Top 200 world universities

Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2009

1	1	Harvard University	US
2	3	University of Cambridge	UK
3	2	Yale University	US
4	7	University College London	UK
5=	6	Imperial College London	UK
5=	4	University of Oxford	UK
7	8	University of Chicago	US
8	12	Princeton University	US
9	9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
10	5	California Institute of Technology	US
11	10	Columbia University	US
12	11	University of Pennsylvania	US
13	13=	Johns Hopkins University	US
14	13=	Duke University	US
15	15	Cornell University	US
16	17	Stanford University	US
17	16	Australian National University	Australia
18	20	McGill University	Canada
19	18	University of Michigan	US
20=	23	University of Edinburgh	UK
20=	24	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
22	19	University of Tokyo	Japan
23	22	King’s College London	UK
24	26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
25	25	Kyoto University	Japan
26	29	University of Manchester	UK
27	21	Carnegie Mellon University	US
28	28	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	France
29	41	University of Toronto	Canada
30	30=	National University of Singapore	Singapore
31	27	Brown University	US
32=	30=	University of California, Los Angeles	US
32=	33	Northwestern University	US
34	32	University of Bristol	UK
35	39	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
36=	34=	Ecole Polytechnique	France
36=	38	University of Melbourne	Australia
36=	37	University of Sydney	Australia
39	36	University of California, Berkeley	US
40	34=	University of British Columbia	Canada
41	43	University of Queensland	Australia
42	50=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
43=	44	Osaka University	Japan
43=	49	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
45	47	Monash University	Australia
46	42	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
47=	45	University of New South Wales	Australia
47=	50=	Seoul National University	South Korea
49=	53	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
49=	56	Tsinghua University	China
51	48	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
52=	40	New York University	US
52=	50=	Peking University	China
54	46	Boston University	US
55=	78=	Technical University of Munich	Germany
55=	61	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
57	57	Heidelberg University	Germany
58	69	University of Warwick	UK
59	74	University of Alberta	Canada
60	64	Leiden University	Netherlands
61=	65	University of Auckland	New Zealand
61=	55	University of Wisconsin-Madison	US
63=	81=	Aarhus University	Denmark
63=	71	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
65	72	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
66	75	University of Birmingham	UK
67=	66	London School of Economics	UK
67=	88	Lund University	Sweden
69	95	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
70=	67	Utrecht University	Netherlands
70=	81=	University of York	UK
72	68	University of Geneva	Switzerland
73=	77	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
73=	60	Washington University in St Louis	US
75	63	Uppsala University	Sweden
76=	58	University of California, San Diego	US
76=	70	University of Texas at Austin	US
78	102=	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	US
79	73	University of Glasgow	UK
80	59	University of Washington	US
81	106=	University of Adelaide	Australia
82	76	University of Sheffield	UK
83	78=	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
84	83=	University of Western Australia	Australia
85	54	Dartmouth College	US
86	83=	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
87=	99=	Purdue University	US
87=	83=	University of St Andrews	UK
89	108	University College Dublin	Ireland
90	62	Emory University	US
91	86	University of Nottingham	UK
92=	120	Nagoya University	Japan
92=	106=	University of Zurich	Switzerland
94	137=	Free University of Berlin	Germany
95=	99=	University of Southampton	UK
95=	124=	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
97	112	Tohoku University	Japan
98	93=	Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich	Germany
99	104	University of Leeds	UK
100	78=	Rice University	US
101	177=	University of Oslo	Norway
102	93=	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
103=	122=	Durham University	UK
103=	113	Fudan University	China
105	87	University of Minnesota	US
106	98	University of California, Santa Barbara	US
107	91=	Université de Montréal	Canada
108=	131	University of Basel	Switzerland
108=	89	University of California, Davis	US
108=	126	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
108=	91=	University of Helsinki	Finland
112	102=	University of Southern California	US
113	129	University of Waterloo	Canada
114=	97	University of Pittsburgh	US
114=	114	Tel Aviv University	Israel
116	111	Maastricht University	Netherlands
117	149	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris VI	France
118	117=	Queen’s University	Canada
119	90	Case Western Reserve University	US
120=	128	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
120=	105	Pennsylvania State University	US
122=	147=	Freiburg University	Germany
122=	122=	University of Maryland, College Park	US
124	147=	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
125	124=	University of Otago	New Zealand
126=	116	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
126=	140	Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France
128	96	University of Virginia	US
129=	153	University of Aberdeen	UK
129=	110	Georgetown University	US
129=	121	Ohio State University	US
132=	109	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
132=	115	University of Vienna	Austria
134	188=	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
135	133=	Cardiff University	UK
136	136	University of Ghent	Belgium
137	133=	University of Liverpool	UK
138=	166=	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
138=	144=	University of Groningen	Netherlands
140	101	Vanderbilt University	US
141	119	University of Rochester	US
142	214	Keio University	Japan
143	117=	McMaster University	Canada
144=	152	University of Bath	UK
144=	227	University of Bergen	Norway
146=	179	University of Cape Town	South Africa
146=	139	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
148	180=	Waseda University	Japan
149=	170=	University of Calgary	Canada
149=	155=	Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	Germany
151=	159	University of Western Ontario	Canada
151=	203	Yonsei University	South Korea
153	144=	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
154	141	University of Science and Technology of China	China
155=	158	Kyushu University	Japan
155=	183=	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
155=	142	Wageningen University	Netherlands
158	162=	Newcastle University	UK
159	133=	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
160	157	Tufts University	US
161	132	University of California, Irvine	US
162	170=	Lancaster University	UK
163	174=	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India
164	160	Queen Mary, University of London	UK
165	155=	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
166=	146	University of Arizona	US
166=	130	University of Sussex	UK
168=	161	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
168=	143	Nanjing University	China
168=	224	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia
171=	186=	University of Barcelona	Spain
171=	174=	Hokkaido University	Japan
173	127	Stony Brook University	US
174=	192=	University of Bologna	Italy
174=	173	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
174=	216	University of Tsukuba	Japan
177=	195	University of Antwerp	Belgium
177=	200=	University of Athens	Greece
179	137=	Texas A&M University	US
180	230	Universiti Malaya	Malaysia
181	154	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India
182	216	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany
183	151	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	US
184	207	University of Karlsruhe	Germany
185	258	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
186=	180=	University of Colorado at Boulder	US
186=	166=	University of Göttingen	Germany
188	186=	University of Canterbury	New Zealand
189	182	Macquarie University	Australia
190	150	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico
191=	183=	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
191=	194	University of Reading	UK
193=	192=	University of Bern	Switzerland
193=	170=	Indiana University Bloomington	US
195	224	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
196=	177=	University of Leicester	UK
196=	164	Simon Fraser University	Canada
198	162=	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
199	168	University of Notre Dame	US
200	200=	University of Twente	Netherlands

Source: QS, published October 1 2009.

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