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The story of the most trusted man of the Sharif House 

When Nawaz Sharif appeared from his controversial Avenfield Apartment in London to virtually attend the opposition multiparty conference being hosted by the Pakistan People’s Party in Islamabad on September 20, he was surrounded by his sons, grandsons and several comrades. The party people and the press corps hardly noticed the absence of the one of the family members of the Sharif House – Hanif Khan.

Who is Hanif Khan?

He is not a member of the Sharif House by blood but by his dedication, loyalty, hard work and commitment demonstrated in three decades, Hanif Khan has earned the trust of his masters. His role in the family has largely been apolitical but Hanif Khan was often seen standing behind Maryam Nawaz and Hussain Nawaz during their political speeches in Lahore and Islamabad in 2017 and 2018 and later in London.

Not lots of people know about Hanif Khan as he himself does not want to be in limelight. I have come to know about the story of Hanif Khan through some of his acquaintances who worked with him at Aitchison College and at Nisbat Road markets.

In the 80s, Hanif Khan got a job in the Aitchison College as a lab assistant. His polite manners and good conduct would make the students a fan of him. But Hanif Khan was a bit choosy in selecting his fans. Though he would take care of all the students, Hanif Khan would always pay special attention to the sons of then chief minister Nawaz Sharif – Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz. Most of the time, he would go extra miles to please them. The brothers loved to fly remote-controlled airplanes and Hanif Khan being in charge of the airplane collection allowed the Nawaz brothers to do whatever they wanted to do.

Those days, Hanif Khan would live in a small residential quarters on the college premises.  

When the brothers graduated from the college, Hanif Khan remained in touch with them. After completing education, when Hussain Nawaz started working on their Sharif Medical City, he employed Hanif Khan there. He would work there part time in the evening. By that time, he had built his own house in a college’s residential colony. Soon, Hanif Khan was made the estate officer of the Sharif family’s properties at Jati Umra.

His tenure as the estate officer ended in the 2000s, when the Sharif family opted to go for exile after a bargain with the Musharraf regime. Those were the times when Hanif Khan faced devastating financial problems. Those days, he did several part time jobs in the evening from record keeper to typist for traders on Nisbat Road. A few people who worked with Hanif Khan those days tell how upset he was and how badly he missed his masters. He had been tasked by the Sharif family to look after the huge estate in their absence.

“The family departed in a hurry, perhaps on a one-way ticket,” tells a source on the condition of anonymity, citing Hanif Khan.

Soon, the Sharif family started missing Hanif Khan in Jeddah, so he was called there. When the family moved to London from Jeddah, Hanif Khan found his ticket booked too.

When the family returned to Pakistan in 2008, Hanif Khan came back too. When the PML-N government was in power in Punjab from 2008-13 and later on in the center from 2013 to 2018, Hanif Khan often helped his old colleagues of Nisbat Road and Aitchison College in resolving their issues. Some people say that during this period, the honest and dedicated Hanif Khan also became a millionaire, if not billionaire. A few people said that Hanif Khan invested in real estate. But no one has any explicit proof of any wrongdoing of Hanif Khan.

In 2017, when Nawaz Sharif was disqualified in the wake of the Panama Leaks, and Hussain Nawaz and Maryam Nawaz started addressing the media people, Hanif Khan for the first time appeared on the media. He guarded their master standing behind them and listened to their talks without any emotions.

Nowadays, Hanif Khan is in London and his place of duty is Avenfield.

His colleagues say hanif Khan used to be a jolly, lively and kind-hearted man during his youth. Now, he looks depressed and lost.

Maybe, this is because of his age.

Maybe, he is upset about the circumstances of his masters.

Maybe, he knows that his masters’ hands are not so clean. If so, Hanif Khan should come forward and share details with the government.    

 

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Early days of Shahid Khan – one of the richest Pakistani-Americans – in Lahore

 

Back in 1966-67, Shahid Khan was an avid bike rider and a teenage boy trying to arrange Rs1,200 to reach the US.

He would ask his friend Khawar Baloch, who was also a motorcycle racer, for the money. 

