World Ranking Guide

According to the THES World University Rankings, MIT is the best university for Technology and Natural Science in the world; Harvard is the No. 1 university in the world for Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

World Top 10 Universities in Technology:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. University of California, Berkeley
3. Stanford University
4. California Institute of Technology
5. University of Cambridge
6. Carnegie Mellon University
7. Imperial College London
8. Georgia Institute of Technology
9. University of Tokyo (Japan)
10.University of Toronto (Canada)

World Top 10 Universities in Arts and Humanities:
1. Harvard University
2. University of California, Berkeley
3. University of Oxford
4. University of Cambridge
5. Yale University
6. Princeton Univ
7. Columbia Univ
8. Stanford Univ
9. Univ of Chicago
10.UCLA

World Top Ten Universities in Social Sciences:
1. Harvard University
2. University of California, Berkeley
3. Stanford University
4. London School of Economics
5. Uni of Cambridge
6. Uni of Oxford
7. Yale Uni
8. Uni of Chicago
9. Princeton Uni
10.Massachusetts Institute of Technology

World Top Ten Universities in Life Sciences and Biomedicine:
1. Harvard University
2. University of Cambridge University of California, Berkeley
3. John Hopkins University
4. Univ of California, Berkeley
5. Univ of Oxford
6. Stanford Univ
7. Yale Univ
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9. University California, San Diego
10.McGill Uni (Canada)

World Top Ten Universities in Natural Science:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. University of California, Berkeley
3. University of Cambridge
4. Harvard Univ
5. Uni of Oxford
6. Princeton Univ
7. California Institute of Technology
8. Stanford Univ
9. Uni of Toronto (Canada)
10.Uni of Tokyo (Japan)

Source: THES 2008

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