Column chart showing the 100 world-class universities in natural sciences and mathematics in 2010. United States 54 universities, United Kingdom 8, Germany 7, France and Japan 6, Israel 4, Switzerland 3, Canada and Netherlands 2, Sweden 2, Australia, Denmark, Italy, Russia, South Korea and Taiwan 1 each.

The 2010 ranking of the top 100 world-class universities in natural sciences and mathematics finds North America at the 1st place (54), followed by Europe (31) and the rest of the world (15).

 

100 Top World-class Universities
Natural Sciences and Mathematics – 2010

Rank in the Field¹

Institution

Country

1Harvard UniversityUnited States
2University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
4Princeton UniversityUnited States
5California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
6Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States
7Stanford UniversityUnited States
8The University of TokyoJapan
9Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ZurichSwitzerland
10Columbia UniversityUnited States
11University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
12University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
13University of ChicagoUnited States
14Cornell UniversityUnited States
15University of Colorado at BoulderUnited States
16Kyoto UniversityJapan
17University of Wisconsin - MadisonUnited States
18University of California, San DiegoUnited States
19University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
20University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)France
21University of Michigan - Ann ArborUnited States
22University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States
23University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
24The Imperial College of Science, Technology and MedicineUnited Kingdom
25University of WashingtonUnited States
25Yale UniversityUnited States
27University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
28Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6France
29The Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
30Northwestern UniversityUnited States
31The University of Texas at AustinUnited States
32University of California, IrvineUnited States
33University of TorontoCanada
34University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesUnited States
35Rice UniversityUnited States
36Texas A&M University - College StationUnited States
37Technical University MunichGermany
38Utrecht UniversityNetherlands
39The Ohio State University - ColumbusUnited States
40The Australian National UniversityAustralia
41Tohoku UniversityJapan
42Ecole Normale Superieure - ParisFrance
43Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
44The University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
45Pennsylvania State University - University ParkUnited States
46University of California, DavisUnited States
46Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael
48University of MunichGermany
49University College LondonUnited Kingdom
50Nagoya UniversityJapan
51-75Boston UniversityUnited States
51-75Moscow State UniversityRussia
51-75National Taiwan UniversityTaiwan
51-75Osaka UniversityJapan
51-75Purdue University - West LafayetteUnited States
51-75Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New BrunswickUnited States
51-75Stockholm UniversitySweden
51-75Technion-Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael
51-75The Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael
51-75The University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
51-75Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan
51-75University of ArizonaUnited States
51-75University of BonnGermany
51-75University of BristolUnited Kingdom
51-75University of British ColumbiaCanada
51-75University of California, Santa CruzUnited States
51-75University of CopenhagenDenmark
51-75University of DurhamUnited Kingdom
51-75University of FloridaUnited States
51-75University of Hawaii at ManoaUnited States
51-75University of HeidelbergGermany
51-75University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States
51-75University of PisaItaly
51-75University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
51-75University of StrasbourgFrance
76-100Brown UniversityUnited States
76-100Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
76-100Colorado State UniversityUnited States
76-100Duke UniversityUnited States
76-100Florida State UniversityUnited States
76-100Indiana University BloomingtonUnited States
76-100Iowa State UniversityUnited States
76-100Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble 1)France
76-100Lund UniversitySweden
76-100New York UniversityUnited States
76-100Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea
76-100State University of New York at Stony BrookUnited States
76-100Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of LausanneSwitzerland
76-100Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael
76-100University of AarhusNetherlands
76-100University of California, RiversideUnited States
76-100University of FrankfurtGermany
76-100University of GenevaSwitzerland
76-100University of HoustonUnited States
76-100University of MainzGermany
76-100University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
76-100University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7)France
76-100University of RochesterUnited States
76-100University of VirginiaUnited States
76-100University of WuerzburgGermany
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

 

Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.

 

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