Here are the World University Debating Rankings for 2011 based on the results of the latest World University Debating Championships held in Botswana.
Rank Team Country Total
1 Sydney (Australia) 506
2 Oxford Union (England) 458
3 Yale (US) 394
4 Cambridge Union (England) 372
5 Monash (Australia) 358
6 Queensland (Australia) 358
7 University of Toronto (Hart House) (Canada) 295
8 Alberta (Canada) 291
9 Australian National University (ANU) (Australia) 287
10 Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines) 268
11 Alaska (US) 266
12 Melbourne (Australia) 264
13 Colgate (US) 264
14 New South Wales Uni of (UNSW) (Australia) 257
15 St Andrews (Scotland) 256
16 Queens (Canada) 245
17 Princeton (US) 241
18 National University of Singapore (NUS) (Singapore) 236
19 Nanyang (NTU) (Singapore) 233
20 University College Dublin Lit & Hist (UCD L&H) (Ireland) 233
21 University College Dublin Law (UCD Law) (Ireland) 224
22 McGill (Canada) 223
23 Hong Kong University (HKU) (Hong Kong) 222
24 International Islamic Uni Malaysia (IIUM) (Malaysia) 212
25 University College Cork Philosophical (UCC Phil) (Ireland) 210
26 Harvard (US) 210
27 London School of Economics (LSE) (England) 206
28 La Verne (US) 204
29 Duke (US) 203
30 Stanford (US) 197
31 Victoria Wellington (New Zealand) 190
32 Bates College (US) 187
33 Macquarie (Australia) 186
34 Trinity College Dublin Historical (TCD Hist) (Ireland) 183
35 Claremont (US) 179
36 Trinity College Dublin Philosophical (TCD Phil) (Ireland) 179
37 NUI, Galway Lit & Deb (NUIG L&D) (Ireland) 171
38 National Law School of India (NLSIU) (India) 171
39 Vermont (US) 169
40 MARA, Uni Teknologi (Malaysia) 168
41 Hebrew (Israel) 166
42 Singapore Management University (SMU) (Singapore) 164
43 Swarthmore (US) 163
44 University College Cork Law Society (UCC Law) (Ireland) 158
45 Multimedia University Malaysia (MMU Voices) (Malaysia) 158
46 Cornell (US) 156
47 Durham (England) 156
48 British Columbia, University of (UBC) (Canada) 155
49 Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) (Hong Kong) 150
50 Brandeis (US) 149
51 De La Salle University - Manila (DLSU) (Philippines) 148
52 Universitas Indonesia (UI) (Indonesia) 143
53 Glasgow University Union (GUU) (Scotland) 136
54 Zagreb University (Croatia) 134
55 Manchester (England) 129
56 Amherst (US) 127
57 Auckland (New Zealand) 127
58 Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) (Canada) 120
59 Lahore (LUMS) (Pakistan) 119
60 Portland (US) 119
61 Mahidol (Thailand) 118
62 Bristol (England) 117
63 UWI "Cave Hill" Barbados (West Indies) 116
64 Royal Holloway (England) 115
65 University of Dhaka, Institute of Business Admin (DU - IBA) (Bangladesh) 114
66 Ljubljana (Slovenia) 111
67 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (US) 111
68 International Christian University (ICU) (Japan) 107
69 Ewha Womans University (EDiS) (South Korea) 105
70 California State University (CSU) (US) 104
71 Fordham (US) 103
72 Witswatersrand (South Africa) 103
73 Nottingham (England) 103
74 Carleton (Canada) 101
75 Keio (Japan) 101
76 Middle Temple (England) 99
77 Rhodes (South Africa) 99
78 Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) (US) 99
79 Chulalongkorn (Thailand) 97
80 Jamaica, University of Technology (West Indies) 96
81 Loyola Marymount (US) 94
82 Macau, University of (Macau) 93
83 UWI "Mona" Jamacia (West Indies) 92
84 Helsinki (Finland) 92
85 Hong Kong UST (Hong Kong) 91
86 Cardiff (Wales) 91
87 University of Tokyo (Japan) 89
88 Brown (US) 88
89 Amsterdam (Bonaparte) (Netherlands) 88
90 Babes-Bolyai University Law Society (UBB/BBU) (Romania) 87
91 Leiden (Netherlands) 86
92 George Washington (GWU) (US) 83
93 New York University (NYU) (US) 82
94 Inner Temple (England) 82
95 Birmingham (England) 82
96 Hong Kong Polytechnic (HKPU) (Hong Kong) 80
97 Haifa (Israel) 80
98 Sydney, University of Technology (UTS) (Australia) 80
99 Chung Ang University (South Korea) 79
100 Calgary (Canada) 79
101 Belgrade (Serbia) 77
102 Boston (US) 76
