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Girl : Do you love me?

Boy : Yes Dear.

Girl : Would you die for me?

Boy : No, mine is undying love.

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1st thief : Oh! The police is here. Quick! Jump out of the window.

2nd thief : But this is the 13th floor.

1st thief : Hurry! this is no time for superstitions.

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Man : How old is your father?

Boy : As old as me.

Man : How can that be?

Boy : He became a father only when I was born.

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Waiter : I’ve stewed liver, boiled tongue and frog’s leg.

Customer : Don’t tell me your problems. Give me the menu card.

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Teacher: Desmond, your composition on "My Dog" is exactly the same as your

brother’s. Did u copy his?

Desmond: No, teacher, it’s the same dog!

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Father: Your teacher says she finds it impossible to teach you anything!

Son : That’s why I say she’s no good!

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Manager : Sorry, but I can’t give u a job. I don’t need much help.

Job Applicant: That’s all right. In fact, I’m just the right person in this

case. You see, I won’t be of much help anyway!

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Dad : "Son, how can you call your aunt stupid? Go and say sorry to her."

Son :(goes over to the aunt) "Aunt, I am sorry you are stupid."

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Teacher: "How do u think Shakespeare wrote such masterpieces?"

College student: "With a pencil, ma’am, either a 2B or not 2B."

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"Mum, teacher was asking me today if I have any brothers or sisters who will

be coming to school."

"That’s nice of her to take such an interest, dear. What did she say when u

told her u are the only child?"

"She just said, ‘Thank goodness!"

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Teacher: "Where were u born?"

Student: "Singapore, Sir."

Teacher: "Which part?"

Student: "All of me, Sir."

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Teacher: "Chong, u missed school last Friday."

Chong : "You’re wrong, Sir."

Teacher: "Wrong, how is that?"

Chong : "I was absent, yes but I certainly didn’t miss it!"

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A teacher was asking her class: "What is the difference between ‘unlawful’

and ‘illegal’?"

Only one hand shot up. "Ok, answer, Joan," said the teacher.

"’unlawful’ is when u do something the law doesn’t allow and ‘illegal is a

sick eagle."

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Patient : How much to have this tooth pulled?

Dentist : $90.00.

Patient : $90.00 for just a few minutes work???

Dentist : I can extract it very slowly if you like.

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Teacher : "How come you do not comb your hair?"

Ah Kow : "No comb, Sir."

Teacher : "Use your dad’s then."

Ah Kow : "No hair, Sir."

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A boy came home from school with his exam results.

"What did u get?" asked his father. "My marks are under water," said the

boy.

"What do u mean ‘under water’?"

"They are all below ‘C’ level."

Top 100 biomedicine universities

2005 rank	2004 rank	Institution	Country	Peer score	Citations per paper
1	1	Harvard University	US	100	28.5
2	2	Cambridge University	UK	95.8	23
3	3	Oxford University	UK	84.3	23
4	7	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	83.8	16.3
5	5	Stanford University	US	81	27.2
6	4	Imperial College London	UK	80.9	14.2
7	6	Johns Hopkins University	US	77.7	23.6
8	11	Beijing University	China	69.5	-
9	9	University of California, Berkeley	US	69.2	26.5
10	14	Melbourne University	Australia	67.7	12
11	8	Yale University	US	63.9	24.7
12	13	Tokyo University	Japan	61.5	16
13	12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	60.6	40.9
14	10	University of California, San Diego	US	59.1	25.9
15	25	National University of Singapore	Singapore	58.5	-
16	21	Edinburgh University	UK	57.5	17.9
17	16	Heidelberg University	Germany	56	14.1
18	15	Sydney University	Australia	55.1	-
19	18	University of California, San Francisco	US	54.9	25.5
20	20	University of Toronto	Canada	54.4	17
21	34	Australian National University	Australia	53.4	-
22	19	University College London	UK	53.2	18.6
23	17	Duke University	US	52.1	21.8
24	27	McGill University	Canada	51.7	18.9
25	23	Columbia University	US	50.6	22.2
26	24	Cornell University	US	50.5	20.8
27	28	Kyoto University	Japan	50.1	16.7
28	37	Monash University	Australia	48.8	12.1
29=	30	Kings College London	UK	45	13.6
29=	45	Queensland University	Australia	45	-
31	62	University of British Columbia	Canada	44.6	15.9
32	22	University of California, Los Angeles	US	44.2	19.4
33	36	Auckland University	New Zealand	43.9	-
34	-	York University	UK	43.6	-
35	49	Fudan University	China	43	-
36	26	Princeton University	US	42.7	-
37	48	Hong Kong University	Hong Kong	42.1	-
38	35	California Institute of Technology	US	41.5	-
39	29	Helsinki University	Finland	40.8	15.7
40	31	Vienna University	Austria	40.5	-
41	68	University of New South Wales	Australia	40.4	-
42	-	Baylor College of Medicine	US	39.6	21.8
43	40	Boston University	US	38.7	18.8
44	38	Munich University	Germany	37.8	13.2
45	46	University of Michigan	US	37.7	19.5
46	32	Humboldt University, Berlin	Germany	37.5	12.4
47	-	Queensland University of Technol	Australia	37.2	-
48=	41	Washington University	US	36.5	21.8
48=	56	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	36.5	-
50=	61	Otago University	New Zealand	36.2	-
50=	89	Hong Kong Univ of Sci and Technol	Hong Kong	36.2	-
52	42	University of Chicago	US	35.9	23
53=	33	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	34.8	-
53=	-	Macquarie University	Australia	34.8	-
55	51	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	34.7	19.1
56	43	Univ Louis Pasteur Strasbourg I	France	34.6	-
57	81	Adelaide University	Australia	34.3	-
58	90	University of Pennsylvania	US	33.8	19.3
59	38	Frankfurt University	Germany	33.6	13.3
60	74	New York University	US	33.5	19.3
61	47	Free University Berlin	Germany	33.3	13.4
62	-	Indian Institutes of Technology	India	33.2	-
63	-	Newcastle University	Australia	32.9	-
64	55	Washington University, St Louis	US	32.6	25.3
65	43	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	32.5	-
66=	80	Manchester University and Umist	UK	31.9	14.6
66=	-	Seoul National University	South Korea	31.9	-
68=	50	Florence University	Italy	31.4	-
68=	54	Aarhus University	Denmark	31.4	12.7
70	-	Uppsala University	Sweden	31.3	14.1
71=	63	Amsterdam University	Netherlands	31.2	15.8
71=	57	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	31.2	14.9
73	52	Göttingen University	Germany	31	12.2
74	67	São Paulo University	Brazil	30.9	-
75	81	Tsing Hua University	China	30.4	-
76	53	South Australia University	Australia	30.3	-
77	-	Zurich University	Switzerland	30.1	15.9
78=	84	Glasgow University	UK	30	15.8
78=	-	Copenhagen University	Denmark	30	13.5
80	93	Penn State University	US	29.9	16.4
81	57	Innsbruck University	Austria	29.8	-
82=	60	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	29.2	-
82=	-	Malaya University	Malaysia	29.2	-
82=	90	Osaka University	Japan	29.2	17.1
82=	96	Western Australia University	Australia	29.2	-
86=	93	Nanjing University	China	29	-
86=	-	La Trobe University	Australia	29	-
86=	-	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia	29	-
89	83	Tel Aviv University	Israel	28.9	-
90=	76	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	28.8	-
90=	-	Catholic University Leuven (Flemish)	Belgium	28.8	15.2
92=	-	Carnegie Mellon University	US	28.7	-
92=	-	University of Wisconsin-Madison	US	28.7	17.7
94	64	Vanderbilt University	US	28.6	21.2
95	59	University of California, Davis	US	28.4	14.3
96	90	Hokkaido University	Japan	27.7	-
97	100	Southern California University	US	27.6	18
98=	-	Purdue University	US	27.5	-
98=	96	Lund University	Sweden	27.5	13.7
100	74	Tübingen-Reutlingen University	Germany	27.4	12.3

