The World's Top 100 Science Universities
Rank Name Country Weighted
score
Citation
impact
1 Cambridge University UK 200 12.7
2 Oxford University UK 169.8 12.1
3 Harvard University US 159.8 20.5
4 California University, Berkeley US 159 15.6
5 Massachusetts Inst of Tech US 135.1 16.2
6 Stanford University US 118.7 17.3
7 Tokyo University Japan 118.5 9.1
8 Princeton University US 115.6 17.4
9 California Institute of Technology US 99.3 17.7
10 Imperial College London UK 89.8 10.3
11 Beijing University China 85.6 0
12 Cornell University US 73.3 12.5
13 ETH Zurich Switzerland 71.5 13.6
14 Yale University US 69.1 16.7
15 Kyoto University Japan 68.8 7.7
16 Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie France 64.6 8.4
17 University of Chicago US 62.6 16.1
18 Australian National University Australia 61.7 11.6
19 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris France 60.7 11.3
20 Ecole Polytechnique France 57.4 9.3
21 Heidelberg University Germany 52.9 11.8
22 University of California, Los Angeles US 45.8 13.9
23 University of Texas at Austin US 43.1 11.5
24 Illinois University US 41.8 11.2
25 Lomonosov Moscow State Uni Russia 40.9 3.4
26 Göttingen University Germany 39.2 9
27 Munich University Germany 38.6 9.3
28 Columbia University US 38.5 16.8
28 Rome La Sapienza University Italy 38.2 8.2
30 Melbourne University Australia 36.6 8.6
31 Indian Institutes of Technology India 36.2 3.9
32 UC Santa Barbara US 35.2 17.5
33 Johns Hopkins University US 34.6 15.5
34 Paris XI, Université Paris-Sud France 34 9.9
35 National University of Singapore Singapore 33.3 0
36 Toronto University Canada 32.9 11
37 Utrecht University Netherlands 32.5 10.3
38 National Taiwan University Taiwan 30.8 5
39 Michigan University US 28.9 12.6
39 Aarhus University Denmark 28.9 12
41 Monash University Australia 28.8 0
42 Seoul National University South Korea 28.6 5.9
43 Osaka University Japan 28.3 7.2
44 Copenhagen University Denmark 27.9 8.6
45 UC San Diego US 26.2 15.6
46 China University of Sci and Tech China 25.1 0
47 King's College London UK 24.8 13.9
48 University of British Columbia Canada 24.3 9.6
48 Manchester University & Umist UK 24.3 9.1
50 Hong Kong Uni of Sci and Tech Hong Kong 24 0
51 Pennsylvania University US 23.9 16.4
52 Tsing Hua University China 23.5 0
52 Nanjing University China 23.5 0
54 Technical University Munich Germany 23.3 11.2
55 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 22.7 7.5
56 Edinburgh University UK 22.5 12.1
57 Tohoku University Japan 21.8 7.4
58 University College London UK 21.6 10.2
59 Bonn University Germany 21.3 8.4
60 Humboldt University Berlin Germany 21.1 9.1
61 Technion - Israel Inst of Techn Israel 20.7 7.1
61 Vienna University Austria 20.7 7.6
61 Uppsala University Sweden 20.7 9.4
64 McGill University Canada 20.4 10
65 Brussels Free University Belgium 20 9.2
65 Korea Advanced Inst Sci and Tech South Korea 20 0
67 Sydney University Australia 19.4 7.7
67 Vienna Technical University Austria 19.4 0
69 New South Wales University Australia 19.3 7.8
69 Nagoya University Japan 19.3 8.7
71 Bristol University UK 19.2 10.1
72 Hong Kong University Hong Kong 18.8 0
72 Innsbruck University Austria 18.8 0
74 Washington University US 18.5 15.1
75 Penn State University US 18.4 10.7
76 SUNY Stony Brook US 18.2 14.9
77 Fudan University China 18.1 0
78 Pisa University Italy 18 8.7
79 Technical University Berlin Germany 17.7 8.9
80 Warsaw University Poland 17.3 9.9
81 Frankfurt University Germany 17.2 0
82 Leeds University UK 17.1 7.5
83 Stuttgart University Germany 16.8 8.1
84 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 16.5 9.7
84 Karlsruhe University Germany 16.5 11.9
86 Paris, Sorbonne France 16.4 0
86 Queensland University Australia 16.4 7
86 Tel Aviv University Israel 16.4 9.9
86 Georgia Inst of Tech US 16.4 9.3
90 Helsinki University Finland 16.1 9.5
91 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 16 8.9
92 Massachusetts University US 15.8 11
92 Université Catholique de Louvain Belgium 15.8 7.9
94 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 15.7 0
95 Durham University UK 15.3 13.2
96 Karolinska Institute Sweden 15.2 0
96 Michigan State University US 15.2 11.7
98 St Petersburg State University Russia 15.1 0
99 Auckland University New Zealand 15 0
100 Leiden University Netherlands 14.9 9.6

Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement and QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, published December 10 2004