Top 200 World Universities (2008)
February 22, 2009
2008 Rank | 2007 Rank | Name | Country | Score |
1 | 1 | Harvard University | US | 100 |
2 | 2= | Yale University | US | 99.8 |
3 | 2= | University of Cambridge | UK | 99.5 |
4 | 2= | University of Oxford | UK | 98.9 |
5 | 7= | California Institute of Technology | US | 98.6 |
6 | 5 | Imperial College London | UK | 98.4 |
7 | 9 | University College London | UK | 98.1 |
8 | 7= | University of Chicago | US | 98.0 |
9 | 10 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | US | 96.7 |
10 | 11 | Columbia University | US | 96.3 |
11 | 14 | University of Pennsylvania | US | 96.1 |
12 | 6 | Princeton University | US | 95.7 |
13= | 13 | Duke University | US | 94.4 |
13= | 15 | Johns Hopkins University | US | 94.4 |
15 | 20= | Cornell University | US | 94.3 |
16 | 16 | Australian National University | Australia | 92.0 |
17 | 19 | Stanford University | US | 91.2 |
18 | 38= | University of Michigan | US | 91.0 |
19 | 17 | University of Tokyo | Japan | 90.0 |
20 | 12 | McGill University | Canada | 89.7. |
21 | 20= | Carnegie Mellon University | US | 89.6 |
22 | 24 | King’s College London | UK | 89.5 |
23 | 23 | University of Edinburgh | UK | 89.3 |
24 | 42 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 89.1 |
25 | 25 | Kyoto University | Japan | 87.4 |
26 | 18 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 87.1 |
27 | 32 | Brown University | US | 85.2 |
28 | 26 | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris | France | 84.8 |
29 | 30 | University of Manchester | UK | 84.4 |
30= | 41 | University of California, Los Angeles | US | 84.3 |
30= | 33= | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 84.3 |
32 | 37 | University of Bristol | UK | 84.1 |
33 | 29 | Northwestern University | US | 83.3 |
34= | 33= | University of British Columbia | Canada | 83.0 |
34= | 28 | Ecole Polytechnique | France | 83.0 |
36 | 22 | University of California, Berkeley | US | 82.9 |
37 | 31 | University of Sydney | Australia | 82.4 |
38 | 27 | University of Melbourne | Australia | 82.3 |
39 | 53= | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | 81.4 |
40 | 49 | New York University | US | 81.3 |
41 | 45 | University of Toronto | Canada | 81.1 |
42 | 38= | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 81.0 |
43 | 33= | University of Queensland | Australia | 80.7 |
44 | 46 | Osaka University | Japan | 80.1 |
45 | 44 | University of New South Wales | Australia | 79.8 |
46 | 47 | Boston University | US | 79.1 |
47 | 43 | Monash University | Australia | 78.7 |
48 | 93= | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 78.5 |
49 | 53= | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 78.2 |
50= | 117= | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland | 78.1 |
50= | 36 | Peking University | China | 78.1 |
50= | 51= | Seoul National University | South Korea | 78.1 |
53 | 48 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 78.0 |
54 | 71= | Dartmouth College | US | 77.8 |
55 | 55= | University of Wisconsin-Madison | US | 77.7 |
56 | 40 | Tsinghua University | China | 77.0 |
57 | 60 | Heidelberg University | Germany | 76.9 |
58 | 58 | University of California, San Diego | US | 76.3 |
59 | 55= | University of Washington | US | 75.8 |
60 | 161= | Washington University in St Louis | US | 75.7 |
61 | 90= | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | 75.3 |
62 | 74= | Emory University | US | 75.0 |
63 | 71= | Uppsala University | Sweden | 74.9 |
64 | 84 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 74.8 |
65 | 50 | University of Auckland | New Zealand | 74.5 |
66 | 59 | London School of Economics | UK | 74.2 |
67 | 89 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 74.0 |
68 | 105 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 73.9 |
69 | 57 | University of Warwick | UK | 73.8 |
70 | 51 | University of Texas at Austin | US | 73.3 |
