Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2009

Top 200 world universities

1	1	Harvard University	US	100	100	98	100	85	78	100.0
2	3	University of Cambridge	UK	100	100	100	89	98	96	99.6
3	2	Yale University	US	100	99	100	94	85	77	99.1
4	7	University College London	UK	98	99	100	90	96	99	99.0
5=	6	Imperial College London	UK	100	100	100	80	98	100	97.8
5=	4	University of Oxford	UK	100	100	100	80	96	97	97.8
7	8	University of Chicago	US	100	99	97	88	77	83	96.8
8	12	Princeton University	US	100	96	82	100	89	81	96.6
9	9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	100	100	89	100	31	95	96.1
10	5	California Institute of Technology	US	99	72	87	100	100	89	95.9
11	10	Columbia University	US	100	99	97	92	28	89	95.6
12	11	University of Pennsylvania	US	96	99	85	98	82	60	94.2
13	13=	Johns Hopkins University	US	98	79	100	99	28	71	94.1
14	13=	Duke University	US	95	97	100	93	29	62	92.9
15	15	Cornell University	US	100	99	85	94	28	73	92.5
16	17	Stanford University	US	100	100	71	100	25	96	92.2
17	16	Australian National University	Australia	100	91	75	74	99	92	90.5
18	20	McGill University	Canada	100	97	92	61	67	95	90.4
19	18	University of Michigan	US	99	99	85	81	57	52	89.9
20=	23	University of Edinburgh	UK	97	99	84	65	93	86	89.3
20=	24	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	97	80	55	99	100	94	89.3
22	19	University of Tokyo	Japan	100	97	98	70	28	42	88.9
23	22	King’s College London	UK	91	98	90	67	92	88	88.4
24	26	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	96	89	87	56	100	95	87.5
25	25	Kyoto University	Japan	100	93	81	85	32	26	87.1
26	29	University of Manchester	UK	94	100	79	58	90	87	85.7
27	21	Carnegie Mellon University	US	94	93	56	88	62	96	85.6
28	28	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	France	94	87	100	53	76	61	85.4
29	41	University of Toronto	Canada	100	96	63	74	82	51	85.3
30	30=	National University of Singapore	Singapore	100	96	40	75	100	100	84.3
31	27	Brown University	US	88	85	67	97	53	55	83.9
32=	30=	University of California, Los Angeles	US	100	98	46	100	21	33	83.5
32=	33	Northwestern University	US	86	97	78	79	28	100	83.5
34	32	University of Bristol	UK	83	99	84	69	85	77	83.4
35	39	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	89	86	84	54	100	99	83.3
36=	34=	Ecole Polytechnique	France	76	99	100	65	63	95	83.1
36=	38	University of Melbourne	Australia	100	100	57	61	59	97	83.1
36=	37	University of Sydney	Australia	99	97	58	53	99	95	83.1
39	36	University of California, Berkeley	US	100	100	25	100	86	34	82.7
40	34=	University of British Columbia	Canada	100	93	51	77	34	60	81.2
41	43	University of Queensland	Australia	94	95	47	67	99	82	80.7
42	50=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	67	70	92	84	100	100	80.6
43=	44	Osaka University	Japan	92	73	90	68	24	33	80.1
43=	49	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	88	96	72	49	98	83	80.1
45	47	Monash University	Australia	98	99	56	42	95	96	80.0
46	42	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	87	77	77	55	97	79	79.6
47=	45	University of New South Wales	Australia	96	99	39	62	82	93	79.0
47=	50=	Seoul National University	South Korea	99	69	92	47	29	33	79.0
49=	53	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	93	81	73	62	71	32	78.9
49=	56	Tsinghua University	China	98	83	95	34	45	34	78.9
51	48	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	84	67	100	48	71	73	78.8
52=	40	New York University	US	94	94	75	53	26	52	78.4
52=	50=	Peking University	China	100	93	89	35	24	30	78.4
54	46	Boston University	US	87	87	68	67	25	89	77.8
55=	78=	Technical University of Munich	Germany	73	90	92	58	56	74	76.3
55=	61	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	81	79	72	80	31	49	76.3
57	57	Heidelberg University	Germany	90	47	77	58	58	80	76.2
58	69	University of Warwick	UK	86	100	63	39	85	97	75.7
59	74	University of Alberta	Canada	88	71	65	52	91	66	75.4
60	64	Leiden University	Netherlands	89	58	35	97	74	40	75.3
61=	65	University of Auckland	New Zealand	95	96	36	45	93	99	74.7
61=	55	University of Wisconsin-Madison	US	90	76	44	87	29	36	74.7
63=	81=	Aarhus University	Denmark	83	51	65	75	69	66	74.5
63=	71	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US	92	66	23	93	72	49	74.5
65	72	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	94	80	35	73	55	55	74.2
66	75	University of Birmingham	UK	78	93	57	63	83	76	73.9
67=	66	London School of Economics	UK	89	100	53	29	100	100	73.7
67=	88	Lund University	Sweden	84	59	55	78	57	62	73.7
