THE–QS World University Rankings, 2008

This is the 2008 THE–QS World University Rankings list of the top 200 universities in the world.

Top 200

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Rank 2007 rank University Country
1 1 Harvard University (Cambridge)   United States
2 2 Yale University (New Haven)   United States
3 2 University of Cambridge   United Kingdom
4 2 University of Oxford   United Kingdom
5 7 California Institute of Technology (Pasadena)   United States
6 5 Imperial College London   United Kingdom
7 9 University College London   United Kingdom
8 7 Chicago University   United States
9 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)   United States
10 11 Columbia University (New York City)   United States
11 14 University of Pennsylvania   United States
12 6 Princeton University   United States
13 13 Duke University (Durham)   United States
13 15 Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)   United States
15 20 Cornell University   United States
16 16 Australian National University (Canberra)   Australia
17 19 Stanford University   United States
18 38 University of Michigan   United States
19 17 Tokyo University   Japan
20 12 McGill University (Montreal)   Canada
21 20 Carnegie Mellon University   United States
22 24 King's College London   United Kingdom
23 23 Edinburgh University   United Kingdom
24 42 ETH Zurich    Switzerland
25 25 Kyoto University   Japan
26 18 The University of Hong Kong   Hong Kong
27 32 Brown University   United States
28 26 École Normale Supérieure   France
29 30 Manchester University   United Kingdom
30 41 University of California, Los Angeles   United States
30 33 National University of Singapore   Singapore
32 37 University of Bristol   United Kingdom
33 29 Northwestern University   United States
34 33 University of British Columbia   Canada
34 28 École Polytechnique   France
36 22 University of California, Berkeley   United States
37 31 University of Sydney   Australia
38 27 University of Melbourne   Australia
39 53 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   Hong Kong
40 49 New York University   United States
41 45 University of Toronto   Canada
42 38 Chinese University of Hong Kong   Hong Kong
43 33 Queensland University   Australia
44 46 Osaka University   Japan
45 44 University of New South Wales   Australia
46 47 Boston University   United States
47 43 Monash University   Australia
48 93 Copenhagen University   Denmark
49 53 Trinity College, Dublin   Ireland
50 117 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)    Switzerland
50 36 Peking University   China
50 51 Seoul National University   South Korea
53 48 University of Amsterdam   Netherlands
54 71 Dartmouth College   United States
55 55 University of Wisconsin–Madison   United States
56 40 Tsinghua University   China
57 60 Heidelberg University   Germany
58 58 University of California, San Diego   United States
59 55 Washington University   United States
60 161 Washington University in St. Louis   United States
61 90 Tokyo Institute of Technology   Japan
62 74 Emory University   United States
63 71 Uppsala University   Sweden
64 84 Leiden University   Netherlands
65 50 University of Auckland   New Zealand
66 59 London School of Economics   United Kingdom
67 89 Utrecht University   Netherlands
68 105 Geneva University    Switzerland
69 57 Warwick University   United Kingdom
70 51 University of Texas at Austin   United States
71 73 Illinois University   United States
72 61 KU Leuven   Belgium
73 83 Glasgow University   United Kingdom
74 97 University of Alberta   Canada
75 65 Birmingham University   United Kingdom
76 68 Sheffield University   United Kingdom
77 69 Nanyang Technological University   Singapore
78 63 Delft University of Technology   Netherlands
78 67 Technical University of Munich   Germany
78 92 Rice University   United States
81 114 Aarhus University   Denmark
81 74 York University   United Kingdom
83 97 Georgia Institute of Technology   United States
83 76 St Andrews University   United Kingdom
83 64 Western Australia University   Australia
86 70 University of Nottingham   United Kingdom
87 142 University of Minnesota   United States
88 106 Lund University   Sweden
89 96 University of California, Davis   United States
90 85 Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)   United States
91 100 Helsinki University   Finland
91 93 Montreal University   Canada
93 128 Hebrew University of Jerusalem   Israel
93 65 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich   Germany
95 132 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   South Korea
96 110 University of Virginia   United States
97 77 University of Pittsburgh   United States
98 117 University of California, Santa Barbara   United States
99 77 Purdue University   United States
99 80 Southampton University   United Kingdom
101 82 Vanderbilt University   United States