103 Pacific, University of (Huawei) (US) 74
104 Seikei (Japan) 74
105 Middle East Technical University (METU) (Turkey) 72
106 Western Ontario (Canada) 71
107 Tel Aviv (TAU) (Israel) 71
108 St John's (US) 70
109 Assumption University (Thailand) 70
110 Zagreb University Law Society (Croatia) 69
111 Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) (US) 69
112 Western Australia (UWA) (Australia) 68
113 York University (Canada) 68
114 Dalhousie (Canada) 67
115 Stuttgart (Germany) 66
116 Dublin City University (DCU) (Ireland) 63
117 Sciences Po Paris (France) 62
118 Koc (Turkey) 62
119 Higher School of Economics Moscow (HSE) (Russia) 62
120 University of Sciences Malaysia (Sains) (Malaysia) 62
121 King's College London (KCL) (England) 61
122 DAE (South Korea) 60
123 Weill Cornell Medical College - Qatar (Qatar) 59
124 Korea University (South Korea) 59
125 Botswana, University of (Botswana) 58
126 University of Limerick Debating Union (UL DebU) (Ireland) 58
127 Seattle (US) 57
128 Kyung Hee (South Korea) 57
129 Kansai Gaidai Univ (KGU) (Japan) 57
130 SFS Qatar (Qatar) 55
131 Split (Croatia) 54
132 North South Dhaka (NSU) (Bangladesh) 53
133 University of Pennsylvania (US) 52
134 RRIS Hertzlia (Israel) 52
135 Pretoria (South Africa) 51
136 Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald (Germany) 51
137 Ottawa (EDS) (Canada) 51
138 Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (Qatar) 50
139 Malaya (Malaysia) 50
140 Tokyo Foreign (TUFS) (Japan) 50
141 Western Washington University (WWU) (US) 50
142 AUDAS Universidad Central de Venezuela UCV (Venezuela) 49
143 Moscow State University of Law (Russia) 49
144 Interdisciplinart Center Herzliya (IDC) (Israel) 49
145 Tsuda (Japan) 49
146 University of London Union (ULU) (England) 48
147 Stockholm School of Economica in Riga (SSE) (Latvia) 48
148 Cape Town (South Africa) 47
149 Yokohama City (YCU) (Japan) 47
150 Dilman, University of the Philippines (Philippines) 46
151 Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) (Russia) 45
152 Vassar College (US) 45
153 Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (Hong Kong) 45
154 Hanyang University (South Korea) 45
155 Yonsei University (South Korea) 45
156 Brac University (Bangladesh) 44
157 Waterloo (Canada) 43
158 Newcastle (England) 43
159 Sophia University (Japan) 42
160 Griffith University (Australia) 42
161 Oklahoma (US) 42
162 Queen Mary London (England) 42
163 Grove City College (US) 41
164 Berlin (Germany) 41
165 Aberdeen (Scotland) 41
166 Galatasaray (Turkey) 41
167 Deree (Greece) 41
168 Saskatchewan (Canada) 41
169 Aberystwyth (Wales) 40
170 Uni College London (England) 40
171 Manila, Uni Philippines (Philippines) 40
172 Colombo (Sri Lanka) 40
173 King´s Inn (Ireland) 39
174 Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia) 39
175 Lesotho, National University of (NUL) (Lesotho) 39
176 Beijing FSU (China) 38
177 Northwestern University (US) 38
178 Temasek Polytechnic (Singapore) 38
179 Manitoba (Canada) 37
180 Bina Nusantara University (Indonesia) 35
181 Islamic University of Technology (Bangladesh) 35
182 Rijeka (Croatia) 35
183 Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (KNTSU) (Ukraine) 35
184 Bucharest (Romania) 35
185 Johns Hopkins (US) 34
186 Osaka (Japan) 34
187 City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) 33
188 Tokai University (Japan) 33
189 Malacca University (MU) (Malaysia) 32
190 Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus) (Malaysia) 32
191 IU Bremen (IUB) (Germany) 32
192 Lincolns Inn (England) 31
193 Chicago (US) 31
194 Williams College (US) 30
195 Warwick (England) 29
196 CNA - Qatar (Qatar) 29
197 Columbia (US) 29
198 Tilbury (Germany) 29
199 Stellenbosch (South Africa) 28
200 Rochester (US) 28
201 Erasmus (Netherlands) 28
202 Wesleyan University (US) 28
203 Asia Pacific Uni College of Tech & Innovation (UCTI) (Malaysia) 27
204 Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) (Germany) 27
205 San Beda (Philippines) 27
