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

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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