The World's Best Universities

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N
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2	Country	University	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
3	Denmark	Aarhus University						93	97	98	86	86	86	74
4	USA	Arizona State University				100	96	93	94	81	78	79	81	88
5	Australia	Australian National University	49	53	53	54	57	59	59	59	70	64	66	74
6	USA	Boston University	98	87	81	81	85	83	74	77	76	71	75	72
7	USA	Brown University	49	82	86	85	70	71	69	65	65	65	67	74
8	USA	California Institute of Technology	3	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7
9	USA	Carnegie Mellon University	61	62	62	56	60	62	59	58	55	51	52	62
10	USA	Case Western Reserve University	51	65	65	70	78	83	87	97	97	99	99
11	USA	Columbia University	10	9	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8
12	USA	Cornell University	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13	13
13	USA	Duke University	33	31	31	31	32	33	31	35	35	36	31	31
14	France	École normale supérieure – Paris		85	93	99	83	73	70	71	69	73	71	67
15	USA	Emory University	99						100	100
16	Germany	Free University of Berlin	95			99	83
17	USA	Georgia Institute of Technology												99
18	Germany	Goethe University Frankfurt									100
19	USA	Harvard University	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
20	Israel	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	94	90	90	60	64	65	64	52	57	53	59	70
21	Germany	Humboldt University of Berlin		95	95
22	UK	Imperial College London	17	23	23	23	23	27	26	26	24	24	24	22
23	USA	Indiana University Bloomington				97	90	92	93	90	82	84	85
24	USA	Johns Hopkins University	24	22	19	20	19	20	19	18	18	17	17	17
25	Sweden	Karolinska Institutet	39	46	45	48	53	51	50	42	44	42	44	47
26	UK	King's College London	75	77	77	83	83	81	65	63	68	68	67	59
27	Belgium	KU Leuven												96
28	Japan	Kyoto University	30	21	22	22	22	23	24	24	27	26	26	26
29	Sweden	Lund University	93	92	92	90	97	97
30	USA	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	3	3	4	3
31	Canada	McGill University	79	61	61	62	63	60	65	61	64	63	58	67
32	Canada	McMaster University	86	88	88	90	87	89	91	88	89	92	92	90
33	USA	Michigan State University	87	80	80	80	80	83	86	86	92	96	92
34	Russia	Moscow State University		66	66	70	76	70	77	74	77	80	79	84
35	Japan	Nagoya University	68	97	97	98	94		82	79	94	96
36	USA	New York University	55	32	32	29	30	31	32	31	29	27	27	27
37	USA	North Carolina State University	99
38	USA	Northwestern University	29	30	30	33	29	30	30	29	30	30	30	28
39	USA	Ohio State University	81	73	73	66	61	62	62	59	63	65	65	64
40	Japan	Osaka University	53	54	54	61	67	68	71	75	82	83	85	78
41	USA	Pennsylvania State University	40	43	43	42	43	42	45	43	45	49	54	58
42	USA	Princeton University	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6
43	USA	Purdue University	80	71	71	73	68	65	65	69	61	56	57	60
44	USA	Rice University	61	75	75	87	87	97	99	99	93	91	92	82
45	USA	Rockefeller University	28	29	29	30	30	32	32	34	33	32	34	33
46	USA	Rutgers University	38	44	44	46	47	54	55	54	59	61	61	52
47	USA	Stanford University	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2
48	Sweden	Stockholm University		97	97	84	86	86	88	79	81	81	82	78
49	Switzerland	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne												96
50	Switzerland	ETH Zurich	25	27	27	27	27	24	23	23	23	23	20	19
51	Germany	Technische Universität München	60	45	52	54	56	57	57	56	47	53	50	53
52	Israel	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology										78	77	78
53	USA	Texas A&M University	70			88	91	88	88	95	100	93		96
54	Japan	Tohoku University	64	69	69	76	76	79	84	84	97
55	Japan	Tokyo Institute of Technology				89	99
56	USA	Tufts University	83	99	99
57	USA	University of Arizona	55	76	76	76	74	77	77	78	80	77	78	86
58	Switzerland	University of Basel	96	91	91	81	82	87	85	86	89	85	83	90
59	UK	University of Birmingham		93	93	90	92	91	94	99
60	Germany	University of Bonn		99	99		99	97	98	93	94			94
61	UK	University of Bristol	55	60	60	62	62	61	61	66	70	70	64	63
62	Canada	University of British Columbia	35	36	36	36	36	35	36	36	37	39	40	37
63	USA	University of California, Berkeley	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	2	4	4	3	4
64	USA	University of California, Davis	36	42	42	42	43	48	49	46	48	47	47	55
65	USA	University of California, Irvine	44	55	55	44	45	46	46	46	48	45	45	47
66	USA	University of California, Los Angeles	15	16	14	14	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12
67	USA	University of California, Riverside	88
68	USA	University of California, San Diego	14	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	15	15	14	14
69	USA	University of California, San Francisco	13	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	18	18	18
70	USA	University of California, Santa Barbara	26	35	35	35	35	36	35	32	33	34	35	41
71	USA	University of California, Santa Cruz												93
72	UK	University of Cambridge	5	3	2	2	4	4	4	5	5	5	5	5
73	USA	University of Chicago	11	10	9	8	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9
74	UK	University College London	20	25	26	26	25	22	21	21	20	21	21	20
75	USA	University of Colorado	31	34	34	34	34	34	34	32	32	33	33	34
76	Denmark	University of Copenhagen	65	59	59	56	46	45	43	40	43	44	42	39
77	UK	University of Edinburgh	43	47	47	52	53	55	53	54	53	51	51	45
78	USA	University of Florida	75	67	67	53	51	58	58	68	72	72	71	78
79	Germany	University of Freiburg		88	88	93	94	96				99	100
80	Switzerland	University of Geneva									73	69	69	66
81	Belgium	Ghent University	99							90	89	89	85	70
82	Germany	University of Göttingen	91	79	79	85	87	90	90	93	86
83	Netherlands	University of Groningen	84										92	82
84	Germany	Heidelberg University	58	64	64	66	65	67	63	63	62	62	54	49
85	Finland	University of Helsinki	74	72	72	74	73	68	72	72	74	73	76	73
86	USA	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	45	25	25	25	26	26	25	25	25	25	25	28
87	USA	University of Illinois at Chicago	96
88	USA	University of Iowa	90			95	97
89	Netherlands	Leiden University	78	63	63	72	71	76	72	70	65	73	74	77
90	UK	University of Manchester	89	78	53	50	48	40	41	44	38	40	41	38
91	USA	University of Maryland, College Park	75	57	57	37	37	37	37	36	38	38	38	43
92	Australia	University of Melbourne	92	82	82	78	79	73	75	62	60	57	54	44
93	USA	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	21	19	21	21	21	21	22	22	22	22	23	22
94	USA	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	37	33	33	32	33	28	28	28	28	29	29	30
95	Germany	University of Munich	48	51	51	51	53	55	55	52	54	60	61	49
96	USA	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	52	56	56	59	58	38	39	41	42	41	43	36
97	UK	University of Nottingham		80	80	79	81	82	83	84	85	86	83
98	Norway	University of Oslo	63	68	68	68	69	64	65	75	75	67	69	69
99	UK	University of Oxford	9	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9
100	France	Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University(Paris 6)	65	41	41	45	39	42	40	39	41	42	37	35