Top 40 Best Universities of the World 2012

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If you are considering to apply for one of the best university of the world, for a BSc, Master or PhD, if you are a great student, know very good English, have the economic means, you should consider about applying to any of the following list:

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. University of Michigan – United States
8. University of Pennsylvania – United States
9. University of Washington – United States
10. Penn State University – United States
11. Columbia University en Nueva York – United States
12. University of Wisconsin-Madison – United States
13. University of Minnesota – United States
14. University of California, Los Angeles – United States
15. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – Mexico
16. Yale University – United States
17. Purdue University – United States
18. University of Cambridge – United Kingdom
19. University of Oxford – United Kingdom
20. Carnegie Mellon University – United States
21. New York University – United States
22. University of Virginia – United States
23. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – United States
24. Indiana University – United States
25. University of Florida – United States
26. Michigan State University – United States
27. University of Arizona – United States
28. University of Southern California – United States
29. Princeton University – United States
30. University of California, San Diego – United States
31. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – United States
32. University of Maryland – United States
33. University of Chicago – United States
34. California Institute of Technology – United States
35. University of Toronto – Canada
36. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich – Switzerland
37. Duke University – United States
38. Texas A&M University – United States
39. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University – United States
40. The University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom

United States has 27 universities in the top 30, and 36 in the Top 40.
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Source: 4icu.org/top200/ (Top 200)