Microsoft Has Suddenly Gotten Serious With Mobile

MICROSOFT is suddenly a powerful presence on my phone.

Yes, you read that right. This is the same Microsoft that spent almost a half-decade trying to offer a credible alternative to Apple’s iPhone and mobile devices running Google’s Android. And it’s the same Microsoft that paid more than $7 billion to buy Nokia’s once-mighty handset business, only to see its mobile business sink further. The company now clings precariously to a 3 percent share of new smartphone sales.

Make no mistake, Microsoft still wants its mobile operating system, Windows, to be the software in our smartphones. But mobile developers continue to focus on making apps for Apple or Android devices instead, making Windows phones an increasingly hard sell.

That reality has finally sunk in at Microsoft, and a new strategy is afoot. When Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, took the top job at the company about a year ago, he signaled that the company’s priorities were shifting. Microsoft, he said, was in a “mobile-first, cloud-first world.”

Since then, the company has brought more of its apps and services to the Apple and Android devices people actually use, rather than the ones Microsoft would like them to use — those that run Windows.

What’s even more surprising is that Microsoft’s heart seems to be in the effort.

Over the last several months, Microsoft has been taking up more and more space on my own iPhone’s home screen. I’ve installed mobile versions of its Office apps as well as OneDrive, the company’s answer to Dropbox, Google Drive and other cloud storage services.

For the last couple of weeks, I have also relied heavily on Microsoft’s latest mobile creation, Outlook for the iPhone. (It’s available on Android, too; both versions are free for personal use.) Outlook is an email and calendar app that bears a resemblance to the PC version of the software, but mostly just in name. Instead of trying to jam all the features of the PC version into the app, Outlook is thoughtfully tailored for how people use email on smartphones.

The new Outlook is not Microsoft’s work, exactly. The app is mostly a rebranding of Acompli, an existing app made by a start-up that Microsoft acquired in December for $200 million. But there is no shame in using acquisitions to inject new talent and technology into a company. Facebook, Google and Amazon all employ a similar strategy.

The fact that Microsoft released the new Outlook in late January, when the ink was barely dry on its Acompli deal, is a clear sign of how quickly the company feels it needs to move in the mobile business. Last week, the company bought the maker of Sunrise, a popular mobile calendar app, suggesting that Microsoft has no plans to let up on its deal-making.

Until it released its new mail app, Microsoft offered OWA for iPhone and Android. The name stands for Outlook Web Access, and as the name suggests, the app was essentially a shortcut to a web page and lacked the performance and richness of a native mobile app.

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The new Outlook is everything its predecessor was not — snappy and, for people who are heavy email users on mobile, a genuine improvement on the standard Apple email app that comes on every iPhone.

“People end up looking at their email client many, many times a day, but they do it in short bursts,” said Javier Soltero, the general manager of Outlook at Microsoft and the former chief executive of Acompli. “For us, the average session length is about 24 seconds. How do you make that 24 seconds most productive?”

Outlook’s answer is to use software algorithms to automatically divide emails into two queues: Focused and Other. Put simply, Focused is supposed to give me the messages I’ll want to look at in those 24-second glances, while Other is stuff I might want to look at later or not at all.

Microsoft is hardly the first to sort like this. Google’s Gmail app for iPhone, for instance, has an email queue known as priority inbox for messages it determines you’ll want to see.

Both Google and Microsoft have similar tricks for ranking important emails. They look at who you’ve emailed in the past, whose messages you open and who you bother replying to. They generally downgrade messages from broad email lists and social media notifications.

The problem with this kind of intelligent email sorting is that it’s often hard for users to trust. No one wants to miss a crucial email from a boss. And if the sorting isn’t reliable, many users will simply look at two inboxes instead of one.

That said, I like how Outlook sorts emails and prefer its approach over the Gmail app. Outlook generally allowed more messages into my Focused queue than I would like, though it lets you filter similar messages in the future. Gmail, in contrast, omitted things from my Important queue that I wanted to see.

Another way Outlook helps people be more efficient is by integrating a calendar. When trying to arrange a meeting over email, there’s no more need to jump out of email and into a separate calendar.

With a few taps, you can list free times in your schedule in an email. The recipient of the message can pick one, and your meeting is automatically scheduled on your calendar.

