Cairo - The American University in Cairo has been ranked as the second best university in the Middle East and North Africa region and 365th worldwide, according to an annual ranking released by QS World University Rankings. The annual QS rankings rate the world's top universities using six different indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio and international student ratio. AUC's rank directly followed the George Washington University, Northeastern University and Virginia Tech, three prestigious US universities. It's the only private institution in Egypt included in the QS rankings. "There are a lot of universities in the world; to be in the 300 band is extraordinary," said Ted Purinton, dean of the Graduate School of Education and an expert in international education, in an AUC press release. According to Purinton, AUC ranked higher than the University of Milan, the American University in Washington DC, Stellenbosch University, Brandeis, Wake Forest University, and Florida State.
