THES - QS World University Rankings 2005

Top 200 Universities

RankSchool NameCountry
1 Harvard UniversityUnited States
2 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
5 Stanford UniversityUnited States
6 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
7 Yale UniversityUnited States
8 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
9 Princeton UniversityUnited States
10 École PolytechniqueFrance
11= Duke UniversityUnited States
11= London School of Economics and Political...United Kingdom
13 Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom
14 Cornell UniversityUnited States
15 Peking UniversityChina
16 University of TokyoJapan
17 University of California, San FranciscoUnited States
18 University of ChicagoUnited States
19 University of MelbourneAustralia
20 Columbia UniversityUnited States
21 ETH ZurichSwitzerland
22 National University of SingaporeSingapore
23 Australian National UniversityAustralia
24= McGill UniversityCanada
24= Ecole Normale SupérieureFrance
26 University of Texas at AustinUnited States
27 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
28 University College London (UCL)United Kingdom
29 University of TorontoCanada
30 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
31 Kyoto UniversityJapan
32 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
33 Monash UniversityAustralia
34 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...Switzerland
35 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
36 University of MichiganUnited States
37 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
38= University of SydneyAustralia
38= University of British ColombiaCanada
40 University of New South WalesAustralia
41 University of Hong KongHong Kong
42 University of California, San DiegoUnited States
43 Hong Kong University of Science & Techno...Hong Kong
44 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
45 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergGermany
46 Northwestern UniversityUnited States
47 University of QueenslandAustralia
48 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore
49 University of BristolUnited Kingdom
50 Indian Institute of TechnologyIndia
51 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong
52 University of AucklandNew Zealand
53 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands
54 Boston UniversityUnited States
55 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany
56 New York UniversityUnited States
57 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands
58= University of IllinoisUnited States
58= University of AmsterdamNetherlands
58= Washington University in St. LouisUnited States
61 Purdue UniversityUnited States
62= University of HelsinkiFinland
62= Tsing Hua UniversityChina
64 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States
65 University of ViennaAustria
66 University of CopenhagenDenmark
67 Macquarie UniversityAustralia
68 University of Massachusetts, AmherstUnited States
69 Sciences Po ParisFrance
70 Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands
71 Brown UniversityUnited States
72 Fudan UniversityChina
73= University of RochesterUnited States
73= King's College LondonUnited Kingdom
73= University of WisconsinUnited States
76 Université libre de BruxellesBelgium
77= Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael
77= University of WarwickUnited Kingdom
79 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia
80= University of AdelaideAustralia
80= University of Western AustraliaAustralia
82 RMIT UniversityAustralia
83 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom
84 Indian Institute of ManagementIndia
85 University of ZurichSwitzerland
86 Vienna University of TechnologyAustria
87 University of Technology, SydneyAustralia
88= University of WashingtonUnited States
88= Université Pierre-et-Marie-CurieFrance
88= University of GenevaSwitzerland
88= Catholic University of LouvainBelgium
92 Ecole Normale Supérieure LyonFrance
93= Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
93= University of Science and Technology of ...China
95= Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico
95= Catholic University of LeuvenBelgium
97 University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom
98 La Trobe UniversityAustralia
99 Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan
100 University of SussexUnited Kingdom
101= University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom
101= Curtin University of TechnologyAustralia
103= University of LeedsUnited Kingdom
103= School of Oriental and African StudiesUnited Kingdom
105= University of VirginiaUnited States
105= Osaka UniversityJapan
105= Technische Universität MünchenGermany
108 Wageningen UniversityNetherlands
109= Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States
109= University of YorkUnited Kingdom
111 University of Dublin, Trinity CollegeIreland
112= Queen Mary, University of LondonUnited Kingdom
112= Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany
114= Universität GöttingenGermany
114= Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States
114= National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan
117 Dartmouth CollegeUnited States
118 Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia
119 University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom
120 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands
120* Université libre de BruxellesBelgium
121= Michigan State UniversityUnited States
121= Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand
121= Panthéon Sorbonne Universite Paris IFrance
124 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
125= Texas A&M UniversityUnited States
125= Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapi...Italy
127= University of BaselSwitzerland
127= University of NewcastleAustralia
129 Nagoya UniversityJapan
130 University of BathUnited Kingdom
131 Université Louis Pasteur - Strasbourg IFrance
132 University of MontrealCanada
133= University of MarylandUnited States
133= HEC School of ManagementFrance
133= University of LausanneSwitzerland
136= University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom
136= Tohoku UniversityJapan
138= Leiden UniversityNetherlands
138= University of OsloNorway
138= University of AarhusDenmark
141 Emory UniversityUnited States
142 Universität Frankfurt am MainGermany
143= Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Te...South Korea
143= University of North CarolinaUnited States
143= University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom
143= University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom
147= Hiroshima UniversityJapan
147= Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
149 University of AlbertaCanada
150= University of St GallenSwitzerland
150= University of MinnesotaUnited States
150= Nanjing UniversityChina
150= Rice UniversityUnited States
154= University of South AustraliaAustralia
154= Technical University of BerlinGermany
154= Technical University of DenmarkDenmark
157= University of MaastrichtNetherlands
157= Hokkaido UniversityJapan
159= University of BolognaItaly
159= Georgetown UniversityUnited States
159= University of WaterlooCanada
159= University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
163 University of ColoradoUnited States
164 Tufts UniversityUnited States
165 University of InnsbruckAustria
166= Chalmers University of TechnologySweden
166= University of TasmaniaAustralia
168 University of Newcastle upon TyneUnited Kingdom
169= Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina
169= Novosibirsk State UniversityRussia
169= University of MalayaMalaysia
172= Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochsc...Germany
172= Freie Universität BerlinGermany
172= Kobe UniversityJapan
175= University of AlabamaUnited States
175= State University of New York at Stony Br...United States
177 Radboud Universiteit NijmegenNetherlands
178 City University of Hong KongHong Kong
179 University of Notre DameUnited States
180= University of Toulouse 1 Sciences Social...France
180= Uppsala UniversitySweden
180= Lund UniversitySweden
183 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain
184= Korea UniversitySouth Korea
184= McMaster UniversityCanada
186= University of OtagoNew Zealand
186= Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands
188= Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael
188= Massey UniversityNew Zealand
190 Gothenburg UniversitySweden
191 University of Western OntarioCanada
192 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia
193 University of PittsburghUnited States
194= Technion - Israel Institute of Technolog...Israel
194= Helsinki University of TechnologyFinland
196= Royal Institute of TechnologySweden
196= University of Sao PauloBrazil
198 Showa UniversityJapan
199= George Washington UniversityUnited States
199= Wake Forest UniversityUnited States
*Due to misinterpretation of supplied data, the published position at 165= of the Université Libre de Bruxelles was incorrect and the accurate position of 120 is reflected in this table. The originally published positions of any between 120 and 164 have been retained.

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