It would be easy to dismiss Outlook as a fluke if Microsoft were not also making so many other credible mobile apps. Early last year, it finally released high-quality versions of its main Office apps — Word, Excel and PowerPoint — for iPhone, iPad and their Android variants. Then the company made nearly complete versions of the apps free.

Microsoft is still hoping to get people to upgrade to a paid subscription to Office 365, which costs $6.99 a month to use Office on a single smartphone, tablet and PC or Mac. Households that want to share a subscription for Office on up to five devices of each type pay $9.99 a month.

There are excellent free productivity apps on mobile and PCs from Google, Apple and others, and the prospect of those apps chipping away at its Office business is terrifying for Microsoft.

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But Microsoft has sweetened its Office 365 deal by including unlimited online storage through OneDrive, its cloud storage service.

That’s not a misprint. You can create an online copy of all of your pictures, videos, music and other files in the cloud, with no limits. One terabyte of online storage costs $19.99 from Apple’s iCloud service, while Dropbox and Google each charge $9.99 a month.

I can’t imagine personally needing much more than a terabyte of online backup — it is more than 300,000 photos or 1,000 hours of video. But I might get there someday as the resolution in cameras increases. It’s comforting to know I have a copy of all my data in case my computer is stolen, destroyed in a fire or just conks out.

A OneDrive app on my iPhone automatically backs up everything I shoot with the phone’s camera. Its integration with Office is seamless, too.

The other day, my daughter put together a birthday tribute to her mother in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. She composed it on a Mac, which automatically backed it up to OneDrive. We went to a restaurant, my daughter opened PowerPoint on my iPhone 6 Plus and did the presentation right there at our table.

My wife was in tears — and it would have not have been possible using Microsoft products a little over a year ago.

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Community Marketing Methods

When aiming your marketing efforts at communities, the first consideration is your niche audience. You want to figure out where they spend their time, what their interests are, and where you can find them. Following are some places to begin your search.

Online Communities 

Since the advent of the internet, online communities have made it easy to connect with other like-minded individuals. Online forums foster conversations on specific topics related to the community at hand. You can find forums on just about everything, from parenting and technology to diet and butterflies.

If there’s an interest, there’s a forum. A quick Google search on your topic of interest plus the word “forum” should lead to all kinds of possibilities.

Other Community Marketing places:

•     Social media groups

•     Facebook fan pages

•     Professional groups

•     Geographic communities

•     Build your own online community

**This is an excerpt from Own Your Niche: Hype-Free Internet Marketing Tactics to Establish Authority in Your Field and Promote Your Service Based Business by Stephanie Chandler. Get a copy from Amazon here.

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BusinessWorld

The country’s leading business newspaper represents four decades of professional economic journalism. 

This tradition of excellence began when BusinessDay first came off the press on February 27, 1967. In its maiden issue, the paper pledged "competent and responsible reporting of the news." 
The paper expanded its operations in the years that followed to keep in step with the growing business community, eventually makingBusinessDay Southeast Asia’s first business daily. 
BusinessDay was considered a standard of fairness, credibility and integrity in the journalistic world. The principles behind the paper’s existence were closely guarded by its publisher/president and editor-in-chief Raul L. Locsin. 
At least twice in its history, the paper was able to withstand forces both within and outside the company. First, the martial law years failed to stop its presses. Second, the concept of professional economic journalism refused to die even as a labor problem forced the company to close shop on June 5, 1987. 
The non-striking workers got together barely a month later to form BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation, ushering in the paper’s rebirth under a new name. This rebirth also saw the full computerization of its production process. 
Unlike its predecessor, BusinessWorld has had to compete from the very start with other business dailies and several other papers with expanded business sections. But the paper managed to position itself comfortably in the overcrowded industry. Indeed, not all business papers are created equal. 
Today, the business paper comes out Mondays through Fridays (with a Saturday exclusive online edition) with a national circulation of 117,000 as of March 31, 2014. 
With the paper’s excellent news coverage and style of reporting, a readership survey conducted late last year by an independent research group revealed that subscribers pass their copies on to an average of five other persons. Its subscribers are trendsetters and decision-makers -- leaders in business, industry and government, both here and of governments and corporations abroad that are keen on Philippine business updates. 
General broadsheets included, BusinessWorld ranks fourth in the industry in terms of advertising revenues. This, despite its six days a week frequency compared to the seven days of the other papers. 
Over the last 10 years, BusinessWorld has exhibited remarkable growth. Immediately after its rebirth, the company revived two other products -- the monthly BusinessWorld Files and the annualBusinessWorld Top 1000 Corporations in the Philippines. 
It incorporated World Press, Inc. a wholly owned printing subsidiary, in 1991. In 1994, the company moved to its new home in Quezon City and embarked on its then innovative library computerization program.  In October 1995,BusinessWorld ventured into on-line publishing -- the first in the Philippines and one of the first in East Asia. Codex, its electronic archives, is one of the Philippines’ most extensive banks of the country’s business news and information, published since 1994. Today, it also publishes the award-winning luxury consumer monthly magazine, BusinessWorld High Life. 
The company has been flexible enough to introduce new sections to meet the market’s rapidly changing needs. Despite change, BusinessWorld’s success over the years has constantly been anchored on a firm belief that a newspaper is a public trust.

