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University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
The University is consistently ranked by the Times Higher Education Supplement (UK) among the world's top 25 universities. The University has approximately 43,000 students, of whom around 57 per cent are women and about 22 per cent are international students.
University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa)
UCT has emerged as one of South Africa's leading research universities due to its high number of A-rated researchers selected through a process carried out by the National Research Foundation (NRF). A total of 21,562 students (15 413 undergraduates and 6 149 postgraduates) enrolled at UCT in 2006. There are over 4 000 international students at UCT, making up 20% of the student population.
Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
Consistently ranked as one of China's top 5 universities, Fudan consists of seventeen schools, ( which comprise sixty-six departments) and four independent departments: Physics, Chemistry, Macromolecular Science, and Environmental Science and Engineering. Fudan has an enrollment of 25,000 full-time degree candidates. The University's population of foreign students ranks second in the whole country, which has reached 1,650 today.
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile)
Ranked highly within Latin America, and top among Chilean universities, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is home to 21,000 students on four campuses. Its eighteen faculties cover a wide range of disciplines and professional schools, and the university is nationally renowned for its research in natural sciences, medicine, economics, agriculture, philosophy, theology, arts and literature.
University of Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
With more top ranked graduate and research programs than any other Brazilian university, USP is also one of the largest institutions of higher education in Latin America, with approximately 75,000 enrolled students. It comprises eleven campuses, four of them in the city of Sao Paulo.