Times Higher Education s World University Rankings UNIVERSITY TOP 50 BY SUBJECTS a) Arts and Humanities Universities 2011-2012 Top 50 Arts and Humanities Universities 2011-2012 1 Stanford University United States 2 Harvard University United States 3 University of Chicago United States 4 Australian National University Australia 4 Princeton University United States 6 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 7 University of Oxford United Kingdom 8 University College London United Kingdom 8 University of California, Berkeley United States 10 University of Toronto Canada 11 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 12 Yale University United States 13 University of Michigan United States 14 University of California, Los Angeles United States 15 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey United States 16 New York University United States 17 Cornell University United States 18 The University of Sydney Australia 19 University of Melbourne Australia 20 University of Texas at Austin United States 21 McGill University Canada 22 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States 24 University of St Andrews United Kingdom 25 University of Pittsburgh United States 26 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 27 Brown University United States 28 University of British Columbia Canada 1
29 Freie Universität Berlin Germany 30 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 31 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 32 University of Arizona United States 33 University of Massachusetts United States 34 University of Manchester United Kingdom 35 Leiden University Netherlands 36 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 37 Indiana University United States 38 National University of Singapore Singapore 39 Kings College London United Kingdom 40 University of California, San Diego United States 41 Universität Heidelberg Germany 42 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium 43 University of Auckland New Zealand 44 Lancaster University United Kingdom 45 Utrecht University Netherlands 46 The Ohio State University United States 47 University of Vienna Austria 48 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany 48 University of Leeds United Kingdom 50 University of Notre Dame United States 2
b) Physical Sciences Universities 2010-2011 Top 50 Physical Sciences Universities 2010-2011 1 Harvard University United States 2 California Institute of Technology United States 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 4 Princeton University United States 5 Stanford University United States 6 University of California Berkeley United States 7 University of Chicago United States 8 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 9 Yale University United States 10 University of Oxford United Kingdom 11 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland 12 Cornell University United States 13 Imperial College London United Kingdom 14 University of California Los Angeles United States 15 University of Washington United States 16 University of California Santa Barbara United States 17 Columbia University United States 18 University of Munich Germany 19 University of Tokyo Japan 20 Northwestern University United States 21 University of Michigan United States 22 University of Göttingen Germany 23 Ecole Polytechnique France 24 University of Illinois - Urbana United States 25 University of Toronto Canada 26 Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea, Republic Of 27 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 28 University of Melbourne Australia 29 Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg Germany 29 University of Colorado United States 3
Top 50 Physical Sciences Universities 2010-2011 31 Boston University United States 32 Rice University United States 33 University of British Columbia Canada 34 University of Adelaide Australia 34 Carnegie Mellon University United States 36 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 37 University of Sussex United Kingdom 38 University of California Santa Cruz United States 39 University of Zurich Switzerland 40 Royal Holloway, University of London United Kingdom 41 University of California Irvine United States 42 Peking University China 43 University of California San Diego United States 43 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 45 University of Wisconsin United States 46 Lund University Sweden 47 Brown University United States 48 William & Mary United States 49 Ohio State University United States 50 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 4
c) Life Sciences Universities 2010-2011 Top 50 Life Sciences Universities 2010-2011 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 2 Harvard University United States 3 Stanford University United States 4 University of Oxford United Kingdom 5 Yale University United States 5 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 7 University of California Berkeley United States 8 Johns Hopkins University United States 9 Imperial College London United Kingdom 10 Princeton University United States 11 University College London United Kingdom 12 University of California Los Angeles United States 13 Duke University United States 14 University of California San Diego United States 15 University of Washington United States 16 University of Michigan United States 17 Cornell University United States 18 Columbia University United States 19 University of British Columbia Canada 20 University of Toronto Canada 21 University of Pennsylvania United States 22 University of Wisconsin United States 23 McGill University Canada 24 University of California Davis United States 25 University of Chicago United States 26 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 27 Washington University Saint Louis United States 28 Karolinska Institute Sweden 29 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 5
Top 50 Life Sciences Universities 2010-2011 30 University of Tokyo Japan 31 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 32 University of Melbourne Australia 33 Boston University United States 34 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland 35 Kyoto University Japan 36 University of York United Kingdom 37 Pohang University of Science and Technology Republic of Korea 38 University of Queensland Australia Australia 39 University of Dundee United Kingdom 39 Australian National University Australia 39 University of Adelaide Australia 42 Monash University Australia 43 University of California Santa Barbara United States 44 University of Barcelona Spain 45 University of Cape Town South Africa 46 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris France 47 King's College London United Kingdom 48 Vanderbilt University United States 49 University of Munich Germany 50 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 6
d) Social Sciences Universities 2010-2011 Top 50 Social Sciences Universities 2010-2011 1 Harvard University United States 2 Princeton University United States 3 Stanford University United States 4 University of Michigan United States 4 Yale University United States 6 University of Chicago United States 7 University of Oxford United Kingdom 8 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 9 University of California Los Angeles United States 10 University of California Berkeley United States 11 University of Pennsylvania United States 12 Columbia University United States 13 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom 14 University College London United Kingdom 15 University of Toronto Canada 16 Northwestern University United States 17 University of British Columbia Canada 18 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 19 Cornell University United States 20 University of Wisconsin United States 21 Duke University United States 22 Australian National University Australia 23 McGill University Canada 24 University of Melbourne Australia 25 University of Washington United States 26 New York University United States 27 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 28 Carnegie Mellon University United States 29 University of Illinois - Urbana United States 7
Top 50 Social Sciences Universities 2010-2011 30 University of Minnesota United States 31 King's College London United Kingdom 32 University of California San Diego United States 33 Ohio State University United States 34 Vanderbilt University United States 35 University of York United Kingdom 36 University of Maryland College Park United States 37 Washington University Saint Louis United States 38 University of Sydney Australia 39 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 40 University of Virginia United States 41 University of California Santa Barbara United States 42 University of Cape Town South Africa 43 Emory University United States 44 University of California Irvine United States 45 Dartmouth College United States 46 Brown University United States 47 University of Arizona United States 47 Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris France 49 Durham University United Kingdom 50 University of Bristol United Kingdom 8