206 Bonn (Germany) 27
207 Waseda (Japan) 26
208 BFSU (Romania) 26
209 Moscow State Technical University Bauman (MSTU) (Russia) 26
210 Santo Thomas (Philippines) 26
211 Macau Polytechnic Institute (Macau) 25
212 University of Namabia (Namabia) 25
213 Hitotsubashi University (Japan) 25
214 Bilkent (Turkey) 25
215 National University of Juridical Sciences (India) 25
216 Incheon (South Korea) 25
217 Potsdam, University of (Germany) 24
218 Texas A&M Qatar (Qatar) 23
219 Marianopolis (US) 23
220 Southern Illinois (US) 23
221 Guelph (Canada) 23
222 Louisiana (US) 23
223 Bogazici University (BOUN) (Turkey) 22
224 Bar Ilan University (BIU) (Israel) 22
225 St Gallen (Switzerland) 22
226 University of Vienna, Wirtschafts, Wien (Austria) 22
227 Tianjin University (China) 21
228 University of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe) 21
229 Indonesia Dikti (Indonesia) 20
230 Canterbury (New Zealand) 20
231 Central Missouri (US) 20
232 Khon Kaen University (KKU) (Thailand) 20
233 Saint Benilde (Philippines) 20
234 Thammasat (Thailand) 20
235 Yogyakarta State University (Indonesia) 19
236 Tokyo Women's Christian University (Japan) 19
237 University of Calabar (Nigeria) 18
238 Makrere University (Uganda) 18
239 School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) London (England) 18
240 Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUC) (Peru) 18
241 University Tun Hussein Malaysia (UTHM) (Malaysia) 17
242 IU Indonesia (Indonesia) 17
243 Limkokwing University of Creative Technology LKW (Malaysia) 16
244 University of Athens (Greece) 16
245 Tallinn (Estonia) 16
246 Yokohama Nat (Japan) 16
247 HSG (Germany) 15
248 Lyceum of the Philippines University (LyP) (Philippines) 15
249 Occidental (US) 15
250 Gutenberg University (Germany) 14
251 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay IITBDSM (India) 14
252 Free State, University of the (South Africa) 14
253 Edinburgh (Scotland) 14
254 Imperial College London (England) 14
255 Tartu (Estonia) 14
256 Vilnius (Lithuania) 14
257 William & Mary (US) 14
258 Lethbridge (Canada) 14
259 McMaster (Canada) 14
260 Bath (England) 13
261 Binus University (Indonesia) 13
262 RESID Cameroon (Cameroon) 13
263 Gujarat National Law University (India) 13
264 KDU College PJ Campus (Malaysia) 13
265 Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) 13
266 Dawson College (Canada) 13
267 Qatar University (Qatar) 13
268 York UK (England) 13
269 Montana (US) 13
270 Diponegoro University (Indonesia) 12
271 Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) 12
272 Groningen (Netherlands) 12
273 National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Ukraine) 12
274 University of Kitakyushu (Japan) 12
275 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea) 12
276 Lewis & Clark (US) 12
277 Minnesota (US) 12
278 National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) (Australia) 12
279 Society for Associated Inter-Tertiary Debaters (SAID) (Singapore) 12
280 Tsinghua (China) 12
281 Bengurion University (Israel) 11
282 Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia) 11
283 The College of New Jersey (US) 11
284 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) (Bangladesh) 11
285 Beihang (China) 11
286 Mapua Institute of Technology (Philippines) 11
287 Universidad Del Pacifico (Peru) 11
288 Zagreb School of Economy and Management (SEM) (Croatia) 11
289 Muenster (Germany) 11
290 Smith (US) 11
291 Fudan University Shanghai (China) 11
292 KUiTTHO (Malaysia) 11
293 Kyoto (Japan) 11
294 Peking (China) 10
295 Putra Malaysia (Malaysia) 10
296 US Air Force University (US) 10
297 Griffith College (Ireland) 10
298 Hacettepe University (Turkey) 10
299 Khmelnytskyi University of Management and Law (KhUML) (Ukraine) 10
300 Franklin & Marshall (US) 10
301 Oporto (Portugal) 10
302 Willamette (US) 10
303 Wuhan (China) 10
304 Botho College (Botswana) 9
305 Nanjing Normal University NNU (China) 9
306 Atma Jaya (Indonesia) 9
307 FAST National Uni of Computer & Emerging Sci (NUCES) (Pakistan) 9
