Intending international students often discover the difficulty encountered in trying to choose a school to apply to outside of their home country. This can be overcome if there is a ranking that compares different schools against the same yardstick.
4 International Colleges & Universities is an international higher education search engine and directory reviewing accredited Universities and Colleges in the world. It includes 11,000 Colleges and Universities, ranked by web popularity, in 200 countries.
The current ranking (i.e. from academic year 2012) is based upon an algorithm that included three unbiased and independent web metrics extracted from three different search engines: Google Page Rank, Alexa Traffic Rank, and Majestic Seo Referring Domains. It is important to note that this method does not rank school or their programs, by the quality of education or level of services provided.
| Top 200 Universities and Colleges in the world by the 4icu.org University Web Ranking | ||
|---|---|---|
| INSTITUTION | LOCATION | |
| 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | |
| 2 Stanford University | United States | |
| 3 Harvard University | United States | |
| 4 University of California, Berkeley | United States | |
| 5 The University of Texas at Austin | United States | |
| 6 Cornell University | United States | |
| 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Mexico | |
| 8 University of Michigan | United States | |
| 9 University of Pennsylvania | United States | |
| 10 University of Washington | United States | |
| 11 Penn State University | United States | |
| 12 University of California, Los Angeles | United States | |
| 13 Columbia University in the City of New York | United States | |
| 14 University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | |
| 15 University of Minnesota | United States | |
| 16 University of Oxford | United Kingdom | |
| 17 University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | |
| 18 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | United States | |
| 19 Yale University | United States | |
| 20 Purdue University | United States | |
| 21 New York University | United States | |
| 22 Carnegie Mellon University | United States | |
| 23 University of Florida | United States | |
| 24 University of Virginia | United States | |
| 25 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich | Switzerland | |
| 26 Michigan State University | United States | |
| 27 Keio University | Japan | |
| 28 California Institute of Technology | United States | |
| 29 The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | |
| 30 Princeton University | United States | |
| 31 University of Arizona | United States | |
| 32 University of Southern California | ||
| 33 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States | |
| 34 University of California, San Diego | United States | |
| 35 University College London | United Kingdom | |
| 36 University of Maryland | United States | |
| 37 University of Chicago | United States | |
| 38 Universität Wien | Austria | |
| 39 University of Toronto | Canada | |
| 40 Indiana University | United States | |
| 41 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | United States | |
| 42 Duke University | United State | |
| 43 Peking University | China | |
| 44 Texas A&M University | United States | |
| 45 University of California, Davis | United States | |
| 46 The University of British Columbia | Canada | |
| 47 Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | |
| 48 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | |
| 49 National University of Singapore | Singapore | |
| 50 Arizona State University | United States | |
| 51 The Ohio State University | United States | |
| 52 North Carolina State University | United States | |
| 53 University of Colorado Boulder | United States | |
| 54 Technische Universität Berlin | Germany | |
| 55 CUNY System | United States | |
| 56 Università degli Studi di Bologna | Italy | |
| 57 Johns Hopkins University | United States | |
| 58 Fudan University | China | |
| 59 Zhejiang University | China | |
| 60 Wuhan University | China | |
| 61 Northwestern University | United States | |
| 62 Nanjing University | China | |
| 63 Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil | |
| 64 University of California, Irvine | United States | |
| 65 Georgia Institute of Technology | United States | |
| 66 University of Georgia | United States | |
| 67 University of Iowa | United States | |
| 68 Universidad de Granada | Spain | |
| 69 Xi'an Jiaotong University | China | |
| 70 Washington University in St. Louis | United States | |
| 71 The University of Tokyo | Japan | |
| 72 McGill University | Canada | |
| 73 Freie Universität Berlin | Germany | |
| 74 Imperial College London | United Kingdom | |
| 75 Univerza v Ljubljani | Slovenia | |
| 76 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | India | |
| 77 Florida State University | United States | |
| 78 Boston University | United States | |
| 79 University of Utah | United States | |
| 80 Tsinghua University | China | |
| 81 Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem | Hungary | |
| 82 Institut Teknologi Bandung | Indonesia | |
| 83 University of Hawaii System | United States | |
| 84 University of Pittsburgh | United States | |
| 85 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | India | |
| 86 National Taiwan University | Taiwan | |
| 87 Georgetown University | United States | |
| 88 Washington State University | United States | |
| 89 Rice University | United States | |
| 90 University of Waterloo | Canada | |
| 91 University of Alberta | Canada | |
| 92 Brown University | United States | |
| 93 University of California, Santa Barbara | United States | |
| 94 University of California, Riverside | United States | |
| 95 Oregon State University | United States | |
