Dear Alumni

This following is from Moin Ahmed, NEDUET, Mech Class of 1974

The Times of London published recently its 2008 World Rankings of 600 Universities. Of course, US and European schools were in all the top categories with China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Philippines being the most prominent ones from Asia. Pakistan, India and Bangladesh were also featured but were not in the top rankings. India's IIT schools did well in the Technology Group. NEDUET is not ranked. Perhaps they did not participate.

The Rankings are categorized in seven categories as follows:

1. Top 100 Universities of the World- Overall Rankings
2. Complete Overall Rankings - Includes about 600 Schools
3. Top 100 Technology
4. Top 100 Arts and Humanities
5. Top 100 Life Sciences and Biomedical
6. Top 100 Natural Sciences
7. Top 100 Social Sciences

Here they are:

Top 100 Universities of the World

Full Rankings of Universities

I have summarized some key features for Asian schools only. See the attached document.

I do not have time to work on it anymore and post it to all the different alumni groups as I am leaving for Pakistan soon. Could you please collaborate with me on this and fine tune it as necessary and publish it in your blogs and Pak Alumni website under both our names.
Let me know what you think about it.

Moin Ahmed

Top 10 World Universities:

1 HARVARD University United States
2 YALE University United States
3 University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
4 University of OXFORD United Kingdom
5 CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States
6 IMPERIAL College London United Kingdom
7 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
8 University of CHICAGO United States
9 MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT) United States
10 COLUMBIA University United States

Top 12 Asian Universities:

1. # 19 Univ. Of Tokyo, Japan
1. # 25 Kyoto Univ. Japan
2. # 26 Univ of Hong Kong
3. # 30 National Univ of Singapore
4. # 39 Hong Kong Univ of Science and Tech
5. # 42 Chinese Univ of Hong Kong
6. # 44 Osaka Univ, Japan
7. # 50 Beijing Univ. China (Tie)
8. # 50 Seoul National Univ, S. Korea (Tie)
9. # 56 Tsinghua Univ, China
10. # 61 Tokyo Inst of Tech, Japan
11. # 77 Nanyang Tech, Univ, Singapore
12. # 93 Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel ( Made the list for the first time)


Note: India has two IIT campuses in top 100. No schools from Pakistan, Bangladesh and

Sri Lanka were able to make this top 100 list. The top Pakistani school on this list is National University of Science and Technology (NUST) at #376, followed by University of Lahore, University of Karachi, and UET Lahore.
Related Links:

World University Ranking Video


US News and World Report University Rankings