The 2009 ranking of the top 100 world-class universities in natural sciences and mathematics finds North America at the 1st place (56%), followed by Europe (30%) and Asia-Pacific (9%).
100 Top World-class Universities | |||
Rank in the Field¹ | Institution | Country | |
2009 | 2008 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Harvard University | USA |
| 2 | 2 | University of California, Berkeley | USA |
| 3 | 3 | Princeton University | USA |
| 4 | 5 | University of Cambridge | UK |
| 5 | 4 | California Institute of Technology | USA |
| 6 | 6 | Stanford University | USA |
| 7 | 6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | USA |
| 8 | 8 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 9 | 15 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 10 | 10 | University of California, Los Angeles | USA |
| 10 | 12 | Columbia University | USA |
| 12 | 9 | University of Oxford | UK |
| 13 | 11 | Cornell University | USA |
| 14 | 13 | University of Chicago | USA |
| 15 | 14 | University of Colorado at Boulder | USA |
| 16 | 16 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 17 | 17 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | USA |
| 18 | 25 | University of Paris Sud (Paris 11) | France |
| 19 | 19 | University of California, San Diego | USA |
| 20 | 18 | University of California, Santa Barbara | USA |
| 21 | 20 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA |
| 22 | 24 | Yale University | USA |
| 23 | 22 | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor | USA |
| 24 | 21 | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
| 25 | 27 | The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | UK |
| 25 | 28 | University of Washington | USA |
| 27 | 26 | University of Maryland, College Park | USA |
| 28 | 23 | The Johns Hopkins University | USA |
| 29 | 31 | Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 | France |
| 30 | 30 | Northwestern University | USA |
| 31 | 29 | The University of Texas at Austin | USA |
| 32 | 32 | University of California, Irvine | USA |
| 33 | 34 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 34 | 33 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | USA |
| 35 | 38 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 36 | 36 | The Ohio State University - Columbus | USA |
| 37 | 41 | Rice University | USA |
| 38 | 39 | Technical University Munich | Germany |
| 39 | 35 | Tohoku University | Japan |
| 40 | 37 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
| 41 | 43 | Texas A&M University - College Station | USA |
| 42 | 42 | Georgia Institute of Technology | USA |
| 43 | 48 | The University of Manchester | UK |
| 44 | 44 | Pennsylvania State University - University Park | USA |
| 45 | 39 | Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris | France |
| 47 | 46 | University of California, Davis | USA |
| 48 | 45 | University of Arizona | USA |
| 49 | 52-76 | Purdue University - West Lafayette | USA |
| 50 | 77-107 | Nagoya University | Japan |
| 50 | 49 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick | USA |
| 50 | 50 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | USA |
| 53-76 | 77-107 | Boston University | USA |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | Duke University | USA |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | Iowa State University | USA |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg 1) | France |
| 53-76 | 50 | Moscow State University | Russia |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | Osaka University | Japan |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | The University of Edinburgh | UK |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University College London | UK |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Bonn | Germany |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Bristol | UK |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of California, Santa Cruz | USA |
| 53-76 | 77-107 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 53-76 | 77-107 | University of Durham | UK |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Florida | USA |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Hawaii at Manoa | USA |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Heidelberg | Germany |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Munich | Germany |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Pisa | Italy |
| 53-76 | 52-76 | University of Southern California | USA |
| 77-101 | 52-76 | Arizona State University - Tempe | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Brown University | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Colorado State University | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Florida State University | USA |
| 77-101 | Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble 1) | France | |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 77-101 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | New York University | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Seoul National University | Korea |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 77-101 | 52-76 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne | Switzerland |
| 77-101 | 52-76 | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Aarhus | Denmark |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of California, Riverside | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Frankfurt | Germany |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Houston | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Mainz | Germany |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7) | France |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Rochester | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Virginia | USA |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | University of Wuerzburg | Germany |
| 77-101 | 77-107 | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel |
| ¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically. | |||
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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.
