THE–QS World University Rankings, 2005

This is the 2005 THE–QS World University Rankings list of the top 200 universities in the world.

Top 200

Rank	Change compared to 2004 data	University	Country
1	00	Harvard University (Cambridge)	United States
2	01	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)	United States
3	03	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	01	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
5	02	Stanford University	United States
6	04	California University, Berkeley	United States
7	01	Yale University (New Haven)	United States
8	04	California Institute of Technology	United States
9	00	Princeton University	United States
10	17	École Polytechnique (Paris)	France
11	41	Duke University	United States
11	00	London University – School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
13	01	London University – Imperial College	United Kingdom
14	09	Cornell University	United States
15	02	Peking University	China
16	04	Tokyo University	Japan
17	03	California University, San Francisco	United States
17	04	Chicago University	United States
19	03	Melbourne University	Australia
20	01	Columbia University (New York City)	United States
21	11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich	Switzerland
22	04	Singapore National University	Singapore
23	07	Australian National University (Canberra)	Australia
24	06	Paris École Normale Supérieure	France
24	03	McGill University	Canada
26	11	Texas University, Austin	United States
27	02	Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore)	United States
28	06	London University – University College	United Kingdom
29	08	Toronto University	Canada
30	18	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
31	29	Kyoto University	Japan
32	28	Pennsylvania University (Philadelphia)	United States
33	33	Monash University (Melbourne)	Australia
34	32	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland
35	43	Manchester University & UMIST	United Kingdom
36	31	Michigan University (Ann Arbor)	United States
37	26	California University, Los Angeles	United States
38	46	British Columbia University (Kelowna/Vancouver)	Canada
38	40	Sydney University	Australia
40	36	New South Wales University	Australia
41	39	Hong Kong University	Hong Kong
42	24	California University, San Diego	United States
43	42	Hong Kong Science and Technology University	Hong Kong
44	38	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
45	47	Heidelberg University	Germany
46	73	Northwestern University	United States
47	49	Queensland University	Australia
48	50	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
49	91	Bristol University	United Kingdom
50	41	Indian Institutes of Technology	India
51	84	Hong Kong Chinese University	Hong Kong
52	67	Auckland University	New Zealand
53	78	Delft Technology University	Netherlands
54	75	Boston University	United States
55	99	Munich University	Germany
56	79	New York University	United States
57	64	Rotterdam University	Netherlands
58	109	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
58	98	Amsterdam University	Netherlands
58	35	Illinois University	United States
61	59	Purdue University	United States
62	129	Helsinki University	Finland
62	61	Tsing Hua University	China
64	130	Pennsylvania State University	United States
65	94	Vienna University	Austria
66	63	Copenhagen University	Denmark
67	68	Macquarie University (Sydney)	Australia
68	45	Massachusetts University	United States
69	N/A	Paris Institute of Political Studies	France
70	83	Eindhoven Technology University	Netherlands
71	61	Brown University (Providence)	United States
72	195	Fudan University	China
73	96	London University – King's College	United Kingdom
73	86	Rochester University	United States
73	66	Wisconsin University, Madison	United States
76	54	Brussels Free University (French-speaking)	Belgium
77	93	Jerusalem Hebrew University	Israel
77	80	Warwick University (Coventry)	United Kingdom
79	92	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
80	96	Western Australia University	Australia
80	56	Adelaide University	Australia
82	55	RMIT University	Australia
83	128	Durham University	United Kingdom
84	N/A	Indian Institutes of Management	India
85	N/A	Zurich University	Switzerland
86	77	Vienna Technical University	Austria
87	113	Sydney Technology University	Australia
88	N/A	Geneva University	Switzerland
88	74	Washington University	United States
88	57	Paris 06 – Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
88	53	Louvain University	Belgium
92	N/A	Lyon École Normale Supérieure	France
93	154	China University of Science and Technology	China
93	118	Seoul National University	South Korea
95	N/A	Leuven University	Belgium
95	195	Mexico National Autonomous University	Mexico
97	170	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
98	142	La Trobe University	Australia
99	51	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
100	58	Sussex University (Falmer)	United Kingdom
101	112	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
101	76	Curtin University of Technology	Australia
103	133	Leeds University	United Kingdom
103	44	London University – School of Oriental and African Studies	United Kingdom
105	118	Virginia University (Charlottesville)	United States
105	95	Munich Technical University	Germany
105	69	Osaka University	Japan
108	N/A	Wageningen University	Netherlands
109	137	York University	United Kingdom
