Rank[2]
|
2005 rank
|
University
|
Country
|
1 |
1 |
Harvard University (Cambridge) |
United States
|
2 |
3 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom
|
3 |
4 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom
|
4 |
2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge) |
United States
|
4 |
7 |
Yale University (New Haven) |
United States
|
6 |
5 |
Stanford University |
United States
|
7 |
8 |
California Institute of Technology |
United States
|
8 |
6 |
University of California, Berkeley |
United States
|
9 |
13 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom
|
10 |
9 |
Princeton University |
United States
|
11 |
17 |
University of Chicago |
United States
|
12 |
20 |
Columbia University (New York City) |
United States
|
13 |
11 |
Duke University |
United States
|
14 |
15 |
Peking University |
China
|
15 |
14 |
Cornell University |
United States
|
16 |
23 |
Australian National University (Canberra) |
Australia
|
17 |
11 |
London School of Economics |
United Kingdom
|
18 |
24 |
École Normale Supérieure |
France
|
19 |
22 |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore
|
19 |
16 |
Tokyo University |
Japan
|
21 |
24 |
McGill University (Montreal) |
Canada
|
22 |
19 |
Melbourne University |
Australia
|
23 |
27 |
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) |
United States
|
24 |
21 |
ETH Zurich |
Switzerland
|
25 |
28 |
University College London |
United Kingdom
|
26 |
32 |
University of Pennsylvania |
United States
|
27 |
29 |
University of Toronto |
Canada
|
28 |
62 |
Tsing Hua University |
China
|
29 |
31 |
Kyoto University |
Japan
|
29 |
36 |
University of Michigan |
United States
|
31 |
37 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
United States
|
32 |
26 |
University of Texas at Austin |
United States
|
33 |
30 |
University of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom
|
33 |
41 |
University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong
|
35 |
44 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
United States
|
35 |
38 |
Sydney University |
Australia
|
37 |
10 |
École Polytechnique (Paris) |
France
|
38 |
33 |
Monash University |
Australia
|
39 |
88 |
Geneva University |
Switzerland
|
40 |
35 |
Manchester University |
United Kingdom
|
41 |
40 |
University of New South Wales |
Australia
|
42 |
46 |
Northwestern University |
United States
|
43 |
56 |
New York University |
United States
|
44 |
42 |
University of California, San Diego |
United States
|
45 |
47 |
Queensland University (Brisbane) |
Australia
|
46 |
52 |
Auckland University |
New Zealand
|
46 |
73 |
King's College London |
United Kingdom
|
48 |
73 |
University of Rochester |
United States
|
48 |
58 |
Washington University in St. Louis |
United States
|
50 |
38 |
University of British Columbia (Kelowna/Vancouver) |
Canada
|
50 |
51 |
Chinese University of Hong Kon |
Hong Kong
|
52 |
69 |
Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris |
France
|
53 |
114 |
Vanderbilt University (Nashville) |
United States
|
54 |
71 |
Brown University (Providence) |
United States
|
54 |
66 |
Copenhagen University |
Denmark
|
56 |
141 |
Emory University (Druid Hills) |
United States
|
57 |
50 |
Indian Institutes of Technology |
India
|
58 |
45 |
Heidelberg University |
Germany
|
58 |
43 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Hong Kong
|
60 |
109 |
Case Western Reserve University |
United States
|
61 |
117 |
Dartmouth College |
United States
|
61 |
48 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore
|
63 |
93 |
Seoul National University |
South Korea
|
64 |
49 |
Bristol University |
United Kingdom
|
64 |
34 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
Switzerland
|
66 |
54 |
Boston University |
United States
|
67 |
70 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands
|
68 |
84 |
Indian Institutes of Management |
India
|
69 |
58 |
Amsterdam University |
Netherlands
|
70 |
103 |
School of Oriental and African Studies |
United Kingdom
|
70 |
105 |
Osaka University |
Japan
|
72 |
92 |
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
France
|
73 |
77 |
Warwick University (Coventry) |
United Kingdom
|
74 |
95 |
National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City) |
Mexico
|
75 |
127 |
Basel University |
Switzerland
|
76 |
88 |
Université catholique de Louvain |
Belgium
|
77 |
58 |
University of Illinois |
United States
|
78 |
111 |
Trinity College, Dublin |
Ireland
|
79 |
186 |
Otago University |
New Zealand
|
79 |
73 |
University of Wisconsin |
United States
|
81 |
101 |
University of Glasgow |
United Kingdom
|
82 |
67 |
Macquarie University |
Australia
|
82 |
105 |
Technical University of Munich |
Germany
|
84 |
88 |
Washington University |
United States
|
85 |
97 |
University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom
|
86 |
53 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands
|
87 |
65 |
Vienna University |
Austria
|
88 |
193 |
University of Pittsburgh |
United States
|
89 |
133 |
University of Lausanne (UNIL) |
Switzerland
|
90 |
143 |
Birmingham University |
United Kingdom
|
90 |
138 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands
|
92 |
57 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Netherlands
|
93 |
79 |
Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Russia
|
93 |
88 |
Pierre and Marie Curie University |
France
|
95 |
120 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands
|
96 |
95 |
Université catholique de Louvain |
Belgium
|
97 |
108 |
Wageningen University |
Netherlands
|
98 |
55 |
Munich University |
Germany
|
99 |
112 |
Queen Mary, University of London |
United Kingdom