Most of us only know that the 66^th richest man in the United States in 2020 is Pakistani-American Shahid Khan. Several people also know that Shahid Khan’s net worth is $7.6 billion. It has also been reported several times that when immigrated to the US from Lahore at age 16 in 1968, he had only $500. The Forbes published the list of US richest people in 2020, and of them Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is number one for the third year in a row, followed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates at number two.

This piece sheds light on the early life of Shahid Khan in Lahore, who now owns NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, which he bought in 2012, UK’s Fulham football club, which he bought in 2013 and Black News Channel, a 24-hour cable news channel, which he launched in February 2020. 

I wrote a piece in Dawn newspaper in 2012 titled Lahore-born entrepreneur among US richest people. Then, Shahid Khan, the owner of auto parts supplier Flex-N-Gate and the Jacksonville Jaguars, ranked 179th on the Forbes 400 with an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion. In 2020, he has improved his fortune to $7.6bn and has gone up the ladder to the 66^th.

My interest in Shahid Khan developed after I read about him in News-Press, a Gannet newspaper being published in Fort Myers, Florida, where I worked during a US-Pakistan Journalists Exchange Programme in 2011. The newspaper mentioned his name for he is a resident of this scenic neighbourhood Naples, Florida. After its publication, Khawar Baloch, a childhood buddy of Shahid Khan, contacted me and shared certain details about the billionaire sports buff.

“I met Shahid Khan in 1966 when our family lived in Krishan Nagar, while Shahid Khan’s father house was in Gulberg’s P block. His father’s name was Rafique Khan, and their old Gulberg house still holds nameplate of Rafique Khan. Rafique Khan was the veteran of multiple marriages.

“His mother was a mathematics teacher in then Government College for Women (now the Government College for Women’s University), while his father had a shop of survey and drawing accessories in Anarkali. The shop is still intact and his cousin is running the shop. Shahid Khan had another brother – Tariq Rafique Khan. He matriculated from the Aligarh Public School. He died when he was in his early 20s.

“Shahid Khan was four-year senior to me. He was a student of St. Anthony School on Lawrence Road, while I studied in Muslim Model High School on Lower Mall. After the school, he would come to me on his motorbike,” he recalls. Those were the days when a few people had fuel-powered vehicles in the city.  

 

  

The 50 CC motorcycle of Shahid Khan was the German made DKW. It could run on petrol and when fuel dried up, it could be driven as pedal-driven bicycle.

Mr Khawar had USA-made NSU motorcycle, 1967-68 model.

 

 Such kind of bikes is now not available.

Shahid Khan and Khawar Baloch would ride their bikes on Canal Road and other city roads and would chat for hours.

Khawar remembers several races which they had those days. One of them was from Jail Road to Jallu on Canal Road.

“Those days, he used to say that I want to go to America for studies and for that I need Rs1,200,” remembers Khawar Baloch.

Considering less inflation in those times, the sum looked enormous.  

“His plans looked odd to me. America was not a familiar name those days. A foreign journey would be only undertaken to vilayat, which means England. Pakistan being a former colony of the British Raj had connections whereas America used to be a foreign name those days,” Khawar says.

Khawar could not help Shahid Khan with cash.

One day, Shahid Khan disappeared. Khawar soon went to college and later on to Canada in 1976. He did not hear about Shahid Khan until 2010.

In 2012, I wrote in Dawn:

On the other hand, Shahd Khan moved to the US in 1968 with $500 in his pocket and a great determination for success in his mind. About his early days in the US, the magazine quoted Mr khan as saying that he spent his first night in a $2 per night room at the Champaign YMCA. His first job in the US was washing dishes for $1.20 an hour. He graduated from the UIUC School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with a BSc in 1971.

He proved to be a successful entrepreneur when after his university education, Mr Khan invented a new truck bumper design that shaved weight off for fuel efficiency considerations. He never looked back and soon built his company with his $16,000 saving and a bank loan. Soon he developed the company into a $3.4 billion manufacturing juggernaut that supplied the biggest automakers in the world.

