The 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Physical Sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 50 universities for physical sciences employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 50 physical sciences universities

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	93.4
2	University of California, Berkeley	United States	92.4
3	Princeton University	United States	92.1
4	Stanford University	United States	91.1
5	Harvard University	United States	90.9
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	89.8
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	89.5
8	University of Chicago	United States	88.0
9	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	86.0
10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	85.5
11	ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	85.1
12	Cornell University	United States	84.8
13	Yale University	United States	84.4
14	University of Washington	United States	83.2
15	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	82.1
16	Columbia University	United States	81.7
17	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	81.5
18	University of Texas at Austin	United States	80.0
19	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	79.2
20	University of Michigan	United States	78.2
21	Northwestern University	United States	77.6
22	École Polytechnique	France	76.9
23	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	76.6
24	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	75.5
25	University of Tokyo	Japan	74.9
26	University of Melbourne	Australia	73.9
27	University of Toronto	Canada	73.4
28	Australian National University	Australia	71.9
29	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	71.6
30	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	71.3
31	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	70.9
32	University of Pennsylvania	United States	70.5
33	Rice University	United States	69.9
34	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	69.7
35	University of British Columbia	Canada	69.4
36	Duke University	United States	68.7
36	Université Paris-Sud	France	68.7
38	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	68.1
39	Kyoto University	Japan	67.7
39	National University of Singapore	Singapore	67.7
39	University College London	United Kingdom	67.7
39	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	67.7
43	Brown University	United States	67.3
44	École Normale Supérieure	France	67.2
45	Peking University	China	67.1
45	Durham University	United Kingdom	67.1
47	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	66.7
48	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	64.3
48	Boston University	United States	64.3
50	Carnegie Mellon University	United States

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