TOP 25 World University Rankings

These rankings of the top 25 universities in the world are based upon the latest available (2005) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and are optimised for the use of plant biologists everywhere. The lists will help you choose the ideal university ifor you; if you want to concentrate your search in the UK or America then try the UK and America rankings.

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University	University address	RANK
Harvard	Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA	1st
University of Cambridge	University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK	2nd
Stanford	Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA	3rd
University of California - Berkeley	Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA	4th
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	77 massachusetts avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA	5th
California Institute of Technology	Caltech 1200 East California Blvd. Pasadena CA 91125, USA	6th
Columbia	Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6902 USA	7th
Princeton	Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA	8th
Chicago	The University of Chicago, 5801 South Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 USA	9th
University of Oxford	University of Oxford. University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD UK	10th
Yale	MCDB, Yale University, 165 Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06520-8104 USA	11th
Cornell University	Dept.of Plant Breeding, 405 Bradfield Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA	12th
University of California - San Diego	9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 USA	13th
University of California - Los Angeles	621 Charles E.Young Drive, South Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606 USA	14th
Pennsylvania	University of Pennsylvania, 3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA	15th
University of Wisconsin – Madison	Department of Biochemistry, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706-1544, USA	16th
University of Washington – Seattle	Biology, Box 351800, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA	17th
University of California - San Francisco	The University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA	18th
Johns Hopkins	725 N. Wolfe Street, 713 WBSB, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185 USA	19th
Tokyo	The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656 JAPAN	20th
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA	21st
Kyoto	Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan	22nd
Imperial College London	South Kensington campus, London SW7 2AZ UK	23rd
Toronto	University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 CANADA	24th
University Illinois - Urbana Champaign	265 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana, IL 61801 USA	25th