109	88	Case Western Reserve University	United States
111	87	Dublin University – Trinity College	Ireland
112	125	Berlin University	Germany
112	100	London University – Queen Mary	United Kingdom
114	156	Vanderbilt University	United States
114	102	Taiwan National University	Taiwan
114	85	Göttingen University	Germany
117	138	Dartmouth College	United States
118	N/A	Queensland Technology University	Australia
119	151	Liverpool University	United Kingdom
120	120	Utrecht University	Netherlands
121	N/A	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
121	116	Michigan State University	United States
121	71	Paris 04 – Paris-Sorbonne University	France
124	180	University of Southern California	United States
125	162	Rome University – La Sapienza	Italy
125	105	Texas A&M University	United States
127	N/A	Basel University	Switzerland
127	N/A	Newcastle University	Australia
129	167	Nagoya University	Japan
130	103	University of Bath	United Kingdom
131	132	Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg)	France
132	177	Montreal University	Canada
133	N/A	University of Lausanne (UNIL)	Switzerland
133	134	Maryland University	United States
133	N/A	Paris École des Hautes Études Commerciales	France
136	153	Tohoku University	Japan
136	70	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
136	131	Leiden University	Netherlands
138	127	Aarhus University	Denmark
138	101	Oslo University	Norway
141	173	Emory University (Druid Hills)	United States
142	157	Frankfurt University	Germany
143	160	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
143	150	Sheffield University	United Kingdom
143	126	Birmingham University	United Kingdom
143	117	University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)	United States
147	N/A	Hiroshima University	Japan
147	65	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
149	166	Alberta University (Edmonton)	Canada
150	192	Nanjing University	China
150	N/A	St Gallen University	Switzerland
150	146	Rice University (Houston)	United States
150	82	Minnesota University (Minneapolis and Saint Paul)	United States
154	N/A	South Australia University	Australia
154	145	Denmark Technical University	Denmark
154	60	Berlin Technical University	Germany
157	N/A	Hokkaido University	Japan
157	123	Maastricht University	Netherlands
159	186	Bologna University	Italy
159	165	Georgetown University	United States
159	143	Waterloo University	Canada
159	72	California University, Santa Barbara	United States
163	107	University of Colorado (Boulder)	United States
164	104	Tufts University (Medford/Somerville)	United States
165	164	Innsbruck University	Austria
166	161	Tasmania University	Australia
166	110	Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg)	Sweden
168	179	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
169	N/A	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
169	N/A	Novosibirsk State University	Russia
169	89	Malaya University (Kuala Lumpur)	Malaysia
172	N/A	Berlin Free University	Germany
172	N/A	Kobe University	Japan
172	184	Aachen RWTH	Germany
175	136	New York State University, Stony Brook	United States
175	90	University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa)	United States
177	191	Nijmegen University	Netherlands
178	198	Hong Kong City University	Hong Kong
179	N/A	Notre Dame University	United States
180	N/A	Toulouse 1 University Capitole	France
180	171	Lund University	Sweden
180	140	Uppsala University	Sweden
183	159	Madrid Autonomous University	Spain
184	N/A	Korea University	South Korea
184	37	McMaster University (Hamilton)	Canada
186	N/A	Amsterdam Free University	Netherlands
186	72	Otago University (Dunedin)	New Zealand
188	N/A	Tel Aviv University	Israel
188	80	Massey University (Auckland/Palmerston North/Wellington)	New Zealand
190	N/A	Gothenburg University	Sweden
191	N/A	Western Ontario University (London)	Canada
192	N/A	Jawaharlal Nehru University	India
193	N/A	University of Pittsburgh	United States
194	18	Helsinki Technology University	Finland
194	36	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)	Israel
196	N/A	São Paulo University	Brazil
196	74	Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)	Sweden
198	N/A	Showa University	Japan
199	N/A	Florence University	Italy
199	N/A	George Washington University (Washington, D.C.)	United States
199	N/A	Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem)	United States

Regional rankings (top 10)

Asia & Australia

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	15	Beijing University	China
2	16	Tokyo University	Japan
3	19	Melbourne University	Australia
4	22	Singapore National University	Singapore
5	23	Australian National University	Australia
6	31	Kyoto University	Japan
7	33	Monash University	Australia
8	38	Sydney University	Australia
9	40	New South Wales University	Australia
10	41	Hong Kong University	Hong Kong

Europe

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
2	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
3	10	École Polytechnique	France
4	11	London University – School of Economics	United Kingdom
5	13	London University – Imperial College	United Kingdom
6	21	Zurich ETH	Switzerland
7	24	École Normale Supérieure (Paris)	France
8	28	London University – University College	United Kingdom
9	30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
10	34	Lausanne École Polytechnique Fédérale	Switzerland