69	95	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	84	52	77	65	47	31	72.6
70=	67	Utrecht University	Netherlands	87	65	61	71	43	24	72.4
70=	81=	University of York	UK	63	95	75	61	95	83	72.4
72	68	University of Geneva	Switzerland	68	36	54	96	97	100	72.3
73=	77	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	86	84	44	44	100	100	72.0
73=	60	Washington University in St Louis	US	57	50	95	98	30	53	72.0
75	63	Uppsala University	Sweden	89	51	42	80	68	40	71.9
76=	58	University of California, San Diego	US	98	51	17	100	22	27	71.5
76=	70	University of Texas at Austin	US	93	92	29	65	55	41	71.5
78	102=	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	US	72	78	72	82	23	26	71.3
79	73	University of Glasgow	UK	73	83	67	64	58	60	71.2
80	59	University of Washington	US	83	46	45	99	25	36	71.1
81	106=	University of Adelaide	Australia	78	87	38	62	87	96	70.8
82	76	University of Sheffield	UK	65	97	70	59	81	76	70.6
83	78=	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	78	88	57	49	84	73	70.4
84	83=	University of Western Australia	Australia	72	81	50	63	99	87	70.2
85	54	Dartmouth College	US	58	93	60	100	34	52	70.1
86	83=	Georgia Institute of Technology	US	76	81	23	99	36	77	70.0
87=	99=	Purdue University	US	83	83	38	58	94	60	69.8
87=	83=	University of St Andrews	UK	57	92	74	61	91	99	69.8
89	108	University College Dublin	Ireland	72	94	67	37	95	90	69.7
90	62	Emory University	US	51	68	94	90	41	45	69.6
91	86	University of Nottingham	UK	70	99	61	48	84	86	69.4
92=	120	Nagoya University	Japan	67	77	89	61	28	34	69.2
92=	106=	University of Zurich	Switzerland	79	37	22	98	99	71	69.2
94	137=	Free University of Berlin	Germany	87	31	28	92	49	63	69.0
95=	99=	University of Southampton	UK	64	87	66	59	86	76	68.9
95=	124=	National Taiwan University	Taiwan	93	82	39	57	29	25	68.9
97	112	Tohoku University	Japan	67	58	98	58	36	32	68.6
98	93=	Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich	Germany	86	45	34	76	53	66	68.4
99	104	University of Leeds	UK	73	99	57	48	75	62	68.3
100	78=	Rice University	US	56	44	86	87	38	67	68.1
101	177=	University of Oslo	Norway	77	62	85	40	32	58	67.7
102	93=	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	87	24	43	77	61	32	67.3
103=	122=	Durham University	UK	62	99	56	60	91	69	67.2
103=	113	Fudan University	China	90	84	44	44	29	47	67.2
105	87	University of Minnesota	US	74	51	26	99	84	38	67.1
106	98	University of California, Santa Barbara	US	86	42	21	97	37	21	66.6
107	91=	Université de Montréal	Canada	81	29	36	71	82	74	66.2
108=	131	University of Basel	Switzerland	63	30	99	37	99	90	66.1
108=	89	University of California, Davis	US	76	47	43	91	26	25	66.1
108=	126	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	57	98	48	82	57	65	66.1
108=	91=	University of Helsinki	Finland	85	42	53	67	29	21	66.1
112	102=	University of Southern California	US	62	66	49	79	66	88	66.0
113	129	University of Waterloo	Canada	82	78	13	78	71	41	65.8
114=	97	University of Pittsburgh	US	55	30	93	76	73	35	65.6
114=	114	Tel Aviv University	Israel	83	38	24	98	35	20	65.6
116	111	Maastricht University	Netherlands	48	73	76	70	66	100	65.3
117	149	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris VI	France	76	22	85	43	27	88	65.0
118	117=	Queen’s University	Canada	71	88	51	55	68	34	64.7
119	90	Case Western Reserve University	US	52	38	88	86	20	52	64.6
120=	128	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	55	59	100	42	99	39	64.4
120=	105	Pennsylvania State University	US	73	69	29	89	38	34	64.4
122=	147=	Freiburg University	Germany	67	26	91	44	51	76	64.0
122=	122=	University of Maryland, College Park	US	67	34	56	83	55	38	64.0
124	147=	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	66	58	63	48	100	60	63.9
125	124=	University of Otago	New Zealand	68	77	39	52	100	83	63.8
126=	116	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium	81	53	17	77	47	72	63.7
126=	140	Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	42	57	100	71	55	60	63.7
128	96	University of Virginia	US	57	91	60	77	22	36	63.5
129=	153	University of Aberdeen	UK	54	69	67	57	90	87	63.4
129=	110	Georgetown University	US	65	90	65	50	24	51	63.4
129=	121	Ohio State University	US	69	77	40	64	69	46	63.4
132=	109	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	80	55	37	75	18	17	63.0
132=	115	University of Vienna	Austria	86	60	13	58	65	77	63.0
134	188=	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea	53	31	72	97	50	19	62.9
135	133=	Cardiff University	UK	59	84	63	49	70	72	62.8
136	136	University of Ghent	Belgium	68	37	89	43	49	34	62.6