Nine months ago, he bought the Jaguars, fulfilling a longtime dream to own an NFL franchise.

Now, Mr Khan is focusing on giving back to his adopted country. He donated $10 million in 2011 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Back in Lahore, a very few people are aware of Mr Khan’s place on the Forbes list of the 400 billionaires.

“I only know that he is a Pakistani and he has purchased a football team in the US,” said Fawad Asghar, a sports journalist.

According to Muhammad Imran, a business graduate, Mr Khan is a perfect example of brain drain for Pakistanis, and a proof of American dream. He said Mr Khan was giving back to the Americans since the US gave him a lot.

“Pakistan offers opportunities to a few; scores of intelligent people with potential entrepreneur skills on Lahore streets can make to the Forbes list if they are given a chance,” he said.

“Well done, Shahid Khan,” said Shahid Bhatti, also an auto parts dealer on Guru Mangat Road.

He said though he too wanted to manufacture fuel efficient bumpers, the big companies and his financial constraints would never let him fulfill his dream.

“That’s why I am just called Sheeda. I need a chance to be Shahid Khan,” he said.

In 2010, Khawar Baloch came to know about the whereabouts of his childhood friend.

He contacted Shahid Khan’s cousin in Lahore and got his contact number. He has called hundreds of times, if not thousands of times, to reach him but to no avail. He called Shahid Khan’s personal secretary multiple times and she promised to convey about Khawar’s calls to her boss. She did too but Shahid Khan is too busy to talk. Khawar Baloch has mailed him multiple times which were never returned. He reaches every person who has information about Shahid Khan. He contacted me after he read my piece on Shahid Khan in 2012.

He contacted Aziz Memon, co-founder of the Rotary Club and member of the Lions Club who has met Shahid Khan a couple of times to get donations. Mr Memon told him that Shahid Khan is hesitant to caller from Pakistan. According to him, Shahid Khan donates $100,000 to 200,000 every year for polio control in Pakistan.

In 2019, Shahid Khan met Prime Minister Imran Khan in the US and expressed his desire to work on the improvement of sports infrastructure in the country of his birthplace. But for the dam fund, when the prime minister asked overseas Pakistan for donation, Shahid Khan donated just $1,000.

No one knows what Shahid Khan holds for Pakistan but his childhood buddy Khawar Baloch has fond memories of him and desire to him in person.

Women journalists speak up against digital abuse with one voice

 Enough is enough!

After facing slur and abuse for years, both online and in person, women journalists have started speaking up, pointing fingers to trolls those in government quarters, political activists and social media cells of political parties.

These attacks often in the form of coordinated campaigns are “increasingly impacting our work, mental wellbeing and security”, reads an open letter, signed by dozens of women journalists of Pakistan. The letters explains the nature of attacks, which include “gender-based and sexualized abuse, discrediting, targeting and persecution … The kind of trolling and unfettered vulgarity being experienced subverts every norm of decency with no law enforcement agency, government or any political party taking notice or action of what is clearly transgressing all limits of decency and subverting every ethical standard”.

The letter details the reasons behind these attacks on women in media, which often stem from their reporting on critical issues which may offend a political party. They come under attack for differing from the government or a political party’s position on any given issue. On a few occasions, women journalists’ pictures and videos are made viral following with gender-based slurs, threats of sexual and physical violence. In the attacks, these journalists’ family members and colleagues’ families are not spared. In the age of photoshop and software which can doctor and distort videos, it is easy to make a simple video or photograph dubious.  

“In this context, we demand that we be told what the official mandate of the social media cells of the federal and provincial governments operating on tax-payers money is. Often, it seems like the mandate of these social media cells is to discredit journalists and analysts, without any evidence. We also demand that all other political parties and institutions ensure verifiable transparency regarding the mandate and operations of their respective social media wings. The Election Commission of Pakistan should demand all political parties to submit detailed workings of their social media cells”, reads the letter.  

