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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 engineering & technology compiled by the QS:

Rank	Institution	Country	Domestic Fees ($)		International Fees ($)		Score
			undergrad	postgrad	undergrad	postgrad
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	100
2	Stanford University	United States	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	40,000 - 42,000	38,000 - 40,000	79.9
3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	79.3
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	20,000 - 22,000	68.6
5	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	67.2
6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	30,000 - 32,000	32,000 - 34,000	65.2
7	The University of Tokyo	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	64.2
8	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	58.6
9	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	34,000 - 36,000	6,000 - 8,000	40,000 - 42,000	18,000 - 20,000	57
10	Tsinghua University	China	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	4,000 - 6,000	6,000 - 8,000	55.3
11	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	12,000 - 14,000	14,000 - 16,000	24,000 - 26,000	22,000 - 24,000	54.4
12	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	4,000 - 6,000	20,000 - 22,000	20,000 - 22,000	53.9
13	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	8,000 - 10,000	12,000 - 14,000	26,000 - 28,000	26,000 - 28,000	53.7
14	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	42,000 - 44,000	36,000 - 38,000	42,000 - 44,000	36,000 - 38,000	51.5
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	32,000 - 34,000	24,000 - 26,000	50.1
16	Harvard University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	46.9
17	Kyoto University	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	46.1
18	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	2,000 - 4,000	2,000 - 4,000	6,000 - 8,000	10,000 - 12,000	46
19	University of Michigan	United States	10,000 - 12,000	16,000 - 18,000	36,000 - 38,000	36,000 - 38,000	45.6
20	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	8,000 - 10,000	45.1
21	University of Toronto	Canada	10,000 - 12,000	12,000 - 14,000	32,000 - 34,000	28,000 - 30,000	45.1
22	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	8,000 - 10,000	4,000 - 6,000	43.3
23	Princeton University	United States	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	36,000 - 38,000	38,000 - 40,000	43.3
24	University of Texas at Austin	United States	8,000 - 10,000	10,000 - 12,000	30,000 - 32,000	18,000 - 20,000	43.2
25	Cornell University	United States	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	38,000 - 40,000	28,000 - 30,000	43.1
26	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	8,000 - 10,000	4,000 - 6,000	12,000 - 14,000	4,000 - 6,000	42
27	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	12,000 - 14,000	14,000 - 16,000	12,000 - 14,000	14,000 - 16,000	41.4
28	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	41.3
29	Technische Universit?t München	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	41.2
30	The University of Melbourne	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	n/a	28,000 - 30,000	24,000 - 26,000	40.5
31	Purdue University	United States	8,000 - 10,000	8,000 - 10,000	26,000 - 28,000	26,000 - 28,000	40
32	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	8,000 - 10,000	18,000 - 20,000	22,000 - 24,000	39.8
33	Seoul National University	Korea, South	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	38.6
34	Peking University	China	< 1,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	38.3
35	Rheinisch-Westf?lische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	38
36	école Polytechnique	France	< 1,000	6,000 - 8,000	12,000 - 14,000	8,000 - 10,000	37.8
37	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	2,000 - 4,000	2,000 - 4,000	37.8
38	National Taiwan University (NTU)	China	2,000 - 4,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	36.4
39	The University of New South Wales	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	8,000 - 10,000	28,000 - 30,000	28,000 - 30,000	36.3
40	The University of Sydney	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	30,000 - 32,000	28,000 - 30,000	36.3
41	University of British Columbia	Canada	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	24,000 - 26,000	6,000 - 8,000	36
42	McGill University	Canada	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	18,000 - 20,000	14,000 - 16,000	35.1
43	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	10,000 - 12,000	10,000 - 12,000	34,000 - 36,000	24,000 - 26,000	34.6
44	Australian National University	Australia	6,000 - 8,000	22,000 - 24,000	40,000 - 42,000	28,000 - 30,000	34.1
45	University of Hong Kong	China	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	14,000 - 16,000	14,000 - 16,000	33.8
46	Technische Universit?t Berlin	Germany	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	1,000 - 2,000	33.4
47	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	14,000 - 16,000	6,000 - 8,000	24,000 - 26,000	24,000 - 26,000	32.9
48	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	2,000 - 4,000	2,000 - 4,000	2,000 - 4,000	4,000 - 6,000	32.4
49	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	1,000 - 2,000	< 1,000	4,000 - 6,000	4,000 - 6,000	31.8
50	Osaka University	Japan	6,000 - 8,000	6,000 - 8,000	4,000 - 6,000	8,000 - 10,000	31.8