| 96 The Australian National University | Australia | |
| 97 Universitetet i Oslo | Norway | |
| 98 Simon Fraser University | Canada | |
| 99 Monash University | Australia | |
| 100 Dartmouth College | United States | |
| 101 The University of New South Wales | Australia | |
| 102 Univerza v Mariboru | Slovenia | |
| 103 Colorado State University | United States | |
| 104 York University | Canada | |
| 105 Brigham Young University | United States | |
| 106 Iowa State University of Science and Technology | United States | |
| 107 Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Spain | |
| 108 University of Calgary | Canada | |
| 109 University of South Florida | United States | |
| 110 Technische Universität Wien | Austria | |
| 111 Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, KTH | Sweden | |
| 112 Universität Hamburg | Germany | |
| 113 The University of Melbourne | Australia | |
| 114 University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | |
| 115 Universität München | Germany | |
| 116 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | |
| 117 University of Victoria | Canada | |
| 118 The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
| 119 University of Oregon | United States | |
| 120 University of Nebraska-Lincoln | United States | |
| 121 Universiteit van Amsterdam | Netherlands | |
| 122 University of California, San Francisco | United States | |
| 123 University at Buffalo, State University of New York | United States | |
| 124 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States | |
| 125 San Francisco State University | United States | |
| 126 Vanderbilt University | United States | |
| 127 Universität Leipzig | Germany | |
| 128 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen | Germany | |
| 129 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | |
| 130 Universiteit Utrecht | Netherlands | |
| 131 George Mason University | United States | |
| 132 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Germany | |
| 133 The University of Tennessee | United States | |
| 134 The London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom | |
| 135 Linköpings Universitet | Sweden | |
| 136 The University of Queensland | Australia | |
| 137 University of Kentucky | United States | |
| 138 The University of Sydney | Australia | |
| 139 Queen's University | Canada | |
| 140 Universitetet i Bergen | Norway | |
| 141 The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | |
| 142 Tufts University | United States | |
| 143 University of Missouri | United States | |
| 144 The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | |
| 145 Drexel University | United States | |
| 146 Universität Heidelberg | Germany | |
| 147 University of Massachusetts Amherst | United States | |
| 148 The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | |
| 149 Utah State University | United States | |
| 150 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Spain | |
| 151 Tecnológico de Monterrey | Mexico | |
| 152 Technische Universiteit Delft | Netherlands | |
| 153 Anadolu Üniversitesi | Turkey | |
| 154 Université de Genève | Switzerland | |
| 155 Universität Freiburg | Germany | |
| 156 Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Netherlands | |
| 157 University of Miami | United States | |
| 158 Uppsala Universitet | Sweden | |
| 159 Technische Universität Dresden | Germany | |
| 160 Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet | Norway | |
| 161 University of California, Santa Cruz | United States | |
| 162 Université de Montréal | Canada | |
| 163 The University of Western Ontario | Canada | |
| 164 The University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | |
| 165 Moscow State University | Russia | |
| 166 Emory University | United States | |
| 167 Portland State University | United States | |
| 168 Université Laval | Canada | |
| 169 Universidad de Chile | Chile | |
| 170 University of Delaware | United States | |
| 171 Universiteit Twente | Netherlands | |
| 172 University of Auckland | New Zealand | |
| 173 University of Ottawa | Canada | |
| 174 Lunds Universitet | Sweden | |
| 175 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | |
| 176 National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan | |
| 177 Univerzita Karlova v Praze | Czech Republic | |
| 178 University of Houston | United States | |
| 179 University of Illinois at Chicago | United States | |
| 180 Universidade do Porto | Portugal | |
| 181 Universidad de Sevilla | Spain | |
| 182 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven | Netherlands | |
| 183 Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza | Italy | |
| 184 George Washington University | United States | |
| 185 University of Science and Technology of China | China | |
| 186 University of Saskatchewan | Canada | |
| 187 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya | Spain | |
| 188 Technische Universität München | Germany | |
| 189 Georgia State University | United States | |
| 190 Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | |
| 191 Syracuse University | United States | |
| 192 Universität Stuttgart | Germany | |
| 193 The University of Adelaide | Australia | |
| 194 Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze | Czech Republic | |
| 195 University of North Texas | United States | |
| 196 Renmin University of China | China | |
| 197 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia | Spain | |
| 198 Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis | United States | |
| 199 Universität Bremen | Germany | |
| 200 Universidad de Zaragoza | Spain | |
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©4ICU 4 International Colleges & Universities www.4icu.org - All rights reserved. Disclaimer. Extracted from the 4ICU World University Rankings 2011/12. The content above was first published on Study & Scholarships on 12/12/2012.