Source:
The Times Higher Education Supplement , QS, Evidence Ltd, published
October 14 2005. (The citations per paper data are based on a threshold of 5,000
papers)

The world’s top 200 universities 2005 rank 2004 rank Name Country Peer review score (40%) Recruiter review (10%) Int’l faculty score (5%) Int’l students score (5%) Faculty/ student score (20%) Citations/ faculty score (20%) Overall score 1 1 Harvard University US 100 100 17 23 21 57 100 2 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 84 87 12 41 16 53 86.9 3 6 Cambridge University UK 96 73 65 34 20 16 85.8 4 5 Oxford University UK 93 70 58 37 23 15 83.9 5 7 Stanford University US 78 95 10 30 12 56 83.4 6 2 University of California, Berkeley US 95 62 7 13 7 39 80.6 7 8 Yale University US 71 43 52 27 42 19 72.7 8 4 California Institute of Technology US 48 2 27 41 26 100 71.5 9 9 Princeton University US 69 32 22 30 20 31 64.8 10 27 Ecole Polytechnique France 37 17 47 36 100 4 61.5 11= 52 Duke University US 36 79 24 20 66 10 59.1 11= 11 London School of Economics UK 43 86 99 100 20 1 59.1 13 14 Imperial College London UK 59 15 63 51 34 10 59 14 23 Cornell University US 56 71 11 19 17 23 58.1 15 17 Beijing University China 71 37 7 4 26 0 56.3 16 12 Tokyo University Japan 73 2 2 12 19 17 55.1 17= 20 University of California, San Francisco US 24 0 4 6 91 44 54.9 17= 13 University of Chicago US 52 47 29 29 27 16 54.9 19 22 Melbourne University Australia 66 27 53 36 9 7 54.5 20 19 Columbia University US 56 36 11 32 25 17 53.9 21 10 ETH Zurich Switzerland 49 7 98 35 37 8 53.5 22 18 National University of Singapore Singapore 62 12 94 45 8 7 53 23 16 Australian National University Australia 64 8 52 33 13 13 52.9 24= 30 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France 38 23 26 23 65 9 51.6 24= 21 McGill University Canada 52 48 33 31 23 8 51.6 26 15 University of Texas at Austin US 47 29 9 15 7 54 51.5 27 25 Johns Hopkins University US 50 14 17 20 21 32 50.2 28 34 University College London UK 46 19 45 46 30 10 48.4 29 37 University of Toronto Canada 51 34 40 14 6 22 47.8 30 48 Edinburgh University UK 48 47 33 28 15 10 47.7 31 29 Kyoto University Japan 57 2 20 9 28 10 47.5 32 28 Pennsylvania University US 42 41 20 25 28 15 47.3 33 33 Monash University Australia 55 19 54 49 7 5 46.5 34 32 Ecole Polytech Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 22 3 95 65 64 3 45 35 43 Manchester University & Umist UK 43 50 47 23 18 6 44.8 36 31 University of Michigan US 46 32 17 19 17 15 43.9 37 26 University of California, Los Angeles US 52 6 2 11 12 24 43.3 38= 46 University of British Columbia Canada 47 12 63 18 6 17 42.6 38= 40 Sydney University Australia 53 4 53 31 7 8 42.6 40 36 University of New South Wales Australia 50 12 53 34 11 4 42.5 41 39 Hong Kong University Hong Kong 43 19 82 21 17 4 42 42 24 University of California, San Diego US 43 0 3 9 10 43 41.9 43 42 Hong Kong University Sci & Technol Hong Kong 43 12 93 28 7 11 41.8 44 38 Carnegie Mellon University US 37 33 34 40 18 10 40.5 45 47 Heidelberg University Germany 47 12 11 28 14 11 39.6 46 73 Northwestern University US 28 66 4 20 20 16 39.1 47 49 Queensland University Australia 46 8 53 24 8 7 38.5 48 50 Nanyang Technological University Singapore 38 12 95 53 7 2 38.2 49 91 Bristol University UK 28 63 40 25 13 10 37.2 50 41 Indian Institutes of Technology India 44 11 1 1 10 20 37 51 84 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 37 12 73 17 14 6 36.4 52 67 Auckland University New Zealand 45 0 20 25 18 2 35.8 53 78 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 35 3 55 17 25 3 35 54 75 Boston University US 41 3 10 22 16 10 34.9 55 99 Munich University Germany 39 24 11 21 11 8 34.8 56 79 New York University US 36 15 5 18 24 6 34.4 57 64 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 27 32 19 13 5 31 34 58= 109 Washington University, St Louis US 25 14 6 17 28 22 33.7 58= 98 Amsterdam University Netherlands 36 14 18 18 12 14 33.7 58= 35 University of Illinois US 39 16 12 16 11 9 33.7 61 59 Purdue University US 36 28 25 20 8 8 33.6 62= 129 Helsinki University Finland 39 15 12 5 16 7 33.4 62= 61 Tsing Hua University China 42 4 25 10 18 1 33.4 64 130 Pennsylvania State University US 34 21 2 1 11 21 33.3 65 94 Vienna University Austria 40 3 26 26 4 14 33.1 66 63 Copenhagen University Denmark 39 13 20 4 15 5 32.8 67 68 Macquarie University Australia 34 22 53 42 4 5 32.7 68 45 Massachusetts University US 38 0 1 12 7 23 32.5 69 - IEP Sciences Po, Paris France 19 16 25 50 43 - 32.2 70 83 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 20 3 33 7 54 2 32 71 61 Brown University US 27 6 39 19 19 16 31.9 72 195 Fudan University China 35 26 13 6 17 1 31.3 73= 96 King’s College London UK 27 17 45 28 17 6 31.1 73= 86 Rochester University US 24 9 10 24 32 13 31.1 73= 66 University Wisconsin-Madison US 36 0 0 14 17 11 31.1 76 - Brussels Free University (French) Belgium 29 3 31 41 20 6 30.9 77= 93 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 36 0 5 13 5 22 30.8 77= 80 Warwick University UK 30 21 50 37 7 4 30.8 79 92 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 42 3 10 7 11 3 30.7 80= 96 University of Western Australia Australia 29 12 53 29 10 8 30.4 80= 56 Adelaide University Australia 33 0 53 30 8 8 30.4 82 55 RMIT University Australia 35 0 53 62 4 1 30.3 83 128 Durham University UK 24 38 46 22 9 9 30 84 - Indian Institutes of Management India 33 24 2 7 21 - 29.9 85 - Zurich University Switzerland 22 0 65 22 29 5 29.6 86 77 Vienna Technical University Austria 33 7 31 32 11 3 29.5 87 113 University of Technology, Sydney Australia 35 4 53 37 4 1 29.4 88= - Geneva University Switzerland 12 3 93 57 29 7 29.2 88= 74 Washington University US 28 0 16 10 14 22 29.2 88= 57 Pierre and Marie Curie University France 31 0 25 36 15 6 29.2 88= - Catholic University of Leuven (French) Belgium 32 5 17 26 9 12 29.2 92 - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon France 16 0 30 18 39 16 29.1 93= 154 China University of Sci & Technology China 33 4 6 0 27 1 28.9 93= 118 Seoul National University South Korea 39 0 3 5 14 4 28.9 95= - Catholic University of Leuven (Flemish) Belgium 24 10 48 20 23 4 28.8 95= 195 National Autonomous Univ of Mexico Mexico 33 9 3 1 25 0 28.8 97 170 Nottingham University UK 22 38 39 30 10 6 28.7 