TIMES大学榜单由《泰晤士报高等教育》与英国著名高等教育研究机构QS联合推出。“世界大学排行榜”以学术表现、雇主评价、学生及教授国际化程度、师生比例及论文引用情况等进行排名,是目前最权威的大学评比之一。为了让今年的评选结果更加公正,QS公司今年邀请全球9386名学术界人士、3281名大学职员参与评选,人数都较去年高出40%以上。
今年,美国哈佛大学连续6年成为全球最佳大学,英国剑桥大学则替代美国耶鲁大学排名第2位,后者退居第3位。除美英大学以外,排名最高的是第17位的澳大利亚国立大学,亚洲大学中排名首位的是日本东京大学,中国的香港大学排名第24位,香港科技大学和香港中文大学也进入了50强,分别为第35位和第46位,中国内地大学中排名首位的是位居第49位的清华大学。
附:世界大学前100名
2009年 2008年
排名 排名
1 1 Harvard University US
2 3 University of Cambridge UK
3 2 Yale University US
4 7 University College London UK
5 6 Imperial College London UK
5 4 University of Oxford UK
7 8 University of Chicago US
8 12 Princeton University US
9 9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
10 5 California Institute of Technology US
11 10 Columbia University US
12 11 University of Pennsylvania US
13 13 Johns Hopkins University US
14 13 Duke University US
15 15 Cornell University US
16 17 Stanford University US
17 16 Australian National University Australia
18 20 McGill University Canada
19 18 University of Michigan US
20 23 University of Edinburgh UK
20 24 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland
22 19 University of Tokyo Japan
23 22 King’s College London UK
24 26 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
25 25 Kyoto University Japan
26 29 University of Manchester UK
27 21 Carnegie Mellon University US
28 28 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France
29 41 University of Toronto Canada
30 30 National University of Singapore Singapore
31 27 Brown University US
32 30 University of California, Los Angeles US
32 33 Northwestern University US
34 32 University of Bristol UK
35 39 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong
36 34 Ecole Polytechnique France
36 38 University of Melbourne Australia
36 37 University of Sydney Australia
39 36 University of California, Berkeley US
40 34 University of British Columbia Canada
41 43 University of Queensland Australia
42 50 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
43 44 Osaka University Japan
43 49 Trinity College Dublin Ireland
45 47 Monash University Australia
46 42 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
47 45 University of New South Wales Australia
47 50 Seoul National University South Korea
49 53 University of Amsterdam Netherlands
49 56 Tsinghua University(清华大学) China
51 48 University of Copenhagen Denmark
52 40 New York University US
52 50 Peking University(北京大学) China
54 46 Boston University US
55 78 Technical University of Munich Germany
55 61 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
57 57 Heidelberg University Germany
58 69 University of Warwick UK
59 74 University of Alberta Canada
60 64 Leiden University Netherlands
61 65 University of Auckland New Zealand
61 55 University of Wisconsin-Madison US
63 81 Aarhus University Denmark
63 71 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US
65 72 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium
66 75 University of Birmingham UK
67 66 London School of Economics UK
67 88 Lund University Sweden
69 95 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology South Korea
70 67 Utrecht University Netherlands
70 81 University of York UK
72 68 University of Geneva Switzerland
73 77 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
73 60 Washington University in St Louis US
75 63 Uppsala University Sweden
76 58 University of California, San Diego US
76 70 University of Texas at Austin US
78 102 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US
79 73 University of Glasgow UK
80 59 University of Washington US
81 106 University of Adelaide Australia
82 76 University of Sheffield UK
83 78 Delft University of Technology Netherlands
84 83 University of Western Australia Australia
85 54 Dartmouth College US
86 83 Georgia Institute of Technology US
87 99 Purdue University US
87 83 University of St Andrews UK
89 108 University College Dublin Ireland
90 62 Emory University US
91 86 University of Nottingham UK
92 120 Nagoya University Japan
92 106 University of Zurich Switzerland
94 137 Free University of Berlin Germany
95 99 University of Southampton UK
95 124 National Taiwan University Taiwan
97 112 Tohoku University Japan
98 93 Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Germany
99 104 University of Leeds UK
100 78 Rice University US