Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education has released its 2006 Ranking of World’s Top 500 Universities which is quite similar to the other rankings conducted by MIT and Stanford.

The top ten are:

1. Harvard University (USA)
2. Cambridge University (United Kingdom)
3. Stanford University (USA)
4. University of California – Berkeley (USA)
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
6. CalTech (USA)
7. Columbia University (USA)
8. Princeton (USA)
9. University of Chicago (USA)
10. Oxford University (United Kingdom)

Four Philippine schools made it to the Top 500 this year (based from 2006) and they are:

1. University of the Philippines – ranked no. 299th
2. De La Salle University – ranked no. 392nd
3. Ateneo de Manila University – ranked no. 484th
4. University of Sto. Thomas – ranked no. 500th

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