Welcome to our College Rankings Guide
In this section you can find the rankings of the worlds 500 best universities and colleges. The top university rank lists are available from the left hand navigation bar. Information on country specific ranking of colleges is also available from the nav bar.
Once you have identified an institution from the university rankings that you are interested in, you can find more information on the university by clicking on its name. This will lead you to interesting facts about the institution, including details of how they rank in different surveys in different countries, such as newsweek, the times and the sunday times. A unique feature is that the postal address of the universities are given, as is information on things like the size of the student body and size of endowment.
Top 500 University and Colleges Rankings Guide
Presently the college rankings of the worlds top 500 establishments and their addresses are available. These rankings are based on things such as nobel prizes and achievements made by the faculty, they can be a little misleading, for example a nobel prize winner may have been educated at one university but carried out there research at another university. It is therefore a good idea to visit the associated university page to see how the university ranks in different surveys.
Another problem with the college rankings is that they fail to take into account the small elite universities. For example Brown is a well funded Ivy League university where everybody should be proud to study, yet it is not ranked within the top hundred in the university ranks in the Jioatong list. Other Universities to suffer include the University of York and the University of Warwick, both in England. These two universities are very strong on teaching and research, and fight for the 5th and 6th position in most of the British university rankings, yet due to not having a multitude of nobel prize winners, or billion dollar endowments they are not ranked high in the world university rankings list.
The listing of University rankings are split into 5 categories.
The first university rankings is of the top 500 universities in the world; these can be accessed from the left navigation panel. The second is a list of the top british universities based on that of the sunday times. The third gives an overview of the American College ranking (USnews) and a combined best American Colleges listing. Fourthly a list of European universities rankings (Jiao Tong) is available. Eventually a list of the top institutes for plant biologists will be given based upon the number and quality of biology faculty who work there.