71 | 73 | University of Illinois | US | 73.2 |
72 | 61 | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 73.1 |
73 | 83 | University of Glasgow | UK | 73.0 |
74 | 97= | University of Alberta | Canada | 72.9 |
75 | 65= | University of Birmingham | UK | 72.3 |
76 | 68 | University of Sheffield | UK | 72.2 |
77 | 69 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | 72.1 |
78= | 63 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands | 71.8 |
78= | 67 | Technical University of Munich | Germany | 71.8 |
78= | 92 | Rice University | US | 71.8 |
81= | 114= | University of Aarhus | Denmark | 71.5 |
81= | 74= | University of York | UK | 71.5 |
83= | 97= | Georgia Institute of Technology | US | 71.3 |
83= | 76 | University of St Andrews | UK | 71.3 |
83= | 64 | University of Western Australia | Australia | 71.3 |
86 | 70 | University of Nottingham | UK | 71.0 |
87 | 142= | University of Minnesota | US | 70.2 |
88 | 106 | Lund University | Sweden | 70.0 |
89 | 96 | University of California, Davis | US | 69.9 |
90 | 85= | Case Western Reserve University | US | 69.8 |
91= | 100 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 69.6 |
91= | 93= | Université de Montréal | Canada | 69.6 |
93= | 128 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel | 69.5 |
93= | 65= | Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munchen (Munich) | Germany | 69.5 |
95 | 132= | Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Technology | South Korea | 69.3 |
96 | 110 | University of Virginia | US | 69.2 |
97 | 77= | University of Pittsburgh | US | 69.1 |
98 | 117= | University of California, Santa Barbara | US | 68.8 |
99= | 77= | Purdue University | US | 68.6 |
99= | 80= | University of Southampton | UK | 68.6 |
101 | 82 | Vanderbilt University | US | 68.5 |
102= | 151= | University of North Carolina | US | 68.4 |
102= | 119 | University of Southern California | US | 68.4 |
104 | 80= | University of Leeds | UK | 68.3 |
105 | 90= | Pennsylvania State University | US | 68.2 |
106= | 62 | University of Adelaide | Australia | 68.1 |
106= | 140= | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 68.1 |
108 | 177= | University College Dublin | Ireland | 68.0 |
109 | 231= | Technion— Israel Institute of Technology | Israel | 67.9 |
110 | 102= | Georgetown University | US | 67.6 |
111 | 111 | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 67.4 |
112 | 102= | Tohoku University | Japan | 67.2 |
113 | 85= | Fudan University | China | 67.1 |
114 | 151= | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 66.7 |
115 | 85= | University of Vienna | Austria | 66.6 |
116 | 123 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium | 66.4 |
117= | 108 | McMaster University | Canada | 66.2 |
117= | 88 | Queen’s University | Canada | 66.2 |
119 | 101 | University of Rochester | US | 66.1 |
120 | 112= | Nagoya University | Japan | 65.9 |
121 | 120 | Ohio State University | US | 65.8 |
122= | 109 | Durham University | UK | 65.4 |
122= | 79 | University of Maryland | US | 65.4 |
124= | 114= | University of Otago | New Zealand | 65.3 |
124= | 102= | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 65.3 |
126 | 163= | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 65.2 |
127 | 224 | Stony Brook University | US | 65.1 |
128 | 130= | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 64.8 |
129 | 112= | University of Waterloo | Canada | 64.6 |
130 | 121 | University of Sussex | UK | 64.1 |
131 | 114= | University of Basel | Switzerland | 63.9 |
132 | 140= | University of California, Irvine | US | 63.8 |
133 | 140= | Cardiff University | UK | 63.4 |
133= | 130= | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark | 63.4 |
133 | 101= | University of Liverpool | UK | 63.4 |
136 | 124 | University of Ghent | Belgium | 63.1 |
137= | 146 | Free University of Berlin | Germany | 62.6 |
137= | 122 | Texas A&M University | US | 62.6 |
