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Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011
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World Rank	Institution	Country	T	INT	IND	RES	CIT	Overall Score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	95.7	56.0	97.0	98.2	99.9	94.8
2	Harvard University	United States	95.8	67.5	35.9	97.4	99.8	93.9
2	Stanford University	United States	94.8	57.2	63.8	98.9	99.8	93.9
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	89.5	91.9	62.1	96.6	97.9	93.6
5	Princeton University	United States	91.5	49.6	81.0	99.1	100.0	92.9
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.5	85.3	55.5	94.2	97.3	92.4
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.7	79.2	94.4	87.4	100.0	92.3
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	88.8	92.2	93.1	88.7	93.9	90.7
9	University of Chicago	United States	89.4	58.8	N/A	90.8	99.4	90.2
10	University of California, Berkeley	United States	82.8	50.4	62.5	99.4	99.4	89.8
11	Yale University	United States	92.3	55.5	34.7	91.2	96.7	89.1
12	Columbia University	United States	89.1	67.6	N/A	81.8	97.8	87.5
13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	85.9	41.0	N/A	92.5	97.3	87.3
14	Johns Hopkins University	United States	78.9	59.9	100.0	86.5	97.3	85.8
15	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	79.1	97.5	N/A	85.8	87.2	85.0
16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	87.0	34.3	41.9	86.1	97.9	84.9
17	University College London	United Kingdom	77.8	91.8	41.4	84.3	89.0	83.2
18	University of Michigan	United States	75.4	47.2	53.3	90.0	94.3	82.8
19	University of Toronto	Canada	76.9	69.0	44.9	87.4	86.5	81.6
20	Cornell University	United States	70.4	53.4	N/A	87.2	93.5	80.5
21	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	65.7	55.0	60.7	79.5	97.4	78.4
22	University of British Columbia	Canada	68.6	88.7	40.6	78.6	85.2	77.4
22	Duke University	United States	62.6	46.9	100.0	77.9	97.4	77.4
24	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	66.6	65.0	99.2	73.8	91.9	77.0
25	University of Washington	United States	70.8	36.9	31.8	74.0	98.2	76.5
26	Northwestern University	United States	66.3	35.3	56.6	75.5	98.6	76.2
27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	74.3	23.8	55.3	77.3	90.6	75.8
28	McGill University	Canada	72.8	81.4	35.1	78.4	77.1	75.5
29	University of Texas at Austin	United States	69.5	38.8	57.7	76.1	89.6	74.9
30	University of Tokyo	Japan	86.1	23.0	76.6	80.3	69.1	74.3
31	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	67.9	50.7	N/A	81.3	81.5	74.2
32	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	69.9	82.0	78.5	73.8	73.1	73.1
33	University of California, San Diego	United States	61.4	31.5	51.8	72.0	97.8	73.0
34	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	74.0	83.7	64.1	80.1	60.5	72.3
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	55.0	52.6	85.0	65.3	99.9	72.1
36	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	63.0	79.8	41.3	61.4	92.3	72.0
37	University of Melbourne	Australia	62.2	82.5	44.4	72.4	80.7	71.9
38	Australian National University	Australia	62.8	93.8	41.7	75.1	72.6	71.2
38	University of California, Davis	United States	68.0	51.4	52.5	68.7	83.4	71.2
40	National University of Singapore	Singapore	65.7	93.0	60.7	79.0	63.4	70.9
41	Washington University in St Louis	United States	64.0	45.7	N/A	58.9	96.1	70.5
42	University of Minnesota	United States	66.1	25.6	N/A	72.5	85.4	70.0
43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	67.6	20.2	35.5	62.6	92.6	69.3
44	New York University	United States	60.2	38.1	30.9	65.4	92.3	69.0
45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	63.8	54.3	40.7	59.9	84.6	67.6
46	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	53.1	98.9	46.7	43.9	95.3	66.3
47	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	66.4	96.0	41.1	75.4	50.6	66.0
48	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	59.0	80.4	37.7	61.1	75.6	65.7
