In the latest ( 2011 ) Academic Ranking of World Universities, the university was ranked between places 201-300 of all universities in the world and at the same time by the QS World University Rankings the university was ranked 202nd in the world ( overall ),

Caltech was ranked as the best university in the world in two categories: Engineering & Technology and Physical Sciences.

U. S. News & World Report ranked Caltech as the 5th best university in the United States in their 2012 national college rankings, together with MIT, Stanford University, University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania.

In U. S. News & World Report's annual " America's Best Colleges List ", the university has been ranked consistently among the " Best National Universities – Top Schools ".

The 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 234th in the world.

According to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 201-300 in the world and 8-17th in Canada.

In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked Dalhousie tied for 6th in their 2011 Medical Doctoral university rankings.

The university was ranked 194th out of 500 universities and 12th in the country for research performance in the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, and health sciences.

In the 2010 QS World University Rankings the university was ranked 183rd in the world.

Raymond Edler, an American university student studying at Sophia University in Tokyo, took up kickboxing and won the AJKC middleweight title in 1972 ; he was the first non-Thai to be officially ranked in the sport of Thai boxing, when in 1972 Rajadamnern ranked him no.

The university is also ranked among the national top five recipients of relative research income.

The university has recently declined consistently in these rankings: of the top 200 universities, after being placed 67th in 2005, it ranked equal 168th in 2007, 182nd in 2008 and 189th in 2009.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

The university positions itself as being research intensive, and therefore also ranked among the national top five recipients of relative research income.

In 2010 the university was ranked 150th in the world by QS World University Rankings, and in 2011 it was ranked 53d in the world for Engineering & Technology ( making it the highest ranked institution in Scandinavia ) and 99th in the Natural Sciences.

In 2012, Stanford opened the Stanford Center at Peking University, a just-under 400, 000-square-foot, three-story research center at the heart of Peking University, consistently ranked as the best university in China.

" THES ranked Stanford best research university in the world in 2011.

In 2010, the Times also ranked Stanford in engineering and technology, in life sciences, 5th in physical sciences, in arts & humanities, in social sciences, and in clinical, pre-clinical and health sciences ; no other university places in the top 5 across all broad disciplines studied.

The school ranked seventh in the West and was the only private university in the Northwest appearing in the Top 50.

Rundetårn, or round tower, in Copenhagen, on top of which the university had its observatory from the mid 17th century until the mid 19th century, when it was moved to new premises.

The university rose to pronounced significance during the rise of Sweden as a great power at the end of the 16th century and was then given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century.

Instrumental in the reforms of the early 17th century Swedish state was the long-dominant Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who had spent his own student days in German universities and who for the last years before his death was also chancellor of the university.

During the late 16th and early 17th centuries ( and perhaps even earlier ), the university was located to the old chapter house parallel to the south side of the cathedral, later renamed the Academia Carolina.

A gifted scientist, architect and engineer, Rudbeck was the dominant personality of the university in the late 17th century who laid some of the groundwork for Linnaeus and others, but he is perhaps more known today for the pseudohistorical speculations of his Atlantica, which consumed much of his later life.

Although certain academies ( notably of philosophy and theology ) were established as parts of Jesuit-led higher education as early as the 17th century, the university as such had first been founded in 1810 under the named Écoles centrales by the French Imperial administration of the Illyrian Provinces.

In the 17th century the future outstanding Swedish scholars Urban Hiärne, Olof Verelius, Arvid Moller and others studied at the university.

The Red Raiders football team has made 34 bowl appearances, which is 17th most of any university.

In Eck's wake, many Jesuits were appointed to key positions in the school, and the university, over most of the 17th century, gradually came fully under the control of the Jesuit order.

International Colleges & Universities ranks Buffalo State as the 17th best university in New York State out of 145.

* Pólo I-The main building is a 17th century textile factory that was renovated to house part of the university services, classrooms and offices.

Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul.

Followers of 17th century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul, they founded the university to serve Roman Catholic children of immigrants.

In the 17th and 18th centuries the Ludoviciana was a typical small state university that then had the four common faculties ( theology, law, medicine, and philosophy ).

Studentexamen ( Swedish for " students ' examination " or " students ' degree ") is the name of the university entrance examination in Sweden from the 17th century until 1968, during the period 1862 – 1968 taken as a final written and oral exam on graduation from gymnasium ( secondary school ).

For example, under the 17th Century Swedish Kings Gustav II Adolf and Charles XI, general elementary education was introduced, the Bible was translated in Estonian and Latvian, and a university was founded in Tartu in southern Estonia.

The university was named after 17th century missionary and explorer Father Jacques Marquette, S. J ..

In 2012 Chinese national university ranking edited by Wu Shulian, Southeast University was placed 17th in the national university ranking in China, together with other 18 universities as China's top tier national universities.

Bertie, who matriculated at Oxford in the late 17th century, graduated from that university in 1702.

In the THE life sciences ranking, Wageningen was ranked 17th, being the highest placed life sciences university in continental Europe.

The university was named in honor of astronomer Johannes Kepler ( 1571-1630 ) who wrote his magnum opus harmonices mundi (" The Harmony of the world ") in Linz during the early 17th century and taught mathematics at a school for the landed gentry ( Adelichen Landt-Schuelen ) near Linz.

The university library of Uppsala was mainly created through the large donations in the early 17th century of confiscated libraries from monasteries, especially that in Vadstena, and the important collection of Baron Hogenskild Bielke who had been executed in 1605 and whose library was confiscated by the crown and donated by Gustav Adolph in 1621.

A building of the 17th century is all that remains of the old Calvinist university ( see below ).