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The world's Top 100 Universities in 2008

The Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings identified these to be the world's top 100 universities in 2008. These institutions represent 20 countries with Israel represented for the first time. Whilst North America dominates with 42 universities, Europe and Asia Pacific are well represented with 36 and 22 respectively.

2008	2007	School Name	Country
1	1	HARVARD University	United States
2	2	YALE University	United States
3	2	University of CAMBRIDGE	United Kingdom
4	2	University of OXFORD	United Kingdom
5	7	CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt...	United States
6	5	IMPERIAL College London	United Kingdom
7	9	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom
8	7	University of CHICAGO	United States
9	10	MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (M...	United States
10	11	COLUMBIA University	United States
11	14	University of PENNSYLVANIA	United States
12	6	PRINCETON University	United States
13	13	DUKE University	United States
13	15	JOHNS HOPKINS University	United States
15	20	CORNELL University	United States
16	16	AUSTRALIAN National University	Australia
17	19	STANFORD University	United States
18	38	University of MICHIGAN	United States
19	17	University of TOKYO	Japan
20	12	MCGILL University	Canada
21	20	CARNEGIE MELLON University	United States
22	24	KING'S College London	United Kingdom
23	23	University of EDINBURGH	United Kingdom
24	42	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of T...	Switzerland
25	25	KYOTO University	Japan
26	18	University of HONG KONG	Hong Kong
27	32	BROWN University	United States
28	26	École Normale Supérieure, PARIS	France
29	30	University of MANCHESTER	United Kingdom
30	33	National University of SINGAPORE(NUS)	Singapore
30	41	University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (U...	United States
32	37	University of BRISTOL	United Kingdom
33	29	NORTHWESTERN University	United States
34	28	ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE	France
34	33	University of BRITISH COLUMBIA	Canada
36	22	University of California, BERKELEY	United States
37	31	The University of SYDNEY	Australia
38	27	The University of MELBOURNE	Australia
39	53	HONG KONG University of Science & Techno...	Hong Kong
40	49	NEW YORK University (NYU)	United States
41	45	University of TORONTO	Canada
42	38	The CHINESE University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
43	33	University of QUEENSLAND	Australia
44	46	OSAKA University	Japan
45	44	University of NEW SOUTH WALES	Australia
46	47	BOSTON University	United States
47	43	MONASH University	Australia
48	93	University of COPENHAGEN	Denmark
49	53	TRINITY College Dublin	Ireland
50	117	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de LAUSANNE...	Switzerland
50	36	PEKING University	China
50	51	SEOUL National University	Korea, South
53	48	University of AMSTERDAM	Netherlands
54	71	DARTMOUTH College	United States
55	55	University of WISCONSIN-Madison	United States
56	40	TSINGHUA University	China
57	60	HEIDELBERG Universität	Germany
58	58	University of CALIFORNIA, San Diego	United States
59	55	University of WASHINGTON	United States
60	161	WASHINGTON University in St. Louis	United States
61	90	TOKYO Institute of Technology	Japan
62	74	EMORY University	United States
63	71	UPPSALA University	Sweden
64	84	LEIDEN University	Netherlands
65	50	The University of AUCKLAND	New Zealand
66	59	LONDON School of Economics and Political...	United Kingdom
67	89	UTRECHT University	Netherlands
68	105	University of GENEVA	Switzerland
69	57	University of WARWICK	United Kingdom
70	51	University of TEXAS at Austin	United States
71	73	University of ILLINOIS	United States
72	61	Katholieke Universiteit LEUVEN	Belgium
73	83	University of GLASGOW	United Kingdom
74	97	University of ALBERTA	Canada
75	65	University of BIRMINGHAM	United Kingdom
76	68	University of SHEFFIELD	United Kingdom
77	69	NANYANG Technological University	Singapore
78	63	DELFT University of Technology	Netherlands
78	92	RICE University	United States
78	67	Technische Universität MÜNCHEN	Germany
81	114	University of AARHUS	Denmark
81	74	University of YORK	United Kingdom
83	97	GEORGIA Institute of Technology	United States
83	64	The University of WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Australia
83	76	University of ST ANDREWS	United Kingdom
86	70	University of NOTTINGHAM	United Kingdom
87	142	University of MINNESOTA	United States
88	106	LUND University	Sweden
89	96	University of CALIFORNIA, Davis	United States
90	85	CASE WESTERN RESERVE University	United States
91	93	Université de Montréal	Canada
91	100	University of HELSINKI	Finland
93	128	Hebrew University of JERUSALEM	Israel
93	65	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany
95	132	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Scie...	Korea, South
96	110	University of VIRGINIA	United States
97	77	University of PITTSBURGH	United States
98	117	University of CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara	United States
99	77	PURDUE University	United States
99	80	University of SOUTHAMPTON	United Kingdom

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