Best Universities Of the World

10 World’s Top Engineering Schools 2007

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MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), MIT, US

MIT was founded in 1861 which combined polytechnic models in Europe, especially German and French. In World War II (WWII), MIT played a key role as a research and development center for defense-related technologies which included radar, missile guidance and military computer application.

Later, it evolved to provide other field of courses that encompass economics, linguistic, political science and management. However, technology and engineering remain as the university’s strongest legacy.

2. University of California, Berkeley, US

The university, often referred as ‘Berkeley’ or ‘Cal’ was established about 140 years ago as a result of a merger between 2 private colleges. Similar to MIT, Berkeley also produced some smart engineers who were involved in the World War II and developed the atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. The Berkeley students are not only good academically but they also have reputation to produce excellent sportsmen and competitive athletes. To date, their athletes have won an astounding figure of more than 100 medals in Olympic Games.

Malaysian top-notch swimmer, Alex Lim received his sports degree in Berkeley. In 2002, Alex became agonizingly close to winning a 50 meter back-stoke in the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, United Kingdom, losing by 0.02 second to the world champion and multiple-record holder, Ian Thorpe, or popularly nick named ‘The Torpedo’.

3. Stanford University, US

Another American institution, which was interesting enough, built on a horse farm. It was formed by a California Governor, Leland Stanford and his wife, in tribute to their son, who died of typhoid at a tender age of 18. In the earlier years, the number of female students were capped with certain quota, as Stanford’s wife felt that large number of female students would violate the honor to their son’s tribute.

Technically, Stanford University is considered to have the world’s largest campus, as it occupies the largest land area. The institution enrolls between 14,000 to 18,000 students at one time.

4. California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), US

California Institute of Technology or more popularly known as Caltech is a private institution with strong reputation in engineering and natural sciences. It even houses a NASA laboratory in the campus which oversees the design work and operation of unmanned space probes. The size of the students is considered relatively small, with only over 2000 students occupying the university at one time, but this small number is a bunch of talented students. The institution is also known to have produced many Nobel winning researchers and professors.

5. University of Cambridge, UK

The best engineering school in England and United Kingdom. Often, Cambridge and Oxford Universities compete head to head on general reputation but when it comes to technical field, Cambridge is always ahead of its rival.

Ironically, Cambridge was formed by a group of scholars who left Oxford University, after a dispute with local town folks. Every year, the institution accepts between approximately 5-10 Malaysians for enrollment in various courses and colleges, with many of them eventually become the country’s think tanks and corporate hotshots.

6. Imperial College, UK

Imperial College officially goes by the long name of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, and is located near the heart of one of the world’s most expensive cities, London, and to be exact, South Kensington. It used to belong to the University of London constituent before but today it is no longer the case.

The college also houses the prominent Royal Albert Hall, where the country’s top singer, Siti Nurhaliza, used to perform. The hall is used for the graduation ceremony of students. Imperial is known to be one of the most selective universities in the world, having recorded a consistent acceptance rate of well below 20%.

7. Carnegie Mellon University, US

Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon was founded by Andrew Carnegie, the famous industrialist and philanthropist in 1900. For many years, the university has been consistently ranked among the top 20 universities in the world. On approximation, about 70% of the students admitted to the university are in the top 10% of their high school classes, while their engineering and computer science courses are considered the best in its class.

8. Georgia Institute of Technology, US

Georgia Institute, or more commonly known as Georgia Tech, is one of the few public universities in the top list. From only 2 buildings during its formation, the university has grown into providing hundreds of courses to close to 20,000 graduate and undergraduate students, as well as becoming a well-known center with very active research activities.

As a matter of fact, many start up companies have been born out of research works initiated by Georgia Tech, with many of them went on to produce many patented technologies.

9. University of Tokyo, Japan

University of Tokyo belongs to a ring of a so-called the Seven Universities, which refers to seven top public institutions of higher education in Japan. Uni of Tokyo tops the rank, with Kyoto University considered its biggest rival.

University of Tokyo is one of the only two Asian universities in the world’s top 10 rank in the field of engineering and technology. At the moment, more than 30,000 students are enrolled in the campus, with less than 10% of them foreigners,.