98 142 La Trobe University Australia 34 0 53 26 6 3 28.6 99 51 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 30 0 6 16 22 10 28.5 100 58 Sussex University UK 28 0 44 28 15 7 28.4 101= 112 Glasgow University UK 26 27 18 15 13 8 28.3 101= 76 Curtin University of Technology Australia 30 0 54 63 4 1 28.3 103= 133 Leeds University UK 27 22 30 26 10 6 28.2 103= 44 School of Oriental and African Studies UK 20 2 51 74 23 - 28.2 105= 118 Virginia University US 24 29 7 11 13 14 28 105= 95 Technical University Munich Germany 27 12 11 30 16 9 28 105= 69 Osaka University Japan 28 0 7 8 23 12 28 108 - Wageningen University Netherlands 16 3 28 47 29 12 27.9 109= 137 York University UK 28 5 37 28 12 7 27.8 109= 88 Case Western Reserve University US 20 11 4 22 23 19 27.8 111 87 Trinity College, Dublin Ireland 31 14 17 21 5 8 27.6 112= 125 Humboldt University Berlin Germany 32 0 11 18 16 4 27.4 112= 100 Queen Mary, University of London UK 24 3 44 35 18 4 27.4 114= 156 Vanderbilt University US 18 12 2 14 32 14 27.2 114= 102 National Taiwan University Taiwan 36 0 4 1 15 3 27.2 114= 85 Gttingen University Germany 33 0 11 17 12 7 27.2 117 138 Dartmouth College US 19 19 15 16 21 15 27.1 118 - Queensland University of Technology Australia 34 0 53 21 3 2 27 119 151 Liverpool University UK 25 14 35 21 11 8 26.9 120 120 Utrecht University Netherlands 27 3 33 5 12 13 26.8 121= - Chulalongkorn University Thailand 33 16 11 1 12 0 26.7 121= 116 Michigan State University US 31 11 11 12 8 9 26.7 121= 71 Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne France 38 0 13 26 4 - 26.7 124 180 University of Southern California US 25 12 7 28 17 9 26.6 125= 162 La Sapienza University, Rome Italy 39 0 5 5 4 5 26.5 125= 105 Texas A&M University US 30 9 14 13 6 13 26.5 127= - Basel University Switzerland 12 0 88 28 26 10 26.4 127= - University of Newcastle Australia 30 0 53 25 5 5 26.4 129 167 Nagoya University Japan 21 0 9 13 35 6 26.3 130 103 Bath University UK 18 35 47 34 7 7 26.2 131 132 University Louis Pasteur Strasbourg France 24 3 25 35 11 12 26.1 132 177 Université de Montréal Canada 25 6 55 11 5 13 26 133= - Lausanne University Switzerland 17 2 53 26 27 6 25.9 133= 134 Maryland University US 22 15 18 16 13 13 25.9 133= - HEC Paris France 15 46 77 30 8 - 25.9 136= 153 Tohoku University Japan 26 0 7 11 19 11 25.7 136= 70 St Andrews University UK 19 11 39 48 13 8 25.7 138= 131 Leiden University Netherlands 22 8 25 15 14 14 25.6 138= 127 Aarhus University Denmark 27 6 28 7 12 9 25.6 138= 101 Oslo University Norway 29 0 25 16 13 5 25.6 141 173 Emory University US 16 15 1 12 30 13 25.5 142 157 Frankfurt University Germany 33 0 11 17 7 6 25.3 143= 160 Korea Advanced Inst of Sci and Tech South Korea 26 0 22 4 7 19 25.2 143= 150 Sheffield University UK 21 16 34 27 12 7 25.2 143= 126 Birmingham University UK 21 17 36 30 10 8 25.2 143= 117 North Carolina University US 21 14 9 8 13 19 25.2 147= - Hiroshima University Japan 26 0 7 8 25 4 25.1 147= 65 Georgia Institute of Technology US 27 8 5 28 8 11 25.1 149 166 University of Alberta Canada 24 2 52 11 13 7 25 150= 192 Nanjing University China 34 0 12 5 11 1 24.8 150= - St Gallen University Switzerland 2 14 85 59 37 - 24.8 150= 146 Rice University US 20 5 14 23 19 14 24.8 150= 82 University of Minnesota US 25 3 10 12 8 19 24.8 154= - University of South Australia Australia 27 0 53 49 4 1 24.7 154= 145 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 23 0 21 24 10 15 24.7 154= 60 Technical University Berlin Germany 30 7 11 25 6 5 24.7 157= - Hokkaido University Japan 28 0 3 7 16 9 24.5 157= 123 Maastricht University Netherlands 16 5 39 44 20 7 24.5 159= 186 Bologna University Italy 34 0 7 9 7 3 24.4 159= 165 Georgetown University US 19 26 9 17 15 11 24.4 159= 143 University of Waterloo Canada 21 11 75 13 9 5 24.4 159= 72 University of California, Santa Barbara US 24 0 10 6 6 23 24.4 163 107 Colorado University US 23 0 17 7 17 13 24.3 164 104 Tufts University US 15 11 13 18 16 22 24.2 165 164 Innsbruck University Austria 21 0 44 47 8 9 24 166= 161 Tasmania University Australia 24 0 53 29 6 5 23.8 166= 110 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 24 0 18 16 20 4 23.8 168 179 Newcastle upon Tyne University UK 17 20 34 32 13 7 23.6 169= - Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 25 26 15 5 10 0 23.5 169= - Novosibirsk State University Russia 16 0 2 9 45 - 23.5 169= 89 Malaya University Malaysia 33 0 12 7 8 1 23.5 172= - Free University Berlin Germany 28 0 11 17 9 6 23.3 172= - Kobe University Japan 24 5 9 9 21 3 23.3 172= 184 Aachen RWTH Germany 25 12 11 24 11 4 23.3 175= 136 State Univ of New York, Stony Brook US 24 0 7 15 11 15 23.2 175= 90 Alabama University US 18 0 4 7 7 32 23.2 177 191 Nijmegen University Netherlands 17 3 38 11 25 5 23.1 178 198 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 19 0 100 9 8 4 22.7 179 - Notre Dame University US 18 24 17 14 13 8 22 180= - Toulouse 1 France 18 0 25 32 26 0 22.5 180= 171 Lund University Sweden 24 0 15 16 13 7 22.5 180= 140 Uppsala University Sweden 24 0 27 8 7 11 22.5 183 159 Madrid Autonomous University Spain 29 0 5 9 9 6 22.2 184= - Korea University South Korea 28 0 7 2 15 1 22.1 184= 147 McMaster University Canada 18 8 10 16 7 21 22.1 186= - Free University of Amsterdam Netherlands 17 3 32 14 13 13 22 186= 114 Otago University New Zealand 22 0 31 21 15 3 22 188= - Tel Aviv University Israel 25 0 1 1 5 18 21.9 188= 108 Massey University New Zealand 23 0 62 20 5 2 21.9 190 - Gothenburg University Sweden 14 0 27 2 1 37 21.8 191 - University of Western Ontario Canada 11 46 28 12 6 13 21.7 192 - Jawaharlal Nehru University India 29 0 3 6 10 3 21.5 193 - Pittsburgh University US 15 0 23 10 23 11 21.3 194= 176 Helsinki University of Technology Finland 22 0 11 11 20 2 21.1 194= 158 Technion - Israel Inst of Technology Israel 23 2 7 1 10 12 21.1 196= - São Paulo University Brazil 28 0 10 3 8 3 21 196= 122 Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 19 0 54 22 9 5 21 198 - Showa University Japan 8 0 7 19 45 3 20.9 199= - University of Florence Italy 28 0 6 5 5 6 20.8 199= - George Washington University US 22 9 5 14 13 4 20.8 199= - Wake Forest University US 12 8 3 6 28 11 20.8 Data compiled for The Times Higher by QS (www.qsnetwork.com), published October 28 2005.

