THE–QS World University Rankings, 2009

This is the top 200 of the 2009 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings / Times Higher Education World University Rankings / QS World University Rankings of the top 300 universities in the world.[1][2]

Top 200

Rank Change compared
to 2008 data
University Country
1 00 Harvard University  United States
2 01 Cambridge, University ofUniversity of Cambridge  United Kingdom
3 01 Yale University  United States
4 03 London, University CollegeUniversity College London  United Kingdom
5 01 London, Imperial CollegeImperial College London  United Kingdom
5 01 Oxford, University ofUniversity of Oxford  United Kingdom
7 01 Chicago, University ofUniversity of Chicago  United States
8 04 Princeton University  United States
9 00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  United States
10 05 California Institute of Technology  United States
11 01 Columbia University  United States
12 01 Pennsylvania, University ofUniversity of Pennsylvania  United States
13 00 Johns Hopkins University  United States
14 01 Duke University  United States
15 00 Cornell University  United States
16 01 Stanford University  United States
17 01 Australian National University  Australia
18 02 McGill University  Canada
19 01 Michigan, University ofUniversity of Michigan  United States
20 04 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich  Switzerland
20 03 Edinburgh, University ofUniversity of Edinburgh  United Kingdom
22 03 Tokyo University  Japan
23 01 London, King's CollegeKing's College London  United Kingdom
24 02 Hong Kong, The University ofThe University of Hong Kong  Hong Kong
25 00 Kyoto University  Japan
26 03 Manchester University  United Kingdom
27 06 Carnegie Mellon University  United States
28 00 Paris École Normale Supérieure  France
29 12 Toronto, University ofUniversity of Toronto  Canada
30 00 Singapore, National University ofNational University of Singapore  Singapore
31 04 Brown University  United States
32 01 Northwestern University  United States
32 02 California, Los Angeles, University ofUniversity of California, Los Angeles  United States
34 02 Bristol, University ofUniversity of Bristol  United Kingdom
35 04 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Hong Kong
36 02 Paris École Polytechnique  France
36 02 Melbourne, University ofUniversity of Melbourne  Australia
36 01 Sydney, University ofUniversity of Sydney  Australia
39 03 California, Berkeley, University ofUniversity of California, Berkeley  United States
40 06 British Columbia, University ofUniversity of British Columbia  Canada
41 02 Queensland, University ofUniversity of Queensland  Australia
42 08 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne  Switzerland
43 01 Osaka University  Japan
43 06 Dublin, Trinity College,Trinity College, Dublin}  Ireland
45 02 Monash University  Australia
46 04 Hong Kong, Chinese University ofChinese University of Hong Kong  Hong Kong
47 03 Seoul National University  South Korea
47 02 New South Wales, University ofUniversity of New South Wales  Australia
49 07 Tsinghua University  China
49 04 Amsterdam University  Netherlands
51 03 Copenhagen University  Denmark
52 12 New York University  United States
52 02 Peking University  China
54 08 Boston University  United States
55 23 Munich, Technical University ofTechnical University of Munich  Germany
55 06 Tokyo Institute of Technology  Japan
57 00 Heidelberg University  Germany
58 11 Warwick University  United Kingdom
59 15 Alberta, University ofUniversity of Alberta  Canada
60 04 Leiden University  Netherlands
61 04 Auckland, University ofUniversity of Auckland  New Zealand
61 06 Wisconsin-Madison, University ofUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison  United States
63 18 Aarhus University  Denmark
63 08 Illinois University  United States
65 07 Leuven, Katholieke UniversiteitKatholieke Universiteit Leuven  Belgium
66 09 Birmingham University  United Kingdom
67 01 London School of Economics  United Kingdom
67 21 Lund University  Sweden
69 26 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology  South Korea
70 11 York University  United Kingdom
70 03 Utrecht University  Netherlands
72 04 Geneva University  Switzerland
73 04 Nanyang Technological University  Singapore
73 13 Washington University in St. Louis  United States
75 12 Uppsala University  Sweden
76 18 California, San Diego, University ofUniversity of California, San Diego  United States
76 06 Texas at Austin, University ofUniversity of Texas at Austin  United States
78 24 North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University ofUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  United States
79 06 Glasgow University  United Kingdom
80 21 Washington University  United States
81 25 Adelaide, University ofUniversity of Adelaide  Australia
82 06 Sheffield University  United Kingdom
83 05 Delft University of Technology  Netherlands
84 01 Western Australia, University ofUniversity of Western Australia  Australia
85 31 Dartmouth College  United States
86 03 Georgia Institute of Technology  United States
87 12 Purdue University  United States
87 04 St Andrews University  United Kingdom
89 19 Dublin, University CollegeUniversity College Dublin  Ireland
90 28 Emory University  United States
91 05 Nottingham University  United Kingdom
92 28 Nagoya University  Japan
