Which is the best UNIVERSITY in the field of physics world wide?

Answer 1

Hmmm...define "best".

Best in instructing undergrads in physics is very different from best in basic research (which is important to graduate students). Best in historical reputation may not hold up as best currently. Best according to giants of physics may not be the same as which university publishes the most peer-reviewed papers.

Cambridge has Stephen Hawking currently sitting in Isaac Newton's chair.
University of Chicago was/is a leader in particle physics.
MIT
CalTech
Princeton had Einstein...
Oxford
Iowa for Cosmology and Astrophysics

Answer 2

. The best physics is the work of individuals, not Universities. Some of the great advances have been made by a person from one university collaborating with a person or persons from another university or from other universities.
. If you want to study physics in college. pick the best university for physics in your area. I cannot tell you what those are. If you were in Texas, I would recommend texas university (In Austin they call it the University of Texas) though it pains me to say anything decent about them.
. U of Chicago is good, as is Berkley, U of Illinois Urbana, MIT, Boston College, Oxford, Stanford, Queens College-Cambridge.
. I have left out so many good physics schools, it is almost wrong to have listed the ones I have.

Answer 3

not sure appropriate to the united kingdom yet for US: MIT might probable be the final for any style of physics/engineering/math-appropriate majors! different good colleges: Georgia Tech, Harvard, Boston college, RIT, Brown college.

Answer 4

Oxford

Answer 5

Questions like this are always very arguable. One of the good ones, though, is University of Chicago.

Answer 6

University of Kentucky

Answer 7

MIT