I have some serious doubt over The Times Higher Education Supplement ranking. It's kinda biased towards the European universities, that's why 26 univeristies out of 50 world univerisity are from Europe in that list. And, few doubtful names are here: 1) No 17: Beijing University As far as I know the Unversity of Tokyo is far more better than Beijing University in each and every decipline. And, Beijing University doesn't show up even in top 100 among in another list (http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005TOP500list.htm) which is prepared by a chinese unviversity itself. And, another thing which really makes me laugh in that ranking is that it has placed IIT, India above Standford University in Technology category. In that case, why should TOP IITans go to USA for grad studies, rather than studying at IIT itself? I am just wondering...anyone can help me here..please.. :)