|
99 |
64 |
Pennsylvania State University |
United States
|
101 |
124 |
University of Southern California |
United States
|
102 |
159 |
Georgetown University |
United States
|
102 |
150 |
Rice University |
United States
|
102 |
143 |
Sheffield University |
United Kingdom
|
105 |
80 |
University of Adelaide |
Australia
|
105 |
112 |
Humboldt University of Berlin |
Germany
|
105 |
100 |
Sussex University |
United Kingdom
|
108 |
114 |
National Taiwan University (Taipei) |
Taiwan
|
109 |
136 |
University of St Andrews |
United Kingdom
|
109 |
85 |
University of Zurich |
Switzerland
|
111 |
133 |
Maryland University |
United States
|
111 |
180 |
Uppsala University |
Sweden
|
111 |
199 |
Wake Forest University |
United States
|
111 |
80 |
University of Western Australia |
Australia
|
115 |
217 |
University of Twente |
Netherlands
|
116 |
72 |
Fudan University |
China
|
116 |
62 |
Helsinki University |
Finland
|
118 |
99 |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan
|
119 |
77 |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Israel
|
120 |
215 |
Keio University |
Japan
|
121 |
103 |
Leeds University |
United Kingdom
|
122 |
180 |
Lund University |
Sweden
|
123 |
143 |
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) |
United States
|
124 |
68 |
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
United States
|
124 |
109 |
York University |
United Kingdom
|
126 |
138 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark
|
127 |
61 |
Purdue University (West Lafayette) |
United States
|
128 |
222 |
Kyushu University |
Japan
|
128 |
129 |
Nagoya University |
Japan
|
130 |
164 |
Tufts University (Medford/Somerville) |
United States
|
130 |
105 |
University of Virginia (Charlottesville) |
United States
|
132 |
83 |
Durham University |
United Kingdom
|
133 |
149 |
University of Alberta |
Canada
|
133 |
259 |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Dutch-speaking) |
Belgium
|
133 |
157 |
Hokkaido University |
Japan
|
133 |
168 |
Newcastle University |
United Kingdom
|
137 |
177 |
Radboud University Nijmegen |
Netherlands
|
138 |
86 |
Vienna Technical University |
Austria
|
139 |
119 |
Liverpool University |
United Kingdom
|
140 |
234 |
Cranfield University |
United Kingdom
|
141 |
159 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
United States
|
141 |
228 |
Cardiff University |
United Kingdom
|
141 |
219 |
Ghent University |
Belgium
|
141 |
206 |
Southampton University |
United Kingdom
|
145 |
147 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
United States
|
146 |
82 |
RMIT University |
Australia
|
147 |
166 |
Chalmers University of Technology |
Sweden
|
147 |
188 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel
|
148 |
172 |
Free University of Berlin |
Germany
|
150 |
184 |
Korea University |
South Korea
|
150 |
125 |
Texas A&M University |
United States
|
152 |
179 |
Notre Dame University |
United States
|
153 |
130 |
University of Bath |
United Kingdom
|
154 |
178 |
City University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong
|
155 |
184 |
McMaster University |
Canada
|
156 |
101 |
Curtin University of Technology |
Australia
|
156 |
114 |
Göttingen University |
Germany
|
158 |
194 |
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa) |
Israel
|
158 |
240 |
University of Ulm |
Germany
|
158 |
202 |
Waseda University |
Japan
|
161 |
121 |
Chulalongkorn University |
Thailand
|
161 |
131 |
Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg) |
France
|
163 |
121 |
Michigan State University |
United States
|
164 |
219 |
Saint Petersburg State University |
Russia
|
165 |
76 |
Université Libre de Bruxelles (French-speaking) |
Belgium
|
165 |
93 |
University of Science and Technology of China |
China
|
165 |
175 |
Stony Brook University |
United States
|
168 |
199 |
George Washington University (Washington, D.C.) |
United States
|
168 |
136 |
Tohoku University |
Japan
|
170 |
206 |
University of California, Davis |
United States
|
170 |
260 |
University of Tübingen |
Germany
|
172 |
172 |
RWTH Aachen |
Germany
|
172 |
157 |
Maastricht University |
Netherlands
|
172 |
196 |
Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm) |
Sweden
|
172 |
254 |
Yeshiva University (New York City) |
United States
|
176 |
261 |
Queen's University at Kingston (Kingston) |
Canada
|
177 |
138 |
Oslo University |
Norway
|
178 |
228 |
University of Bern |
Switzerland
|
179 |
169 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
China
|
180 |
150 |
Nanjing University |
China
|
181 |
172 |
Kobe University |
Japan
|
181 |
132 |
Université de Montréal |
Canada
|
183 |
192 |
Jawaharlal Nehru University |
India
|
183 |
186 |
Free University of Amsterdam |
Netherlands
|
185 |
289 |
University of Kebangsaan Malaysia (Bangi) |
Malaysia
|
186 |
165 |
Innsbruck University |
Austria
|
187 |
213 |
Brandeis University (Waltham) |
United States
|
187 |
142 |
Goethe University Frankfurt |
Germany
|
187 |
150 |
University of Minnesota |
United States
|
190 |
240 |
University of Barcelona |
Spain
|
190 |
248 |
Reading University |
United Kingdom
|
192 |
169 |
Malaya University (Kuala Lumpur) |
Malaysia
|
192 |
118 |
Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane) |
Australia
|
194 |
154 |
Technical University of Denmark |
Denmark
|
195 |
267 |
University of Aberdeen |
United Kingdom
|
196 |
308 |
University of Wollongong |
Australia
|
197 |
125 |
Sapienza University of Rome |
Italy
|
198 |
254 |
University of California, Irvine |
United States
|
198 |
143 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon) |
South Korea
|
200 |
305 |
University of Paris |
France
|