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The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in partnership with the research resources of, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the international education and career development group) has recently published the Top 200 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS for the year 2006.This is the third year that the THES – QS World University Rankings has been published by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).

From India, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and the Jawaharlal Nehru University figure in the top 200 universities and are ranked at 57, 68 and 183rd positions respectively. Here it may be pertinent to mention that the Jawaharlal Nehru University which ranked 192 in 2005 has moved to the 183 rd rank this year, while IIM from rank 84 in 2005 has now moved to the 68th position. The IIT meanwhile had slid from the 50th rank in 2005 to 57 rank in 2006.

However, among the world's 100 best technology universities. survey for 2006 published by the THES, IITs have retained their number three ranking while IIM are placed at rank 68.

In the process of identifying the top universities worldwide for 2006, the research methodology adopted by QS included peer review of 3703 research-active academics worldwide who identified up to 30 universities in the world - best for research within their own field of expertise ; recruiter review of over 736 graduate employers, from all regions of the world ; ratio of international to total faculty; ratio of international students to total students and ratio of total students to total faculty. The THES applied weightings to each of these factors to create an overall ranking.

TOP 200 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2006

2006 RANK	2005 RANK	UNIVERSITY NAME	NAME OF COUNTRY
1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
4	2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
4	7	Yale University	United States
6	5	Stanford University	United States
7	8	California Institute of Technology	United States
8	6	University of California, Berkeley	United States
9	13	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	9	Princeton University	United States
11	17	University of Chicago	United States
12	20	Columbia University	United States
13	11	Duke University	United States
14	15	Beijing University	China
15	14	Cornell University	United States
16	23	Australian National University	Australia
17	11	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
18	24	Ecole Normale Supérieure	France
19	22	National University of Singapore	Singapore
19	16	University of Tokyo	Japan
21	24	McGill University	Canada
22	19	University of Melbourne	Australia
23	27	Johns Hopkins University	United States
24	21	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
25	28	University College London	United Kingdom
26	32	University of Pennsylvania	United States
27	29	University of Toronto	Canada
28	62	Tsing Hua University	China
29	31	Kyoto University	Japan
29	36	University of Michigan	United States
31	37	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
32	26	University of Texas at Austin	United States
33	30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
33	41	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
35	44	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
35	38	University of Sydney	Australia
37	10	École Polytechnique	France
38	33	Monash University	Australia
39	88	University of Geneva	Switzerland
40	35	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
41	40	University of New South Wales	Australia
42	46	Northwestern University	United States
43	56	New York University	United States
44	42	University of California, San Diego	United States
45	47	University of Queensland	Australia
46	52	University of Auckland	New Zealand
46	73	King's College London	United Kingdom
48	73	University of Rochester	United States
48	53	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
50	38	University of British Colombia	Canada
50	51	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
52	69	Sciences Po Paris	France
53	114	Vanderbilt University	United States
54	71	Brown University	United States
54	66	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
56	141	Emory University	United States
57	50	Indian Institute of Technology	India
58	45	Universität Heidelberg	Germany
58	43	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	Hong Kong
60	109	Case Western Reserve University	United States
61	117	Dartmouth College	United States
61	48	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
93	63	Seoul National University	South Korea
64	49	Bristol University	United Kingdom
64	34	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
66	54	Boston University	United States
67	70	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
68	84	Indian Institute of Management	India
69	58	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
70	103	School of Oriental and African Studies	United Kingdom
70	105	Osaka University	Japan
72	92	Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon	France
73	77	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
74	95	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Mexico
75	127	University of Basel	Switzerland
76	88	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
77	58	University of Illinois	United States
87	111	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
79	186	University of Otago	New Zealand
79	73	University of Wisconsin	United States
81	101	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
82	67	Macquarie University	Australia
82	105	Technische Universität München	Germany
84	88	University of Washington	United States
85	97	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
86	53	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
87	65	University of Vienna	Austria
88	193	University of Pittsburgh	United States
89	133	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
90	143	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
90	138	Leiden University	Netherlands
92	57	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
93	79	Moscow State University	Russia
93	88	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie	France
95	120	Utrecht University	Netherlands
96	95	Catholic University of Leuven	Belgium
97	108	Wageningen University	Netherlands
98	55	Universität München	Germany
99	112	Queen Mary and Westfield College	United Kingdom
99	64	Pennsylvania State University	United States
101	124	University of Southern California	United States
102	159	Georgetown University	United States
102	150	Rice University	United States
102	143	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
105	80	University of Adelaide	Australia
105	112	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany
105	100	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
108	114	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
109	136	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
109	85	University of Zurich	Switzerland
111	133	University of Maryland	United States
111	180	Uppsala University	Sweden
111	191	Wake Forest University	United States
111	80	University of Western Australia	Australia
115	217	University of Twente	Netherlands
116	72	Fudan University	China
116	62	University of Helsinki	Finland
118	99	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
119	77	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
120	215	Keio University	Japan
121	103	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
122	180	Lund University	Sweden
123	143	University of North Carolina	United States
124	68	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States
124	109	University of York	United Kingdom
126	138	University of Aarhus	Denmark
127	61	Purdue University	United States
128	122	Kyushu University	Japan
128	129	Nagoya University	Japan
130	164	Tufts University	United States
130	105	University of Virginia	United States
132	83	University of Durham	United Kingdom
133	149	University of Alberta	Canada
133	259	Vrije University Brussels	Belgium
133	157	Hokkaido University	Japan
133	168	University of Newcastle upon Tyne	United Kingdom
137	177	Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen	Netherlands
138	86	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
139	119	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
140	234	Cranfield University	United Kingdom
141	159	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
141	228	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
141	219	University of Ghent	Belgium
141	206	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
145	147	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
146	82	RMIT University	Australia
147	166	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
147	188	Tel Aviv University	Israel
149	172	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany
150	184	Korea University	South Korea
150	125	Texas A&M University	United States
152	179	University of Notre Dame	United States
153	130	University of Bath	United Kingdom
154	178	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
155	184	McMaster University	Canada
156	101	Curtin University of Technology	Australia
156	114	Universität Göttingen	Germany
158	194	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
158	240	Universität Ulm	Germany
158	202	Waseda University	Japan
161	121	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
161	131	Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg I	France
163	121	Michigan State University	United States
164	219	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia
165	76	Université libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
165	93	University of Science and Technology of China	China
165	175	State University of New York at Stony Brook	United States
168	199	George Washington University	United States
168	136	Tohoku University	Japan
170	206	University of California, Davis	United States
170	260	Universität Tübingen	Germany
172	172	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany
172	157	University of Maastricht	Netherlands
172	196	Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
172	254	Yeshiva University	United States
176	261	Queen's University	Canada
177	138	University of Oslo	Norway
178	228	University of Bern	Switzerland
179	169	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
180	150	nanjing University	China
181	172	Kobe University	Japan
181	132	University of Montreal	Canada
183	192	Jawaharlal Nehru University	India
183	186	Free University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
185	289	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	Malaysia
186	165	University of Innsbruck	Austria
187	213	Brandeis University	United States
187	142	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany
187	150	University of Minnesota	United States
190	240	University of Barcelona	Spain
190	248	University of Reading	United Kingdom
192	169	University of Malaya	Malaysia
192	118	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
194	154	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
195	267	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
196	308	University of Wollongong	Australia
197	125	Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza	Italy
198	254	University of California, Irvine	United States
198	143	Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea
200	305	Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)	France

Source: THES – QS World University Rankings 2006/7