U.S. Hosts 8 of World's Top 10 Universities

Interested in a "Who's Who" of world colleges and universities? See the rankings compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

According to researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, 8 of the world's "Top 10" universities are located in the U.S. This year's "Top 10" list, by rank order, consists of:

1. Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
2. University of Cambridge, England
3. Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
4. University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
6. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
7. Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
8. Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.
9. University of Chicago, Chicago, Il.
and
10. University of Oxford, England
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Want to find out where your university is on this list? Check out the Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2005.

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