University of Oxford

Address:  University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom

Admission rate: 20,5% (2012)

Number of participants:  22 116 (2013)

Phone: +44 1865 270000

Founder:  unknown

Foundation date: unknown

Devise: Dominus illuminatio mea

Web site: www.ox.ac.uk

The University of Oxford remains in 2013 the tenth best University worldwide and the second of the European continent. Competitor of Cambridge, Oxford, which is the oldest university in English, founded to 1096, offers a wide range of experience. The majority of its students enrolled in Humanities and social sciences and medicine, maths, physics and life sciences. It is distinguished by its low rate of abandonment during the year: a little more than 1% against an average of more than 8%.Tutoring, courses and faculty quality and the ease of insertion on the labor market contribute to its reputation. More than a third of the students are foreigners, coming from 140 countries around the world.

Note on 100: 55.9

Number of students: 18 703

Country: United Kingdom

Position in 2012: 10^th

University of Chicago

Address:  5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, États-Unis

Admission rate:  8,4% (2014)

Number of participants: 15 245 (2012)

Phone: +1 773-702-1234

Founder:   William Rainey Harper, John Dewey, John Davison Rockefeller

Foundation date: 1890

Devise: Crescat scientia, vita excolatur

Web site: www.uchicago.edu

A ninth place in the standings for the seventh consecutive year, lies the University of Chicago. Renowned for his studies of law, she is also a highly valued for the economics, sociology and biology Learning Center. Research is one of its main priorities. The University of Chicago has several institutes and research centers that are working on topics such as cancer, genome or even new technologies. In September 2008, the federal Government provided a grant of nearly EUR 20 million to the University for Research projects considered promising.

Note on 100: 57.1

Number of students: 13 070

Country: United States

2012 position: 9^th

Columbia University

Address: 116th St & Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United-states

Admission rate: 7% (2013)

Number of participants: 29 250 (2013)

Phone: +1 212-854-1754

Founder:  George II de Grande-Bretagne

Foundation date: 1754

Devise: In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen

Web site: www.columbia.edu

The University Columbia occupies in 2013 the 8th place of the most prestigious universities in the world. It thus keeps the same place from last year. Installed to New York on two campuses, one said historic and the second modern, it is recognized internationally as a major training center. Its "schools" range of Arts and architecture, to medicine by marketing, journalism or law. Subsidized by the State and private companies, it enjoys an important budget of over EUR 2 billion. Each year, it welcomes in its walls nearly 5,000 foreign students. And his reputation also benefits from the Obama effect since the current President American completed his graduate studies.

Note on 100: 59.8

Number of students: 21 817

Country: United States

Position in 2012: 8^th

Princeton University

Address: Princeton, NJ 08544, United-states

Admission rate: 7,3% (2014)

Number of participants: 8 014 (2013)

Phone: +1 609-258-3000

Foundation date: 1746

Founder: John Witherspoon, Jonathan Dickinson, William Tennent, Aaron Burr, Sr.

Football stadium: Princeton University Stadium

Devise: Dei sub numine viget

Web site: www.princeton.edu

Another University renowned Princeton. It is the 7th best University in the world according to the survey from the University of Shanghai, in the same position as last year and that in 2011.Cette University of New Jersey, founded in 1746, is one of the major universities American. It has 34 departments of anthropology in chemistry or sociology. Several centers of research as its Institute of Neuroscience, center for the study of African-Americans and his Center for the Arts are among the most productive in terms of publications. Princeton, Member of the Ivy League, competition of Athletics between eight universities and United States, stands also regularly on the sports field.

Note on 100: 61.9

Number of students: 7 508

Country: United States of America

Position in 2012: 7^th

California Institute of Technology University

Address: 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, United-states

Devise: The truth shall make you free

Number of participants: 2 130

Foundation date: 1891

Phone: +1 626-395-6811

Founders: Amos G. Throop (1811-1894)

Web site: www.caltech.edu

With a little more than 2,000 students, this little University American ranks among the ten best in the world. The California Institute of technology, or Caltech, is 6th on the charts. Located in Pasadena, California, it provides mainly the teachings of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics. Like MIT, Caltech form many students attracted to the proximity of Silicon Valley and other nearby research center of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Recently, one of its teams of researchers published the promising results of work on gene therapy on mouse.

Note on 100: 64.1

Number of students: 2,130

Country: United States

Position in 2011: 6^th

University of Cambridge

Address: The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom

Admission rate: 21.9% (2012)

Phone: + 44 1223 337733

Number of participants: 18 187 (2012)

Date of Foundation: 1209

Web site: www.cam.ac.uk

The fifth best University in 2013 is Cambridge. The establishment, which celebrated its 800 anniversary in 2009, therefore keeps its position in the annual survey conducted by the University of Shanghai. First European charts, the very old Cambridge University has a strong reputation even though it is made ahead by Berkeley and Stanford (she was 2nd in 2006).The University is distinguished mainly by the success of its pupils from its 31 "College". Since 1901, more than 80 of them have received the Nobel Prize, including the first female. Cambridge is illustrated also by its important research center and its publishing house.

Note on 100: 69.6

Number of students: 17 868

Country: United Kingdom

Position in 2012: 5^th

Massachusetts Institute of Technology University

Address: 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139, United States

Admission rate: 7.7% (2014)

Number of participants: 11 301 (2013)

Phone: + 1 617-253-1000

Founder: William Barton Rogers

Web site: www.web.mit.edu

Specializing in engineering studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology lost a place in the ranking of the best universities. Located in the city of Cambridge, it has very coveted research teams. His teachings in aeronautics, chemistry, computer science and mechanical engineering are among the most efficient in the world. But put it is not only technicians. His training in political science, history and economics, once less run, see their listings soar over the years.

Note on 100: 71.1

Number of students: 10 264

Country: United States

Position 2012: 4th

University of California, Berkeley

Address: Berkeley, CA, United States

Admission rate: 17% (2014)

Number of members: 36 204 (2013)

Phone: + 1 510-642-6000

Founder: Legislature of the State of California

Date of Foundation: March 23, 1868

Football stadium: California Memorial Stadium

Web site: www.berkeley.edu

The University of California is at Berkeley, in the United States, going from fourth to third place in the standings in 2013. Founded in 1868, it is one of the most prestigious U.S. universities and includes 14 faculties; the most popular being those of electrical and computer engineering, biology and political science. Berkeley also has a research center crowd-pleasing where are coming two laureates of the Field Medal, twenty-and-one the Nobel Prize winners and four Pulitzer Prize winners. And then 48 of 52 research programs ranked in the top 10 of their domain on the American continent. More fun, it is the 9th University which has produced the most billionaires!

Note on 100: 71.3

Number of students: 34 664

Country: United States

Position in 2012: 3^rd