The women journalists demand that the government and all political parties draw up and adopt a code of conduct for social media teams of political parties, public bodies and other public/state institutions; investigate within to identify networks which have been prominently engaged in launching and running coordinated attacks, hashtag campaigns and abusive campaigns against women in the media; initiate investigation and take action against those officials for whom there is evidence available that they are directly or indirectly engaged in the discrediting and harassing women in media; Whenever a journalist lodges a complaint with Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) or the police regarding intimidation, threats and other forms of digital abuse, the case(s) should be processed fairly and efficiently, without any pressure to withdraw or an environment of victim-blaming; the Cyber Crime Wing at the FIA must set up dedicated desks to facilitate registration of cases of digital violence against women; the Journalist Protection Bill should be cognizant of the digital threats and violence against journalists and facilitate effective investigations of digital crimes against journalists. All stakeholders and those involved (as mentioned in para 2) should be made to adhere to a culture of no tolerance to digital abuse; and finally, we urge the government not to use this statement as an excuse to introduce further regulations and curbs for social media. We believe that the PTI, as the ruling party holds primary responsibility to set the tone for progressive, positive and inclusive political discourse and should lead by example. 

The letter carries signatures of Nasim Zehra (24 News), Quatrina Hosain (PTV),  Seema Tahir (CEO News One), Asma Shirazi (Aaj News) Meher Bokhari (Dawn News),  Maria Memon (ARY News),

 Fereeha Idress (AbbTak News) Gharidah Farooqi (News One)  Tanzeela Mazhar (GTV),  Yashfeen Jamal (Qalam-Camera) Javeria Siddique (TRT), Farhat Rabbani (BBC), Shiffa Yousufzai (HUM News), Madiha Naqvi (ARY News),  Neelum Nawab (DIN News),  Sana Bucha (Aaj tv), Nadiya Mirza (PTV News), Maria Zulfiqar (HUM News), Beenish Saleem (Neo News),  Farah Sadia (ATV/Public News)  Afshan Qureshi from Daily Jinan, Batul Rajput, Freelancer,  Sadaf Jabbar, ARY News,  Farah Iqrar, Samaa News, Sadaf Khan, Media Matters Nausheen Yousaf, Geo News Shazia Sikendar, Fmr. PTV Urooj Raza Siami, Roze TV Aalia Shah, DW  Aniqa Nisar, Capital TV                                   Iffat Rizvi, Independent & DW  Rashida Sial, AbbTak  Zahra Noor Abbas, AbbTak                   Huma Amir Shah, Geo News  Aneela Khan, Independent  Mehr Tarar, AbbTak                   Alia Jawad, Geo Sports  Nabeela Hafiz, VoP  Nargis Janjua, Daily Jinan  Sadia Kamal, APP Shazia Nayyar, Aap News Maleeha Hashmi, freelance                  Aneela Mehmood Shamim Ashraf Daily Kashmir  Shazia Tahir, Freelancer  Sabahat Khan, DW Pernia Khan, BBC Irfana Yasser, BBC Urdu  Nadia Suleman, BBC Urdu Shumaila Jaffery, BBC Nazish Zafar, BBC  Munazza Anwar, BBC Sana Asif Dar, BBC Nadia Murtaza, Dawn News  Ambreen Fatima, Nawa e Waqt  Sophiya Anjam PTV/FM 91  Beenish Jawed, Online Journalist Ayesha Shoaib, Neo News  Mona Khan, Independent  Ghazala Naureen, AbbTak   Zaryab Arif, Hum News  Maria Shirazi, The News Int’l Afshan Qureshi, Daily Jinan Rameeza Ahmad, Freelancer Fatima Nazish, Hum News  Sumeera Ali, GNN News  Shazia, Express TV Wajiha, Dawn News Rabia Shahab, Dawn News   Asiya Ansar, BBC Urdu Huda Ikram, BBC Urdu Sarah Hasan, VOA   Ayesha Ehtisham, Neo News Fatima Ali, Independent Urdu  Noreen Zahra, Geo News

