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QS World University Rankings 2009

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Rank School Name Country Size Research Focus Score
1 Harvard University United States 100.00
2 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 99.59
3 Yale University United States 99.08
4 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 98.98
5= University of Oxford United Kingdom 97.75
5= Imperial College London United Kingdom 97.75
7 University of Chicago United States 96.83
8 Princeton University United States 96.63
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 96.11
10 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 95.91
11 Columbia University United States 95.60
12 University of Pennsylvania United States 94.17
13 Johns Hopkins University United States 94.07
14 Duke University United States 92.94
15 Cornell University United States 92.54
16 Stanford University United States 92.23
17 Australian National University Australia 90.49
18 McGill University Canada 90.39
19 University of Michigan United States 89.88
20= ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 89.26
20= University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 89.26
22 The University of Tokyo Japan 88.85
23 King’s College London (University of London) United Kingdom 88.45
24 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 87.53
25 Kyoto University Japan 87.12
26 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 85.69
27 Carnegie Mellon University United States 85.58
28 École Normale Supérieure, Paris France 85.38
29 University of Toronto Canada 85.28
30 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 84.25
31 Brown University United States 83.95
32= University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 83.54
32= Northwestern University United States 83.54
34 University of Bristol United Kingdom 83.44
35 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 83.33
36= The University of Sydney Australia 83.13
36= École Polytechnique France 83.13
36= The University of Melbourne Australia 83.13
39 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 82.72
40 University of British Columbia Canada 81.19
41 The University of Queensland Australia 80.67
42 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 80.57
43= Trinity College Dublin Ireland 80.06
43= Osaka University Japan 80.06
45 Monash University Australia 79.96
46 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 79.55
47= The University of New South Wales Australia 79.04
47= Seoul National University Korea, South 79.04
49= University of Amsterdam Netherlands 78.94
49= Tsinghua University China 78.94

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