THE–QS World University Rankings, 2009

This is the top 200 of the 2009 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings / Times Higher Education World University Rankings / QS World University Rankings of the top 300 universities in the world.

Top 200

Rank	Change compared to 2008 data	University	Country
1	00	Harvard University	United States
2	01	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	01	Yale University	United States
4	03	University College London	United Kingdom
5	01	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
5	01	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
7	01	University of Chicago	United States
8	04	Princeton University	United States
9	00	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
10	05	California Institute of Technology	United States
11	01	Columbia University	United States
12	01	University of Pennsylvania	United States
13	00	Johns Hopkins University	United States
14	01	Duke University	United States
15	00	Cornell University	United States
16	01	Stanford University	United States
17	01	Australian National University	Australia
18	02	McGill University	Canada
19	01	University of Michigan	United States
20	04	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich	Switzerland
20	03	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
22	03	Tokyo University	Japan
23	01	King's College London	United Kingdom
24	02	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
25	00	Kyoto University	Japan
26	03	Manchester University	United Kingdom
27	06	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
28	00	Paris École Normale Supérieure	France
29	12	University of Toronto	Canada
30	00	National University of Singapore	Singapore
31	04	Brown University	United States
32	01	Northwestern University	United States
32	02	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
34	02	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
35	04	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
36	02	Paris École Polytechnique	France
36	02	University of Melbourne	Australia
36	01	University of Sydney	Australia
39	03	University of California, Berkeley	United States
40	06	University of British Columbia	Canada
41	02	University of Queensland	Australia
42	08	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
43	01	Osaka University	Japan
43	06	Trinity College, Dublin}	Ireland
45	02	Monash University	Australia
46	04	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
47	03	Seoul National University	South Korea
47	02	University of New South Wales	Australia
49	07	Tsinghua University	China
49	04	Amsterdam University	Netherlands
51	03	Copenhagen University	Denmark
52	12	New York University	United States
52	02	Peking University	China
54	08	Boston University	United States
55	23	Technical University of Munich	Germany
55	06	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
57	00	Heidelberg University	Germany
58	11	Warwick University	United Kingdom
59	15	University of Alberta	Canada
60	04	Leiden University	Netherlands
61	04	University of Auckland	New Zealand
61	06	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
63	18	Aarhus University	Denmark
63	08	Illinois University	United States
65	07	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
66	09	Birmingham University	United Kingdom
67	01	London School of Economics	United Kingdom
67	21	Lund University	Sweden
69	26	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
70	11	University of York	United Kingdom
70	03	Utrecht University	Netherlands
72	04	Geneva University	Switzerland
73	04	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
73	13	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
75	12	Uppsala University	Sweden
76	18	University of California, San Diego	United States
76	06	University of Texas at Austin	United States
78	24	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
79	06	Glasgow University	United Kingdom
80	21	Washington University	United States
81	25	University of Adelaide	Australia
82	06	Sheffield University	United Kingdom
83	05	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
84	01	University of Western Australia	Australia
85	31	Dartmouth College	United States
86	03	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
87	12	Purdue University	United States
87	04	St Andrews University	United Kingdom
89	19	University College Dublin	Ireland
90	28	Emory University	United States
91	05	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
92	28	Nagoya University	Japan
92	14	Zurich University	Switzerland
94	43	Free University of Berlin	Germany
95	29	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
95	04	Southampton University	United Kingdom
97	15	Tohoku University	Japan
98	05	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany
99	05	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
100	22	Rice University	United States
101	76	Oslo University	Norway
101	82	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
102	09	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
103	19	Durham University	United Kingdom
103	10	Fudan University	China
105	18	University of Minnesota	United States
106	08	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
107	16	Université de Montréal	Canada
108	18	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
108	23	Basel University	Switzerland
108	19	University of California, Davis	United States
108	17	Helsinki University	Finland
112	10	University of Southern California	United States
113	16	University of Waterloo	Canada
114	00	Tel Aviv University	Israel
114	17	University of Pittsburgh	United States
116	05	Maastricht University	Netherlands
117	32	Paris 06 – Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
118	01	Queen's University (Kingston)	Canada
119	29	Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland)	United States
120	08	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
120	15	Pennsylvania State University	United States
122	25	Freiburg University	Germany
122	00	Maryland University	United States
124	23	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
125	01	Otago University	New Zealand
126	10	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
126	14	Lyon École Normale Supérieure	France
128	32	Virginia University	United States
129	19	Georgetown University	United States
129	08	Ohio State University	United States
129	24	Aberdeen University	United Kingdom
132	23	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)	Israel
132	17	Vienna University	Austria
134	54	Pohang Science and Technology University	South Korea
135	02	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
136	00	Ghent University	Belgium
137	04	Liverpool University	United Kingdom
138	28	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
138	06	Groningen University	Netherlands
140	39	Vanderbilt University	United States
141	22	Rochester University	United States
142	72	Keio University	Japan
143	26	McMaster University	Canada
144	08	Bath University	United Kingdom
144	83	Bergen University	Norway
146	07	Berlin University	Germany
146	33	Cape Town University	South Africa
148	32	Waseda University	Japan
149	06	Tübingen University	Germany
149	21	University of Calgary	Canada
151	08	University of Western Ontario	Canada
151	52	Yonsei University	South Korea
153	09	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
154	13	China Science and Technology University	China
155	03	Kyushu University	Japan
155	13	Wageningen University	Netherlands
158	04	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
159	26	Denmark Technical University	Denmark
160	03	Tufts University	United States
161	29	University of California, Irvine	United States
162	08	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
163	11	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	India
164	04	London University – Queen Mary College	United Kingdom
165	10	Amsterdam Free University	Netherlands
166	20	University of Arizona (Tucson)	United States
166	36	Sussex University	United Kingdom
168	25	Nanjing University	China
168	56	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia
168	07	University of Lausanne (UNIL)	Switzerland
171	03	Hokkaido University	Japan
171	15	Barcelona University	Spain
173	46	New York State University, Stony Brook	United States
174	01	Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)	Sweden
174	18	Bologna University	Italy
174	42	Tsukuba University	Japan
177	18	Antwerp University	Belgium
177	23	Athens University	Greece
179	42	Texas A&M University (College Station)	United States
180	50	Malaya University	Malaysia
181	27	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	India
182	34	Aachen RWTH	Germany
183	32	New Jersey State University – Rutgers	United States
184	23	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
185	73	Gothenburg University	Sweden
186	06	University of Colorado	United States
186	20	Göttingen University	Germany
188	02	Canterbury University	New Zealand
189	07	Macquarie University	Australia
190	40	Mexico National Autonomous University (Mexico City)	Mexico
191	08	Brussels Free University (French-speaking)	Belgium
191	03	Reading University	United Kingdom
193	23	Indiana University – Bloomington	United States
193	01	Bern University	Switzerland
195	29	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
196	32	Simon Fraser University	Canada
196	19	Leicester University	United Kingdom
198	36	Chalmers Technology University (Gothenburg)	Sweden
199	31	University of Notre Dame	United States
200	00	Twente University	Netherlands