The United Kingdom comes in second place with 45 universities, or 11 percent of the worldwide total.

These new 2012 best universities rankings are based on data from the QS World University Rankings, which were produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds. QS, one of the world’s leading networks for careers and education, has been publishing international rankings since 2004.
The golden globe dresses 2012 U.S. News World’s Best Universities rankings enable our readers to more fully understand how American institutions are performing when compared with other institutions of higher learning. The bottom line is that U.S.-based universities perform very well: Eighty-three of the top 400 universities worldwide, or 21 percent, are in the United States.
The United Kingdom comes in second place with 45 universities, or 11 percent of the worldwide total. Germany golden globe dresses was third with 35 universities, or 9 percent; Australia was fourth with 22 universities, or 6 percent; and France was fifth with 19 schools, or 5 percent.
Canada and Japan were tied at sixth place with 16 universities, or 4 percent each; Netherlands finished eighth with 12 universities, or 3 percent; South Korea was in ninth place with 11 schools, or 3 percent; and China came in at 10th place with 9 schools, at 2 percent.
These top 10 countries accounted for 67 percent of the top 400, or 268 schools. In total, there are schools from 45 different countries represented in the top 400. The other 35 countries accounted for 33 percent of the total number of universities, or 132 schools.
Citations per Faculty Score #1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 100 100 100 99.9 86.4 96.5 99.3 #2 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 99.8 100 100 98.3 98.2 96 97 #3 Harvard University United States 99.2 100 100 98.6 90 78.4 100 #4 UCL (University golden globe dresses College London) United Kingdom 98.7 99.6 95.6 98.4 96.3 99.9 94 #5 University of Oxford United Kingdom 98.6 100 100 100 98 95.8 89.4 #6 Imperial College London United Kingdom 98.3 99.8 100 99.8 99.8 99.6 87.3 #7 Yale University United States 97.5 100 100 100 92.7 63.9 93.3 #8 University of Chicago United States 96.3 99.9 96 95.6 68.9 77.8 96.4 #9 Princeton University United States 95.4 100 88.5 90.7 85.5 63.5 99.8 #10 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 95.1 99 51.3 100 96 91.1 100 #11 Columbia University United States golden globe dresses 94.7 99.9 100 97.2 16.2 84.9 96.3 #12 University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) United States 94.5 98.5 96.2 99.6 55.7 66.8 92.4 #13 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 92.8 99.3 94 67 100 98.7 97.2 #14 Cornell University United States 92.1 99.7 96.4 73.9 74.3 67.4 98.8 #15 Stanford University United States 91.7 100 100 72.4 41.9 83.5 100 #16 Johns Hopkins University United States 91.2 94.6 60.2 100 56.8 74.7 99.1 #17 University of Michigan United States 91.2 99.8 96.1 92 50.6 46.5 87.3 #18 McGill University Canada 90.4 98.5 95.1 89.6 86 91.3 69.1 #19 University golden globe dresses of Toronto Canada 89.6 99.9 94.3 73.8 96.1 74.8 80.2 #20 Duke University United States 89.5 95.1 81.9 99.7 16.4 44.5 96.9 #21 University of Edinburgh golden globe dresses United Kingdom 89.2 99.1 96.8 72.1 89.6 93.8 77.1 #22 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 88.1 100 100 47 86.1 78.8 97.9 #23 University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong 87.9 99.3 83.8 94.2 100 99.1 50.5 #24 Australian National University golden globe dresses (ANU) Australia golden globe dresses 87.6 99.7 82.5 79.6 100 96.3 64.3 #25 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore golden globe dresses 87.2 100 99.4 81.4 100 98.2 51.1
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