The rest of the world’s top 50 universities Rank World rank Name Country 1 15 Beijing University China 2 16 Tokyo University Japan 3 19 Melbourne University Australia 4 22 Natl Univ Singapore Singapore 5 23 Australian Natl University Australia 6 31 Kyoto University Japan 7 33 Monash University Australia 8 38= Sydney University Australia 9 40 Univ of New South Wales Australia 10 41 Hong Kong University Hong Kong 11 43 Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol Hong Kong 12 47 Queensland University Australia 13 48 Nanyang Technological Univ Singapore 14 50 Indian Institutes of Technol India 15 51 Chinese Univ Hong Kong Hong Kong 16 52 Auckland University New Zealand 17 62= Tsing Hua University China 18 67 Macquarie University Australia 19 72 Fudan University China 20 77= Hebrew Univ Jerusalem Israel 21= 80= Adelaide University Australia 21= 80= Univ of Western Australia Australia 23 82 RMIT University Australia 24 84 Indian Insts of Management India 25 87 Univ of Technology, Sydney Australia 26= 93= China Univ Sci & Technol China 26= 93= Seoul Natl University South Korea 28 95= Natl Auton Univ of Mexico Mexico 29 98 La Trobe University Australia 30 99 Tokyo Inst Technol Japan 31 101= Curtin University of Technol Australia 32 105= Osaka University Japan 33 114= Natl Taiwan University Taiwan 34 118 Queensland Univ of Technol Australia 35 121= Chulalongkorn University Thailand 36 127= University of Newcastle Australia 37 129 Nagoya University Japan 38 136= Tohoku University Japan 39 143= Korea Adv Inst Sci & Technol South Korea 40 147= Hiroshima University Japan 41 150= Nanjing University China 42 154= Univ of South Australia Australia 43 157= Hokkaido University Japan 44 166= Tasmania University Australia 45= 169= Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ China 45= 169= Malaya University Malaysia 47 172= Kobe University Japan 48 178 City Univ Hong Kong Hong Kong 49 184= Korea University South Korea 50 186= Otago University New Zealand Data compiled for The Times Higher by QS (www.qsnetwork.com), published October 28 2005.