139 | 126= | Humboldt University of Berlin | Germany | 62.5 |
140 | 157 | Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France | 62.4 |
141 | 155= | University of Science and Technology of China | China | 62.3 |
142 | 148 | Wageningen University | Netherlands | 62.0 |
143 | 125 | Nanjing University | China | 61.9 |
144= | 173= | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 61.8 |
144= | 163= | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 61.8 |
146 | 134 | University of Arizona | US | 61.5 |
147= | 149= | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 61.2 |
147= | 144 | Freiburg University | Germany | 61.2 |
149 | 132= | Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie,Paris VI | France | 61.0 |
150 | 192= | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Mexico | 60.9 |
151 | 177= | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | US | 60.7 |
152 | 145 | University of Bath | UK | 60.4 |
153 | 137= | University of Aberdeen | UK | 60.3 |
154 | 307= | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | India | 60.1 |
155= | 304= | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands | 59.8 |
155= | 142= | Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen | Germany | 59.8 |
157 | 159= | Tufts University | US | 59.6 |
158 | 136 | Kyushu University | Japan | 59.5 |
159 | 126= | University of Western Ontario | Canada | 59.4 |
160 | 149= | Queen Mary, University of London | UK | 59.1 |
161 | 217 | University of Lausanne | Switzerland | 59.0 |
162= | 197= | Chalmers University of Technology | Sweden | 58.7 |
162= | 129 | Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne | UK | 58.7 |
164 | 139 | Simon Fraser University | Canada | 58.5 |
165 | 135 | University of Florida | US | 58.4 |
166= | 223 | Chulalongkorn University | Thailand | 58.3 |
166= | 168= | Göttingen University | Germany | 58.3 |
168 | 155= | University of Notre Dame | US | 58.1 |
169 | 209= | University of Frankfurt am Main | Germany | 58.0 |
170= | 166= | University of Calgary | Canada | 57.9 |
170= | 137= | Indiana University Bloomington | US | 57.9 |
170= | 147 | University of Lancaster | UK | 57.9 |
173= | 192= | KTH, Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden | 57.8 |
174= | 151= | Hokkaido University | Japan | 57.6 |
174= | 269 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) | India | 57.6 |
174= | 191 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | US | 57.6 |
177= | 185= | University of Leicester | UK | 57.5 |
177= | 188= | University of Oslo | Norway | 57.5 |
179 | 200= | University of Cape Town | South Africa | 57.4 |
180= | 107 | University of Colorado | US | 57.3 |
180= | 180= | Waseda University | Japan | 57.3 |
182 | 168= | Macquarie University | Australia | 57.1 |
183= | 154 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | Belgium | 56.9 |
183= | 231= | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 56.9 |
185 | 208 | Brandeis University | US | 56.8 |
186= | 194 | University of Barcelona | Spain | 56.4 |
186= | 188= | University of Canterbury | New Zealand | 56.4 |
188= | 203= | Technical University of Berlin | Germany | 56.1 |
188= | 233 | Pohang University of Science and Technology | South Korea | 56.1 |
190 | 165 | Stuttgart University | Germany | 55.9 |
191 | 175= | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | US | 55.8 |
192= | 214 | University of Bern | Switzerland | 55.4 |
192= | 173= | University of Bologna | Italy | 55.4 |
194 | 180= | University of Reading | UK | 55.3 |
195 | 187 | University of Antwerp | Belgium | 55.1 |
196 | 175= | University of São Paulo | Brazil | 55.0 |
197= | 264= | University of Buenos Aires | Argentina | 54.8 |
197= | 221= | Dalhousie University | Canada | 54.8 |
199 | 197= | Kobe University | Japan | 54.5 |
200= | 248= | University of Athens | Greece | 54.3 |
200= | 185= | University of Twente | Netherlands | 54.3 |