LAS 100 MEJORES UNIVERSIDADES DEL MUNDO

En la actualidad existen varias organizaciones que se encargan de elaborar distintos rankings respecto de las mejores Universidades del Mundo. Esta clasificación se hace periódicamente en función de diversos criterios como son: la calidad, el nivel de los estudiantes, el profesorado, actividad investigadora, publicaciones, etc.
Esperaremos a finales del 2010 para saber si algunos de los rankings de este año incluyen universidades Latinoamericanas entre los 100 primeros lugares. Mientras tanto apreciemos el ranking elaborado para el 2009 por una de esas organizaciones que se encarga de hacer estos sondeos, después de todo dicho ranking, aun está en vigencia:

Rank 2009	Nombre de la Universidad	País
Fuente: QS Quacquarelli Symonds (www.topuniversities.com) Copyright © 2004-2009 QS Intelligence Unit.
1	HARVARD University	United States
2	University of CAMBRIDGE	United Kingdom
3	YALE University	United States
4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
5=	IMPERIAL College London	United Kingdom
5=	University of OXFORD	United Kingdom
7	University of CHICAGO	United States
8	PRINCETON University	United States
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (m...	United States
10	California Institute of Technology (calt...	United States
11	COLUMBIA University	United States
12	University of PENNSYLVANIA	United States
13	JOHNS HOPKINS University	United States
14	DUKE University	United States
15	CORNELL University	United States
16	STANFORD University	United States
17	AUSTRALIAN National University	Australia
18	Mcgill University	Canada
19	University of MICHIGAN	United States
20=	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T...	Switzerland
20=	University of EDINBURGH	United Kingdom
22	University of TOKYO	Japan
23	KING'S College London	United Kingdom
24	University of HONG KONG	Hong Kong
25	KYOTO University	Japan
26	University of MANCHESTER	United Kingdom
27	CARNEGIE MELLON University	United States
28	Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS	France
29	University of TORONTO	Canada
30	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
31	BROWN University	United States
32=	NORTHWESTERN University	United States
32=	University of California, Los Angeles (u...	United States
34	University of BRISTOL	United Kingdom
35	HONG KONG University of Science And Tech...	Hong Kong
36=	École Polytechnique	France
36=	University of MELBOURNE	Australia
36=	University of SYDNEY	Australia
39	University of California, BERKELEY	United States
40	University of BRITISH COLUMBIA	Canada
41	University of QUEENSLAND	Australia
42	Federal Polytechnic School of LAUSANNE	Switzerland
43=	OSAKA University	Japan
43=	TRINITY College Dublin	Ireland
45	MONASH University	Australia
46	The Chinese University of HONG KONG	Hong Kong
47=	SEOUL National University	Korea, South
47=	University of NEW SOUTH WALES	Australia
49=	TSINGHUA University	China
49=	University of AMSTERDAM	Netherlands
51	University of COPENHAGEN	Denmark
52=	NEW YORK University (nyu)	United States
52=	PEKING University	China
54	BOSTON University	United States
55=	Technical University of MUNICH	Germany
55=	TOKYO Institute of Technology	Japan
57	HEIDELBERG University	Germany
58	University of WARWICK	United Kingdom
59	University of ALBERTA	Canada
60	LEIDEN University	Netherlands
61=	The University of AUCKLAND	New Zealand
61=	University of Wisconsin-madison	United States
63=	AARHUS University	Denmark
63=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U of I)	United States
65	Catholic University of LEUVEN	Belgium
66	University of BIRMINGHAM	United Kingdom
67=	London School of Economics And Political...	United Kingdom
67=	LUND University	Sweden
69	Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Scie...	Korea, South
70=	University of YORK	United Kingdom
70=	UTRECHT University	Netherlands
72	University of GENEVA	Switzerland
73=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
73=	WASHINGTON University In St. Louis	United States
75	UPPSALA University	Sweden
76=	University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego	United States
76=	University of TEXAS At Austin	United States
78	University of NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hil...	United States
79	University of GLASGOW	United Kingdom
80	University of WASHINGTON	United States
81	University of ADELAIDE	Australia
82	University of SHEFFIELD	United Kingdom
83	DELFT University of Technology	Netherlands
84	University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Australia
85	DARTMOUTH College	United States
86	GEORGIA Institute of Technology	United States
87=	PURDUE University	United States
87=	University of ST ANDREWS	United Kingdom
89	University College DUBLIN	Ireland
90	EMORY University	United States
91	University of NOTTINGHAM	United Kingdom
92=	NAGOYA University	Japan
92=	University of ZURICH	Switzerland
94	Free University of BERLIN	Germany
95=	NATIONAL TAIWAN University (NTU)	Taiwan
95=	University of SOUTHAMPTON	United Kingdom
97	TOHOKU University	Japan
98	Ludwig Maximilian - University of MUNICH...	Germany
99	University of LEEDS	United Kingdom
100	RICE University	United States