QS World University Rankings 2008
QS World University Rankings 2008 by QS Quacquarelli Symonds: 20 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on record, movement since the last...
- Publisher
- QS Quacquarelli Symonds
- Published
- October 9, 2008
- On this page
- 20 ranked
- Method
- Mixed
- Reliability
- Grade B
Joint THE-QS edition. Harvard first with Yale, Cambridge and Oxford next; MIT was 9th. The printed table covered the top 200, and MIT News reported 604 universities ranked in total.
The list on record
This page shows the 20 entries on record. Top 20 with overall scores from the Times Higher Education 2008 rankings PDF. See the original list.
| Rank | Name | Location | Score | Since 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | United States | 100 | No change |
| 2 | Yale University | United States | 99.8 | No change |
| 3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 99.5 | Down 1 |
| 4 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 98.9 | Down 2 |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology | United States | 98.6 | Up 2 |
| 6 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 98.4 | Down 1 |
| 7 | University College London | United Kingdom | 98.1 | Up 2 |
| 8 | University of Chicago | United States | 98 | Down 1 |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 96.7 | Up 1 |
| 10 | Columbia University | United States | 96.3 | Up 1 |
| 11 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 96.1 | Up 3 |
| 12 | Princeton University | United States | 95.7 | Down 6 |
| =13 | Duke University | United States | 94.4 | No change |
| =13 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 94.4 | Up 2 |
| 15 | Cornell University | United States | 94.3 | |
| 16 | Australian National University | Australia | 92 | No change |
| 17 | Stanford University | United States | 91.2 | |
| 18 | University of Michigan | United States | 91 | |
| 19 | University of Tokyo | Japan | 90 | Down 2 |
| 20 | McGill University | Canada | 89.7 | Down 8 |
This list is reproduced as QS Quacquarelli Symonds published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.
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