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Dhawan hundred sets up another big-day win

India showed just why no one was writing them off even after they had spent two-and-a-half months in Australia without a win. They might not be the strongest team in the field, but on big days in limited-overs cricket they stay calmer than most. In a match to potentially decide who finishes top of their group, India sat back and saw South Africa work themselves up into a frenzy, get too funky and wilt under the weight of their own mistakes. This was India's first win over South Africa in a World Cup match.

If at all, India like going old school on big days. Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli began slowly, made sure India had a solid platform before they began to accelerate. Dhawan went on to score his first century in three months spent in Australia - his personal best and also the highest score against South Africa in a World Cup match. Kohli fell for 46, but Ajinkya Rahane scored 79 off 60 to help Dhawan along. India kept the defence simple too: bowl as few bad balls as possible, and once again under pressure South Africa imploded.

The execution of both the plans from India was spot on, but that had a lot to do with how simple the plans and preparation were. South Africa called in Gary Kirsten and Michael Hussey for consultation, they picked an extra bowler in Wayne Parnell, they used spinners in unconventional parts of the innings, but the anxiety showed the most in the fielding. Hashim Amla dropped Dhawan on 53, but anxiety was never more apparent in their trigger-happiness with unnecessary throws at the stumps and fumbles on the ground. It's hard to remember when South Africa last fielded so badly. 
It started much better, though. AB de Villiers sent Rohit Sharma back for a duck with a direct hit from extra cover. India deserve all the credit for not panicking when Dale Steyn was bowling well along with Vernon Philander. It took them 14 overs to reach four an over for the first time, but South Africa looked the more anxious team. Philander had walked off with a hamstring injury, Morne Morkel had begun ordinarily, and Parnell - who would register the worst figures for a South African in a World Cup match - was going to be targeted.

Dhawan and Kohli attacked South Africa with proper attacking shots, and not scoops and reverses. They added 127 in 24.2 overs with Kohli taking the back seat to Dhawan's positive approach. It could have gone better for South Africa. Dhawan had looked in good touch in reaching 53 off 73, Kohli had just about got over a slow start, but South Africa were offered an opportunity to halt the assault. Dhawan cut Parnell to the right of Amla at point, a regulation catch by modern standards, Amla got both hands to it, but dropped it.

Before the match Kohli had spoken about sustained momentum and not relying just on the final 10 overs. Dhawan and he then walked the talk, taking 53 off the next seven overs. Parnell was their main target but even the return of Steyn didn't slow India down. Nor did the fall of Kohli - against the run of play and to a long hop from Tahir - slow them down. Rahane and Dhawan flowed smoothly, building up to a crescendo towards the Powerplay, which brought them 44 runs with no loss of wicket. Rahane and Dhawan added 125 in 16.3 overs.

In the final few overs, though, despite some more ordinary fielding, South Africa managed to pull India back a little. Only 80 came off the last 10, but India had a testing total on the board. South Africa don't have much batting after No. 6 but their top six are as good as any. There is a reason, though, why they have now failed to chase 270 eight times out of nine since they beat India in Nagpur in 2011. There is credit in how they have conceded 270 only nine times, but under pressure their batting invariably falters.

