Dutch universities doing well in THES ranking

British academic newspaper Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) has been releasing a ranking of the best universities in the world for years. Despite the Netherlands being a small country with just 16 million inhabitants, it is always well represented on this list and the 2008 edition is no exception.

The universities of Amsterdam, Leiden, Utrecht and TU Delft are all in the top 200. Maastricht University, Erasmus University, Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University, the University of Groningen and VU University Amsterdam all sit between 100th and 200th place.

The University of Amsterdam took 53rd place in a list topped by Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge.

1	1	Harvard University	US	100	100	96	100	87	81	100
2	2=	Yale University	US	100	100	100	98	89	71	99.8
3	2=	University of Cambridge	UK	100	100	99	89	98	95	99.5
4	2=	University of Oxford	UK	100	100	100	85	96	96	98.9
5	7=	California Institute of Technology	US	100	74	98	100	100	93	98.6
6	5	Imperial College London	UK	99	100	100	83	98	100	98.4
7	9	University College London	UK	96	99	100	89	96	100	98.1
8	7=	University of Chicago	US	100	99	98	91	78	83	98.0
9	10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	100	100	90	100	33	94	96.7
10	11	Columbia University	US	100	99	98	94	29	89	96.3
11	14	University of Pennsylvania	US	97	98	88	99	83	79	96.1
12	6	Princeton University	US	100	98	75	100	91	82	95.7
13=	13	Duke University	US	97	98	100	94	30	66	94.4
13=	15	Johns Hopkins University	US	99	78	100	100	30	68	94.4
15	20=	Cornell University	US	100	99	90	96	28	76	94.3
16	16	Australian National University	Australia	100	93	82	74	99	91	92.0
17	19	Stanford University	US	100	100	67	100	26	87	91.2
18	38=	University of Michigan	US	99	99	85	84	59	51	91.0
19	17	University of Tokyo	Japan	100	94	98	78	27	40	90.0
20	12	McGill University	Canada	100	97	99	51	62	95	89.7.
21	20=	Carnegie Mellon University	US	95	97	82	79	50	97	89.6
22	24	King's College London	UK	93	98	89	70	91	85	89.5
23	23	University of Edinburgh	UK	96	99	82	70	91	82	89.3
24	42	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	95	82	56	99	100	94	89.1
25	25	Kyoto University	Japan	99	87	80	91	30	26	87.4
26	18	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	94	90	86	59	100	92	87.1
27	32	Brown University	US	92	83	64	99	56	58	85.2
28	26	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	France	93	72	68	99	29	69	84.8
29	30	University of Manchester	UK	91	100	82	56	91	84	84.4
30=	41	University of California, Los Angeles	US	100	98	48	100	23	36	84.3
30=	33=	National University of Singapore	Singapore	100	98	39	75	100	100	84.3
32	37	University of Bristol	UK	83	99	82	74	85	74	84.1
33	29	Northwestern University	US	88	97	78	82	30	61	83.3
34=	33=	University of British Columbia	Canada	100	93	69	67	33	61	83.0
34=	28	Ecole Polytechnique	France	80	96	100	58	62	93	83.0
36	22	University of California, Berkeley	US	100	100	24	100	88	36	82.9
37	31	University of Sydney	Australia	99	97	55	54	97	93	82.4
38	27	University of Melbourne	Australia	100	100	59	56	54	96	82.3
39	53=	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	86	90	60	72	100	97	81.4
40	49	New York University	US	96	96	83	54	28	56	81.3
41	45	University of Toronto	Canada	100	94	18	100	80	46	81.1
42	38	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	85	84	80	57	98	86	81.0
43	33=	University of Queensland	Australia	95	97	49	63	100	78	80.7
44	46	Osaka University	Japan	90	69	93	70	25	28	80.1
45	44	University of New South Wales	Australia	97	99	35	68	83	91	79.8
46	47	Boston University	US	91	85	66	73	26	59	79.1
47	43	Monash University	Australia	98	99	52	37	99	99	78.7
