World Leading University - 2008

2008 Rank 2007 Rank Institution Country Score
1 1 Harvard University US 100.0
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 HK 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

HK 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 HK 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

Source: Times Higher Education (UK)

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