 Sumaira Latif, Geo News Saima Sajjad, Geo News Zeynep Gürcan, CFWIJ  Kiran Nazish, CFWIJ Lubna Jerar Naqvi, KUJ Samreen Hameed, Geo News   Sumeira Khan, Indus News Sanovia Chaudhry, Geo News Uneeba Zamir Shah, Geo News         Fatima Saleem, Geo News  Dilrukshi Handunnetti (Sri Lanka) Hamna Malik, Voice of Balochistan      Laiba Zainab, Sujag Naheed Jahangir, Tribal News  Asma Ali Zain, Arab News                   Sana Jamal, Gulf News Sehrish Khokar, ARY News Madiha Abid Ali, Dunya News            Mona Khan, Independent Urdu Sehrish Lodhi, PTV  Diya Rehman, Radio Pakistan              Shafaq Iqbal, Nawa-e-Waqt Irum Zaeem, Samaa TV Sitara Jabeen, TRT World                     Moneeba Iftekhar, APP Riffat Shah, Aap News Tanzeela Rania, Aaj News                   

 

Why should Nawaz Sharif come back and face courts?

 

No Pakistani university in top 500 Times Higher Education World Rankings 2021

Not a single Pakistani university could be ranked among the first 500 universities in the World University Rankings 2021 released by the Times Higher Education (THE). There are, however, 17 Pakistani varsities in the list of top 2,000 higher education institutions, and of them, the little known Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, beat the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, to grab the first university position in Pakistan, and 510^th all over the world, whereas the Quaid-i-Azam University, which was among the top 500 varsities of the world last year, stood at 575^th position. On the international scene, the ranking, which underlined the shifting strength of higher education and research around the world, saw the UK’s University of Oxford on the top for the fifth consecutive year. Also, the US domination of the top 10 masked wider decline and mainland China's Tsinghua University became the first ever Asian university to stand out among the top 20.

 

University rankings are viewed with a greater interest among the students all over the world because students try to get admission to varsities which enhance their employment chances. Among the ranking institutions, THE World University Rankings are viewed as the most balanced and comprehensive global ranking, with 13 separate performance metrics covering the full range of core activities for research-intensive universities: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. The 2021 ranking examined over 86 million citations across more than 13.6 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.

This year’s Rankings edition has 18 countries and regions in the top 100, and 93 represented overall, demonstrating that geopolitical competition in the global knowledge economy is intensifying. Moreover, a record 1,527 institutions qualify for the 2021 edition, a 9% increase from the 2020 rankings when 1,397 institutions qualified.

 

Coming back to Pakistan, the universities have been ranked as:

 

Global Ranking No                        University

 

510                                         Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan

575                                         Quaid-i-Azam University

645                                         COMSATS University Islamabad

809                                         University of Agriculture, Faisalabad

860                                         Government College University Faisalabad

861                                         Government College Women University Faisalabad

898                                         Lahore University of Management Sciences

919                                         National University of Sciences and Technology

939                                         University of Peshawar

1951                                       Bahauddin Zakariya University

1128                                       University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore

1176                                       Government College University Lahore

1207                                       The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

1354                                       PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi

1368                                       University of the Punjab

1391                                       University of Sargodha

1499                                       University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore

 

 

Those who are looking for some international university for their higher education, can view the list of top 10 universities of the world.

 

University Name                                         Country / Region                2021 Rank

 

University of Oxford                                     United Kingdom                   1         

Stanford University                                      United States                        2         

Harvard University                                       United States                        3         

California Institute of Technology                        United States                        4         

Massachusetts Institute of Technology   United States                        5         

University of Cambridge                             United Kingdom                   6         

University of California, Berkeley             United States                        7         

Yale University                                             United States                        8         

Princeton University                                                United States                        9         

University of Chicago                                 United States                        10       

 

The list shows the US is still the higher education leader even though the UK has the biggest success story - the University of Oxford. Last year, the UK had top 20 ranked institutions and of them only five were able to improve their position in the table. Asia is emerging as knowledge power house.

 

US also sees the challenge from Asia affecting its performance. Its universities continue to perform well at the top end of the ranking, commanding the highest number of positions in the overall top 10 (8) since the rankings began, as the University of California, Berkeley, climbs 6 places, from joint 13^th to 7^th. However, 50% of the US’s top 20 performing universities from last year’s ranking fail to maintain their position. Over the past five years, the US has lost 4 positions in the overall top 200 (63 in 2016, 59 in 2021) as competition rises for the top places.

