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World University Rankings

One of the Highest Ranked Universities in the World

The Times Higher Education 2010 World University Rankings survey has the University of Toronto ranked 17 in the World’s overall rankings and as the best university in Canada. The University of Toronto is the only Canadian University that scored in the top 25 in all 6 categories including Clinical and Health, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Physical Sciences.

Times Higher Education, World University Rankings*

2010 Rank University Name Country
1 Harvard University US
2 California Institute of Technology US
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
4 Stanford University US
5 Princeton University US
6 University of Cambridge UK
7 University of Oxford UK
8 University of California, Berkeley US
9 Imperial College London UK
10 Yale University US
11 University of California, Los Angeles US
12 University of Chicago US
13 John Hopkins University US
14 Cornell University US
15 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
16 University of Michigan US
17 University of Toronto Canada
18 Columbia University US
19 University of Pennsylvania US
20 Carnegie Mellon University US

Life Sciences*

2010 Rank University Name Country
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
2 Harvard University US
3 Stanford University US
4 University of Oxford UK
5 Yale University US
6 University of Cambridge UK
7 University of California, Berkeley US
8 Johns Hopkins University US
9 Imperial College London UK
10 Princeton University US
11 University College London UK
12 University of California, Los Angeles US
13 Duke University US
14 University of California, San Diego US
15 University of Washington US
16 University of Michigan US
17 Cornell University US
18 Columbia University US
19 University of British Columbia Canada
20 University of Toronto Canada

Engineering & Technology*

2010 Rank University Name Country
1 California Institute of Technology US
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
3 Stanford University US
4 Princeton University US
5 University of California, Berkeley US
6 University of Cambridge UK
7 Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Zurich		 Switzerland
8 University of Oxford UK
9 Imperial College London UK
10 Georgia Institute of Technology US
11 Carnegie Mellon University US
12 Cornell University US
13 University of Toronto Canada
14 University of Michigan US
15 University of Illinois – Urbana US
16 National University of Singapore Singapore
17 University of California, Santa Barbara US
18 Northwestern University US
19 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
20 Tsinghua University China

Social Sciences*

2010 Rank University Name Country
1 Harvard University US
2 Princeton University US
3 Stanford University US
4 University of Michigan US
5 Yale University US
6 University of Chicago US
7 University of Oxford UK
8 University of Cambridge UK
9 University of California, Los Angeles US
10 University of California, Berkeley US
11 University of Pennsylvania US
12 Columbia University US
13 London School of Economics

and Political Science

 UK
14 University College London UK
15 University of Toronto Canada
16 Northwestern University US
17 University of British Columbia Canada
18 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US
19 Cornell University US
20 University of Wisconsin US

Clinical, Pre-Clinical and Health*

2010 Rank University Name Country
1 Harvard University US
2 Stanford University US
3 University of Cambridge UK
4 University of Oxford UK
5 Imperial College London UK
6 Yale University US
7 Johns Hopkins University US
8 University of California, Los Angeles US
9 Columbia University US
10 University College London UK
11 University of California, Berkeley US
12 University of Toronto Canada
13 University of Washington US
14 Duke University US
15 University of Michigan US
16 University of Pennsylvania US
17 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US
18 University of Melbourne Australia
19 McGill University Canada
20 Washington University, Saint Louis US

*Source: World University Rankings 2010, Times Higher Education Magazine