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Cambridge came in as the top dog of the leading universities in the world for the second consecutive year, followed by Harvard, MIT and Yale, according to the latest world's university rankings released by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a London-based global company specializing in education and study abroad.

The QS currently evaluates over 700 universities in the world and ranks the top 400 based on the following six indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty student ratio, proportion of international students and proportion of international faculty. This is the 8th year the QS published the world's university rankings of its kind. To produce this year's rankings, the QS surveyed more than 33,000 global academics and 16,000 graduate employers.

Despite Cambridge's most coveted performance, the U.S. universities maintain the dominant position, taking 20 of the top 50 spots and bragging 70 of the top 300. The United Kingdom has a total of 37 universities making their way into the top 300, second only to the U.S., and followed by Germany (24), Japan (15) and the Netherlands (12).

This year's top 5 Asian universities include: University of Hong Kong, China (22nd), University of Tokyo, Japan (25th), National University of Singapore (28th), Kyoto University, Japan (32nd) and Chinese University of Hong Kong, China (37th).

A total of 16 Chinese universities are included in this year's top 300 list, with 8 from the mainland, 6 from Hong Kong and 2 from Taiwan. Of the Chinese mainland universities, Peking University is the best performing one, taking the 46th spot, ahead of Tsinghua University (47th) and Fudan University (91st).

Besides the overall rankings, the QS also ranks the universities in five broad faculty areas: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences & Management.

? Full list: world’s top 300 universities 2011

? Top 300 universities by faculty area:

• arts & humanities ? engineering & technology ? life sciences & medicine

? natural sciences ? social sciences & management

Following are the top 300 universities in the faculty area of natural sciences compiled by the QS:

Rank	Institution	Country	Domestic Fees ($)		International Fees ($)		Score
			undergrad	postgrad	undergrad	postgrad
0	IMD	Switzerland					3
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	20,000 - 22,000	100
2	Harvard University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	98.6
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	95.6
4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	93.9
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	91.9
6	Stanford University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	82
7	Princeton University	United States	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	76.6
8	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	74.8
9	The University of Tokyo	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	72.7
10	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	69.3
11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	30,000 - 32,000	32,000 - 34,000	67.8
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	59.8
13	Kyoto University	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	57.9
14	Yale University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	32,000 - 34,000	38,000 - 40,000	32,000 - 34,000	56.7
15	University of Chicago	United States	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	56.5
16	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	34,000 - 36,000	6,000 - 8,000	40,000 - 42,000	18,000 - 20,000	54.1
17	Peking University	China	< 1,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	54.1
18	Cornell University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	53.1
19	Australian National University	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	40,000 - 42,000	28,000 - 30,000	52.7
20	école Normale Supérieure, Paris	France	< 1,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	52.3
21	University of Toronto	Canada	10,000 - 12,000	12,000 - 14,000	32,000 - 34,000	28,000 - 30,000	51.8
22	University of British Columbia	Canada	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	24,000 - 26,000	6,000 - 8,000	48.2
23	Columbia University	United States	42,000 - 44,000	38,000 - 40,000	42,000 - 44,000	38,000 - 40,000	47.3
24	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	46.5
25	The University of Melbourne	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	28,000 - 30,000	24,000 - 26,000	45.4
26	Tsinghua University	China	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	4,000 - 6,000	6,000 - 8,000	44.1
27	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	12,000 - 14,000	14,000 - 16,000	24,000 - 26,000	22,000 - 24,000	43.8
28	Technische Universit?t München	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	42.8
29	University of Michigan	United States	10,000 - 12,000	16,000 - 18,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	42.2
30	Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t Heidelberg	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	42.2
31	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	< 1,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	42.1
32	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	34,000 - 36,000	24,000 - 26,000	41.1
33	The University of Sydney	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	30,000 - 32,000	28,000 - 30,000	41
34	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	34,000 - 36,000	26,000 - 28,000	41
35	Seoul National University	Korea, South	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	40.8
36	McGill University	Canada	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	14,000 - 16,000	40.6
37	University of Texas at Austin	United States	8,000 - 10,000	10,000 - 12,000	30,000 - 32,000	18,000 - 20,000	40.4
38	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	39.7
39	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	6,000 - 8,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	39.6
40	école Polytechnique	France	< 1,000	6,000 - 8,000	12,000 - 14,000	8,000 - 10,000	39.3
41	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	8,000 - 10,000	18,000 - 20,000	22,000 - 24,000	39.3
42	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	2,000 - 4,000	6,000 - 8,000	16,000 - 18,000	18,000 - 20,000	39.3
43	National Taiwan University (NTU)	China	2,000 - 4,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	38.5
44	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	8,000 - 10,000	10,000 - 12,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	38.3
45	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	37.8
46	University of Hong Kong	China	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	14,000 - 16,000	14,000 - 16,000	37.4
47	Osaka University	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	8,000 - 10,000	37.2
48	Sapienza - Università di Roma	Italy	1,000 - 2,000	8,000 - 10,000	1,000 - 2,000	8,000 - 10,000	36.5
49	Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	< 1,000	36.5