137	133=	University of Liverpool	UK	52	76	73	54	78	64	62.4
138=	166=	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	89	80	53	23	28	14	62.3
138=	144=	University of Groningen	Netherlands	61	62	63	61	62	49	62.3
140	101	Vanderbilt University	US	43	74	100	58	54	36	62.2
141	119	University of Rochester	US	48	20	100	64	61	63	61.8
142	214	Keio University	Japan	69	88	79	28	24	18	61.6
143	117=	McMaster University	Canada	75	37	18	98	27	31	60.9
144=	152	University of Bath	UK	52	98	48	50	89	94	60.7
144=	227	University of Bergen	Norway	59	53	62	58	60	64	60.7
146=	179	University of Cape Town	South Africa	64	79	27	62	77	86	60.6
146=	139	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany	83	36	36	51	45	59	60.6
148	180=	Waseda University	Japan	83	91	43	23	41	30	60.5
149=	170=	University of Calgary	Canada	68	60	9	100	47	31	60.4
149=	155=	Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	Germany	65	27	69	58	53	50	60.4
151=	159	University of Western Ontario	Canada	65	67	17	91	70	27	60.3
151=	203	Yonsei University	South Korea	76	43	78	30	22	31	60.3
153	144=	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	72	74	62	40	32	16	60.2
154	141	University of Science and Technology of China	China	74	61	50	59	17	13	60.1
155=	158	Kyushu University	Japan	59	59	71	63	19	34	60.0
155=	183=	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	78	70	36	37	76	44	60.0
155=	142	Wageningen University	Netherlands	38	31	87	82	39	97	60.0
158	162=	Newcastle University	UK	43	88	63	57	81	86	59.6
159	133=	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	39	34	99	62	93	47	59.5
160	157	Tufts University	US	35	54	70	88	100	43	59.4
161	132	University of California, Irvine	US	71	22	22	99	26	35	59.0
162	170=	Lancaster University	UK	55	73	59	41	85	81	58.9
163	174=	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India	76	79	43	45	16	13	58.6
164	160	Queen Mary, University of London	UK	55	62	75	26	92	90	58.5
165	155=	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	65	59	67	43	39	28	58.3
166=	146	University of Arizona	US	64	44	25	94	27	32	58.0
166=	130	University of Sussex	UK	54	44	49	62	87	80	58.0
168=	161	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	46	43	57	67	88	80	57.4
168=	143	Nanjing University	China	76	59	41	42	50	17	57.4
168=	224	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia	63	60	95	21	16	20	57.4
171=	186=	University of Barcelona	Spain	77	53	17	66	24	37	57.2
171=	174=	Hokkaido University	Japan	51	60	72	64	19	25	57.2
173	127	Stony Brook University	US	54	33	50	68	61	87	57.1
174=	192=	University of Bologna	Italy	82	62	34	34	27	29	56.9
174=	173	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	58	45	49	46	83	98	56.9
174=	216	University of Tsukuba	Japan	59	46	77	45	23	36	56.9
177=	195	University of Antwerp	Belgium	47	36	99	37	59	56	56.7
177=	200=	University of Athens	Greece	46	44	65	76	0	91	56.7
179	137=	Texas A&M University	US	66	64	24	72	32	35	56.6
180	230	Universiti Malaya	Malaysia	60	68	68	21	72	65	56.5
181	154	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India	68	81	46	48	15	13	56.4
182	216	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	49	88	75	30	50	66	56.3
183	151	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	US	69	32	43	57	61	28	56.2
184	207	University of Karlsruhe	Germany	47	84	73	33	49	81	56.1
185	258	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	49	26	63	62	65	86	55.8
186=	180=	University of Colorado at Boulder	US	54	20	53	87	36	20	55.6
186=	166=	University of Göttingen	Germany	64	21	63	48	40	49	55.6
188	186=	University of Canterbury	New Zealand	57	89	27	39	99	82	55.2
189	182	Macquarie University	Australia	61	77	20	43	86	100	54.9
190	150	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico	68	81	57	21	35	15	54.8
191=	183=	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	60	56	22	59	57	96	54.7
191=	194	University of Reading	UK	45	71	52	50	80	81	54.7
193=	192=	University of Bern	Switzerland	40	22	58	83	92	44	54.5
193=	170=	Indiana University Bloomington	US	61	69	28	58	46	48	54.5
195	224	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	57	49	30	54	100	75	54.4
196=	177=	University of Leicester	UK	38	48	55	67	72	94	53.9
196=	164	Simon Fraser University	Canada	67	49	19	53	88	49	53.9
198	162=	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	58	37	48	56	44	57	53.8
199	168	University of Notre Dame	US	50	74	44	67	25	31	53.6
200	200=	University of Twente	Netherlands	47	51	51	53	83	66	53.5