Once again India made sure they didn't make mistakes. South Africa's arrived shortly. There was hardly a bad ball bowled in the first three overs, and Quinton de Kock went manufacturing something in the fourth, driving Mohammed Shami straight to mid-off with the ball nowhere near driving length. Amla was handcuffed by the lack of easy boundaries before he top-edged a hook. The much-maligned bowling was doing the job for India once the batsmen had put runs on the board. 
At 40 for 2, Faf du Plessis and de Villiers came together. They added 68 for the third wicket, but they had to earn every run. India hustled in the field and bustled with the ball. There was no freebie on offer. With the asking rate rising, every set of two-three dot balls imparted pressure. De Villiers' response to four straight dots in the 23rd over was to risk an improbable second, but India's fielding today gave away nothing. Mohit Sharma swooped in from deep cover, and threw right by the stumps. The asking rate was now close to 7.5, and South Africa now needed a miracle.

Miracles rarely happen in such high-profile clashes once you have put yourself under so much pressure. Wickets kept falling as South Africa looked to manufacture runs, and India's reputation of good players of big matches in limited-overs cricket enhanced even further. They were now all but sure to face in quarter-final the fourth-placed team from the other group.

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Andrea Petkovic throws racquet at line judge in fit of rage after losing point that was out

Petkovic lost her cool in the defeat to Zarina Diyas at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship

 

German tennis player Andrea Petkovic lost her cool in a match against Zarina Diyas at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship as she crashed to a straight-sets defeat in the second round on Tuesday. But while it’s not uncommon to see a tennis player let the red mist get the better of them (you can’t be serious?!) Petkovic did the unthinkable when she hurled her racquet at a line judge.

After Diyas hit a ball long of the baseline, Petkvoci can be seen to make her way to the other side of the court in preparation for the next point, only to turn and stare at the umpire in bemusement when he awards the point to Diyas.

Incredulous that the decision has not gone her way, Petkovic – who was born in Yugoslavia but moved to Germany when she was six months old – immediately makes her frustrations clear as she vents her anger at the decision towards anyone that will listen to her, including the crowd.

  

Andrea Petkovic in action against Zarina Diyas In what can be heard from the video., Petkovic shouts: “Oh my goodness, there is a mark. I cannot believe this, it’s the worst call ever.”

Gesturing at the gap between where the ball landed and the baseline, she adds: “This much, here’s the mark, it’s f*****g out. How can you do this? This is amazing.”

After appearing to compose herself to play the next point, Petkovic, who is currently ranked 10th in the world, returns the ball straight into the net to hand the game to her opponent.

  

Petkovic vents her anger at the official What she does next is simply stunning. As she makes her way back towards her chair, she hurls her racquet in the direction of the line judge. Luckily, she misses the line judge as the racquet crashes into the adverting hoardings behind, as heard by the loud thud in the video. She then has to go and fetch her racquet, and return with her tail between her legs for the next game under the unimpressed stare of the line judge.

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International Tests

 

Want admission to a college, but have to go through the common test? Need some guidance or elaborateinformation on these tests? Then read this article to get an insight about the various International Tests that is common world wide.

Whatare International Tests?

Many students have to appear for an entrance test before taking admission to a college or an institute. Tests that are applicable in many countries are known as International Tests.

These tests are developed in a uniform pattern and have common questions all over. Thus, it helps to judge the abilities of students on an equal basis. 

Most of these tests are conducted to test English speaking abilities of students belonging to non English speaking countries. Hence, it helps the English speaking countries to admit those students who can easily cope with their 
medium of language. 

Why International Tests?

International Tests are useful because they help to determine the capabilities of a student. It tests the aptitude, logical skills, language and over all thinking of students. Thus, it judges students on an equal basis from different countries and cultures. 

List of International Tests

• MCAT or The Medical College Admission Test is medical school admissions process test for more than 80 years to assess the preparedness of students for the rigorous medical programs. 
  The MCAT exam tests prospective students on the skills and knowledge medical educators and physicians have identified as key prerequisites for success in medical school and the practice of medicine.
• GRE or The Graduate Record examination, is a test conducted by the ETS (Educational Testing Services), United States of America to analyse the potential of the candidate  applying for studying abroad. 
• SAT or  The Scholastic Aptitude Test and SAT subject (SSAT) Tests are designed to assess your academic readiness for the college. SAT is  a per-requisite for admission to many colleges worldwide.This test aims at testing your knowledge about the various subjects that your are taught in high school and how good you are at applying the knowledge in your everyday life.

• GMAT or  Graduate Management Admission Test is used to assess the candidate’s writing, quantitative, analytical, verbal and reading skills in a standard written English. It is conducted to enroll students in a graduate management program, such as MBA. 

