THE–QS World University Rankings, 2004

This is the 2004 THE–QS World University Rankings list of the top 200 universities in the world.

Top 200

Rank	University	Country
1	Harvard University (Cambridge)	United States
2	University of California, Berkeley	United States
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)	United States
4	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena)	United States
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
7	Stanford University	United States
8	Yale University (New Haven)	United States
9	Princeton University	United States
10	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
11	London School of Economics	United Kingdom
12	Tokyo University	Japan
13	University of Chicago	United States
14	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
15	University of Texas at Austin	United States
16	Australian National University (Canberra)	Australia
17	Peking University	China
18	National University of Singapore	Singapore
19	Columbia University (New York City)	United States
20	University of California, San Francisco	United States
21	McGill University	Canada
22	Melbourne University	Australia
23	Cornell University (Ithaca)	United States
24	University of California, San Diego	United States
25	Johns Hopkins University	United States
26	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
27	École Polytechnique (Paris)	France
28	University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)	United States
29	Kyoto University	Japan
30	École Normale Supérieure	France
31	Michigan University	United States
32	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
33	Monash University	Australia
34	University College London	United Kingdom
35	Illinois University (Champaign/Urbana)	United States
36	University of New South Wales (Kensington)	Australia
37	University of Toronto	Canada
38	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
39	Hong Kong University	Hong Kong
40	Sydney University	Australia
41	Indian Institute of Technology	India
42	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
43	University of Manchester & UMIST	United Kingdom
44	School of Oriental and African Studies	United Kingdom
45	Massachusetts University	United States
46	University of British Columbia (Kelowna/Vancouver)	Canada
47	Heidelberg University	Germany
48	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
49	Queensland University	Australia
50	Nanyang University	Singapore
51	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
52	Duke University	United States
53	KU Leuven	Belgium
54	Université Libre de Bruxelles (French-speaking)	Belgium
55	RMIT University	Australia
56	University of Adelaide	Australia
57	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
58	Sussex University (Falmer)	United Kingdom
59	Purdue University	United States
60	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany
61	Brown University	United States
62	Tsinghua University	China
63	Copenhagen University	Denmark
64	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
65	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
66	Wisconsin University	United States
67	Auckland University	New Zealand
68	Macquarie University	Australia
69	Osaka University	Japan
70	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
71	Paris University	France
72	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
73	Northwestern University	United States
74	University of Washington	United States
75	Boston University	United States
76	Curtin University of Technology	Australia
77	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
78	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
79	New York University	United States
80	Warwick University	United Kingdom
81	Yeshiva University	United States
82	The University of Minnesota	United States
83	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
84	Chinese University Hong Kong	Hong Kong
85	Göttingen University	Germany
86	University of Rochester	United States
87	Trinity College, Dublin	Ireland
88	Case Western Reserve University	United States
89	Malaya University	Malaysia
90	University of Alabama	United States
91	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
92	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
93	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
94	Vienna University	Austria
95	Technical University of Munich	Germany
96	University of Western Australia	Australia
97	King's College London	United Kingdom
98	Amsterdam University	Netherlands
99	Munich University	Germany
100	Queen Mary, University of London	United Kingdom
101	Oslo University	Norway
102	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
103	University of Bath	United Kingdom
104	Tufts University	United States
105	Texas A&M University	United States
106	Iowa University	United States
107	University of Colorado	United States
108	Massey University	New Zealand
109	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
110	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
111	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia
112	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
113	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia
114	Otago University	New Zealand
115	Brandeis University	United States
116	Michigan State University	United States
117	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
118	University of Virginia	United States
119	Seoul National University	South Korea
120	Utrecht University	Netherlands
121	Paris 11 – Paris-Sud University	France
122	Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)	Sweden
123	Maastricht University	Netherlands
124	Stuttgart University	Germany
125	Berlin University	Germany
126	Birmingham University	United Kingdom
127	Aarhus University	Denmark
128	Durham University	United Kingdom
129	Helsinki University	Finland
130	Penn State University	United States
131	Leiden University	Netherlands
132	Strasbourg University	France
133	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
134	Maryland University	United States
135	Bonn University	Germany
136	Stony Brook University	United States
137	York University	United Kingdom
138	Dartmouth College	United States
139	Stockholm University	Sweden
140	Uppsala University	Sweden
141	Utah University	United States
142	La Trobe University	Australia
143	University of Waterloo	Canada
144	Toulouse University	France
145	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
146	Rice University	United States
147	Hamburg University	Germany
148	McMaster University	Canada
149	Kiel University	Germany
150	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
151	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
152	Karlsruhe University	Germany
153	Tohoku University	Japan
154	University of Science and Technology of China	China
155	Montpellier 1 University	France
156	Vanderbilt University	United States
157	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany
158	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)	Israel
159	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain
160	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
161	Tasmania University	Australia
162	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
163	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
164	Innsbruck University	Austria
165	Georgetown University	United States
166	University of Alberta	Canada
167	Nagoya University	Japan
168	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
169	University of Würzburg	Germany
170	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
171	Lund University	Sweden
172	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Germany
173	Emory University	United States
174	Indiana University	United States
175	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States
176	Helsinki University of Technology	Finland
177	Université de Montréal	Canada
178	Freiburg University	Germany
179	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
180	University of Southern California	United States
181	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
182	University of California, Davis	United States
183	University of Arizona	United States
184	Aachen RWTH	Germany
185	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom
186	Bologna University	Italy
187	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim)	Norway
188	Tulane University (New Orleans)	United States
189	Leicester University	United Kingdom
190	Rutgers University	United States
191	Nijmegen University	Netherlands
192	Nanjing University	China
193	Southampton University	United Kingdom
194	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
195	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico
196	Fudan University	China
197	Bremen University	Germany
198	Hong Kong City University	Hong Kong
199	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States
200	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States

Regional rankings (top 10)

Asia & Australia

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	12	Tokyo University	Japan
2	16	Australian National University	Australia
3	17	Peking University	China
4	18	National University of Singapore	Singapore
5	22	Melbourne University	Australia
6	29	Kyoto University	Japan
7	33	Monash University	Australia
8	36	University of New South Wales	Australia
9	39	Hong Kong University	Hong Kong
10	40	Sydney University	Australia

Europe

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
2	6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
3	10	ETH Zurich (ETH Zurich)	Switzerland
4	11	London School of Economics	United Kingdom
5	14	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
6	27	Ecole Polytechnique	France
7	30	École Normale Supérieure	France
8	32	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
9	34	University College London	United Kingdom
10	43	University of Manchester & UMIST	United Kingdom

North America

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	2	University of California, Berkeley	United States
3	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
4	4	California Institute of Technology	United States
5	7	Stanford University	United States
6	8	Yale University	United States
7	9	Princeton University	United States
8	13	University of Chicago	United States
9	15	University of Texas at Austin	United States
10	19	Columbia University	United States

See also

• QS World University Rankings
• Times Higher Education World University Rankings
• THE–QS World University Rankings
• THE–QS World University Rankings, 2004
• THE–QS World University Rankings, 2005
• THE–QS World University Rankings, 2006
• THE–QS World University Rankings, 2007
• THE–QS World University Rankings, 2008
• THE–QS World University Rankings, 2009