92 14 Zurich University  Switzerland
94 43 Berlin, Free University ofFree University of Berlin  Germany
95 29 Taiwan University, NationalNational Taiwan University  Taiwan
95 04 Southampton University  United Kingdom
97 15 Tohoku University  Japan
98 05 Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians University inLudwig-Maximilians University in Munich  Germany
99 05 Leeds, University ofUniversity of Leeds  United Kingdom
100 22 Rice University  United States
101 76 Oslo University  Norway
101 82 Moscow State University, LomonosovLomonosov Moscow State University  Russia
102 09 Jerusalem, Hebrew University ofHebrew University of Jerusalem  Israel
103 19 Durham University  United Kingdom
103 10 Fudan University  China
105 18 Minnesota University  United States
106 08 California, Santa Barbara, University ofUniversity of California, Santa Barbara  United States
107 16 Montréal, Université deUniversité de Montréal  Canada
108 18 Rotterdam, Erasmus UniversityErasmus University Rotterdam  Netherlands
108 23 Basel University  Switzerland
108 19 California, Davis, University ofUniversity of California, Davis  United States
108 17 Helsinki University  Finland
112 10 California, University of SouthernUniversity of Southern California  United States
113 16 Waterloo, University ofUniversity of Waterloo  Canada
114 00 Tel Aviv University  Israel
114 17 Pittsburgh, University ofUniversity of Pittsburgh  United States
116 05 Maastricht University  Netherlands
117 32 Paris 06 – Pierre and Marie Curie University  France
118 01 Queen's University (Kingston)  Canada
119 29 Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)  United States
120 08 Eindhoven University of Technology  Netherlands
120 15 Pennsylvania State University  United States
122 25 Freiburg University  Germany
122 00 Maryland University  United States
124 23 Hong Kong, City University ofCity University of Hong Kong  Hong Kong
125 01 Otago University  New Zealand
126 10 Louvain, Université Catholique deUniversité Catholique de Louvain  Belgium
126 14 Lyon École Normale Supérieure  France
128 32 Virginia University  United States
129 19 Georgetown University  United States
129 08 Ohio State University  United States
129 24 Aberdeen University  United Kingdom
132 23 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)  Israel
132 17 Vienna University  Austria
134 54 Pohang Science and Technology University  South Korea
135 02 Cardiff University  United Kingdom
136 00 Ghent University  Belgium
137 04 Liverpool University  United Kingdom
138 28 Chulalongkorn University  Thailand
138 06 Groningen University  Netherlands
140 39 Vanderbilt University  United States
141 22 Rochester University  United States
142 72 Keio University  Japan
143 26 McMaster University  Canada
144 08 Bath University  United Kingdom
144 83 Bergen University  Norway
146 07 Berlin University  Germany
146 33 Cape Town University  South Africa
148 32 Waseda University  Japan
149 06 Tübingen University  Germany
149 21 University of Calgary  Canada
151 08 University of Western Ontario  Canada
151 52 Yonsei University  South Korea
153 09 Shanghai Jiao Tong University  China
154 13 China Science and Technology University  China
155 03 Kyushu University  Japan
155 13 Wageningen University  Netherlands
158 04 Newcastle University  United Kingdom
159 26 Denmark Technical University  Denmark
160 03 Tufts University  United States
161 29 University of California, Irvine  United States
162 08 Lancaster University  United Kingdom
163 11 Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay  India
164 04 London University – Queen Mary College  United Kingdom
165 10 Amsterdam Free University  Netherlands
166 20 University of Arizona (Tucson)  United States
166 36 Sussex University  United Kingdom
168 25 Nanjing University  China
168 56 Saint-Petersburg State University  Russia
168 07 Lausanne University  Switzerland
171 03 Hokkaido University  Japan
171 15 Barcelona University  Spain
173 46 New York State University, Stony Brook  United States
174 01 Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)  Sweden
174 18 Bologna University  Italy
174 42 Tsukuba University  Japan
177 18 Antwerp University  Belgium
177 23 Athens University  Greece
179 42 Texas A&M University (College Station)  United States
180 50 Malaya University  Malaysia
181 27 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi  India
182 34 Aachen RWTH  Germany
183 32 New Jersey State University – Rutgers  United States
184 23 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  Germany
185 73 Gothenburg University  Sweden
186 06 Colorado University  United States
186 20 Göttingen University  Germany
188 02 Canterbury University  New Zealand
189 07 Macquarie University  Australia
190 40 Mexico National Autonomous University (Mexico City)  Mexico
191 08 Brussels Free University (French-speaking)  Belgium
191 03 Reading University  United Kingdom
193 23 Indiana University – Bloomington  United States
193 01 Bern University  Switzerland
195 29 Hong Kong Polytechnic University  Hong Kong
196 32 Simon Fraser University  Canada
196 19 Leicester University  United Kingdom
198 36 Chalmers Technology University (Gothenburg)  Sweden
199 31 University of Notre Dame  United States
200 00 Twente University  Netherlands

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