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Top 300 universities in life sciences & medicine

By Zhang Junmian: 0 Comment(s)Print E-mail China.org.cn, September 15, 2011

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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 life sciences & medicine compiled by the QS:

Rank	Institution	Country	Domestic Fees ($)		International Fees ($)		Score
			undergrad	postgrad	undergrad	postgrad
1	Harvard University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	100
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	20,000 - 22,000	82.9
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	77.7
4	Stanford University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	68.7
5	Johns Hopkins University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	40,000 - 42,000	64.3
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	63.3
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	61
8	The University of Tokyo	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	59.4
9	Yale University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	32,000 - 34,000	38,000 - 40,000	32,000 - 34,000	59.4
10	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	59.3
11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	30,000 - 32,000	32,000 - 34,000	55.4
12	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	34,000 - 36,000	6,000 - 8,000	40,000 - 42,000	18,000 - 20,000	52.8
13	University of California, San Francisco	United States					52.6
14	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	34,000 - 36,000	24,000 - 26,000	49.9
15	The University of Melbourne	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	28,000 - 30,000	24,000 - 26,000	49.9
16	University of Toronto	Canada	10,000 - 12,000	12,000 - 14,000	32,000 - 34,000	28,000 - 30,000	48
17	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	6,000 - 8,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	47.9
18	The University of Sydney	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	30,000 - 32,000	28,000 - 30,000	47.7
19	Cornell University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	45.3
20	Kyoto University	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	44.5
21	Columbia University	United States	42,000 - 44,000	38,000 - 40,000	42,000 - 44,000	38,000 - 40,000	43.9
22	Karolinska Institute	Sweden					43
23	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	2,000 - 4,000	6,000 - 8,000	16,000 - 18,000	18,000 - 20,000	42.7
24	Peking University	China	< 1,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	42.5
25	King’s College London (University of London)	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	6,000 - 8,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	41.7
26	McGill University	Canada	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	14,000 - 16,000	41.3
27	University of Washington	United States	10,000 - 12,000	12,000 - 14,000	26,000 - 28,000	26,000 - 28,000	40.2
28	University of Hong Kong	China	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	14,000 - 16,000	14,000 - 16,000	39.7
29	Duke University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	39.1
30	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	38.9
31	University of Pennsylvania	United States	40,000 - 42,000	26,000 - 28,000	40,000 - 42,000	26,000 - 28,000	38.9
32	University of British Columbia	Canada	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	24,000 - 26,000	6,000 - 8,000	38.7
33	Monash University	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	24,000 - 26,000	37.5
34	University of Michigan	United States	10,000 - 12,000	16,000 - 18,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	37.2
35	Princeton University	United States	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36.4
36	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36.2
37	The University of Queensland	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	22,000 - 24,000	12,000 - 14,000	35.8
38	Ruprecht-Karls-Universit?t Heidelberg	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	35.4
39	Australian National University	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	40,000 - 42,000	28,000 - 30,000	35.3
40	University of Chicago	United States	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	42,000 - 44,000	35.2
41	Seoul National University	Korea, South	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	35.1
42	University of California, Davis	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	34,000 - 36,000	26,000 - 28,000	34.5
43	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	8,000 - 10,000	18,000 - 20,000	22,000 - 24,000	34.3
44	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	33.4
45	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	32.5
46	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	8,000 - 10,000	10,000 - 12,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	32.2
47	National Taiwan University (NTU)	China	2,000 - 4,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	32.1
48	The University of New South Wales	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	8,000 - 10,000	28,000 - 30,000	28,000 - 30,000	31.9
49	Tsinghua University	China	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	4,000 - 6,000	6,000 - 8,000	31.7
50	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	4,000 - 6,000	6,000 - 8,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	31.4