10. National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

While Malaysia embarrassingly does not have any of its university even in the top 200 list of world’s best university, the neighboring Singaporeans can jump in joy and delight.

Ranked in 10th means National University of Singapore, the oldest and largest university in the country, gets the better of Oxford, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell and so on.

Apart from its main campus, NUS also have colleges in Philadelphia, Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Stockholm and Bangalore.

Best Engineering Universities in the World

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Name of the Institution	Country
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT	USA
Stanford University	USA
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign	USA
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	USA
University of California - Berkeley	USA
Pennsylvania State University - University Park	USA
Georgia Institute Technology	USA
University of Texas - Austin	USA
University of California - San Diego	USA
Purdue University - West Lafayette	USA
University of California - Santa Barbara	USA
University of Southern California	USA
University of Maryland - College Park	USA
Carnegie Mellon University	USA
Cornell University	USA
University of Cambridge	UK
Tohoku University	Japan
California Inst Tech	USA
University of Toronto	Canada
Northwestern University	USA
University of Wisconsin - Madison	USA
North Carolina State University - Raleigh	USA
University of Washington - Seattle	USA
Princeton University	USA
Kyoto University	Japan
Ohio State University - Columbus	USA
Imperial College London	UK
Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne	Switzerland
Tokyo Inst Tech	Japan
University of Florida	USA
Texas A&M University - College Station	USA
National University Singapore	Singapore
University of California - Los Angeles	USA
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities	USA
Harvard University	USA
University of Pennsylvania	USA
Hong Kong University Science & Technology	Hong Kong
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
Osaka University	Japan
University of Massachusetts - Amherst	USA
University of Oxford	UK
University of Colorado - Boulder	USA
University of California - Davis	USA
University of Manchester	UK
McGill University	Canada
University of Waterloo	Canada
Virginia Tech	USA
University of California - Irvine	USA
National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan
Duke University	USA
Arizona State University - Tempe	USA
Case Western Reserve University	USA
Chalmers University Tech	Sweden
City University Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Kyushu University	Japan
Michigan State University	USA
Nanyang Tech University	Singapore
Polytechnic Inst Turin	Italy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst	USA
Rice University	USA
Seoul National University	South Korea
Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich	Switzerland
Tech University Denmark	Denmark
Tokyo University	Japan
Tsing Hua University	China
University of Bordeaux 1	France
University of Bristol	UK
University of British Columbia	Canada
University of Delaware	USA
University of Leuven	Belgium
University of Melbourne	Australia
University of New South Wales	Australia
University of Sheffield	UK
University of Sydney	Australia
University of Twente	Netherlands
University of Virginia	USA
Boston University	USA
Chinese University Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Delft University Tech	Netherlands
Hokkaido University	Japan
Indian Inst Science	India
Iowa State University	USA
Johns Hopkins University	USA
Korea Advanced Inst Science & Technology	South Korea
Lund University	Sweden
National Taiwan University	Taiwan
National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan
Pohang University Science & Technology	South Korea
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
Tech University Munich	Germany
Tel Aviv University	Israel
University of Alberta	Canada
University of California - Riverside	USA
University of Central Florida	USA
University of Leeds	UK
University of Louvain	Belgium
University of Montreal	Canada
University of Naples Federico II	Italy
University of Newcastle	Australia
University of Paris 06	France
University of Southampton	UK
University of Utah	USA
University of Utrecht	Netherlands
Uppsala University	Sweden
Washington University - St. Louis	USA
Zhejiang University	China

Best Universities in America(USA)

