The Top Five Learning Centers in the World

If you are given the chance to study your chosen course at your preferred school, what learning center would it be? There are many students who asked themselves with this question. It is not unusual, though, since it is within a person’s right to choose where he wants to learn necessary knowledge and skills to secure a bright future.

It is only normal to aspire to study at one of the best learning centers in the world. By attending one of them, a student could hone important knowledge and skills. The QS World University Rankings has evaluated over 700 universities in the world, and has ranked each learning center according to academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty, faculty-student ratio, proportion of international students and proportion of international faculty. Here is a list of the top ten universities in the world for 2011, according to the QS World University Rankings.

Topping the rankings is the University of Cambridge of United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge is known for its courses in natural sciences, life sciences & medicine and arts & humanities.

At second is the prime Ivy League learning center Harvard University of the United States, which offers courses that specialise in management, life sciences & medicine and arts & humanities. Coming in third is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US). MIT is widely known for producing world-class engineers and scientists.

At fourth and fifth places are Yale University (US) and University of Oxford (US) respectively. Both Yale University and University of Oxford specialise in arts & humanities and social sciences & management.

Rounding up the top universities in world in 2011, according to the QS World University Rankings, are: Imperial College London (UK), University College London (UK), University of Chicago (US), University of Pennsylvania (US) and Columbia University (US).