BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2016 results and analysis

We reveal the top 200 universities in the BRICS and emerging economies in 2016 and explore the results in detail

December 2, 2015

Source: Peter Grundy

2016 rank	Institution	Country
1	Peking University	China
2	Tsinghua University	China
3	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation
4	University of Cape Town	South Africa
5	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
6	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
7	University of Science and Technology of China	China
8	Zhejiang University	China
9	University of São Paulo	Brazil
10	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China

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