• LSAT or  Law School Admission Test is managed by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), which measures reading comprehension, logical and verbal reasoning proficiencies for prospective Law candidates. 

 

Language Proficiency Tests

Mobility of students across the world has also brought in forefront the accepted requisite skill of communication in different languages. There are a various countries across the globe providing the best quality of education and specialization in the professional fields and sought after global careers. This is where language proficiency tests come into picture and become inevitable. Languages play very important role while opting to study abroad in countries where one needs to prove proficiency in native language of country.  

 If you are also toying with an idea of studying abroad then university and college admission process will necessitate you to take one of the language proficiency or standardized test. Worleducation.info has compiled a list of international language proficiency tests to help in prepare well in advance to get into your dream country for studies, work or immigration.
Find below list of standardized tests that assesses language proficiency of a foreign secondary language:

English Language Tests

• IELTS  or  International English Testing System is an English Language Test, which is managed by University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, British Council and IDP Education Pty Ltd. IELTS is conducted in two versions, first being the Academic Version and the second is General Training Version. 

• TOEIC or Test of English for International Communication is an English language test, which is designed to judge the everyday English skills of people who want to work in an international environment. It includes TOEIC Listening and Reading Tests and the newer TOEIC Speaking and Writing Test.

• TOEFL or Test of English as a Foreign Language is conducted to measure the skills of English Language in an academic setting. It is one of the basic requirements to enroll students in higher learning institutes and universities, many government agencies, businesses, scholarship programs and licensing agencies. 

• ITEP or  International Test of English Proficiency is a language assessment tool, which is used to measure English Language skills of non native English speakers. 
• TELC or  The European Language Certificates is taken in English, German, Turkish, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Czech and Arabia as one of the international standardized tests of ten different languages. 

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World University Rankings 2014

 The following is the complete list and rankings of World's Best Universities. You may also choose from the options given here on the right, to select between Rankings according to Subjects, Student City etc. 

