The University of Hong Kong is ranked in 26th place, followed by the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (29th), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (42nd).

The highest placed Chinese university is Peking University (joint 50th), followed by 56 Tsinghua University (56th), Fudan University (113th), China University of Science and Technology (141st), Nanjing University China (143rd) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (joint 144th).

Harvard tops the global list for the fifth consecutive year. Second place goes to Yale, which was joint second with Cambridge and Oxford last year. The two British institutions came third and fourth respectively this year, with the California Institute of Technology placed fifth.

More than one third of the top 100 universities are based in the United States. The rise of Asian institutions is reflected with nine placements in the top 50.

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Last update : Sunday, 12 October 2008

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