North America’s top 50 universities Rank World rank Name Country 1 1 Harvard University US 2 2 Massachusetts Inst Technol US 3 5 Stanford University US 4 6 UC, Berkeley US 5 7 Yale University US 6 8 California Inst of Technology US 7 9 Princeton University US 8 11= Duke University US 9 14 Cornell University US 10= 17= UC, San Francisco US 10= 17= University of Chicago US 12 20 Columbia University US 13 24= McGill University Canada 14 26 University of Texas at Austin US 15 27 Johns Hopkins University US 16 29 University of Toronto Canada 17 32 Pennsylvania University US 18 36 University of Michigan US 19 37 UC, Los Angeles US 20 38= Univ of British Columbia Canada 21 42 UC, San Diego US 22 44 Carnegie Mellon University US 23 46 Northwestern University US 24 54 Boston University US 25 56 New York University US 26= 58= University of Illinois US 26= 58= Washington Univ, St Louis US 28 61 Purdue University US 29 64 Pennsylvania State Univ US 30 68 Massachusetts University US 31 71 Brown University US 32= 73= Rochester University US 32= 73= Univ of Wisconsin-Madison US 34 88= Washington University US 35 105= Virginia University US 36 109= Case Western Reserve Univ US 37 114= Vanderbilt University US 38 117 Dartmouth College US 39 121= Michigan State University US 40 124 Univ of Southern California US 41 125= Texas A&M University US 42 132 Université de Montréal Canada 43 133= Maryland University US 44 141 Emory University US 45 143= North Carolina University US 46 147= Georgia Inst of Technology US 47 149 University of Alberta Canada 48= 150= University of Minnesota US 48= 150= Rice University US 50= 159= UC, Santa Barbara US 50= 159= Georgetown University US 50= 159= University of Waterloo Canada Data compiled for The Times Higher by QS (www.qsnetwork.com), published October 28 2005.

Europe’s top 50 universities

Rank	World rank	Name	Country
1	3	Cambridge University	UK
2	4	Oxford University	UK
3	10	Ecole Polytechnique	France
4	11=	London School of Economics	UK
5	13	Imperial College London	UK
6	21	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
7	24=	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	France
8	28	University College London	UK
9	30	Edinburgh University	UK
10	34	Ecole Polytech Féd Lausanne	Switzerland
11	35	Manchester University & Umist	UK
12	45	Heidelberg University	Germany
13	49	Bristol University	UK
14	53	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
15	55	Munich University	Germany
16	57	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
17	58=	Amsterdam University	Netherlands
18	62=	Helsinki University	Finland
19	65	Vienna University	Austria
20	66	Copenhagen University	Denmark
21	69	IEP Sciences Po, Paris	France
22	70	Eindhoven University of Technol	Netherlands
23	73=	King’s College London	UK
24	76	Brussels Free University (French)	Belgium
25	77=	Warwick University	UK
26	79	Lomonosov Moscow State Univ	Russia
27	83	Durham University	UK
28	85	Zurich University	Switzerland
29	86	Vienna Technical University	Austria
30=	88=	Catholic Univ Leuven (French)	Belgium
30=	88=	Geneva University	Switzerland
30=	88=	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
33	92	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon	France
34	95=	Catholic Univ Leuven (Flemish)	Belgium
35	97	Nottingham University	UK
36	100	Sussex University	UK
37	101=	Glasgow University	UK
38=	103=	Leeds University	UK
38=	103=	Soas	UK
40	105=	Technical University Munich	Germany
41	108	Wageningen University	Netherlands
42	109=	York University	UK
43	111	Trinity College, Dublin	Ireland
44=	112=	Humboldt University Berlin	Germany
44=	112=	Queen Mary, Univ of London	UK
46	114=	Gttingen University	Germany
47	119	Liverpool University	UK
48	120	Utrecht University	Netherlands
49	121=	Univ Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne	France
50	125=	La Sapienza Univ, Rome	Italy

Data
compiled for The Times Higher by QS (www.qsnetwork.com), published October 28
2005.

