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THE–QS World University Rankings, 2005

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This is the 2005 THE–QS World University Rankings list of the top 200 universities in the world.

Top 200[1]

Rank Change compared
to 2004 data
University Country
1 Steady 00 Harvard University (Cambridge)  United States
2 Increase 01 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)  United States
3 Increase 03 University of Cambridge  United Kingdom
4 Increase 01 University of Oxford  United Kingdom
5 Increase 02 Stanford University  United States
6 Decrease 04 University of California, Berkeley  United States
7 Increase 01 Yale University (New Haven)  United States
8 Decrease 04 California Institute of Technology  United States
9 Steady 00 Princeton University  United States
10 Increase 17 École Polytechnique (Paris)  France
11 Increase 41 Duke University  United States
11 Steady 00 London School of Economics  United Kingdom
13 Decrease 01 Imperial College London  United Kingdom
14 Increase 09 Cornell University  United States
15 Increase 02 Peking University  China
16 Decrease 04 Tokyo University  Japan
17 Increase 03 University of California  United States
17 Decrease 04 University of Chicago  United States
19 Increase 03 Melbourne University  Australia
20 Decrease 01 Columbia University (New York City)  United States
21 Decrease 11 ETH Zurich   Switzerland
22 Decrease 04 National University of Singapore  Singapore
23 Decrease 07 Australian National University (Canberra)  Australia
24 Increase 06 Ecole Normale Supérieure  France
24 Decrease 03 McGill University  Canada
26 Decrease 11 University of Texas at Austin  United States
27 Decrease 02 Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)  United States
28 Increase 06 University College London  United Kingdom
29 Increase 08 University of Toronto  Canada
30 Increase 18 University of Edinburgh  United Kingdom
31 29 Kyoto University  Japan
32 28 University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)  United States
33 33 Monash University (Melbourne)  Australia
34 32 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)   Switzerland
35 43 Manchester University & UMIST  United Kingdom
36 31 University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)  United States
37 26 University of California, Los Angeles  United States
38 46 University of British Columbia (Kelowna/Vancouver)  Canada
38 40 Sydney University  Australia
40 36 University of New South Wales  Australia
41 39 Hong Kong University  Hong Kong
42 24 University of California, San Diego  United States
43 42 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Hong Kong
44 38 Carnegie Mellon University  United States
45 47 Heidelberg University  Germany
46 73 Northwestern University  United States
47 49 Queensland University  Australia
48 50 Nanyang Technological University  Singapore
49 91 Bristol University  United Kingdom
50 41 Indian Institutes of Technology  India
51 84 Chinese University of Hong Kong  Hong Kong
52 67 Auckland University  New Zealand
53 78 Delft University of Technology  Netherlands
54 75 Boston University  United States
55 99 Munich University  Germany
56 79 New York University  United States
57 64 Erasmus University Rotterdam  Netherlands
58 109 Washington University in St. Louis  United States
58 98 Amsterdam University  Netherlands
58 35 Illinois University  United States
61 59 Purdue University  United States
62 129 Helsinki University  Finland
62 61 Tsinghua University  China
64 130 Pennsylvania State University  United States
65 94 Vienna University  Austria
66 63 Copenhagen University  Denmark
67 68 Macquarie University (Sydney)  Australia
68 45 Massachusetts University  United States
69 N/A Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris  France
70 83 Eindhoven University of Technology  Netherlands
71 61 Brown University (Providence)  United States
72 195 Fudan University  China
73 96 King's College London  United Kingdom
73 86 University of Rochester  United States
73 66 University of Wisconsin–Madison  United States
76 54 Université Libre de Bruxelles (French-speaking)  Belgium
77 93 Hebrew University of Jerusalem  Israel
77 80 Warwick University (Coventry)  United Kingdom
79 92 Lomonosov Moscow State University  Russia
80 96 University of Western Australia  Australia
80 56 University of Adelaide  Australia
82 55 RMIT University  Australia
83 128 Durham University  United Kingdom
84 N/A Indian Institutes of Management  India
85 N/A University of Zurich   Switzerland
86 77 Vienna University of Technology  Austria
87 113 University of Technology, Sydney  Australia
88 N/A Geneva University   Switzerland
88 74 Washington University  United States
88 57 Pierre and Marie Curie Universit  France
88 53 Université Catholique de Louvain  Belgium
92 N/A École Normale Supérieure de Lyon  France
93 154 University of Science and Technology of China  China
93 118 Seoul National University  South Korea
95 N/A KU Leuven  Belgium
95 195 National Autonomous University of Mexico  Mexico
97 170 University of Nottingham  United Kingdom
98 142 La Trobe University  Australia
99 51 Tokyo Institute of Technology  Japan
100 58 Sussex University (Falmer)  United Kingdom
101 112 University of Glasgow  United Kingdom
101 76 Curtin University of Technology  Australia
103 133 Leeds University  United Kingdom
103 44 School of Oriental and African Studies  United Kingdom
105 118 University of Virginia (Charlottesville)  United States
105 95 Technical University of Munich  Germany
105 69 Osaka University  Japan