48	93=	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	88	59	100	45	67	69	78.5
49	53	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	90	96	68	42	99	76	78.2
50=	117=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	63	71	93	77	100	100	78.1
50=	36	Peking University	China	100	97	84	34	27	36	78.1
50=	51	Seoul National University	South Korea	97	65	87	54	23	37	78.1
53	48	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	88	77	80	61	73	32	78.0
54	48	Dartmouth College	US	64	93	88	95	28	57	77.8
55	55=	University of Wisconsin-Madison	US	93	79	48	89	31	36	77.7
56	40	Tsinghua University	China	97	90	94	31	23	24	77.0
57	60	Heidelberg University	Germany	87	59	81	58	54	81	76.9
58	58	University of California, San Diego	US	98	58	35	100	20	29	76.3
59	55=	University of Washington	US	84	54	62	99	25	36	75.8
60	161=	Washington University in St Louis	US	64	55	100	95	24	54	75.7
61	90=	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	77	76	70	87	25	45	75.3
62	74=	Emory University	US	62	67	96	91	43	47	75.0
63	71=	Uppsala University	Sweden	91	60	43	85	70	41	74.9
64	84	Leiden University	Netherlands	87	61	35	97	74	41	74.8
65	50	University of Auckland	New Zealand	95	94	36	42	94	99	74.5
66	59	London School of Economics	UK	88	100	59	26	100	100	74.2
67	89	Utrecht University	Netherlands	89	66	62	72	45	24	74.0
68	105	University of Geneva	Switzerland	69	36	58	98	97	100	73.9
69	57	University of Warwick	UK	83	100	60	38	92	97	73.8
70	51	University of Texas at Austin	US	95	95	26	69	60	43	73.3
71	73	University of Illinois	US	94	67	43	72	37	51	73.2
72	61	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	92	83	34	72	52	51	73.1
73	83	University of Glasgow	UK	72	78	67	69	95	60	73.0
74	97=	University of Alberta	Canada	91	48	56	55	92	64	72.9
75	65=	University of Birmingham	UK	73	94	57	65	82	72	72.3
76	68	University of Sheffield	UK	69	97	68	60	81	72	72.2
77	69	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	87	87	47	38	100	99	72.1
78=	63	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	78	87	66	49	80	66	71.8
78=	67	Technical University of Munich	Germany	73	59	86	57	54	77	71.8
78=	92	Rice University	US	62	55	76	95	42	73	71.8
81=	114=	University of Aarhus	Denmark	76	38	72	74	67	58	71.5
81=	74=	University of York	UK	62	93	77	57	95	84	71.5
83=	97=	Georgia Institute of Technology	US	78	83	22	99	39	78	71.3
83=	76	University of St Andrews	UK	59	95	74	62	92	99	71.3
83=	64	University of Western Australia	Australia	72	88	52	65	92	83	71.3
86	70	University of Nottingham	UK	72	98	64	46	90	89	71.0
87	142=	University of Minnesota	US	79	54	38	94	72	33	70.2
88	106	Lund University	Sweden	82	68	45	68	68	52	70.0
89	96	University of California, Davis	US	84	46	42	96	28	26	69.9
90	85=	Case Western Reserve University	US	60	42	95	88	21	51	69.8
91=	100	University of Helsinki	Finland	88	43	55	71	51	21	69.6
91=	93=	Université de Montréal	Canada	89	36	36	70	83	74	69.6
93=	128	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	89	25	35	89	70	33	69.5
93=	65=	Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munchen (Munich)	Germany	84	45	69	51	51	70	69.5
95	132=	Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Technology	South Korea	76	53	61	79	48	36	69.3
96	110	University of Virginia	US	66	93	61	82	24	38	69.2
97	77=	University of Pittsburgh	US	62	40	95	79	42	34	69.1
98	117=	University of California, Santa Barbara	US	88	50	21	99	39	22	68.8
99=	77=	Purdue University	US	85	82	34	60	60	57	68.6
99=	80=	University of Southampton	UK	63	90	61	61	87	83	68.6
101	82	Vanderbilt University	US	53	84	100	60	57	45	68.5

Times Higher Education Supplement (THES)

Source: QS Ltd, published October 9 2008.
© QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.