The Top Universities around the World

At some point all recruiters will have to recruit internationally, or will look at candidates who received their degrees from Colleges and Universities in other countries. As in the US not all Colleges and Universities are created equal. Some are just better. Below is a list of some of the best Colleges and Universities around the world. This list in not all inclusive but it is a good start.

Argentina

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Universidad Nacional del Litoral

Universidad Nacional del Sur

Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Australia

University of New South Wales

Curtin University of Technology

Monash University

University of Sydney

University of Wollongong

University of South Australia

University of Melbourne

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Brazil

PUC-Rio

Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas

Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Universidad Federal de São Paulo

Universidade Federal Fluminense

Universidade Federal da Bahia

Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Universidade Federal de Viçosa

Universidade Federal do Ceará

Universidade Federal do Paranà

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Universidade Federal fo Espírito Santo

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

University of Sao Paulo

Chile

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Universidad Católica del Norte

Universidad de Chile

China

Tsinghua University (awesome engineers)

Peking University

Shanghai Jiaotong University

Xi'an Jiatong University

University of Science and Technology of China

Colombia

Pontifica Universidad Javeriana

Eastern Europe

Technical University of Timisoara

Technical University of Sophia

Moscow State University

Novosibirsk State

Egypt

American University in Cairo (AUC)

Alexandria University

Ain Shams University

France

Ensimag, Ecole des Mines

Germany

TU Munich, Humbolt Berlin

India

IIT Kanpur

IIT Delhi

IIT Madras

IIT Bombay

IIT Kharagpur

IIT Guwahati

Any Regional Engineering College (REC), but Trichy in particular

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Master’s program)

Good 2^nd tier schools:

University of Pune

Birla Institute of Technology

IT-BHU

Jadavpur University

Osmaia University

Anna University

Annamalai University

Israel

The Technion University

Ben-Gurion University

Hebrew University

Tel Aviv University

Italy

Politecnico di Milano

Japan

Keio (we don't hire people from Japan much - mostly expats living there)

Univ Tokyo

Waseda Univ

New Zealand

University of Canterbury

University of Auckland

University of Otago

Pakistan

GIKI - Ghulam Ishaq Khan University - also known as (topi-NWFP)

LUMS - Lahore University of Management Sciences

FAST (now NUCES) National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

International Islamic University

Peru

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Philippines

University of Philippines

Ateneo de Manila University

Romania

Polytechnical University – Bucharest

Politehnica University of Timisoara

University of Lasi – “Al.I.Cuza” (Alexandru Ioan Cuza)

Technical University “Gh. Asachi” of Lasi

Russia

St. Petersburg State University

Moscow State University

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Novosibirsk State University

Singapore

National University of Singapore

South Africa

Rhodes University

University of Cape Town

University of Stellenbosch

University of the Witwaterstrand

South Korea

Seoul National University

Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Spain

UPC

Switzerland

ETH Zurich

Taiwan

National University of Taiwan

National Chiao-Tung University

National Tsing Hua University

Turkey

Bilkent

METU (Middle East Technical University)

Bogazici (in English: Bosphorous).

UK

University of Glascow, Cambridge

Venezuela

Universidad Metropolitana

Universidad Simon Bolivar