Top 50 North American Universities

Max Score   

 1000 100 100 400 400 1000
Rank World
rank		 Institution Country Peer
review
score 		Int'l
faculty
score 		Int'l
students
score		 Student/
faculty
score		 Citations/
faculty
score 		Final
score
1 1 Harvard University US 643 17 17 50 243 1000
2 2 University of California, Berkeley US 665 6 7 7 169 880.2
3 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US 484 13 18 28 221 788.9
4 4 California Inst Tech US 236 19 17 45 400 738.9
5 7 Stanford University US 420 9 13 28 197 688
6 8 Yale University US 347 53 20 65 81 582.8
7 9 Princeton University US 353 18 18 19 133 557.5
8 13 Chicago University US 254 31 18 58 71 444
9 15 University of Texas at Austin US 183 9 8 8 202 421.5
10 19 Columbia University US 213 10 18 56 75 384.1
11 20 University of California, San Francisco US 21 5 0 39 300 376.5
12 21 McGill University CA 132 84 42 11 84 364.1
13 23 Cornell University US 202 10 16 19 91 348.8
14 24 University of California, San Diego US 96 3 6 7 208 331.5
15 25 Johns Hopkins University US 107 16 13 68 116 330.8
16 26 University of California, Los Angeles US 180 2 8 12 106 316.4
17 28 Pennsylvania University US 142 14 23 31 87 306.9
18 31 Michigan University US 173 17 11 19 65 293.3
19 35 Illinois University US 152 3 3 15 100 281.6
20 37 Toronto University CA 131 24 16 6 88 272.5
21 38 Carnegie Mellon University US 129 35 25 24 37 259.4
22 45 Massachusetts University US 118 1 4 7 99 235.7
23 46 British Columbia University CA 114 24 14 6 65 230.4
24 52 Duke University US 61 12 11 56 66 212.6
25 59 Purdue University US 105 25 14 8 36 194
26 61 Brown University US 46 39 14 19 65 188.9
27 65 Georgia Institute of  Technology US 117 4 11 9 39 185.7
28 66 Wisconsin University US 104 0 8 18 48 184.5
29 72 University of California, Santa Barbara US 64 9 3 6 93 180.6
30 73 Northwestern University US 61 4 12 27 71 180.4
31 74 Washington University US 48 16 8 18 82 177
32 75 Boston University US 78 12 19 17 45 176.6
33 79 New York University US 90 8 10 19 41 173.2
34 81 Yeshiva University US 2 14 15 31 103 170.2
35 82 Minnesota University US 59 10 5 11 79 169.6
36 86 Rochester University US 49 10 8 49 48 167.8
37 88 Case Western Reserve University US 23 4 11 49 75 166.8
38 90 Alabama University US 27 10 4 8 112 166
39 104 Tufts University US 17 10 15 26 81 153.9
40 105 Texas A&M University US 78 12 3 6 49 153.2
41 106 Iowa University US 23 10 11 5 99 152.6
42 107 Colorado University US 38 17 3 10 79 151.9
43 109 Washington University- St Louis US 38 10 10 13 76 150.3
44 115 Brandeis University US 13 26 15 12 75 145.6
45 116 Michigan State University US 81 10 7 8 35 145.1
46 117 North Carolina University US 37 9 3 17 75 144.3
47 118 Virginia University US 53 6 10 17 54 144
48 130 Penn State University US 64 10 5 10 44 138.4
49 134 Maryland University US 35 20 5 14 58 136.7
50 136 Stony Brook, State University of  New York US 26 7 10 11 75 134.3

Data compiled for The Times Higher by QS (www.qsnetwork.com), published 5 November 2004.