308 Iraq Debate (Iraq) 9
309 UST Beijing (China) 9
310 Central Europe University (CEU) (Hungary) 9
311 Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) (China) 9
312 AMHK (Hong Kong) 9
313 Aoyama Gakuin University (Japan) 9
314 Nara Women's University (Japan) 9
315 UTM Mara Terengganu (Malaysia) 9
316 Foreign Affairs University (China) (China) 9
317 Ocean University of China (China) 9
318 South-Central University for Nationalities (US) 9
319 University of Pune - Fergusson (India) 8
320 Ahmad Dahlan University (Indonesia) 8
321 Padjadjaran University (UNPAD) (Indonesia) 8
322 Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages (Taiwan) 8
323 Dhaka University (Bangladesh) 7
324 University of Bengkulu (Indonesia) 7
325 Tokyo Metropolitan University TMU (Japan) 7
326 Winnipeg (Canada) 6
327 National University of Rwanda (Rwanda) 5
The details of points earned year by year can be found
here
A few of things to note:
The rankings are by institution not college. (e.g. UCD L&H and UCD Law are separate). If you enter separately then you get ranked separately.
They are calculated by adding up the total team points scored by an institution at the World Debating Championships (e.g. if Limerick A score 15 and Limerick B score 14 the total for that institution is 29 for the year). This score is totalled for each of the last 5 years. The only exception is where an institution has hosted Worlds (e.g. Cork, Koc, UCD etc) within the last 5 years then their score from 6 years ago is added as they cannot compete in the year when they host.
If your team doesn't appear on the list it is because they didn't attend Worlds in the last 5 years. I have considered adding other regional tournaments but there isn't a large enough BP format tournament in each region and it would skew the rankings for those regions who do have a major BP championship (e.g. Euros).
Where teams tied on the same total then the more recent results were weighted higher. (e.g. if two teams were tied on 10 points but one earned them in Botswana and the other in Koc then the team from Botswana ranks higher).
The score of every team counts. There have been complaints that the 8 teams Sydney sent to Vancouver pushes them up ahead of other teams. But the reality is they did send 8 teams. Worlds Council and the Org Comm allowed them send 8 teams. The rankings reflect what did happen not what people wish had happened.
The only exception is Yeditepe from the rankings. They were bottom of the list but it's not really to fair to them as they only debated 2 rounds at Cork before one speaker became seriously ill and they had to withdraw. 2 rounds really isn't enough for a ranking given some other teams are being measured from 45 rounds (9 rounds x 5 years). I think onw Worlds (i.e. 9 rounds) should be the minimum to earn a ranking.
There are various arguments about how I should calculate these. There have been requests to calculate these by average per team. To just take the result from the top team per institution. To include other tournaments. etc. I have looked at these and in each case the arguments are valid. However for me this method of ranking rewards every point a team gets. Statistical manipulation don't determine where the institution is ranked, the institution's speakers do. I think ranking by the total goes some way to recognising and rewarding the overall organisation of a society over a number of years rather than just the skill of one or two individuals. A college may not have a team good enough to break but they are organised well enough to send more teams to Worlds. The best institutions tend to do both and they are at the top of the rankings.
The rankings are unofficial and are just something I have published on this site for a number of years. There is talk of moving to an officially Worlds Council sanctioned ranking system. I welcome that and will work with council on this.
Please let me know if you spot any errors in the rankings.