108 N/A Wageningen University  Netherlands
109 137 York University  United Kingdom
109 88 Case Western Reserve University  United States
111 87 Trinity College, Dublin  Ireland
112 125 Humboldt University of Berlin  Germany
112 100 Queen Mary, University of London  United Kingdom
114 156 Vanderbilt University  United States
114 102 National Taiwan University  Taiwan
114 85 Göttingen University  Germany
117 138 Dartmouth College  United States
118 N/A Queensland University of Technology  Australia
119 151 Liverpool University  United Kingdom
120 120 Utrecht University  Netherlands
121 N/A Chulalongkorn University  Thailand
121 116 Michigan State University  United States
121 71 University of Paris  France
124 180 University of Southern California  United States
125 162 La Sapienza University  Italy
125 105 Texas A&M University  United States
127 N/A Basel University   Switzerland
127 N/A University of Newcastle, Australia  Australia
129 167 Nagoya University  Japan
130 103 University of Bath  United Kingdom
131 132 Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg)  France
132 177 Université de Montréal  Canada
133 N/A University of Lausanne (UNIL)   Switzerland
133 134 Maryland University  United States
133 N/A HEC Paris  France
136 153 Tohoku University  Japan
136 70 University of St Andrews  United Kingdom
136 131 Leiden University  Netherlands
138 127 Aarhus University  Denmark
138 101 Oslo University  Norway
141 173 Emory University (Druid Hills)  United States
142 157 University of Frankfurt  Germany
143 160 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology  South Korea
143 150 Sheffield University  United Kingdom
143 126 Birmingham University  United Kingdom
143 117 University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)  United States
147 N/A Hiroshima University  Japan
147 65 Georgia Institute of Technology  United States
149 166 University of Alberta (Edmonton)  Canada
150 192 Nanjing University  China
150 N/A St Gallen University   Switzerland
150 146 Rice University (Houston)  United States
150 82 University of Minnesota (Minneapolis and Saint Paul)  United States
154 N/A University of South Australia  Australia
154 145 Technical University of Denmark  Denmark
154 60 Technische Universität Berlin  Germany
157 N/A Hokkaido University  Japan
157 123 Maastricht University  Netherlands
159 186 Bologna University  Italy
159 165 Georgetown University  United States
159 143 University of Waterloo  Canada
159 72 University of California, Santa Barbara  United States
163 107 University of Colorado (Boulder)  United States
164 104 Tufts University (Medford/Somerville)  United States
165 164 Innsbruck University  Austria
166 161 Tasmania University  Australia
166 110 Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg)  Sweden
168 179 Newcastle University  United Kingdom
169 N/A Shanghai Jiao Tong University  China
169 N/A Novosibirsk State University  Russia
169 89 Malaya University (Kuala Lumpur)  Malaysia
172 N/A Free University of Berlin  Germany
172 N/A Kobe University  Japan
172 184 RWTH Aachen University  Germany
175 136 Stony Brook University  United States
175 90 University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)  United States
177 191 Radboud University Nijmegen  Netherlands
178 198 City University of Hong Kong  Hong Kong
179 N/A Notre Dame University  United States
180 N/A Toulouse 1 University Capitole  France
180 171 Lund University  Sweden
180 140 Uppsala University  Sweden
183 159 Autonomous University of Madrid  Spain
184 N/A Korea University  South Korea
184 Decrease 37 McMaster University (Hamilton)  Canada
186 N/A Free University of Amsterdam  Netherlands
186 Decrease 72 Otago University (Dunedin)  New Zealand
188 N/A Tel Aviv University  Israel
188 Decrease 80 Massey University (Auckland/Palmerston North/Wellington)  New Zealand
190 N/A Gothenburg University  Sweden
191 N/A University of Western Ontario (London)  Canada
192 N/A Jawaharlal Nehru University  India
193 N/A University of Pittsburgh  United States
194 Decrease 18 Helsinki University of Technology  Finland
194 Decrease 36 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)  Israel
196 N/A São Paulo University  Brazil
196 Decrease 74 Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)  Sweden
198 N/A Showa University  Japan
199 N/A University of Florence  Italy
199 N/A George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)  United States
199 N/A Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem)  United States

Regional rankings (top 10)

Asia & Australia

Rank[1] Rank

(world)

University Country
1 15 Peking University  China
2 16 Tokyo University  Japan
3 19 Melbourne University  Australia
4 22 National University of Singapore  Singapore
5 23 Australian National University  Australia
6 31 Kyoto University  Japan
7 33 Monash University  Australia
8 38 Sydney University  Australia
9 40 University of New South Wales  Australia
10 41 Hong Kong University  Hong Kong

Europe

Rank[1] Rank
(world)
University Country
1 3 University of Cambridge  United Kingdom
2 4 University of Oxford  United Kingdom
3 10 École Polytechnique  France
4 11 London School of Economics  United Kingdom
5 13 Imperial College London  United Kingdom
6 21 ETH Zurich   Switzerland
7 24 École Normale Supérieure (Paris)  France
8 28 University College London  United Kingdom
9 30 University of Edinburgh  United Kingdom
10 34 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne   Switzerland

References

  1. ^ a b c "Times Higher Education". www.timeshighereducation.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2008-05-09.