Rank	University	Country	Overall
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.00
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	99.78
3	Harvard University	United States	99.15
4	University College London (UCL)	United Kingdom	98.69
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	98.57
6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	98.31
7	Yale University	United States	97.48
8	University of Chicago	United States	96.27
9	Princeton University	United States	95.37
10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	95.05
11	Columbia University	United States	94.68
12	University of Pennsylvania	United States	94.50
13	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	92.84
14	Cornell University	United States	92.08
15	Stanford University	United States	91.68
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States	91.18
17	University of Michigan	United States	91.17
18	McGill University	Canada	90.43
19	University of Toronto	Canada	89.64
20	Duke University	United States	89.50
21	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	89.24
22	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	88.12
23	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	87.89
24	Australian National University	Australia	87.61
25	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	87.24
26	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	87.12
27	Northwestern University	United States	85.44
28	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	85.36
29	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Switzerland	85.08
30	The University of Tokyo	Japan	84.95
31	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	84.62
32	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	84.16
33	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	83.48
34	Ecole normale superieure, Paris	France	83.28
35	Kyoto University	Japan	83.27
36	The University of Melbourne	Australia	83.16
37	Seoul National University	South Korea	82.19
38	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	81.43
39	The University of Sydney	Australia	81.31
40	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	80.09
41	Ecole Polytechnique	France	79.55
42	Brown University	United States	79.52
43	New York University (NYU)	United States	78.94
44	Peking University	China	78.75
45	University of British Columbia	Canada	78.55
46	The University of Queensland	Australia	78.22
47	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	77.69
48	Tsinghua University	China	77.51
49	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	77.41
50	Osaka University	Japan	76.84
51	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	76.66
52	The University of New South Wales	Australia	76.63
53	Technische Universitat Munchen	Germany	76.43
54	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	76.28
55	Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg	Germany	75.50
56	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	75.47
57	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	75.36
58	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	73.88
59	University of Washington	United States	73.70
60	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen	Germany	72.85
61	Monash University	Australia	72.16
62	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	72.09
63	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	71.77
64	Boston University	United States	71.66
65	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	71.35
66	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	71.34
67	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	71.26
68	University of Texas at Austin	United States	71.23
69	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	71.12
70	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	70.93
71	Lund University	Sweden	70.87
72	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	70.68
73	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	70.66
74	University of Geneva	Switzerland	70.61
75=	Leiden University	Netherlands	70.50
75=	Tohoku University	Japan	70.50
77	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	70.26
78	University of Helsinki	Finland	70.07
79	The University of Western Australia	Australia	69.97
80	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	69.92
81	Uppsala University	Sweden	69.75
82	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	69.72
83	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	69.29
84	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	69.14
85	Utrecht University	Netherlands	68.65
86	Nagoya University	Japan	68.57
87	Freie Universitat Berlin	Germany	68.56
88	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	68.38
89	Aarhus University	Denmark	68.36
90=	Fudan University	China	68.32
90=	University of Zurich	Switzerland	68.32
92	Durham University	United Kingdom	67.88
93	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	67.64
94	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	67.26
95=	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	66.88
95=	Purdue University	United States	66.88
97	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	66.79
98	University of Pittsburgh	United States	66.13
99	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	65.87
100	University of California, Davis	United States	65.85
101	Pennsylvania State University	United States	65.70
102	The University of Adelaide	Australia	65.27
103	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	65.14
104	University of Minnesota	United States	64.86
105	Ohio State University	United States	64.65
106	Universitat Freiburg	Germany	64.44
107	Maastricht University	Netherlands	64.37
108	University of Alberta	Canada	64.22
109	University of Groningen	Netherlands	64.18
110	University of York	United Kingdom	63.75
111	University of Oslo	Norway	63.73
112	Yonsei University	South Korea	63.54
113	Dartmouth College	United States	63.49
114	Universite de Montreal	Canada	63.47
115	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	62.35
116	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	61.79
117	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	61.46
118	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	61.34
119	Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen	Germany	60.89
120	Rice University	United States	60.76
121	University of Basel	Switzerland	60.54
122	Emory University	United States	60.44
123	University of Virginia	United States	60.40
124	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	60.02
125	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	59.88
126	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	59.73
127	Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	59.65
128	Kyushu University	Japan	59.59
129	Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	59.58
130	Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin	Germany	59.39
131	University College Dublin	Ireland	59.05
132	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	59.03
133	University of Otago	New Zealand	58.93
134	University of Southern California	United States	58.80
135	University of Rochester	United States	58.71
