	Australian National University	Australia	56.7
11	8	Columbia University	US	56.5
12	12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	53.5
13	11	Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne	France	52.9
14	-	La Sapienza University, Rome	Italy	51.6
15	32	McGill University	Canada	50.9
16	9	Tokyo University	Japan	50.5
17	14	University of Texas at Austin	US	50.2
18=	23	Copenhagen University	Denmark	47.7
18=	15	Kyoto University	Japan	47.7
20	25	Natl Autonomous Univ of Mexico	Mexico	46.9
21=	39	University College London	UK	46.7
21=	40	Queen Mary, University of London	UK	46.7
23=	-	La Trobe University	Australia	45.7
23=	-	Monash University	Australia	45.7
25=	-	Auckland University	New Zealand	45.4
25=	33	Georgetown University	US	45.4
27=	45	Tor Vergata University, Rome	Italy	44.9
27=	20	Edinburgh University	UK	44.9
29=	-	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia	44.7
29=	36	Helsinki University	Finland	44.7
29=	16	Oslo University	Norway	44.7
29=	18	School of Oriental and African Studies	UK	44.7
33	28	University of Chicago	US	44.1
34=	47	University of British Columbia	Canada	43.9
34=	13	University of Michigan	US	43.9
36=	-	Macquarie University	Australia	42.6
36=	-	Sydney University	Australia	42.6
36=	-	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	42.6
39=	-	Calcutta University	India	42.3
39=	22	Sussex University	UK	42.3
41=	24	Heidelberg University	Germany	41.5
41=	19	Pennsylvania University	US	41.5
41=	27	University of California, Los Angeles	US	41.5
44	-	Brown University	US	40.9
45=	-	University of Western Australia	Australia	40.1
45=	31	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	40.1
45=	-	Malaya University	Malaysia	40.1
48=	-	Pontifical Catholic University of Chile	Chile	39.2
48=	-	Massachusetts University	US	39.2
50	-	Johns Hopkins University	US	38.3
51	-	Seoul National University	South Korea	37.7
52=	-	University of New South Wales	Australia	37.4
52=	29	Hong Kong University	Hong Kong	37.4
54=	-	University of Florence	Italy	36.7
54=	46	Virginia University	US	36.7
56=	-	RMIT University	Australia	36.5
56=	34	Vienna University	Austria	36.5
56=	35	Tsing Hua University	China	36.5
56=	-	Frankfurt University	Germany	36.5
56=	-	Athens University	Greece	36.5
56=	-	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	36.5
56=	-	Bologna University	Italy	36.5
56=	-	Hiroshima University	Japan	36.5
56=	-	Hitotsubashi University	Japan	36.5
56=	37	Amsterdam University	Netherlands	36.5
56=	-	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	36.5
56=	17	National University of Singapore	Singapore	36.5
56=	38	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain	36.5
56=	41	St Andrews University	UK	36.5
56=	42	Utah University	US	36.5
56=	43	New York University	US	36.5
56=	44	Michigan State University	US	36.5
73	-	Duke University	US	34.3
74=	-	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mexico	33.8
74=	-	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	33.8
74=	-	Pontifical Catholic University of Peru	Peru	33.8
74=	-	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	33.8
78	-	Boston University	US	32.8
79=	-	Concordia University	Canada	32.5
79=	-	Hamburg University	Germany	32.5
79=	-	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	32.5
79=	-	Manchester University and Umist	UK	32.5
79=	26	University of Wisconsin - Madison	US	32.5
79=	-	University of Illinois	US	32.5
79=	-	University of New Mexico	US	32.5
79=	-	Purdue University	US	32.5
87	-	Delhi University	India	31.8
88	-	Tulane University	US	31.4
89=	-	Queensland University	Australia	30.7
89=	-	Hong Kong University Sci and Technol	Hong Kong	30.7
89=	-	Waseda University	Japan	30.7
89=	21	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	30.7
89=	-	Korea University	South Korea	30.7
89=	-	Colombo University	Sri Lanka	30.7
95=	-	Pontifical Catholic University-Rio	Brazil	29.5
95=	-	University of Toronto	Canada	29.5
95=	-	Bristol University	UK	29.5
95=	-	York University	UK	29.5
95=	-	Rochester University	US	29.5
100	-	Freiburg University	Germany	29.2

Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement, and QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, published October 21 2005

NB: In 2004, there was only enough data to produce a Top 50, hence the rankings in column 2.
 

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