| THE WORLD
UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2006: NORTH AMERICA’S TOP 50 UNIVERSITIES |
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| 2006 RANK |
WORLD RANK |
NAME | COUNTRY | ||
| 1 | 1 | Harvard University | US | ||
| 2= | 4= | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | ||
| 2= | 4= | Yale University | US | ||
| 4 | 6 | Stanford University | US | ||
| 5 | 7 | California Institute of Technology | US | ||
| 6 | 8 | UC, Berkeley | US | ||
| 7 | 10 | Princeton University | US | ||
| 8 | 11 | University of Chicago | US | ||
| 9 | 12 | Columbia University | US | ||
| 10 | 13 | Duke University | US | ||
| 11 | 15 | Cornell University | US | ||
| 12 | 21 | McGill University | Canada | ||
| 13 | 23 | Johns Hopkins University | US | ||
| 14 | 26 | Pennsylvania University | US | ||
| 15 | 27 | University of Toronto | Canada | ||
| 16 | 29 | University of Michigan | US | ||
| 17 | 31 | UC, Los Angeles | US | ||
| 18 | 32 | University of Texas at Austin | US | ||
| 19 | 35 | Carnegie Mellon University | US | ||
| 20 | 42 | Northwestern University | US | ||
| 21 | 43 | New York University | US | ||
| 22 | 44 | UC, San Diego | US | ||
| 23= | 48= | Washington University, St Louis | US | ||
| 23= | 48= | Rochester University | US | ||
| 25 | 50 | University of British Columbia | Canada | ||
| 26 | 53 | Vanderbilt University | US | ||
| 27 | 54 | Brown University | US | ||
| 28 | 56 | Emory University | US | ||
| 29 | 60 | Case Western Reserve University | US | ||
| 30 | 61 | Dartmouth College | US | ||
| 31 | 66 | Boston University | US | ||
| 32 | 77 | University of Illinois | US | ||
| 33 | 79 | University of Wisconsin | US | ||
| 34 | 84 | Washington University | US | ||
| 35 | 88 | Pittsburgh University | US | ||
| 36 | 99 | Pennsylvania State University | US | ||
| 37 | 101 | University of Southern California | US | ||
| 38= | 102= | Georgetown University | US | ||
| 38= | 102= | Rice University | US | ||
| 40= | 111= | Wake Forest University | US | ||
| 40= | 111= | Maryland University | US | ||
| 42 | 123 | University of North Carolina | US | ||
| 43 | 124 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | US | ||
| 44 | 127 | Purdue University | US | ||
| 45= | 130= | Tufts University | US | ||
| 45= | 130= | Virginia University | US | ||
| 47 | 133 | University of Alberta | Canada | ||
| 48 | 141 | UC, Santa Barbara | US | ||
| 49 | 145 | Georgia Institute of Technology | US | ||
| 50 | 150 | Texas A&M University | US | ||
| Source: QS | |||||