136	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	58.52
137	Korea University	South Korea	58.36
138	Hokkaido University	Japan	58.30
139	Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP	Brazil	58.06
140	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	58.00
141	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)	Germany	57.86
142	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	57.69
143	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	57.50
144	Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen	Germany	57.35
145	University of Bergen	Norway	57.02
146	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)	Mexico	56.77
147	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	56.74
148	University of Ghent	Belgium	56.55
149	University of Bern	Switzerland	56.50
150	Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	56.33
151	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn	Germany	56.32
152	McMaster University	Canada	56.10
153	Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon	France	56.09
154	University of Cape Town	South Africa	55.70
155	University of California, Irvine	United States	55.65
156	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	55.62
157	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	55.49
158	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	54.87
159	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	54.62
160	University of Vienna	Austria	54.60
161	Wageningen University	Netherlands	54.58
162	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	54.28
163	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	53.97
164	Case Western Reserve University	United States	53.82
165	Texas A&M University	United States	53.71
166	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	53.53
167	Vanderbilt University	United States	53.48
168	Nanjing University	China	53.22
169	University of Florida	United States	52.92
170	Zhejiang University	China	52.77
171	Stockholm University	Sweden	52.62
172	Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium	52.60
173	Western University	Canada	52.59
174	Michigan State University	United States	52.30
175	Queen's University, Ontario	Canada	52.08
176	Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona	Spain	51.97
177	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	51.84
178	University of Bath	United Kingdom	51.82
179	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	51.74
180	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States	51.55
181	Tufts University	United States	51.53
182	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	51.38
183=	Georgetown University	United States	51.15
183=	University of Arizona	United States	51.15
185	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	51.09
186	University of Science and Technology of China	China	50.99
187	University of Barcelona	Spain	50.88
188	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	50.60
189	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	50.47
190	University College Cork	Ireland	50.24
191	University of Waterloo	Canada	50.18
192	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	50.15
193	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	50.04
194	University of Bologna	Italy	49.77
195	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	Chile	49.65
196	University of Antwerp	Belgium	49.49
197	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	49.44
198	Waseda University	Japan	49.22
199	University of Iowa	United States	49.18
200	Keio University	Japan	49.14
201=	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	49.11
201=	Universitat Frankfurt am Main	Germany	49.11
203	University of Tsukuba	Japan	48.98
204	University of Dundee	United Kingdom	48.92
205	Universitat Hamburg	Germany	48.89
206	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid	Spain	48.79
207	Technische Universitat Berlin	Germany	48.42
208	King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals	Saudi Arabia	48.38
209	Tel Aviv University	Israel	48.21
210	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	48.15
211	University of Turku	Finland	48.01
212	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	47.83
213	Sciences Po Paris	France	47.81
214	University of Calgary	Canada	47.80
215	University of Reading	United Kingdom	47.64
216	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	47.59
217	Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)	France	47.37
218=	Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne	France	47.09
218=	Universite Paris-Sud 11	France	47.09
220	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	47.03
221	University of Canterbury	New Zealand	47.02
222	Aalto University	Finland	47.01
223	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	46.65
224	University of Twente	Netherlands	46.45
225	Universidad de Chile	Chile	46.33
226	University Complutense Madrid	Spain	46.22
227	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	46.18
228	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil	45.99
229	Universitat Stuttgart	Germany	45.36
230	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	45.28
231	University of Miami	United States	45.14
232	Universite de Strasbourg	France	44.79
233	Macquarie University	Australia	44.71
234	Universite Paris Diderot - Paris 7	France	44.41
235	University of Notre Dame	United States	44.39
236	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	44.36
237	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	44.20
238	National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	43.80
239	University of Liege	Belgium	43.58
240	University of Ottawa	Canada	43.46
241	Yeshiva University	United States	43.09
242	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	42.95
243	Dalhousie University	Canada	42.90
244	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	42.88
245	Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster	Germany	42.80
246	RMIT University	Australia	42.79
247	Universitat zu Koln	Germany	42.78
248	Universite Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1	France	42.71
249	Hanyang University	South Korea	42.46
250	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon	42.21
251	Universitat Ulm	Germany	42.18
252	Beijing Normal University	China	41.96
253	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia	41.88
254	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom	41.81
255	Mahidol University	Thailand	41.63
256=	University of Milano	Italy	41.57
256=	University of Utah	United States	41.57
258	Curtin University	Australia	41.50
259	University of Surrey	United Kingdom	41.36
260	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States	41.31
261	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)	Malaysia	41.22
262	University of Oulu	Finland	41.21
263	Universitat Mannheim	Germany	41.12
264	University of Wollongong	Australia	41.11
265	Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel	Germany	41.10
266	Universitat Pompeu Fabra	Spain	41.08
267	Royal Holloway University of London	United Kingdom	41.07
268	The University of Newcastle		41.00
