The world's top 100 universities listed

Oxford is down and Tokyo is up. Find out how the world's universities did

Top 100 universities: Cambridge came second Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty

Oxford University has slipped in the international league table of the world's top universities - in a study which shows the advance of academia in Asia that will soon pose a challenge to the Ivy League and Oxbridge.

The study, from Times Higher Education and QS Top Universities shows that overall the UK still punches above its weight, second only to the US. The UK has four out of the top 10 slots and 18 in the top 100. But there has been a significant fall in the number of North American universities in the top 100, from 42 in 2008 to 36 in 2009.

However, the number of Asian universities in the top 100 increased from 14 to 16. The University of Tokyo, at 22, is the highest ranked Asian university, ahead of the University of Hong Kong at 24.

The world's top universities

2009 Rank	2008 Rank	School Name	Country
SOURCE: THES, QS
1	1	HARVARD University	United States
2	3	University of CAMBRIDGE	United Kingdom
3	2	YALE University	United States
4	7	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
5	6	IMPERIAL College London	United Kingdom
5	4	University of OXFORD	United Kingdom
7	8	University of CHICAGO	United States
8	12	PRINCETON University	United States
9	9	MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
10	5	CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
11	10	COLUMBIA University	United States
12	11	University of PENNSYLVANIA	United States
13	13	JOHNS HOPKINS University	United States
14	13	DUKE University	United States
15	15	CORNELL University	United States
16	17	STANFORD University	United States
17	16	AUSTRALIAN National University	Australia
18	20	MCGILL University	Canada
19	18	University of MICHIGAN	United States
20	24	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
20	23	University of EDINBURGH	United Kingdom
22	19	University of TOKYO	Japan
23	22	KING'S College London	United Kingdom
24	26	University of HONGKONG	Hong Kong
25	25	KYOTO University	Japan
26	29	University of MANCHESTER	United Kingdom
27	21	CARNEGIE MELLON University	United States
28	28	École normale supérieure, PARIS	France
29	41	University of TORONTO	Canada
30	30	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
31	27	BROWN University	United States
32	33	NORTHWESTERN University	United States
32	30	University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States
34	32	University of BRISTOL	United Kingdom
35	39	HONG KONG University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
36	34	ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE	France
36	38	University of MELBOURNE	Australia
36	37	University of SYDNEY	Australia
39	36	University of California, BERKELEY	United States
40	34	University of BRITISH COLUMBIA	Canada
41	43	University of QUEENSLAND	Australia
42	50	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE	Switzerland
43	44	OSAKA University	Japan
43	49	TRINITY College Dublin	Ireland
45	47	MONASH University	Australia
46	42	The CHINESE University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
47	50	SEOUL National University	Korea, South
47	45	University of NEWSOUTH WALES	Australia
49	56	TSINGHUA University	China
49	53	University of AMSTERDAM	Netherlands
51	48	University of COPENHAGEN	Denmark
52	40	NEW YORK University(NYU)	United States
52	50	PEKING University	China
54	46	BOSTON University	United States
55	78	Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM)	Germany
55	61	TOKYO Institute of Technology	Japan
57	57	HEIDELBERG University	Germany
58	69	University of WARWICK	United Kingdom
59	74	University of ALBERTA	Canada
60	64	LEIDEN University	Netherlands
61	65	The University of AUCKLAND	New Zealand
61	55	University of WISCONSIN-Madison	United States
63	81	AARHUS University	Denmark
63	71	University of ILLINOIS, Chicago (UIC)	United States
65	72	Katholieke Universiteit LEUVEN	Belgium
66	75	University of BIRMINGHAM	United Kingdom
67	66	LONDON School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
67	88	LUND University	Sweden
69	95	KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science	Korea, South
70	81	University of YORK	United Kingdom
70	67	UTRECHT University	Netherlands
72	68	University of GENEVA	Switzerland
73	77	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
73	60	WASHINGTON University in St. Louis	United States
75	63	UPPSALA University	Sweden
76	58	University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego	United States
76	70	University of TEXAS at Austin	United States
78	102	University of NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill	United States
79	73	University of GLASGOW	United Kingdom
80	59	University of WASHINGTON	United States
81	106	University of ADELAIDE	Australia
82	76	University of SHEFFIELD	United Kingdom
83	78	DELFT University of Technology	Netherlands
84	83	University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Australia
85	54	DARTMOUTH College	United States
86	83	GEORGIA Institute of Technology	United States
87	99	PURDUE University	United States
87	83	University of STANDREWS	United Kingdom
89	108	University College DUBLIN	Ireland
90	62	EMORY University	United States
91	86	University of NOTTINGHAM	United Kingdom
92	120	NAGOYA University	Japan
92	106	University of ZURICH	Switzerland
94	137	Freie Universität BERLIN	Germany
95	124	National TAIWAN University	Taiwan
95	99	University of SOUTHAMPTON	United Kingdom
97	112	TOHOKU University	Japan
98	93	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany
99	104	University of LEEDS	United Kingdom
100	78	RICE University	United States