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S.No	University/College
1	Massachusetts Inst of Technology
2	Stanford University
3	University of California-Berkeley
4	California Institute Technology
5	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6	Georgia Institute of Technology
7	University of Michigan
8	Cornell University
9	Carnegie Mellon University
10	University of Texas at Austin
11	Purdue University
12	University of California- San Diego
13	University of California- Los Angeles
14	Texas A&M University
15	Princeton University
16	Pennsylvania State University
17	University of Wisconsin-Madison
18	University of Maryland College Park
19	Harvard University
20	University of California-Santa Barbara
21	University of Southern California
22	University of Minnesota
23	Northwestern University
24	Johns Hopkins University
25	Virginia Polytech Inst & State University
26	Ohio State University
27	University of Virginia
28	Columbia University (FU)
29	University of Pennsylvania
30	Duke University
31	Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst
32	North Carolina State University
33	Rice University
34	University of Washington
35	University of Florida
36	University of California-Davis
37	Washington University -St. Louis
38	Yale University
39	University of Massachusetts at Amherst
40	Michigan State University
41	Iowa State University
42	University of Arizona
43	University of California-Irvine
44	University of Colorado-Boulder
45	Case Western Reserve University
46	Rutgers State University-New Brunswick
47	University of Notre Dame
48	Lehigh university
49	Northeastern University
50	University of Rochester
51	University of Delaware
52	University of Iowa
53	Brown University
54	Arizona State University
55	Drexel University

Higher Education in Europe

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Recommended Programs in Engineering

Aalborg University, Denmark
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Good for Microelectronics, VLSI.
Technical University of Budapest, Hungary
Program in English
Technical University of Denmark
Lund University, Sweden
University Of Karlsruhe, Germany
Universitat Des Saarlandes, Germany
Universitat Dortmund, Germany
Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Inria, Valbonne, France
Centre National De La Rech Sc., France
Universite Paris, France
Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Lgi IMAG, France
Politecnico Di Milano, Milano, Italy
Universita Di Roma, Rome, Italy
Politecnico Di Torino, Italy
University of Bologna, Italy
Universita Di Firenze, Italy
Universita Di Pisa, Italy
Universita Di Torino, Italy
Universita Di Milano, Italy
Universita Degli Studi Di Padova, Italy
Universita Di Salerno, Italy
Universita Di Genova, Italy
University of Cambridge, UK
University of Oxford, UK
Bristol, UK
Warwick, UK
London, Imperial, UK
Sheffield, UK
Southampton , UK
London, UCL, UK
Edinburgh, UK
York, UK

Recommended Programs (MBA)

Vienna University, Austria
K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Solvay Business School, Belgium
United Business Institutes, Belgium
CMC Graduate School of Business, Czech Republic
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Helsinki School of Business Administration, Finland
EAP, France
EDHEC, France
ESC Lyon, France
ESC Nantes Atlantique, France
ESC Paris, France
ESC Paris, France
ESC Toulouse, France
ESSEC, France
INSEAD, France
ISA, France
Koblenz School of Corporate Management, Germany
University of Stuttgart, Germany
USW Scloss Gracht, Germany
University College of Dublin, Ireland
University of Dublin - Trinity, Ireland
University of Limerick, Ireland
SDA Bocconi, Italy
University of Palermo, Italy
Erasmus University, Netherlands
Nijenrode, Netherlands
NIMBAS, Netherlands
Lublin Business School, Poland
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
ESADE, Spain
ESTE, Spain
IADE, Spain
IESE, Spain
Instituto de Empresa, Spain
Stockholm School of Administration, Sweden
GSBA Z?rich, Switzerland
IMD Lausanne, Switzerland
Lancaster University, UK
London Business School, UK
University of Edinburgh, UK
University of Glasgow, UK
University of Manchester , UK
University of Oxford - Templeton, UK
Warwick University, UK

Best MBA programs

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Columbia Business School

Entering Class of 2006  Size  726
Average age at entry          28
Age range                    21–43
Average years of work experience 5

GMAT range
(middle 80%)    660–760

Undergraduate GPA
(middle 80%)    2.9–3.8
Women               35%
Non-U.S. citizens   42%
Minorities          21%

Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
80% of our students fell into the score range of 590 - 710. For the paper based version the minimum score we accept is 590, for the computer version, the minimum is 243.

Yale University MBA Class 2008 Profile

Average GMAT Score 701
Middle 80% range 640-760
Average Quantitative 46 (79th percentile)
Mid 80% GMAT Quantitative 41-50
Average Verbal 40 (91st percentile)
Mid 80% GMAT Verbal 35-46
Average College GPA 3.4
Average TOEFL 657