Source: QS Ltd, published October 1 2009.
© QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.

Harvard retained top spot as the best university in the world, according to the Times Higher Education – QS World University Rankings 2009. Cambridge moved up a place to 2nd best and ahead of Yale (3rd). University College London successfully made it to the top 4 position, up from 7th last year.

UK and US institutions dominated the top 20 position with 13 US institutions and 5 UK institutions in the list. Some of the good performers are:
- Princeton moved up from 12th to top 10 (#8) position.
- University of Edinburgh jumped to top 20, up three places. It is highest ranked Scottish university and 5th overall in the UK.
- McGill is the only Canadian institutions appear in the top 20, up two places to 18th in 2009.
- LSE is the top specialist social science university.

Australia has one more institutions break into the top 100 this year, they are the members of Group of Eight. The Univ of Adelaide moved up from 106th to 81st and ahead of UWA (84th). ANU is the highest rated university in the country, followed by Sydney (=36th) and Melbourne (=36th). The best rated university in New Zealand is The University of Auckland (=61st).

A total of 39 European universities listed in the top 100, compared with 36 in 2008. In Asia there are 16 institutions break into the top 100, with Univ of Tokyo (Japan) rated the best in Asia, followed by Univ of Hong Kong (#2 in Asia and #24 globally).

Following institutions successfully break into the Top 200 in 2009:
Keio University - 214th to 142nd
University of Bergen - 227th to 144th
Yonsei University - 203rd to 151st
Saint-Petersburg State University - 224th to 168th
University of Tsukuba - 216th to 174th
Univ of Malaya - 230th to 180th
RWTH Aachen Univ - 216th to 182nd
Univ of Karlsruhe - 207th to 184th
Univ of Gothenburg - 258th to 185th
Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ - 224th to 195th

The highest ranked university by country:
United States - Harvard (1st globally)
United Kingdom - Cambridge (2nd)
Switzerland - ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - 20th
Australia - Australian National University (17th)
Canada - McGill University (18th)
Japan - Univ of Tokyo (22nd)
Hong Kong (China) - Univ of Hong Kong (24th)
France - Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (28th)
Singapore - NUS (30th)
Ireland - Trinity College Dublin (=43rd)
Korea, South - Seoul National University (=47th)
Netherlands - University of Amsterdam (=49th)
Denmark - University of Copenhagen (51st)
Germany - Technical University of Munich (=55th)
New Zealand - University of Auckland (=61st)
Belgium - Catholic University of Leuven (65th)
Sweden - Lund University (=67th)