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QS World University Rankings 2009 - Natural Sciences

Rank	School Name	Country	Size	Research	Focus	Score
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom				100.00
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States				94.90
3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States				93.80
4	Harvard University	United States				92.59
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom				92.50
6	Princeton University	United States				81.00
7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States				80.80
8	The University of Tokyo	Japan				79.30
9	Stanford University	United States				79.00
10=	Kyoto University	Japan				71.40
10=	Imperial College London	United Kingdom				71.40
12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland				69.80
13	École Normale Supérieure, Paris	France				65.50
14	University of Toronto	Canada				64.80
15	Cornell University	United States				62.70
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States				62.10
17	University of Chicago	United States				62.00
18	Yale University	United States				61.70
19	Peking University	China				61.30
20	University of British Columbia	Canada				60.70
21	Australian National University	Australia				60.10
22	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France				56.70
23	The University of Melbourne	Australia				52.80
24	Columbia University	United States				51.90
25	Sapienza - Università di Roma	Italy				51.80
26	McGill University	Canada				50.80
27	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore				50.70
28=	Seoul National University	Korea, South				50.10
28=	École Polytechnique	France				50.10
30=	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia				49.20
30=	Tsinghua University	China				49.20
32	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States				48.80
33	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel				48.10
34	The University of Sydney	Australia				46.20
35	Utrecht University	Netherlands				45.80
36	Osaka University	Japan				45.20
37=	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany				45.10
37=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States				45.10
39	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South				43.60
40	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States				43.50
41	Technische Universität München	Germany				43.30
42	University of Texas at Austin	United States				43.00
43	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany				42.20
44	Université Paris-Sud 11	France				41.00
45	The University of New South Wales	Australia				40.70
46	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland				40.50
47	University of Michigan	United States				40.40
48	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan				40.30
49	Tohoku University	Japan				39.10
50	University of Science and Technology of China	China				38.80

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