# Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities

Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities is a University ranking by the French grande école Mines ParisTech.

## Methodology

The ranking is based on the number of alumni currently holding the post of CEO in one of the 500 largest companies in the world, according to the Fortune Global 500 ranking established by the American business magazine Fortune.

## Ranking
### 2011 University Ranking

These are the highest ranking 37 institutions (out of 392):
| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | Harvard University | US |
| 2 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 3 | Keio University | Japan |
| 4 | HEC Paris | France |
| 5 = | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 5 = | University of Oxford | UK |
| 7 | École Polytechnique | France |
| 8 | Waseda University | Japan |
| 9 | École Nationale d'Administration | France |
| 10 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania | US |
| 12 | Columbia University | US |
| 13 = | Stanford University | US |
| 13 = | Tohoku University | Japan |
| 13 = | University of Nottingham | UK |
| 16 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US |
| 17 | Sciences Po Paris | France |
| 18 | University of Saint-Gallen | Switzerland |
| 19 = | University of Sao-Paulo | Brazil |
| 19 = | Northwestern University | US |
| 21 = | INSEAD | France |
| 21 = | University of Chicago | US |
| 21 = | Mines ParisTech | France |
| 21 = | WU Wien | Austria |
| 25 = | Chuo University | Japan |
| 25 = | Cornell University | US |
| 25 = | Hitotsubashi University | Japan |
| 25 = | Kobe University | Japan |
| 29 | University of California, Berkeley | US |
| 30 = | Shandong University | China |
| 30 = | Bocconi University | Italy |
| 30 = | University of Cambridge | UK |
| 30 = | University of Cologne | Germany |
| 34 | University of Göttingen | Germany |
| 35 | Yale University | US |
| 36 | Purdue University | US |
| 37 | University of Cincinnati | US |

## Regional ranking
### North America

| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | Harvard University | United States |
| 2 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 3 | Columbia University | United States |
| 4 | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
| 6 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 7 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 8 | Cornell University | United States |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
| 10 | Yale University | United States |
| 11 | Purdue University | United States |
| 12 | University of Cincinnati | United States |
| 13 | Baylor University | United States |
| 14 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 15 | Queen's University | Canada |
| 16 | University of Arizona | United States |
| 17 | University of Notre Dame | United States |
| 18 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 19 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | United States |
| 20 | Dartmouth College | United States |

### Europe

| Rank | Institution | Country |
| 1 | HEC Paris | France |
| 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 3 | École Polytechnique | France |
| 4 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Sciences Po | France |
| 6 | University of St. Gallen | Switzerland |
| 7 | Mines ParisTech | France |
| 8 | Vienna University of Economics and Business | Austria |
| 9 | Bocconi University | Italy |
| 10 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 11 | University of Cologne | Germany |
| 12 | University of Göttingen | Germany |
| 13 | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden |
| 14 | École des ponts ParisTech | France |
| 15 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| 16 | University of Bochum | Germany |
| 17 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
| 18 | University of Hamburg | Germany |
| 19 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 20 | Technical University of Madrid | Spain |

### Analysis

This ranking is more international than certain other rankings because it uses the Fortune Global 500. It does not concentrate only on English-speaking countries but also includes Asian, Latin American, and European universities.
The Global Companies Rank Universities by the New York Times is similar to this ranking.