Not one Italian institution is in the top 100 of the 2008 Times Higher Education world university rankings.

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Britain's Times Higher Education magazine puts Peking University 50th and only six Chinese institutions in the top 200.

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This week USP won another plaudit, becoming the only Latin American university to make it into the world's top 200 universities in another much-watched list, published by Times Higher Education, a British specialist weekly.

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