What is the best university in the world?
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Obviously, this is an opinion question.  In my opinion, Harvard is it.  I think they've done a lot in the last decade to open up to new ideas and creativity, and that increases their standing in my estimation.
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Cape Town University is a great place and spectacular education, located in South Africa.  Its not easy tho, its website is uct.ac.za.  Look for universities in Nigeria too...
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University education in the US is pretty much the best in the world (check the THES rankings for confirmation of this), largely because so many higher education institutions are private with large budgets, so they are able to provide top-class facilities and cherry-pick the most talented academics from all over the world.\n\nSchool education (primary and secondary) is less well regarded, this FT article shows rankings of global education systems - the US is 15th overall, but 42nd for maths and science. Incidentally, the UK is ranked higher for maths and science but MUCH lower for overall quality. It's not the best, but it's not bad either. It's also quite variable - individual states can set their own curricula, and school funding comes for the area immediately around the school - so schools in rich areas have lots of money and tend to achieve better results than schools in poor areas.\n\nIf you go to nationmaster (see sources) then you can see tables and graphs of countries based on all sorts of education statistics, it's really interesting to play around with and get a feel for how American education compares.
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The Best is IIT. But it depends upon u. If u study with devotion any university will be best for u.
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I'd say Berkeley or UCSD, especially since both are in areas with a great deal of industry in the biotech sector.\n\nEdit: I think James gives UCSD waaaay too little credit.  Granted, not everyone agrees in ranking methodology, but the the following link by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranks UCSD as the 13th highest university GLOBALLY, above Dartmouth, JH, UPenn, UCLA, and Michigan.  It's a public school, but it is a top-tier school that lags the others only in its age.
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I think Oxford is the best..☺
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UC Berkeley, hands-down, is the best public university.  That's why UC Berkeley is the only UC school who gets to call themselves simply "University of California."  That's why when you say I go to "Cal" it means UC Berkeley.  Each state designates one university to be the flagship state university, and in California "Cal" is the one.  Cal also remains the highest ranked UC in all major ranking publications.\n\nP.S. However, if you are considering private schools (i.e. Cal Tech, Stanford), that's another story.
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Even though is not probably the most beautiful physically...I am going to nominate the UNQ ( Universidad nacional de Quilmes), Buenos Aires, Argentina\nIt is a state university ( means totally free) where my daughter graduated and my son is about to.\nThe classes are very small, the professors know all the students by name....It has a Virtual University for people that live to far away. Also they have apartments for students where they only pay for phone, food and electricity, the Uni pays the rent, it is for students that live in the provinces and they couldn afford it any other way.\nMy son is also in the Fencing Team and in the Students Council, so I am familiar  with some of the other activities.\nThe UNQ also, has an organic vege garden.and with what they grow they make a very nutritious soups that they donate to the needy people in the area.\nThere is a lot more I can say about this wonderful institution.\nhttp://www.unq.edu.ar/
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The Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, in Mexico City, has over 200,000 students, and is generally recognized as the largest in the world.\nhttp://www.unam.mx/
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MY DEAR WHICH UNIVERSITY WHICH COUNTRY WHICH PLACE? PLEASE CLARIFY
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Here are 20 Top Universities in the world according to Times Education Supplement,London\n\nHarvard University\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology\nCambridge University\nOxford University\nStanford University\nUniversity of California, Berkeley\nYale University\nCalifornia Institute of Technology\nPrinceton University\nEcole Polytechnique\nDuke University\nLondon School of Economics\nImperial College London\nCornell University\nBeijing University\nTokyo University\nUniversity of California, San Francisco\nUniversity of Chicago\nMelbourne University\nColumbia University\n\nThis list comprises of 200 Top universities of the world.
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TOP  TEN  UNIVERSITIES  IN  USA\n\nHarvard University  \nPrinceton University  \nYale University  \nUniversity of Pennsylvania  \nDuke University \nStanford University  \nCalifornia Institute of Technology  \nMassachusetts Institute of Technology    \nColumbia University  \nDartmouth College
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I believe Stanford University is the highest ranked of all California schools, placing 5th in the US News and World Report rankings (probably the best known college ranking system). It is also one of the better-ranked doctorate-level engineering schools, but there are other universities better in other areas.  Check out the links for more information, the second provides tuition, and student body sizes.  The first is a link to the Stanford University homepage, you can apply there should you choose to do so.\n\nThe best California universities in the rankings following Stanford are:\nCaltech at #7, UC Berkeley at #20, and UCLA at #25.\n\nhttp://www.stanford.edu/\nhttp://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_1305_brief.php
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According to most studies, the University with the best international reputation is Heidelberg. The rest depend on the field of study. \nHere is a complete listing of various ways to rank German universities.\nhttp://www.tu-berlin.de/eng/service/ranking.htm
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Oxford isn't held that high anymore. I'd say Cambridge(UK), Harvard (US), and Berkley (US) are regarded as the best....but this is a generalization....it depends on what you want to study...if it's electronics MIT(US) is the BEST hands down. If you want a good architecture program then its Princeton(UK), London School of Architecture(UK) and Barcelona Architectural Academy (Spain). It all depends.....
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well University of Sydney  and  University of New South Wales are on top of the list ........\n\nthe rest contain  \n\nMacquarie University\nUniversity of Technology, Sydney, \nUniversity of Western Sydney,\nAustralian Catholic University\nUniversity of Notre Dame Australia\nUniversity of Wollongong.
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According to me delhi university is the best university for studying biotech,if you ask me i would suggest you to join delhi univ.