Top 100 biomedicine universities

Rank	Name	Country	Score	Citations per paper
1	Harvard University	US	200.00	32.2
2	Cambridge University	UK	179.39	26.3
3	Oxford University	UK	165.32	25.6
4	Imperial College London	UK	139.28	14.4
5	Stanford University	US	133.05	30.1
6	Johns Hopkins University	US	116.48	26.3
7	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	112.18	16.9
8	Yale University	US	90.95	27.4
9	University of California, Berkeley	US	84.7	33.0
10	University of California, San Diego	US	78.84	29.1
11	Beijing University	China	66.29	–
12	Massachusetts Institute of Tech	US	64.96	55.8
13	Tokyo University	Japan	64.34	17.6
14	University of Melbourne	Australia	63.09	12.3
15	University of Sydney	Australia	62.65	11.5
16	Heidelberg University	Germany	61.19	15.3
17	Duke University	US	57.95	22.6
18	University of California, San Francisco	US	57.82	29.2
19	University College London	UK	57.56	20.5
20	University of Toronto	Canada	57.54	18.3
21	Edinburgh University	UK	55.87	20.1
22	University of California, Los Angeles	US	51.08	20.0
23	Columbia University	US	49.26	25.8
24	Cornell University	US	48.39	23.1
25	National University of Singapore	Singapore	47.20	11.7
26	Princeton University	US	43.64	39.3
27	McGill University	Canada	37.86	20.7
28	Kyoto University	Japan	37.22	20.2
29	Helsinki University	Finland	36.23	17.5
30	Kings College London	UK	35.66	14.0
31	Vienna University	Austria	35.09	11.1
32	Humboldt University Berlin	Germany	34.66	12.0
33	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	32.41	29.1
34	Australian National University	Australia	32.18	13.6
35	California Institute of Technology	US	31.42	45.8
36	University of Auckland	New Zealand	30.91	12.2
37	Monash University	Australia	28.79	12.7
=38	Frankfurt University	Germany	28.22	13.2
=38	Munich University	Germany	28.22	13.6
40	Boston University	US	27.92	19.1
41	Washington University	US	27.48	23.2
42	University of Chicago	US	26.67	25.4
=43	Paris VI, Pierre and Marie Curie University	France	26.53	13.0
=43	Strasbourg University	France	26.53	22.7
45	Queensland University	Australia	25.72	13.2
46	University of Michigan	US	25.66	20.5
47	Free University Berlin	Germany	25.40	14.8
48	Hong Kong University	Hong Kong	25.28	8.0
49	Fudan University	China	25.15	–
50	University of Florence	Italy	24.72	12.1
51	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	24.15	20.4
52	Gottingen University	Germany	23.71	11.9
53	University of South Australia	Australia	23.16	–
54	Aarhus University	Denmark	22.33	12.3
55	Washington University, St Louis	US	21.04	27.5
56	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	20.40	7.5
=57	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	20.21	16.1
=57	Innsbruck University	Austria	20.21	11.6
59	University of California, Davis	US	19.77	15.4
60	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	19.53	–
61	Otago University	New Zealand	19.39	9.9
62	University of British Columbia	Canada	19.36	16.4
63	Amsterdam University	Netherlands	19.09	16.2
64	Vanderbilt University	US	18.66	23.2
65	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium	18.52	15.7
65	Leiden University	Netherlands	18.52	18.5
67	University of São Paulo	Brazil	18.09	5.9
68	University of New South Wales	Australia	17.97	11.0
69	Nottingham University	UK	17.95	12.4
70	Nanyang University	Singapore	17.84	–
=71	Istanbul University	Turkey	17.27	–
=71	Technical University Munich	Germany	17.27	13.8
73	Tokyo Medical and Dental University	Japan	17.14	11.6
=74	New York University	US	16.84	21.1
=74	Tubingen-Reutlingen University	Germany	16.84	12.2
=76	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	France	16.70	27.8
=76	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	16.70	–
=76	Paris I, Sorbonne	France	16.70	–
79	Liverpool University	UK	16.14	10.5
80	Manchester University and Umist	UK	15.87	15.4
=81	Adelaide University	Australia	15.59	11.3
=81	Tsing Hua University	China	15.59	–
83	Tel Aviv University	Israel	15.15	9.0
=84	Alabama University	US	15.02	17.5
=84	Brussels Free University	Belgium	15.02	14.0
=84	Glasgow University	UK	15.02	15.8
=84	State University of New York at Stony Brook	US	15.02	22.7
=84	Utrecht University	Netherlands	15.02	16.0
89	Hong Kong University  of Sci and Tech	Hong Kong	14.34	–
=90	Hokkaido University	Japan	13.77	10.6
=90	Osaka University	Japan	13.77	18.7
=90	University of Pennsylvania	US	13.77	20.9
=93	George Washington University	US	13.33	14.8
=93	Nanjing University	China	13.33	–
=93	Pennsylvania State University	US	13.33	16.4
=96	Basel University	Switzerland	13.20	20.2
=96	Gothenburg University	Sweden	13.20	13.4
=96	Lund University	Sweden	13.20	14.3
=96	University of Western Australia	Australia	13.20	10.0
=100	University of Southern California	US	12.90	19.0
=100	University of Texas at Austin	US	12.90	20.8

Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement, QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd and Evidence Ltd