ONLY IN MALAYSIA PART 2

No dating at this University

Sun, Nov 01, 2009 The Daily Chilli

MALAYSIA - THE International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) has become the first "no dating place" in the country.

A banner has been put up at its Gombak campus to warn the students from dating in the university compound.

The banner reads: "IIUM is an Islamic territory. No dating. Allah is watching us."

It is placed at a square near some shops and a bank.

A visitor to the campus came across the banner and took a photograph of it.

According to a IIUM undergraduate, the banner was not an initiative by the university authorities.

"It was put up by Maaruf Club in conjunction with the Campus Dakwah Project during Ramadhan," he said.

The club's aims, among others, are to encourage students to perform the good, avoid the bad and to monitor the students' moral conduct.

ONLY IN MALAYSIA PART 1

Students denied varsity places because of mixed parentage

Sun, Nov 01, 2009 The Star/Asia News Network

KUCHING, MALAYSIA - Three bright students were denied places in university matriculation programmes because they are of mixed parentage. Awang Adrian Awang Kasumar scored 10As in last year's SPM and was active in school activities. Although his father is a Malay, Awang Adrian does not enjoy bumiputra status because his mother is a Chinese convert. Another SPM top scorer, Marina Undau (9As), also had her matriculation programme application rejected by the Education Ministry because she is a product of mixed parentage. Marina, from Sri Aman, has an Iban father and Chinese mother. Awang Salleh said his son's application for the matriculation programme was rejected four months ago, and that the Public Complaints Bureau of the Prime Minister's Department had given the reason that Awang Adrian did not have a bumiputra status. The contractor said he was shocked to learn that as a bumiputra himself, his son was not. 'This is not right as the biological ethnicity of the father must be a dominant factor in determining the status of the child,' he told The Star yesterday. He wanted to highlight the case of his son after reading about Marina's plight in local paper Borneo Post. He urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to look into the issue in line with the 1Malaysia concept. Meanwhile, Malaysianmirror on-line portal highlighted the case of Daniel Ibau, who failed to get into the Labuan Matriculation College although he was one of the top students in SMK Wira Penrissen in Kota Samarahan. Daniel, of Kayan-Chinese descent, is a Science student who scored 10As and 1B in last year's SPM. Malaysia will never be a civilised country so long as every decision is based on race, that is every priviledge is given to Malays. The economic pie will not grow much bigger and overall the country will be left behind the progress by its neighbours. Indonesia, has a better model. Decades down the road, Malaysia will remain a racist country thanks to the weakness of the Malay race. frank Posted by: Posted at Mon Nov 02 16:47:43 SGT 2009 The real and the unreal are now mixed and mixed up. An Indonesian father can have his son become a Bumi. And an Indian can convert and then marry a Malay and become a Bumi. Iban - an aborigine - is a real Bumi but is not accorded as one. A Malay with a Chinese wife have a son that is not Bumi. Immigrants can become Bumis overnight by converting and marrying the right people. What is right and what is wrong are no longer so clear cut. Sad. Chen Sen Lenn Posted by: Posted at Mon Nov 02 12:18:57 SGT 2009