269	Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg	Germany	40.96
270	Kyung Hee University	South Korea	40.94
271=	Hong Kong Baptist University	Hong Kong	40.88
271=	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan	40.88
273	University of Indonesia	Indonesia	40.74
274	Vienna University of Technology	Austria	40.58
275	Technische Universitat Darmstadt	Germany	40.39
276	Universitat Innsbruck	Austria	40.37
277	Tokyo Medical and Dental University	Japan	40.34
278	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	India	40.32
279	Universitat Konstanz	Germany	40.31
280	Hiroshima University	Japan	40.29
281	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	40.21
282	Simon Fraser University	Canada	40.11
283	University of Hawaii at Manoa	United States	40.09
284	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia	39.98
285	National Yang Ming University	Taiwan	39.95
286	Charles University	Czech Republic	39.87
287	National University of Ireland, Galway	Ireland	39.85
288	Technische Universitat Dresden	Germany	39.70
289	Norwegian University of Science And Technology	Norway	39.67
290	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States	39.43
291	North Carolina State University	United States	39.40
292	Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg	Germany	39.34
293	University of South Australia	Australia	39.26
294	SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	United Kingdom	39.14
295	Kobe University	Japan	39.13
296	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States	39.07
297	Umea University	Sweden	39.01
298	University of Padua	Italy	38.99
299	University of Victoria	Canada	38.93
300	Stony Brook University	United States	38.91
301	ecole des Ponts ParisTech	France	38.90
302	University of Eastern Finland	Finland	38.87
303	University of California, Riverside	United States	38.61
304	University of Tromso	Norway	38.53
305	Pontificia Universidad Catolica Argentina Santa Maria de los Buenos Aires - UCA	Argentina	38.52
306=	Universite Bordeaux 1, Sciences Technologies	France	38.51
306=	Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)	Mexico	38.51
308	Massey University	New Zealand	38.19
309=	University of Jyvaskyla	Finland	38.16
309=	Tulane University	United States	38.16
311	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	38.10
312	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	India	38.09
313	University at Buffalo SUNY	United States	38.06
314	University of Pisa	Italy	37.84
315	Universite Paris Descartes	France	37.64
316	Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz	Germany	37.58
317	Wake Forest University	United States	37.36
318	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark	37.28
319	Iowa State University	United States	37.24
320	Universitat Leipzig	Germany	36.65
321	University of Essex	United Kingdom	36.63
322	Tokyo University of Science	Japan	36.30
323	Taipei Medical University	Taiwan	36.28
324=	Laval University	Canada	35.97
324=	Dublin City University	Ireland	35.97
326	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	35.90
327=	City University London	United Kingdom	35.89
327=	Universidad Austral - Argentina	Argentina	35.89
329	Boston College	United States	35.84
330	Arizona State University	United States	35.73
331	Brunel University	United Kingdom	35.62
332	Brandeis University	United States	35.53
333	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	35.39
334	King Abdul Aziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	35.38
335	Universidad de Los Andes Colombia	Colombia	35.36
336	Universita degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata	Italy	35.31
337	Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech)	United States	35.20
338	Ruhr-Universitat Bochum	Germany	35.17
339	George Washington University	United States	35.14
340	Linkoping University	Sweden	35.03
341	Ewha Womans University	South Korea	34.94
342	Flinders University	Australia	34.80
343	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Spain	34.58
344	Universite Paris Dauphine	France	34.57
345	Aston University	United Kingdom	34.52
346=	Universitat Bremen	Germany	34.46
346=	Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1	France	34.46
348	University of the Philippines	Philippines	34.45
349	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP)	India	34.43
350	Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya	Spain	34.33
351	Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III	France	34.15
352=	Bauman Moscow State Technical University	Russia	34.13
352=	Aalborg University	Denmark	34.13
354	Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies	South Korea	34.12
355	Universitat Dusseldorf	Germany	34.11
356	Washington State University	United States	33.95
357	University of Tasmania	Australia	33.75
358	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)	Malaysia	33.65
359	University of Navarra	Spain	33.64
360	Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)	Malaysia	33.62
361	Xi'an Jiaotong University	China	33.52
362	James Cook University	Australia	33.49
363	University of The Witwatersrand	South Africa	33.29
364	Universitat des Saarlandes	Germany	33.28
365	Colorado State University	United States	33.22
366	University of Connecticut	United States	33.14
367	Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University)	Russia	33.03
368	Griffith University	Australia	33.01
369	L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University	Kazakhstan	32.99
370	United Arab Emirates University	United Arab Emirates	32.96
371	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	32.94
372	Universitat Regensburg	Germany	32.91
373	Karl-Franzens-Universitat Graz	Austria	32.87
374	University of Waikato	New Zealand	32.84
375	La Trobe University	Australia	32.78
376	Universitat Jena	Germany	32.62
377	Ben Gurion University of The Negev	Israel	32.59
378	Universite Montpellier 2, Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc	France	32.50
379	Birkbeck College, University of London	United Kingdom	32.49
380	Bond University	Australia	32.43
381=	Chiba University	Japan	32.13
381=	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	32.13
383	University of Kent	United Kingdom	32.05
384	Universitat Bielefeld	Germany	32.02
385=	University of Missouri, Columbia	United States	31.98
385=	University of Coimbra	Portugal	31.98
387	The University of Georgia	United States	31.90
388	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom	31.87
389	University of Cincinnati	United States	31.80
390	Al-Farabi Kazakh National University	Kazakhstan	31.72
391	Sogang University	South Korea	31.64
392	American University in Cairo	Egypt	31.62
393=	University of St Gallen (HSG)	Switzerland	31.49
393=	University of Saskatchewan	Canada	31.49
395	University of Tampere	Finland	31.44
396=	Universite Lille 1, Sciences et Technologie	France	31.38
396=	National Taiwan University of Science And Technology (formerly National Taiwan Institute of Technology)	Taiwan	31.38
398	University of Warsaw	Poland	31.35
399	Universitat Bayreuth	Germany	31.33
400	University of New Mexico	United States	31.32

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