102 151 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   United States
102 119 University of Southern California   United States
104 80 Leeds University   United Kingdom
105 90 Pennsylvania State University   United States
106 62 University of Adelaide   Australia
106 140 University of Zurich    Switzerland
108 177 Dublin University College   Ireland
109 231 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)   Israel
110 102 Georgetown University   United States
111 111 Maastricht University   Netherlands
112 102 Tohoku University   Japan
113 85 Fudan University   China
114 151 Tel Aviv University   Israel
115 85 Vienna University   Austria
116 123 Université Catholique de Louvain   Belgium
117 108 McMaster University   Canada
117 88 Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston)   Canada
119 101 University of Rochester   United States
120 112 Nagoya University   Japan
121 120 Ohio State University   United States
122 109 Durham University   United Kingdom
122 79 Maryland University   United States
124 114 Otago University   New Zealand
124 102 National Taiwan University (Taipei)   Taiwan
126 163 Erasmus University Rotterdam   Netherlands
127 224 Stony Brook University   United States
128 130 Eindhoven University of Technology   Netherlands
129 112 Waterloo University   Canada
130 121 Sussex University   United Kingdom
131 114 Basel University    Switzerland
132 140 University of California, Irvine   United States
133 140 Cardiff University   United Kingdom
133 130 Technical University of Denmark   Denmark
133 101 Liverpool University   United Kingdom
136 124 Ghent University   Belgium
137 146 Free University of Berlin   Germany
137 122 Texas A&M University (College Station)   United States
139 126 Humboldt University of Berlin   Germany
140 157 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon   France
141 155 University of Science and Technology of China   China
142 148 Wageningen University   Netherlands
143 125 Nanjing University   China
144 173 Groningen University   Netherlands
144 163 Shanghai Jiao Tong University   China
146 134 University of Arizona (Tucson)   United States
147 149 City University of Hong Kong   Hong Kong
147 144 Freiburg University   Germany
149 132 Pierre and Marie Curie University   France
150 192 National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City)   Mexico
151 177 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey   United States
152 145 University of Bath   United Kingdom
153 137 Aberdeen University   United Kingdom
154 307 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi   India
155 304 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam   Netherlands
155 142 University of Tübingen   Germany
157 159 Tufts University   United States
158 136 Kyushu University   Japan
159 126 Western Ontario University   Canada
160 149 Queen Mary, University of London   United Kingdom
161 217 University of Lausanne (UNIL)    Switzerland
162 197 Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg)   Sweden
162 129 Newcastle University   United Kingdom
164 139 Simon Fraser University   Canada
165 135 University of Florida   United States
166 223 Chulalongkorn University   Thailand
166 168 Göttingen University   Germany
168 155 Notre Dame University   United States
169 209 University of Frankfurt am Main   Germany
170 166 Calgary University   Canada
170 137 Indiana University Bloomington   United States
170 147 Lancaster University   United Kingdom
173 192 Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)   Sweden
174 151 Hokkaido University   Japan
174 269 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay   India
174 191 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy)   United States
177 185 Leicester University   United Kingdom
177 188 Oslo University   Norway
179 200 Cape Town University   South Africa
180 107 University of Colorado   United States
180 180 Waseda University   Japan
182 168 Macquarie University   Australia
183 154 Université Libre de Bruxelles (French-speaking)   Belgium
183 231 Lomonosov Moscow State University   Russia
185 208 Brandeis University   United States
186 194 Barcelona University   Spain
186 188 Canterbury University   New Zealand
188 203 Technische Universität Berlin   Germany
188 233 Pohang University of Science and Technology   South Korea
190 165 Stuttgart University   Germany
191 175 University of Massachusetts Amherst   United States
192 214 University of Bern    Switzerland
192 173 Bologna University   Italy
194 180 Reading University   United Kingdom
195 187 Antwerp University   Belgium
196 175 São Paulo University   Brazil
197 264 Buenos Aires University   Argentina
197 221 Dalhousie University (Halifax)   Canada
199 197 Kobe University   Japan
200 248 Athens University   Greece
200 185 Twente University   Netherlands
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