THE - QS World University Rankings 2009 - Top Universities

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26 October 2009 @ 02:17 pm EDT

Below are the world's top universities according to the Times Higher - QS World University Rankings 2008. Click the institutions below to read their profile, or navigate on the right for further tables

Top 100 universities 101-200 201-300 301-400 401-500 500+

Rank	School Name	Country

1	HARVARD University	United States
2	University of CAMBRIDGE	United Kingdom
3	YALE University	United States
4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
5	IMPERIAL College London	United Kingdom
5	University of OXFORD	United Kingdom
7	University of CHICAGO	United States
8	PRINCETON University	United States
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (m...	United States
10	California Institute of Technology (calt...	United States
11	COLUMBIA University	United States
12	University of PENNSYLVANIA	United States
13	JOHNS HOPKINS University	United States
14	DUKE University	United States
15	CORNELL University	United States
16	STANFORD University	United States
17	AUSTRALIAN National University	Australia
18	Mcgill University	Canada
19	University of MICHIGAN	United States
20	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T...	Switzerland
20	University of EDINBURGH	United Kingdom
22	University of TOKYO	Japan
23	KING'S College London	United Kingdom
24	University of HONG KONG	Hong Kong
25	KYOTO University	Japan
26	University of MANCHESTER	United Kingdom
27	CARNEGIE MELLON University	United States
28	Ecole Normale Superieure, PARIS	France
29	University of TORONTO	Canada
30	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
31	BROWN University	United States
32	NORTHWESTERN University	United States
32	University of California, Los Angeles (u...	United States
34	University of BRISTOL	United Kingdom
35	HONG KONG University of Science And Tech...	Hong Kong
36	Ã‰cole Polytechnique	France
36	University of MELBOURNE	Australia
36	University of SYDNEY	Australia
39	University of California, BERKELEY	United States
40	University of BRITISH COLUMBIA	Canada
41	University of QUEENSLAND	Australia
42	Federal Polytechnic School of LAUSANNE	Switzerland
43	OSAKA University	Japan
43	TRINITY College Dublin	Ireland
45	MONASH University	Australia
46	The Chinese University of HONG KONG	Hong Kong
47	SEOUL National University	Korea, South
47	University of NEW SOUTH WALES	Australia
49	TSINGHUA University	China
49	University of AMSTERDAM	Netherlands
51	University of COPENHAGEN	Denmark
52	NEW YORK University (nyu)	United States
52	PEKING University	China
54	BOSTON University	United States
55	Technical University of MUNICH	Germany
55	TOKYO Institute of Technology	Japan
57	HEIDELBERG University	Germany
58	University of WARWICK	United Kingdom
59	University of ALBERTA	Canada
60	LEIDEN University	Netherlands
61	The University of AUCKLAND	New Zealand
61	University of Wisconsin-madison	United States
63	AARHUS University	Denmark
63	University of Illinois, Chicago (uic)	United States
65	Catholic University of LEUVEN	Belgium
66	University of BIRMINGHAM	United Kingdom
67	London School of Economics And Political...	United Kingdom
67	LUND University	Sweden
69	Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Scie...	Korea, South
70	University of YORK	United Kingdom
70	UTRECHT University	Netherlands
72	University of GENEVA	Switzerland
73	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore
73	WASHINGTON University In St. Louis	United States
75	UPPSALA University	Sweden
76	University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego	United States
76	University of TEXAS At Austin	United States
78	University of NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hil...	United States
79	University of GLASGOW	United Kingdom
80	University of WASHINGTON	United States
81	University of ADELAIDE	Australia
82	University of SHEFFIELD	United Kingdom
83	DELFT University of Technology	Netherlands
84	University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Australia
85	DARTMOUTH College	United States
86	GEORGIA Institute of Technology	United States
87	PURDUE University	United States
87	University of ST ANDREWS	United Kingdom
89	University College DUBLIN	Ireland
90	EMORY University	United States
91	University of NOTTINGHAM	United Kingdom
92	NAGOYA University	Japan
92	University of ZURICH	Switzerland
94	Free University of BERLIN	Germany
95	NATIONAL TAIWAN University (NTU)	Taiwan
95	University of SOUTHAMPTON	United Kingdom
97	TOHOKU University	Japan
98	Ludwig Maximilian - University of MUNICH...	Germany
99	University of LEEDS	United Kingdom
100	RICE University	United States

Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds (www.topuniversities.com)

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Phil Baty

Nov 7, 2009 11:18am

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are changing for 2010. Full details, and a chance to have your say on the methodology: http://bit.ly/ErAag

Ben Sowter

Nov 10, 2009 8:14pm

Actually, we will be continuing the original World University Rankings at QS, merely publishing via different channels. Any 2010 exercise from THE will be an entirely new exercise and ought not to be confused with the rankings they have published previously, which remain the intellectual property of QS.

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