US 뉴스 & 월드 리포트가 이번 주 발표한 세계 최우수 대학 순위에서 나란히 1, 2위에 오른 하버드대학과 예일대학을 비롯, 칼텍(5위), 시카고대학(8위), MIT(9위), 컬럼비아대학(10위) 등 미국내 6개 명문대학이 상위 10위권에 포함됐다. 이외 영국의 캠브리지대학(3위), 옥스퍼드대학(4위), 런던 임페리얼 칼리지(6위), UCL 런던칼리지유니버시티(7위) 등 상위 10위권의 나머지 네 자리를 차지였다.
아시아권에서는 일본의 도쿄대학과 교토대학에 이어 홍콩대학, 싱가포르 국립대학(NUS), 홍콩과학기술대학, 홍콩중국대학, 일본 오사카 대학이 1~7위에 나란히 오른 가운데 서울대학은 중국북경대학과 공동 8위에 올랐다. 서울대학에 이어 카이스트(KAIST)가 아시아권 14위, 세계 순위 95위로 한국의 대학 가운데에서는 두 번째로 높은 순위를 기록했다. 이어 포항공대(188위), 연세대학(203위), 고려대학(236위), 한양대학(344위), 성균관대학(370위) 등이 순위에 포함됐다.
US 뉴스 & 월드 리포트가 세계 대학 순위를 발표하기는 이번이 처음이며 2004년부터 세계 대학 순위를 발표해 온 QS 기관의 데이터를 기초로 400개 대학 명단을 발표한 것이다. 국가별, 전공학과별 대학순위는 웹사이트( www.usnews.com/education )에서 자세히 확인할 수 있다.
세계 명문 우수대학 (2009)
(순위) (학교) (국가)
1 Harvard University - United States
2 Yale University - United States
3 University of Cambridge - United Kingdom 99.5
4 University of Oxford - United Kingdom
5 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - United States
6 Imperial College London - United Kingdom
7 UCL (University College London) - United Kingdom
8 University of Chicago - United States
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - United States
10 Columbia University - United States
11 University of Pennsylvania - United States
12 Princeton University - United States
13 Duke University - United States
13 Johns Hopkins University - United States
15 Cornell University - United States
16 Australian National University - Australia
17 Stanford University - United States
18 University of Michigan - United States
19 University of Tokyo - Japan
20 Mcgill University - Canada
21 Carnegie Mellon University - United States
22 King'S College London - United Kingdom
23 University of Edinburgh - United Kingdom
24 Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) - Switzerland
25 Kyoto University - