2008 Top World Ranking Universities – Basic College Accounting

Extracted from www.topuniversties.com the listing of 2008 World ranking of universities and re-sorted to compare with last year 2007

2008 Rank	2007 Rank	Name of University	Country
1	1	Harvard University	US
2	2	Yale University	US
3	2	University of Cambridge	UK
4	2	University of Oxford	UK
5	7	California Institute of Technology	US
6	5	Imperial College London	UK
7	9	UCL (University College of London)	UK
8	7	University of Chicago	US
9	10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
10	11	Columbia University	US
11	14	University of Pennsylvania	US
12	6	Princeton University	US
13	15	Johns Hopkins University	US
13	13	Duke University	US
15	20	Cornell University	US
16	16	Australian National University	Australia
17	19	Stanford University	US
18	38	University of Michigan	US
19	17	University of Tokyo	Japan
20	12	MCGILL University	Canada
21	20	Carnegie Mellon University	US
22	24	King’s College London	UK
23	23	University of Edinburgh	UK
24	42	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology )	Switzerland
25	25	Kyoto University	Japan
26	18	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
27	32	Brown University	US
28	26	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	France
29	30	University of Manchester	UK
30	41	University of California, Los Angeles	US
30	33	National University of Singapore	Singapore
32	37	University of Bristol	UK
33	29	Northwestern University	US
34		École Polytechnique	France
36	22	University of California, Berkeley	US
37	31	The University of Sydney	Australia
38	27	University of Melbourne	Australia
39		Hong Kong University of Science & Technology	Hong Kong
40	49	New York University (NYU)	US
41	45	University of Toronto	Canada
42	38	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
43	33	University of Queensland	Australia
44	46	Osaka University	Japan
45	44	University of New South Wales	Australia
46	47	Boston University	US
47	43	Monash University	Australia
48		University of Copenhagen	Denmark
49		Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
50	28	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne…	Switzerland
50	44	Seoul National University	South Korea
50	36	Peking University	China

Great Britain:

· Has 17 universities in the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings top 100, down from 19 last year.

· Harvard tops the list for the fifth consecutive year. Second place goes to Yale, which was joint second with Cambridge and Oxford last year. The two British institutions came third and fourth respectively this year.

· In total the UK has 29 universities in the top 200, one fewer than last year. Of these, 22 had slipped down the rankings. The highest ranking UK university is Cambridge at Number 3, and the lowest ranking is the University of Reading, at 194 just six from bottom place, which goes to the University of Athens.

· Four British universities are in the top 10, the same as last year. Imperial College London fell from fifth to sixth place while University College London rose from ninth to seventh.

United States:

· More than a third of the top 100 are based in the US.

Asia Pacific Region:

· The rise of Asian institutions is reflected in the inclusion of nine of them within the top 50, including three based in Hong Kong.

· Two new entrants this year are Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Seoul National University.]

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