 

What should be the most concerning thing for our education managers is the rise of educational power of China, Iran and India, our three neighbours.

 

The chart speaks volume:

 

Country                     No of Universities on Rankings List

 

China                                       90

India                             62

Iran                               47                                         

Asia’s rise is fronted by mainland China’s Tsinghua University (joint 20^th), which becomes the first Asian university ever to break into the THE World University Rankings top 20 since the current methodology launched in 2011. This achievement is an indicator of the wider positive movements in higher education for mainland China, and the rest of Asia in recent years. Since 2016, mainland China has gained 5 additional places in the top 200 (2 in 2016, 7 in 2021). It has also doubled its representation in the top 100 since last year, gaining 3 additional places (6 in total). Of the 7 universities that achieved a top 200 place in 2020, 85% improved their position in 2021, as mainland China continues to challenge the world’s very best.

In total, there are 16 Asian universities in the top 100, the highest total for Asia since the rankings began. Mainland China’s Fudan University (joint 70^th), Zhejiang University (joint 94^th), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (100^th, and South Korea’s Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (96^th), all move into the elite group. Of those 16 institutions, 13 of them either improved or maintained their position from last year, demonstrating the rising competition from Asia at the expense of western higher education systems.

 

Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer at THE, says:

 

“We have observed the rise of Asia in the world rankings for several years now, but this year marks a major milestone, as mainland China’s Tsinghua University disrupts the traditional domination of western universities at the top of the table, breaking into the top 20 for the first time, and as mainland China doubles its representation in the top 100.

 

“This new ranking provides further clear evidence of a shift in the balance of power in the global knowledge economy from the established higher education systems in the west to those in parts of the east. This trend is likely to accelerate further as the coronavirus pandemic heralds a perfect storm of huge challenges for primarily western universities, particularly those in the US and UK, who face the very real risk of losing significant  international student talent, and the billions of dollars in fees that they bring. In the longer term, possibly permanent shifts in the global flow of academic talent that has traditionally fuelled the elite institutions of the US and UK could create real challenges.

 

While the universities at the very top of the table, with long histories of success and prestige, will prove hard to unseat, these factors, combined with the effects of a possible deep and long-lasting global recession and its likely impact on university funding levels, could herald the start a dramatic re-balancing of the global knowledge economy.”

 

 

View the full THE World University Rankings 2021:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2021/world-ranking

 

View the full THE World University Rankings 2021 methodology:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/world-university-rankings-2021-methodology

 

 

1.    Summary Results and Tables

 

 

