The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 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 North American universities 2012-13

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall scorechange criteria
1	California Institute of Technology	United States	95.5
2	Stanford University	United States	93.7
4	Harvard University	United States	93.6
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	93.1
6	Princeton University	United States	92.7
9	University of California, Berkeley	United States	90.5
10	University of Chicago	United States	90.4
11	Yale University	United States	89.2
13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	87.7
14	Columbia University	United States	87.0
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States	86.6
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.6
18	Cornell University	United States	83.3
19	Northwestern University	United States	83.1
20	University of Michigan	United States	82.6
21	University of Toronto	Canada	82.2
22	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	81.5
23	Duke University	United States	81.2
24	University of Washington	United States	79.9
25	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	78.8
25	University of Texas at Austin	United States	78.8
30	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.3
31	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	76.9
33	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	75.8
34	McGill University	Canada	75.7
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	75.6
38	University of California, San Diego	United States	75.2
41	New York University	United States	72.8
42	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	72.4
44	University of California, Davis	United States	71.8
44	Washington University in St Louis	United States	71.8
47	University of Minnesota	United States	70.5
51	Brown University	United States	68.9
53	Ohio State University	United States	67.0
54	Boston University	United States	66.8
56	University of Southern California	United States	66.3
61	Pennsylvania State University	United States	65.8
69	Purdue University	United States	63.8
72	University of Massachusetts	United States	62.9
75	Rice University	United States	62.0
76	University of Pittsburgh	United States	61.7
79	Emory University	United States	61.3
84	University of Montreal	Canada	59.8
87	Tufts University	United States	59.1
88	McMaster University	Canada	59.0
91	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	58.7
94	University of Notre Dame	United States	58.3
94	Michigan State University	United States	58.3
96	University of California, Irvine	United States	58.2
97	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	57.9
98	University of Arizona	United States	57.7
99	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	57.5
102	University of Rochester	United States	57.2
104	Case Western Reserve University	United States	56.9
106	Vanderbilt University	United States	56.6
118	University of Virginia	United States	55.0
121	University of Alberta	Canada	54.7
122	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	54.5
122	University of Florida	United States	54.5
124	Dartmouth College	United States	54.4
134	University of Utah	United States	53.2
134	Indiana University	United States	53.2
148	Arizona State University	United States	51.9
150	Boston College	United States	51.6
154	University of California, Riverside	United States	51.1
156	Yeshiva University	United States	50.9
156	Texas A&M University	United States	50.9
162	Stony Brook University	United States	50.2
165	University of Delaware	United States	49.7
167	University of Texas at Dallas	United States	49.5
168	George Washington University	United States	49.4
169	University of Iowa	United States	49.3
171	University of Ottawa	Canada	49.0
174	Georgetown University	United States	48.9
174	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States	48.9
184	William & Mary	United States	48.0
184	Colorado School of Mines	United States	48.0
184	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States	48.0
189	Medical University of South Carolina	United States	47.7
190	Wake Forest University	United States	47.3
193	Iowa State University	United States	46.9
193	University of Miami	United States	46.9
196	University of Victoria	Canada	46.7
198	University at Buffalo	United States	46.6
201-225	Brandeis University	United States	Data withheld by THE
201-225	University of Georgia	United States	Data withheld by THE
201-225	Northeastern University	United States	Data withheld by THE
201-225	Queen's University	Canada	Data withheld by THE
226-250	University of Calgary	Canada	Data withheld by THE
226-250	Carleton University	Canada	Data withheld by THE
226-250	University of Cincinnati	United States	Data withheld by THE
226-250	Florida Institute of Technology	United States	Data withheld by THE
226-250	Laval University	Canada	Data withheld by THE
226-250	Georgia Health Sciences University	United States	Data withheld by THE
226-250	University of Missouri	United States	Data withheld by THE
226-250	Simon Fraser University	Canada	Data withheld by THE
226-250	University of South Florida	United States	Data withheld by THE
226-250	Tulane University	United States	Data withheld by THE
226-250	University of Waterloo	Canada	Data withheld by THE
226-250	University of Western Ontario	Canada	Data withheld by THE
251-275	University of Connecticut	United States	Data withheld by THE
251-275	Dalhousie University	Canada	Data withheld by THE
251-275	University of Oregon	United States	Data withheld by THE
276-300	Colorado State University	United States	Data withheld by THE
276-300	Drexel University	United States	Data withheld by THE
276-300	University of Kansas	United States	Data withheld by THE
276-300	University of Montana	United States	Data withheld by THE
276-300	Oregon State University	United States	Data withheld by THE
276-300	University of South Carolina	United States	Data withheld by THE
276-300	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	Creighton University	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	University of Guelph	Canada	Data withheld by THE
301-350	University of Kentucky	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	University of Manitoba	Canada	Data withheld by THE
301-350	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	North Carolina State University	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	State University of New York Albany - University at Albany	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	University of Vermont	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	Washington State University	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	Wayne State University	United States	Data withheld by THE
301-350	York University	Canada	Data withheld by THE
351-400	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico	Data withheld by THE
351-400	Binghamton University, State University of New York	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	George Mason University	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	University of Houston	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	Lehigh University	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	University of Oklahoma	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	Southern Methodist University	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	Temple University	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	The University of Texas at San Antonio	United States	Data withheld by THE
351-400	University of Wyoming	United States	Data withheld by THE

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