The world’s top 200 universities

	Max Score		1000	100	100	400	400	1000
Rank	Institution	Country	Peer review score	Int’l faculty score	Int’l students score	Student/ faculty score	Citations/ faculty score	Final score
1	Harvard University	US	643	17	17	50	243	1000
2	California University Berkeley	US	665	6	7	7	169	880.2
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	484	13	18	28	221	788.9
4	California Institute of Technology	US	236	19	17	45	400	738.9
5	Oxford University	UK	560	57	18	30	45	731.8
6	Cambridge University	UK	541	65	19	31	46	725.4
7	Stanford University	US	420	9	13	28	197	688.0
8	Yale University	US	347	53	20	65	81	582.8
9	Princeton University	US	353	18	18	19	133	557.5
10	ETH Zurich	CH	170	72	25	4	266	553.7
11	London School of Economics	UK	257	79	100	27	6	484.4
12	Tokyo University	JP	371	3	3	30	60	482.0
13	Chicago University	US	254	31	18	58	71	444.0
14	Imperial College London	UK	237	60	51	55	27	443.7
15	University of Texas at Austin	US	183	9	8	8	202	421.5
16	Australian National University	AU	212	48	31	9	105	417.7
17	Beijing University	CN	322	9	11	35	3	391.8
18	National University Singapore	SG	266	35	46	10	18	385.9
19	Columbia University	US	213	10	18	56	75	384.1
20	University of California, San Francisco	US	21	5	0	39	300	376.5
21	McGill University	CA	132	84	42	11	84	364.1
22	Melbourne University	AU	207	49	51	12	23	353.2
23	Cornell University	US	202	10	16	19	91	348.8
24	University of California, San Diego	US	96	3	6	7	208	331.5
25	Johns Hopkins University	US	107	16	13	68	116	330.8
26	University of California, Los Angeles	US	180	2	8	12	106	316.4
27	Ecole Polytechnique	FR	144	25	55	23	59	315.5
28	Pennsylvania University	US	142	14	23	31	87	306.9
29	Kyoto University	JP	207	3	3	25	57	303.7
30	Ecole Normale Super Paris	FR	105	11	22	100	51	298.4
31	Michigan University	US	173	17	11	19	65	293.3
32	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	CH	56	100	67	13	44	289.4
33	Monash University	AU	136	49	64	8	19	286.0
34	University College London	UK	108	48	40	44	36	284.2
35	Illinois University	US	152	3	3	15	100	281.6
36	New South Wales University	AU	140	49	47	19	12	275.7
37	Toronto University	CA	131	24	16	6	88	272.5
38	Carnegie Mellon University	US	129	35	25	24	37	259.4
39	Hong Kong University	HK	96	74	14	8	50	249.5
40	Sydney University	AU	124	49	29	11	24	245.2
41	Indian Institute of Technology	IN	209	3	2	13	8	241.7
42	Hong Kong University of Sci & Tech	HK	135	37	15	8	38	240.6
43	Manchester University & UMIST	UK	130	40	23	19	19	238.5
44	School of Oriental and African Studies	UK	62	70	77	20	0	235.8
45	Massachusetts University	US	118	1	4	7	99	235.7
46	British Columbia University	CA	114	24	14	6	65	230.4
47	Heidelberg University	DE	124	11	33	12	41	228.3
48	Edinburgh University	UK	118	32	21	22	29	227.6
49	Queensland University	AU	95	49	25	6	42	223.9
50	Nanyang University	SG	123	32	47	9	0	217.1
51	Tokyo Institute of Technology	JP	118	3	13	27	50	217.0
52	Duke University	US	61	12	11	56	66	212.6
53	Catholic University Louvain	BE	104	26	41	17	19	212.6
54	Brussels Free University	BE	54	41	57	10	36	205.1
55	RMIT University	AU	60	49	80	8	0	203.9
56	Adelaide University	AU	69	49	29	5	45	202.7
57	Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie	FR	99	7	39	15	33	198.7
58	Sussex University	UK	73	51	23	11	32	196.2
59	Purdue University	US	105	25	14	8	36	194.0
60	Tech University Berlin	DE	83	11	39	2	50	191.1
61	Brown University	US	46	39	14	19	65	188.9
62	Tsing Hua University	CN	140	9	7	24	3	188.9
63	Copenhagen University	DK	111	18	14	19	22	188.7
64	Erasmus University Rotterdam	NL	70	27	11	11	63	188.4
65	Georgia Institute of Technology	US	117	4	11	9	39	185.7
66	Wisconsin University	US	104	0	8	18	48	184.5
67	Auckland University	NZ	76	49	30	7	15	183.5
68	Macquarie University	AU	45	49	62	5	15	182.3
69	Osaka University	JP	78	3	5	28	63	181.8
70	St Andrews University	UK	39	42	57	19	19	181.0
71	Sorbonne Paris	FR	124	3	43	5	0	180.8
72	University of California, Santa Barbara	US	64	9	3	6	93	180.6
73	Northwestern University	US	61	4	12	27	71	180.4
74	Washington University	US	48	16	8	18	82	177.0
75	Boston University	US	78	12	19	17	45	176.6
76	Curtin University of Technology	AU	35	50	79	6	0	176.2
77	Vienna Technical University	AT	83	19	45	16	6	175.4
78	Delft University of Technology	NL	106	20	12	20	12	174.2
79	New York University	US	90	8	10	19	41	173.2
80	Warwick University	UK	70	49	25	9	14	170.6
81	Yeshiva University	US	2	14	15	31	103	170.2
82	Minnesota University	US	59	10	5	11	79	169.6
83	Eindhoven University of Technology	NL	45	20	12	11	77	169.5
84	Chinese University Hong Kong	HK	81	30	16	12	25	169.2
85	Göttingen University	DE	72	11	13	4	64	168.5
86	Rochester University	US	49	10	8	49	48	167.8
87	Trinity College, Dublin	IE	57	45	29	8	24	167.0
88	Case Western Reserve University	US	23	4	11	49	75	166.8
89	Malaya University	MY	50	29	68	15	0	166.4
90	Alabama University	US	27	10	4	8	112	166.0
91	Bristol University	UK	59	38	16	17	31	165.9
92	Lomonosov Moscow State University	RU	97	9	15	31	5	161.6
93	Hebrew University Jerusalem	IL	81	5	11	16	44	161.4
94	Vienna University	AT	77	19	30	5	25	161.2
95	Technical University Munich	DE	72	11	32	23	18	160.7
96	Western Australia University	AU	36	49	29	10	31	160.1
97	King’s College London	UK	34	44	27	24	26	160.1
98	Amsterdam University	NL	68	17	14	10	46	159.8
99	Munich University	DE	82	11	26	12	24	159.7
100	Queen Mary, University of London	UK	41	47	30	23	13	158.8
