THE–QS World University Rankings, 2004 explained

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

Top 200^[1]

Rank	University	Country
1	Harvard University (Cambridge)
2	University of California, Berkeley
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge)
4	California Institute of Technology (Pasadena)
5	University of Oxford
6	University of Cambridge
7
8	Yale University (New Haven)
9
10	ETH Zurich
11	London School of Economics
12
13	University of Chicago
14	Imperial College London
15	University of Texas at Austin
16	Australian National University (Canberra)
17
18	National University of Singapore
19	Columbia University (New York City)
20	University of California, San Francisco
21	McGill University
22	Melbourne University
23	Cornell University (Ithaca)
24	University of California, San Diego
25	Johns Hopkins University
26	University of California, Los Angeles
27	École Polytechnique (Paris)
28	University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
29	Kyoto University
30	École Normale Supérieure
31	Michigan University
32	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
33	Monash University
34	University College London
35	Illinois University (Champaign/Urbana)
36	University of New South Wales (Kensington)
37	University of Toronto
38	Carnegie Mellon University
39	Hong Kong University
40	Sydney University
41
42	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
43	University of Manchester & UMIST
44	School of Oriental and African Studies
45
46	University of British Columbia (Kelowna/Vancouver)
47	Heidelberg University
48	University of Edinburgh
49	Queensland University
50
51	Tokyo Institute of Technology
52	Duke University
53	KU Leuven
54	Université Libre de Bruxelles (French-speaking)
55
56
57
58	Sussex University (Falmer)
59	Purdue University
60	Technische Universität Berlin
61
62	Tsinghua University
63
64
65
66
67
68	Macquarie University
69
70	University of St Andrews
71	Paris University
72	University of California, Santa Barbara
73
74	University of Washington
75
76	Curtin University of Technology
77	Vienna University of Technology
78	Delft University of Technology
79
80
81
82
83
84	Chinese University Hong Kong
85
86
87
88
89
90
91	University of Bristol
92	Lomonosov Moscow State University
93	Hebrew University of Jerusalem
94
95
96
97
98	Amsterdam University
99
100	Queen Mary, University of London
101
102
103
104
105
106	Iowa University
107
108	Massey University
109
110
111
112	University of Glasgow
113
114	Otago University
115
116
117
118
119
120
121	Paris 11  - Paris-Sud University
122	Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133	University of Leeds
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149	Kiel University
150	University of Sheffield
151	University of Liverpool
152
153
154
155
156
157
158	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)
159
160
161
162	Sapienza University of Rome
163
164
165
166
167
168
169	University of Würzburg
170	University of Nottingham
171
172
173
174
175	University of California, Santa Cruz
176
177
178
179
180
181
182	University of California, Davis
183
184	Aachen RWTH
185
186
187	Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim)
188	Tulane University (New Orleans)
189
190
191
192
193
194	University of Aberdeen
195
196
197	Bremen University
198
199
200

Regional rankings (top 10)

Asia & Australia

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

Europe

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

North America

Rank	Rank (world)	University	Country
1	1	Harvard University
2	2	University of California, Berkeley
3	3
4	4	California Institute of Technology
5	7
6	8
7	9	Princeton University
8	13	University of Chicago
9	15
10	19	Columbia University

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Times Higher Education . https://web.archive.org/web/20091010230836/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=153 . en. 2022-06-01. 2009-10-10 .