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QS World University Rankings 2008

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Rank School Name Country Size Research Focus Score
1 Harvard University United States 100.00
2 Yale University United States 99.80
3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 99.50
4 University of Oxford United Kingdom 98.90
5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 98.60
6 Imperial College London United Kingdom 98.40
7 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 98.10
8 University of Chicago United States 98.00
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 96.70
10 Columbia University United States 96.30
11 University of Pennsylvania United States 96.10
12 Princeton University United States 95.70
13= Johns Hopkins University United States 94.40
13= Duke University United States 94.40
15 Cornell University United States 94.30
16 Australian National University Australia 92.00
17 Stanford University United States 91.20
18 University of Michigan United States 91.00
19 The University of Tokyo Japan 90.00
20 McGill University Canada 89.70
21 Carnegie Mellon University United States 89.60
22 King’s College London (University of London) United Kingdom 89.50
23 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 89.30
24 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 89.10
25 Kyoto University Japan 87.40
26 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 87.10
27 Brown University United States 85.20
28 École Normale Supérieure, Paris France 84.80
29 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 84.40
30= University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 84.30
30= National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 84.30
32 University of Bristol United Kingdom 84.10
33 Northwestern University United States 83.30
34= École Polytechnique France 83.00
34= University of British Columbia Canada 83.00
36 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 82.90
37 The University of Sydney Australia 82.40
38 The University of Melbourne Australia 82.30
39 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 81.40
40 New York University (NYU) United States 81.30
41 University of Toronto Canada 81.10
42 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 81.00
43 The University of Queensland Australia 80.70
44 Osaka University Japan 80.10
45 The University of New South Wales Australia 79.80
46 Boston University United States 79.10
47 Monash University Australia 78.70
48 University of Copenhagen Denmark 78.50
49 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 78.20
50= Seoul National University Korea, South 78.10

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