kfc4u

could you please list (or rank) the best colleges outside the US? (please don't use acronyms as i might not be familiar with them). thanks

bogororo

what do you mean by colleges? LACs? Higher-education institutions in general? American-system institution? English-language ones?

boomer01

London School of economics
Cambridge
Oxford
Trinity College
King's College
St. Andrews

These are some of the UK ones

i'llbeback

^ iv heard from several people the LSe isnt really as great as it used to be?

any idea if thats true?

trinya

what do you mean with trinity college??
The trinity college in dublin, or trinity college as part of cambridge?

kfc4u

what do you mean by colleges? LACs? Higher-education institutions in general? American-system institution? English-language ones?

any higher education institution of any language.

thisyearsgirl

I think the most prestigious Swedish universities are the Royal Institute of Technology and the Stockholm School of Economics (my dad's alma mater).

duh

some great colleges in Asia, in no particular order

Seoul University (Korea)
Yonsei University (Korea)
Tokyo University (Japan)
Kyushu University (Japan)
Kyoto University (Japan)
Osaka University (Japan)
National Taiwan Univ (Taiwan)
Tsing Hua University (China)
Korea Advanced Institue Science & Technology
Hebrew University Jerusalem (Israel)

a following link has a world ranking created by chinese university (or student, i am not sure). it's very flawed, but if you just want to be familiar with some of them, i guess it can give you ball park name recognizations of colleges worldwide.

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/top500list.htm

but be aware, the world ranking 2 and 20 might not have no difference (or maybe reversed) in terms of true academic strenght and undergraduate focuse and so on.

hello

University of Toronto, Waterloo Univ & McGill.

And obviously the IIT's

DanC1986

well, if duh already mentioned Israel unis so I can add:
1. TAU (Tel Aviv Univresity), this one has a great reputaion in mathematics and computer science (my major actually).
2.The Technion (Haifa Institue of Technology), this one has a world reputaion in science, even got 2 Noble prize winners (which is very honerable once considering the fact it only exists for about 40 years, maybe a bit more)

with in Israel the big 3 are: the Hebrew univeristy (Jerusalem), TAU and Technion, all 3 considered the best Israel has to offer.

trinya

University of Delft--> the university who wonned the solar race in Australia...
University of Utrecht--> one of the schools who participates in the UC program

Theyre both dutch schools and it's possible to follow the courses in English

i'llbeback

ahem

trinity college of arts and science at duke

blue devil pride!!

cowgirlatheart

for Canada anyways (in no particular order):
McGill
Queen's
University of Toronto
Waterloo
University of British Columbia

adides

also,
NUS, SMU and NTU at singapore,

Alexandre

In France:

Ecole Polytechnique (top 3 Engineering university in Europe)
Sorbonne (top 3 university in Europe for the Humanities)
Science Po (top 3 university in Europe for the Social Sciences)
Universite de Paris - Sud 11 (top 3 University in Europe for the Sciences)

France has many other excellent schools, but those four are the ones that come to mind.