49	Brown University	United States	59.8	33.4	34.9	53.6	93.9	65.6
49	Peking University	China	82.3	51.7	99.9	64.1	51.0	65.6
51	Pennsylvania State University	United States	53.5	29.5	61.6	66.7	83.4	64.9
52	Kyoto University	Japan	76.4	21.1	71.7	72.0	56.3	64.8
53	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	56.4	25.0	100.0	51.9	92.3	64.6
54	Boston University	United States	60.7	37.2	27.6	46.2	95.6	64.2
55	University of Southern California	United States	65.8	41.1	99.3	48.7	80.2	64.0
56	King's College London	United Kingdom	49.8	90.0	40.8	54.2	80.9	63.2
57	Ohio State University	United States	61.8	42.2	49.9	56.2	77.5	63.0
58	University of Sydney	Australia	55.4	88.1	92.1	65.7	57.2	62.4
59	École Normale Supérieure	France	56.6	66.2	44.7	33.5	96.4	62.0
59	University of Pittsburgh	United States	54.3	26.5	37.5	53.9	88.7	62.0
61	University of Zürich	Switzerland	56.7	87.4	43.5	45.9	78.4	61.9
62	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	51.0	80.1	59.0	58.6	71.0	61.7
63	École Polytechnique	France	50.4	86.1	63.0	38.8	89.1	61.5
64	University of Massachusetts	United States	54.0	27.3	53.2	58.3	80.1	61.1
65	McMaster University	Canada	41.9	72.0	97.5	49.9	85.5	61.0
66	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	44.2	73.7	34.8	47.7	89.9	60.9
67	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	52.5	56.7	99.9	64.7	63.0	60.8
68	Utrecht University	Netherlands	42.8	58.1	59.3	53.2	85.7	60.4
69	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	51.4	48.0	32.7	50.9	84.1	60.3
70	Vanderbilt University	United States	52.1	26.8	64.4	47.6	86.8	59.6
71	Tsinghua University	China	74.1	33.4	99.8	70.1	37.4	59.5
72	Rice University	United States	45.9	39.7	36.2	38.0	99.9	59.0
73	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	57.1	62.3	37.6	41.5	78.5	58.7
74	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	47.5	80.8	62.6	52.3	70.2	58.6
75	Emory University	United States	48.4	37.3	34.4	39.8	90.9	57.4
75	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	50.1	75.9	100.0	47.6	66.3	57.4
77	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	39.5	30.8	N/A	42.6	98.2	57.3
77	Tufts University	United States	45.8	41.3	35.4	37.4	94.5	57.3
79	Leiden University	Netherlands	45.4	54.4	48.6	55.3	71.7	57.0
80	Lund University	Sweden	40.4	61.2	32.6	58.5	72.8	56.9
81	University of Rochester	United States	47.0	45.7	36.4	33.5	94.5	56.8
81	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	51.6	25.3	N/A	60.0	69.0	56.8
83	Durham University	United Kingdom	32.5	75.8	30.5	37.9	96.2	56.4
84	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	56.3	66.7	26.2	30.5	81.1	56.0
85	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	37.1	89.1	34.1	40.2	83.0	55.7
86	University of California, Irvine	United States	36.2	36.3	45.6	42.3	93.5	55.4
87	Uppsala University	Sweden	47.2	59.1	43.4	65.1	53.3	55.2
88	Technische Universität München	Germany	50.0	65.2	47.2	37.1	76.3	55.1
89	University of Notre Dame	United States	42.6	33.1	27.3	36.2	94.1	55.0
90	Dartmouth College	United States	44.8	30.6	N/A	38.7	89.9	54.9
91	University of Helsinki	Finland	39.3	46.8	28.9	54.2	75.1	54.8
92	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	41.7	56.4	42.5	54.7	68.3	54.7
93	Case Western Reserve University	United States	54.2	29.9	N/A	40.2	78.4	54.6
94	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	64.2	29.3	100.0	54.6	47.1	54.5
94	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	41.1	35.3	28.5	43.6	85.8	54.5
96	Michigan State University	United States	47.4	34.0	28.0	49.6	73.6	54.4
97	University of Arizona	United States	45.1	28.4	86.0	43.0	78.3	54.2
98	Purdue University	United States	56.6	52.6	N/A	49.4	57.8	54.0
99	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	30.6	79.8	28.1	34.8	92.0	53.9
100	University of Alberta	Canada	50.6	71.9	53.7	54.4	51.7	53.7

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