Top 10 best Universities in the World

June 9, 2016 Uncategorized

Do you thirst for knowledge and seek enlightenment from the four corners of a university classroom?  The choices are abundant as there are many universities from around the world that can offer you the best education there is.  There are many organizations that rank universities based on some established criteria.  Here we take a look at the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014.

Published by the British magazine Times Higher Education (THE), the world university rankings are done annually using data supplied by Thomson Reuters, a multinational media and information firm.  Regarded as one of the most influential and widely observed international university rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings are the results of methodically evaluating universities based on their core missions and 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators.

The current Times Higher Education World University Rankings include 400 universities ranked from 1 to 400 with 1 as the highest rank.  Instead of presenting the top 10 universities from the list, let us consider here the top 10 countries and see which university has the highest rank for each country.

1. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

• Rank:  1^st
• Location:  1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125 United States
• Region:  North America
• Official Website:  http://www.caltech.edu/

2. University of Oxford

• Rank:  2^nd

• Location:  Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD United Kingdom
• Region:  Europe
• Official Website:  http://www.ox.ac.uk/

3. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich

• Rank:  14^th

• Location:  Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
• Region:  Europe
• Official Website:  https://www.ethz.ch/de.html

4. University of Toronto

• Rank:  20^th

• Location:  563 Spadina Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2J7 Canada
• Region:  North America
• Official Website:  http://www.utoronto.com/

5. The University of Tokyo

• Rank:  23^rd

• Location:  Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
• Region:  Asia
• Official Website:  http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/

6. National University of Singapore (NUS)

• Rank:  26^th

• Location:  21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119077
• Region:  Asia
• Official Website:  http://www.nus.edu.sg/

7. University of Melbourne – Australia

• Rank:  34^th
• Location:  Grattan St, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia

• Region:  Oceania
• Official Website:  http://www.unimelb.edu.au/

8. Karolinska Institute

• Rank:  36^th

• Location:  Solnavägen 1, 171 77 Solna, Sweden
• Region:  Europe
• Official Website:  http://ki.se/start

9. The University of Hong Kong

• Rank:  43^rd

• Location:  Pokfulam, Hong Kong
• Region:  Asia
• Official Website:  http://www.hku.hk/ 

10.  Seoul National University

• Rank:  44^th

• Location:  Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742
• Region:  Asia
• Official Website:  http://www.snu.ac.kr/

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No matter where you are in the world, feel secured that you have access to world-class education, be it for finishing your undergraduate degree or aspiring for further post-graduate studies.  The good thing about these top universities is that they prepare the student to be a responsible and educated citizen of the world.