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May 30, 2016
Miss USA 2016 to be Crowned on June 5 in Las Vegas
Photo: Jessica Strohm, Miss New Hampshire USA 2016; Whitney Sharpe, Miss Massachusetts USA 2016; Chelsea Hardin, Miss Hawaii USA 2016; Bridget Jacobs, Miss Minnesota USA 2016; and Ariane Audett, Miss Alaska USA 2016; pose for photos at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino during the Miss USA Welcome Event on Friday, May 27th. The 2016 Miss USA contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the Miss USA crown in Las Vegas. Tune in to the Fox telecast at 7:00 PM ET on June 5, 2016 live from the T-Mobile Arena to see who will be crowned Miss USA 2016. Image provided by and © copyright The Miss Universe Organization. Photographer: Darren Decker.
Photo: Alexandra Vorontsova, Miss Delaware USA 2016, takes part in filming for the upcoming 2016 Miss USA Telecast upon arriving to MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on May 25, 2016. Tune in to the Fox telecast at 7:00 PM ET on June 5, 2016 live from the T-Mobile Arena to see who will be crowned Miss USA 2016. Image provided by and © copyright The Miss Universe Organization. Photographer: Matt Petit.
Photo: Kate Redeker, Miss Wisconsin USA 2016, introduces herself during the MISS USA Preliminary Competition at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Wednesday, June 1st. The contestants have spent the last week touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the Miss USA crown in Las Vegas. Tune in to the Fox telecast at 7:00 PM ET on June 5, 2016 live from the T-Mobile Arena to see who will be crowned Miss USA 2016. Image provided by and © copyright The Miss Universe Organization. Photographer: Darren Decker.
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May 23, 2016
UN Secretary-General Speaks at Columbia University Commencement Ceremony
Photo: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at the Columbia University Commencement Ceremony, where he urged students to use their passion and compassion to help build a world in which all people enjoy dignity and peace. 18 May 2016. New York, United States. UN Photo/Evan Schneider.
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May 14, 2016
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2016: RED CARPET
Photo: English singer, dancer, and television personality, CHERYL COLE, in her fancy coloured dress which she adorned with exquisite India pink gold opals and white diamonds bracelet, ring and earrings at Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet on May 13, 2016. Image provided by and copyright © de GRISOGONO.
Photo: Indian actress, MALLIKA SHERAWAT, promenades in a de GRISOGONO attire at Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet on May 14, 2016. Image provided by and copyright © de GRISOGONO.
Photo: BELLA HADID lights up the red carpet in her Roberto Cavalli dress. She paired a de GRISOGONO high jewelry necklace to a refined FLORINDA bracelet at Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet on May 11, 2016. Image provided by and copyright © de GRISOGONO.
Photo: AISHWARYA RAI in her light pink flowery dress which she adorned with exquisite de GRISOGONO pink gold tourmalines and emerald ring (displayed above) at Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet on Sunday, May 15, 2016. Images provided by and copyright © de GRISOGONO.
Photo: Brazilian top model, IZABEL GOULART, promenades in a de GRISOGONO attire at Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet on May 17, 2016. Image provided by and copyright © de GRISOGONO.
Photo: Russian top model, NATASHA POLY, promenades in a de GRISOGONO attire at Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet on May 17, 2016. Image provided by and copyright © de GRISOGONO.
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May 5, 2016
The World's Most Reputable Universities 2016
Photo: Brasenose College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (founded 1509). Image Credit: David Nicholls.
This year’s Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings see Harvard University take the top spot for the sixth consecutive year. The other top four positions are taken up by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.
Launched in 2011, THE World Reputation Rankings offer a definitive list of the world’s most prestigious universities based on their global reputation.
United States has once again dominated the rankings, boasting of 43 institutions amongst the top 100.
US is loosely followed by the UK, which houses 10 universities that made it to the list, along with the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford taking the fourth and fifth spots, respectively.
From Asia, there were 17 institutions included in the list, a rise of seven from 10 last year. With Japan’s University of Tokyo standing at the 12th place, China’s Tsinghua University and Peking University were ranked 18th and 21st, respectively.
