Intisari-Online.com -Baru saja Times Higher Education (THE) merilis 100 universitas terbaik di dunia. Inggris sendiri menempatkan 12 universitasnya masuk di deretan 100 besar teratas.
Harvard University di Amerika Serikat masih menjadi yang terbaik di dunia. Disusul kemudian University of Cambridge dan University of Oxford, dua-duanya dari Inggris. Peringkat sendiri hanya diberikan kepada urutan 1 – 50. Sementar peringkat 51 – 100 dikemlompokkan pada tiap 10 universitas.
Untuk lebih jelasnya, berikut 100 universitas terbaik di dunia.
1. Harvard University, AS
2. University of Cambridge, Inggris
3. University of Oxford, Inggris
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AS
5. Stanford University, AS
6. University of California, Berkeley, AS
7. Princeton University, AS
8. Yale University, AS
9. California Institute of Technology, AS
10. Columbia University, AS
11. University of Chicago, AS
12. University of Tokyo, Jepang
13. University of California, Los Angeles, AS
14. Imperial College London, Inggris
15. ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Swiss
16. University of Toronto, Kanada
17. University College London, Inggris
18. Johns Hopkins University, AS
19. University of Michigan, AS
=20. New York University, AS
=20. Cornell University, AS
22. London School of Economics and Political Science, Inggris
23. University of Pennsylvania, AS
24. National University of Singapore, Singapura
25. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Rusia
26. Tsinghua University, Tiongkok
27. Kyoto University, Jepang
28. Carnegie Mellon University, AS
29. University of Edinburgh, Inggris
30. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, AS
31. King’s College London, Inggris
32. Peking University, Tiongkok
33. University of Washington, AS
34. Duke University, AS
=35. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Jerman
=35. McGill University, Kanada
37. University of British Columbia, Kanada
=38. Heidelberg University, Jerman
=38. University of California, San Francisco, AS
=38. University of Wisconsin-Madison, AS
=41. University of California, San Diego, AS
=41. University of Melbourne, Australia
=41. Humboldt University of Berlin, Jerman
44. University of California, Davis, AS
45. Karolinska Institute, Swedia
46. University of Texas at Austin, AS
47. Northwestern University, AS
48. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss
49. Georgia Institute of Technology, AS
50. University of Manchester, Inggris
51-60
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgia), University of Sydney, (Australia), Australian National University, (Australia) Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 (Prancis), Paris-Sorbonne University – Paris 4, (Prancis), Seoul National University, (Korsel), University of Hong Kong, (Hong Kong), Free University of Berlin (Jerman), Delft University of Technology (Belanda), University of Amsterdam (Belanda), University of São Paulo, (Brasil), Technical University of Munich, (Jerman)
61-70
École Normale Supérieure, (Prancis), Pennsylvania State University (AS), University of California, Santa Barbara (AS), National Taiwan University (Taiwan), Wageningen University and Research Center, (Belanda), University of Southern California (AS), Leiden University (Belanda), University of North Carolina (AS)
71-80
Purdue University (AS), Utrecht University (Belanda), National Autonomous University of Mexico (Meksiko), Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (AS), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), Brown University (AS), Boston University (AS), University of Pittsburgh (AS), Michigan State University, (AS), University of Minnesota, (AS)
81-90
Saint Petersburg State University (Rusia) , Durham University (Inggris), Uppsala University (Swedia), University of Helsinki (Finlandia), University of Copenhagen, (Denmark), University of Queensland (Australia), Ohio State University (AS), Washington University in St Louis (AS), University of Warwick (Inggris), Texas A&M University (AS)
91 - 100
École Polytechnique (Prancis), RWTH Aachen University (Jerman), University of Maryland College Park (AS), Mayo Medical School (AS), Nanyang Technological University (Singapura), London Business School (Inggris), University of Massachusetts (AS), Monash University (Australia), Pasteur Institute (Prancis), University of Bristol (Inggris)
Kok tidak ada dari Indonesia? THE memang tidak memasukkan satu pun universitas di Indonesaia dalam 100 universitas terbaik di dunia versi mereka. Meski demikian, bukan berarti kesempatan untuk menjadi yang terbaik tidak ada, lho!