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Aug. 13, 2006 - In response to the same forces that have propelled the world economy toward global integration, universities have also become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire spec­ trum of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an inter­ connected world and collaborative research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity. To capture these developments, NEWSWEEK devised a ranking of global universities that takes into account openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research.

We evaluated schools on some of the measures used in well-known rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey. Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes).

Here is our ranking:

1. Harvard University    
2. Stanford University    
3. Yale University    
4. California Institute of Technology    
5. University of California at Berkeley    
6. University of Cambridge    
7. Massachusetts Institute Technology     
8. Oxford University    
9. University of California at San Francisco    
10. Columbia University    
11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor    
12. University of California at Los Angeles    
13. University of Pennsylvania    
14. Duke University    
15. Princeton Universitty    
16. Tokyo University    
17. Imperial College London    
18. University of Toronto    
19. Cornell University    
20. University of Chicago    
21. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich    
22. University of Washington at Seattle    
23. University of California at San Diego    
24. Johns Hopkins University    
25. University College London
26. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne    
27. University Texas at Austin    
28. University of Wisconsin at Madison    
29. Kyoto University    
30. University of Minnesota Twin Cities    
31. University of British Columbia    
32. University of Geneva    
33. Washington University in St. Louis    
34. London School of Economics    
35. Northwestern University    
36. National University of Singapore    
37. University of Pittsburgh    
38. Australian National University    
39. New York University    
40. Pennsylvania State University    
41. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill    
42. McGill University    
43. Ecole Polytechnique    
44. University of Basel    
45. University of Maryland    
46. University of Zurich    
47. University of Edinburgh    
48. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign    
49. University of Bristol    
50. University of Sydney    
51. University of Colorado at Boulder    
52. Utrecht University    
53. University of Melbourne    
54. University of Southern California    
55. University of Alberta    
56. Brown University    
57. Osaka University    
58. University of Manchester    
59. University of California at Santa Barbara    
60. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology    
61. Wageningen University    
62. Michigan State University    
63. University of Munich    
64. University of New South Wales    
65. Boston University    
66. Vanderbilt University    
67. University of Rochester    
68. Tohoku University    
69. University of Hong Kong    
70. University of Sheffield    
71. Nanyang Technological University    
72. University of Vienna    
73. Monash University    
74. University of Nottingham    
75. Carnegie Mellon University    
76. Lund University    
77. Texas A&M University    
78. University of Western Australia    
79. Ecole Normale Super Paris    
80. University of Virginia    
81. Technical University of Munich    
82. Hebrew University of Jerusalem    
83. Leiden University    
84. University of Waterloo    
85. King's College London    
86. Purdue University    
87. University of Birmingham    
88. Uppsala University    
89. University of Amsterdam    
90. University of Heidelberg    
91. University of Queensland    
92. University of Leuven    
93. Emory University    
94. Nagoya University    
95. Case Western Reserve University    
96. Chinese University of Hong Kong    
97. University of Newcastle    
98. Innsbruck University    
99. University of Massachusetts at Amherst    
100. Sussex University

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