• India continues to be one of the few nations not to have featured even once in the list.
According to Phil Baty, Times Higher Education rankings editor, “Reputation is the global currency of higher education”.
World’s Most Prestigious Universities 2016
Top 50
- Harvard University — United States
- Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology — United States
- Stanford University — United States
- University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
- University of Oxford — United Kingdom
- University of California, Berkeley — United States
- Princeton University — United States
- Yale University — United States
- Columbia University — United States
- California Institute of Technology — United States
- University of Chicago — United States
- University of Tokyo — Japan
- University of California, Los Angeles — United States
- University of Michigan — United States
- Imperial College, London — United Kingdom
- University of Pennsylvania — United States
- Cornell University — United States
- Tsinghua University — China
- ETH Zurich — Switzerland
- University College, London — United Kingdom
- Peking University — China
- Johns Hopkins University — United States
- University of Toronto — Canada
- London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom
- New York University — United States
- National University of Singapore — Singapore
- Kyoto University — Japan
- Duke University — United States
- University of Washington — United States
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — United States
- Lomonosov Moscow State University — Russian Federation
- Northwestern University — United States
- Carnegie Mellon University — United States
- University of Texas at Austin — United States
- University of Wisconsin-Madison — United States
- University of California, San Diego — United States
- University of British Columbia — Canada
- University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom
- McGill University — Canada
- Georgia Institute of Technology — United States
- LMU Munich — Germany
- University of California, San Francisco — United States
- King’s College, London — United Kingdom
- Pennsylvania State University — United States
- University of California, Davis — United States
- University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
- Seoul National University — South Korea
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne — Switzerland
- University of Manchester — United Kingdom
- University of Melbourne — Australia
- University of Minnesota — United States
51-60
- Delft University of Technology — Netherlands
- Heidelberg University — Germany
- Humboldt University of Berlin — Germany
- Karolinska Institute — Sweden
- University of Maryland, College Park — United States
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — United States
- Ohio State University — United States
- Osaka University — Japan
- Purdue University — United States
- Technical University of Munich — Germany
61-70
- University of Amsterdam — Netherlands
- Australian National University — Australia
- Ecole Normale Superieure — France
- KU Leuven — Belgium
- Michigan State University — United States
- University of Southern California — United States
- University of Sydney — Australia
- Tohoku University — Japan
- Washington University in St Louis — United States
71-80
- Boston University — United States
- Brown University — United States
- University of California, Santa Barbara — United States
- Chinese University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
- Free University of Berlin — Germany
- Fudan University — China
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Hong Kong
- University of Pittsburgh — United States
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University — China
- Texas A&M University — United States
81-90
- Indiana University, Bloomington — United States
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) — South Korea
- Leiden University — Netherlands
- London Business School — United Kingdom
- NanyangTechnological University — Singapore
- National Taiwan University — Taiwan
- Pierre and Marie Curie University — France
- RWTH Aachen University — Germany
- Saint Petersburg State University — Russian Federation
- Tokyo Institute of Technology — Japan
- University of Warwick — United Kingdom
- Zhejiang University — China
91-100
- Arizona State University — United States
- University of Colorado, Boulder — United States
- Ecole Polytechnique — France
- Insead — France
- Lund University — Sweden
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology — Russian Federation
- Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris 1 — France
- University of Sao Paulo — Brazil
- Utrecht University — Netherlands
- Wageningen University and Research Center — Netherlands
• Reputation Ranking is distinct from Academic Ranking.
The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings list the world’s top 100 universities based purely on their Academic Prestige as distinct from their Academic Performance.
According to THE rankings editor Phil Baty, “A university’s reputation for academic excellence is absolutely vital to its success.”
A university’s brand - crucial in helping to attract students, staff and funding - is built on esteem.
Reputation and brand are not the same thing. But Pat Freeland-Small, chief marketing officer at the University of Melbourne, says the former feeds the latter.
The world elite of universities, he says, do not need to advertise, “but in a way they are advertising. They are constantly communicating the quality of what they do through their people and what they naturally put out…It is their people, their quality of research - notions that come through the academic community - that advertise their international profile.”
— EDITOR
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