The Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings identified these to be the world''''''''s top 100 universities in 2008. These institutions represent 20 countries with?Israel represented for the first time. Whilst North America dominates with 42 universities, Europe and Asia Pacific are well represented with 36 and 22 respectively.
2008 | 2007 | School Name | Country |
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1 | 1 | HARVARD University | United States |
2 | 2= | YALE University | United States |
3 | 2= | University of CAMBRIDGE | United Kingdom |
4 | 2= | University of OXFORD | United Kingdom |
5 | 7= | CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt... | United States |
6 | 5 | IMPERIAL College London | United Kingdom |
7 | 9 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom |
8 | 7= | University of CHICAGO | United States |
9 | 10 | MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (M... | United States |
10 | 11 | COLUMBIA University | United States |
11 | 14 | University of PENNSYLVANIA | United States |
12 | 6 | PRINCETON University | United States |
13= | 13 | DUKE University | United States |
13= | 15 | JOHNS HOPKINS University | United States |
15 | 20= | CORNELL University | United States |
16 | 16 | AUSTRALIAN National University | Australia |
17 | 19 | STANFORD University | United States |
18 | 38= | University of MICHIGAN | United States |
19 | 17 | University of TOKYO | Japan |
20 | 12 | MCGILL University | Canada |
21 | 20= | CARNEGIE MELLON University | United States |
22 | 24 | KING''''''''S College London | United Kingdom |
23 | 23 | University of EDINBURGH | United Kingdom |
24 | 42 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T... | Switzerland |
25 | 25 | KYOTO University | Japan |
26 | 18 | University of HONG KONG | Hong Kong |
27 | 32 | BROWN University | United States |
28 | 26 | école Normale Supérieure, PARIS | France |
29 | 30 | University of MANCHESTER | United Kingdom |
30= | 33= | National University of SINGAPORE(NUS) | Singapore |
30= | 41 | University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U... | United States |
32 | 37 | University of BRISTOL | United Kingdom |
33 | 29 | NORTHWESTERN University | United States |
34= | 28 | éCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE | France |
34= | 33= | University of BRITISH COLUMBIA | Canada |
36 | 22 | University of California, BERKELEY | United States |
37 | 31 | The University of SYDNEY | Australia |
38 | 27 | The University of MELBOURNE | Australia |
39 | 53= | HONG KONG University of Science & Techno... | Hong Kong |
40 | 49 | NEW YORK University (NYU) | United States |
41 | 45 | University of TORONTO | Canada |
42 | 38= | The CHINESE University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
43 | 33= | University of QUEENSLAND | 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= | University of COPENHAGEN | Denmark |
49 | 53= | TRINITY College Dublin | Ireland |
50= | 117= | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE... | Switzerland |
50= | 36 | PEKING University | China |
50= | 51= | SEOUL National University | Korea, South |
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 Universit?t | Germany |
58 | 58 | University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego | United States |
59 | 55= | University of WASHINGTON | 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 | The University of AUCKLAND | New Zealand |
66 | 59 | LONDON School of Economics and Political... | United Kingdom |
67 | 89 | UTRECHT University | Netherlands |
68 | 105 | University of GENEVA | Switzerland |
69 | 57 | University of WARWICK | United Kingdom |
70 | 51= | University of TEXAS at Austin | United States |
71 | 73 | University of ILLINOIS | United States |
72 | 61 | Katholieke Universiteit LEUVEN | Belgium |
73 | 83 | University of GLASGOW | United Kingdom |
74 | 97= | University of ALBERTA | Canada |
75 | 65= | University of BIRMINGHAM | United Kingdom |
76 | 68 | University of SHEFFIELD | United Kingdom |
77 | 69 | NANYANG Technological University | Singapore |
78= | 63 | DELFT University of Technology | Netherlands |
78= | 92 | RICE University | United States |
78= | 67 | Technische Universit?t MüNCHEN | Germany |
81= | 114= | University of AARHUS | Denmark |
81= | 74= | University of YORK | United Kingdom |
83= | 97= | GEORGIA Institute of Technology | United States |
83= | 64 | The University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA | Australia |
83= | 76 | University of ST ANDREWS | United Kingdom |
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 | United States |
91= | 93= | Université de Montréal | Canada |
91= | 100 | University of HELSINKI | Finland |
93= | 128 | Hebrew University of JERUSALEM | Israel |
93= | 65= | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t München | Germany |
95 | 132= | KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Scie... | Korea, South |
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= | University of SOUTHAMPTON | United Kingdom |