101	Oslo University	NO	81	21	18	13	21	158.5
102	National Taiwan University	TW	100	10	11	11	22	157.8
103	Bath University	UK	25	45	39	22	21	155.5
104	Tufts University	US	17	10	15	26	81	153.9
105	Texas A&M University	US	78	12	3	6	49	153.2
106	Iowa University	US	23	10	11	5	99	152.6
107	Colorado University	US	38	17	3	10	79	151.9
108	Massey University	NZ	41	49	42	5	8	150.6
109	Washington University, St Louis	US	38	10	10	13	76	150.3
110	Chalmers University of Technology	SE	71	17	22	11	25	150.2
111	Sains Malaysia University	MY	26	27	78	15	0	149.6
112	Glasgow University	UK	59	33	10	15	27	148.5
113	University of Technology, Sydney	AU	46	49	39	7	0	146.1
114	Otago University	NZ	25	49	42	10	15	145.9
115	Brandeis University	US	13	26	15	12	75	145.6
116	Michigan State University	US	81	10	7	8	35	145.1
117	North Carolina University	US	37	9	3	17	75	144.3
118	Virginia University	US	53	6	10	17	54	144.0
119	Seoul National University	KR	83	6	20	9	21	144.0
120	Utrecht University	NL	58	16	9	11	45	143.9
121	Paris XI, Orsay	FR	47	11	31	10	40	142.6
122	Royal Institute of Technology	SE	37	19	30	4	47	142.5
123	Maastricht University	NL	24	20	51	20	23	142.0
124	Stuttgart University	DE	61	11	39	17	10	141.7
125	Humboldt University Berlin	DE	69	11	23	7	28	141.3
126	Birmingham University	UK	41	36	19	14	26	140.5
127	Aarhus University	DK	59	18	13	26	20	140.0
128	Durham University	UK	52	33	10	11	28	139.3
129	Helsinki University	FI	75	11	7	13	28	138.6
130	Penn State University	US	64	10	5	10	44	138.4
131	Leiden University	NL	24	20	13	12	65	137.9
132	Strasbourg University	FR	29	11	40	9	45	137.6
133	Leeds University	UK	54	31	17	15	16	136.9
134	Maryland University	US	35	20	5	14	58	136.7
135	Bonn University	DE	56	11	37	13	14	135.0
136	Stony Brook, State of New York University	US	26	7	10	11	75	134.3
137	York University	UK	36	39	16	16	22	133.3
138	Dartmouth College	US	18	13	12	20	65	132.5
139	Stockholm University	SE	40	19	30	3	35	131.9
140	Uppsala University	SE	43	19	30	11	24	131.5
141	Utah University	US	51	10	13	14	40	131.0
142	La Trobe University	AU	27	49	23	4	25	130.8
143	Waterloo University	CA	50	25	12	5	35	130.6
144	Toulouse University	FR	31	8	40	5	42	130.4
145	Technical University of Denmark	DK	49	18	15	23	20	128.6
146	Rice University	US	35	10	7	25	48	128.5
147	Hamburg University	DE	66	11	17	9	20	127.3
148	Mcmaster University	CA	28	24	13	11	47	127.3
149	Kiel University	DE	27	11	15	3	67	127.0
150	Sheffield University	UK	38	33	15	15	22	126.9
151	Liverpool University	UK	32	39	14	13	25	126.8
152	Karlsruhe University	DE	47	11	29	9	26	126.0
153	Tohoku University	JP	48	6	2	27	39	125.7
154	China University of Sci & Tech	CN	85	5	1	24	6	125.2
155	Montpellier 1 University	FR	43	11	31	5	31	124.8
156	Vanderbilt University	US	20	2	5	39	55	124.6
157	Frankfurt University	DE	51	11	30	6	22	124.1
158	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	IL	78	0	1	12	30	124.0
159	Madrid Autonomous University	ES	62	19	11	8	19	123.7
160	Korea Advanced Institute of Sci & Tech	KR	86	7	19	8	0	123.5
161	Tasmania University	AU	27	49	22	6	15	123.3
162	La Sapienza University	IT	89	4	5	4	16	121.5
163	Pohang University of Sci & Tech	KR	22	14	18	8	56	120.9
164	Innsbruck University	AT	31	19	38	6	23	120.8
165	Georgetown University	US	38	10	10	13	46	120.6
166	Alberta University	CA	28	24	23	13	28	120.4
167	Nagoya University	JP	45	3	3	19	47	120.0
168	Dundee University	UK	9	42	21	14	31	119.4
169	Würzburg University	DE	11	11	15	6	72	118.8
170	Nottingham University	UK	24	39	20	13	19	118.0
171	Lund University	SE	36	19	6	11	40	117.3
172	Technische Hochschule Darmstadt	DE	39	11	28	2	33	116.9
173	Emory University	US	12	1	8	43	48	116.6
174	Indiana University	US	29	0	10	6	68	115.9
175	University of California, Santa Cruz	US	14	5	2	4	87	115.6
176	Helsinki University of Technology	FI	61	20	8	15	8	115.4
177	Université de Montréal	CA	35	24	23	14	14	114.2
178	Freiburg University	DE	26	11	29	14	29	113.0
179	Newcastle Upon Tyne University	UK	19	33	19	20	19	112.6
180	University of Southern California	US	40	15	14	4	35	111.4
181	Lancaster University	UK	23	44	16	7	18	111.3
182	University of California, Davis	US	27	1	4	10	65	110.8
183	Arizona University	US	35	5	9	10	49	110.6
184	RWTH Aachen	DE	60	11	27	9	0	110.5
185	Queen’s University Belfast	UK	16	54	16	5	16	110.3
186	Bologna University	IT	76	4	8	4	14	109.8
187	Norwegian University of Sci & Tech	NO	30	23	19	22	12	109.6
188	Tulane University	US	27	10	20	33	16	108.9
189	Leicester University	UK	5	32	21	17	29	107.4
190	Rutgers State University	US	24	25	5	10	40	107.3
191	Nijmegen University	NL	22	20	12	33	17	107.1
192	Nanjing University	CN	73	4	2	16	7	106.3
193	Southampton University	UK	12	45	11	16	18	105.9
194	Aberdeen University	UK	6	38	22	16	20	105.7
195	National Autonomous University of Mexico	MX	68	7	0	25	1	104.5
196	Fudan University	CN	61	8	13	15	4	104.5
197	Bremen University	DE	35	11	21	2	32	104.4
198	City University of Hong Kong	HK	40	47	3	10	0	103.6
199	Virginia Polytechnic Inst	US	56	10	7	11	17	103.0
200	Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst	US	24	19	9	9	38	102.9

Data compiled for The Times Higher by QS (www.qsnetwork.com), published 5 November 2004.

Top biomedicine research companies

Rank	Name	Country	Citations per paper
1	Genentech	US	59.5
2	Amgen	US	49.8
3	Merck	US	35.9
4	Hoffmann-La Roche	Switzerland	35.7
5	GSK	UK	32.0
6	Eli Lilly	US	26.3

Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement and  Evidence Ltd