Top 200

Rank	University Name	Country / Region
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
2	Stanford University	United States
3	Harvard University	United States
4	California Institute of Technology	United States
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
7	University of California, Berkeley	United States
8	Yale University	United States
9	Princeton University	United States
10	University of Chicago	United States
11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
12	Johns Hopkins University	United States
13	University of Pennsylvania	United States
14	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
15	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
16	UCL	United Kingdom
17	Columbia University	United States
18	University of Toronto	Canada
19	Cornell University	United States
=20	Tsinghua University	China
=20	Duke University	United States
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
23	Peking University	China
24	Northwestern University	United States
25	National University of Singapore	Singapore
26	New York University	United States
27	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
28	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
29	University of Washington	United States
30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
31	University of Melbourne	Australia
32	LMU Munich	Germany
33	University of California, San Diego	United States
34	University of British Columbia	Canada
35	King’s College London	United Kingdom
=36	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
=36	The University of Tokyo	Japan
38	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
39	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
40	McGill University	Canada
41	Technical University of Munich	Germany
42	Heidelberg University	Germany
43	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
44	University of Texas at Austin	United States
45	KU Leuven	Belgium
46	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	France
47	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore
48	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
49	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
50	Washington University in St Louis	United States
=51	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
=51	University of Sydney	Australia
53	University of Southern California	United States
=54	Kyoto University	Japan
=54	Boston University	United States
=56	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
=56	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
=56	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
59	Australian National University	Australia
60	Seoul National University	South Korea
61	Brown University	United States
=62	The University of Queensland	Australia
=62	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands
=64	University of California, Davis	United States
=64	Monash University	Australia
66	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
67	UNSW Sydney	Australia
68	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
69	McMaster University	Canada
=70	Fudan University	China
=70	Leiden University	Netherlands
72	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
=73	University of Montreal	Canada
=73	University of Zurich	Switzerland
=75	Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany
=75	Utrecht University	Netherlands
77	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
=78	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
=78	University of Tübingen	Germany
=80	University of Groningen	Netherlands
=80	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
=80	Ohio State University (Main campus)	United States
83	University of Freiburg	Germany
84	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
=85	Emory University	United States
=85	University of Minnesota	United States
=87	École Polytechnique	France
=87	University of Science and Technology of China	China
=87	Sorbonne University	France
90	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
91	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
=92	University of Basel	Switzerland
=92	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
=94	Purdue University West Lafayette	United States
=94	Zhejiang University	China
96	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
97	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
=98	University of California, Irvine	United States
=98	University of Helsinki	Finland
100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
=101	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
=101	Dartmouth College	United States
=103	Ghent University	Belgium
=103	Lund University	Sweden
105	Michigan State University	United States
106	Aarhus University	Denmark
=107	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
=107	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
109	University of Bern	Switzerland
110	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom
=111	Nanjing University	China
=111	Uppsala University	Sweden
=111	Vanderbilt University	United States
=114	University of Bonn	Germany
=114	Penn State (Main campus)	United States
116	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
117	University of Virginia (Main campus)	United States
=118	University of Adelaide	Australia
=118	Free University of Berlin	Germany
120	Georgetown University	United States
=121	Maastricht University	Netherlands
=121	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
=121	Case Western Reserve University	United States
=124	Rice University	United States
=124	University of Arizona	United States
126	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
=127	University of Oslo	Norway
=127	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
129	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
130	University of Göttingen	Germany
=131	University of Alberta	Canada
=131	University of Colorado Boulder	United States
=133	University of York	United Kingdom
=133	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus	United States
135	University of Hamburg	Germany
=136	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
=136	University of Paris	France
=136	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
139	The University of Western Australia	Australia
=140	University of Mannheim	Germany
=140	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
=140	Ulm University	Germany
=140	University of Würzburg	Germany
=140	Indiana University	United States
=145	University of Cologne	Germany
=145	University of Ottawa	Canada
=147	University of Rochester	United States
=147	University of Auckland	New Zealand
=149	Durham University	United Kingdom
=149	University of Geneva	Switzerland
151	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea
=152	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
=152	TU Dresden	Germany
=152	University of Florida	United States
=155	University of Cape Town	South Africa
=155	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland
=155	Tufts University	United States
=158	Bielefeld University	Germany
=158	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
=160	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
=160	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
=160	University of Technology Sydney	Australia
163	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
=164	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
=164	University of Vienna	Austria
166	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	United States
=167	University of Bologna	Italy
=167	Korea University	South Korea
169	University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States
=170	University of Notre Dame	United States
=170	University of Antwerp	Belgium
=170	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
=170	Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa	Italy
=174	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
=174	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation
=176	Northeastern University	United States
=176	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea
=178	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
=178	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
=178	Paris-Saclay University	France
181	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
182	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
183	Stockholm University	Sweden
=184	Arizona State University (Tempe)	United States
=184	University of Canberra	Australia
186	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
=187	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
=187	George Washington University	United States
=187	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
=187	Yonsei University (Seoul campus)	South Korea
=191	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
=191	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
=191	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
=191	Tel Aviv University	Israel
=195	Macquarie University	Australia
=195	University of Münster	Germany
197	Texas A&M University	United States
=198	University of Barcelona	Spain
=198	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
=200	University of Calgary	Canada
=200	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
=200	Queen’s University Belfast	United Kingdom

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