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UBC: Our Place Among the World's Best

The University of British Columbia measures its success against the best universities worldwide.

Place	Year	Ranking
#33	2007	Times Higher Education (UK)
#36	2007	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
#50	2006	Times Higher Education (UK)
#27	2006	Newsweek Magazine
#36	2006	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
#38	2005	Times Higher Education (UK)
#37	2005	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
#46	2004	Times Higher Education (UK)
#36	2004	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
#35	2003	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

Newsweek Ranks UBC 27th in the World

Newsweek Magazine ranked UBC 27th in its ranking of the World's 50 Top Universities in its August 21, 2006 International edition. (NOTE: The Web version, unlike the print version of the rankings, fails to take ties into account and therefore places UBC incorrectly at 31st.)

UBC also ranked ninth among North American research universities as a "patent powerhouse" in a 2005 U.S. survey of the Life Sciences conducted by The Scientist; it was the only Canadian institution noted in the survey.

International Rankings - The World's Top 50 Universities

International rankings are a relatively new phenomenon, beginning with the 2003 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education rankings.

Indicators used in the surveys include numbers of Nobel laureates; number of highly cited researchers; number of articles published in Nature and Science; number of articles cited in the Science Citation Index; and academic performance per faculty.

UBC also moved up to 38th place in the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement international ranking.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education

2007
1	Harvard University	US
2	Stanford University	US
3	University of California - Berkeley	US
4	University of Cambridge	UK
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	US
6	California Institute of Technology	US
7	Columbia University	US
8	Princeton University	US
9	University of Chicago	US
10	University of Oxford	UK
11	Yale University	US
12	Cornell University	US
13	University California - Los Angeles	US
14	University of California - San Diego	US
15	University of Pennsylvania	US
16	University of Washington - Seattle	US
17	University Wisconsin - Madison	US
18	University of California - San Francisco	US
19	Johns Hopkins University	US
20	Tokyo University	JP
21	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	US
22	Kyoto University	JP
23	Imperial College London	UK
23	University of Toronto	CA
25	University College London	UK
26	University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	US
27	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich	CH
28	Washington University - St. Louis	US
29	Northwestern University	US
30	New York University	US
30	Rockefeller University	US
32	Duke University	US
33	University of Minnesota - Twin Cities	US
34	University Colorado - Boulder	US
35	University of California - Santa Barbara	US
36	University of British Columbia	CA
37	University of Maryland - College Park	US
38	University of Texas - Austin	US
39	University of Paris 06	FR
39	University of Texas - Southwestern Medical Center	US
41	Vanderbilt University	US
42	University of Utrecht	EU
43	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	US
43	University of California - Davis	US
45	University of California - Irvine	US
46	University of Copenhagen	UK
47	Rutgers State University - New Brunswick	US
48	University of Manchester	EU
49	University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh	US
50	University of Southern California	US

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Times Higher Education Supplement

2007
1	Harvard University	US
2	University of Cambridge	UK
2	University of Oxford	UK
2	Yale University	UA
5	Imperial College London	UK
6	Princeton University	US
7	California Institute of Technology	US
7	California Institute of Technology	US
9	University College London	UK
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
11	Columbia University	US
11	McGill University	CA
13	Duke University	US
14	University of Pennsylvania	US
15	Johns Hopkins University	US
16	Australian National University	AU
17	University of Tokyo	JP
17	University of Hong Kong	HK
19	Stanford University	US
20	Carnegie Mellon University	US
20	Cornell University	US
22	University of California, Berkeley	US
23	University of Edinburgh	UK
24	King's College London	UK
24	Kyoto University	JP
26	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	FR
27	University of Melbourne	AU
28	Ecole Polytechnique	FR
29	Northwestern University	US
30	University of Manchester	UK
31	University of Sydney	AU
32	Brown University	US
33	University of British Columbia	CA
33	University of Queensland	AU
33	National University of Singapore	SG
36	Peking University	CN
37	University of Bristol	UK
38	Chinese University of Hong Kong	HK
38	University of Michigan	US
40	Tsinghua University	CN
41	University of California, Los Angeles	US
42	ETH Zurich	SW
43	Monash University	AU
44	University of New South Wales	AU
45	University of Toronto	CA
46	Osaka University	JP
47	Boston University	US
48	University of Amsterdam	NT
49	New York University	US
50	University of Auckland	NZ

Data compiled for The Times by QS (www.qsnetwork.com), November 9, 2007.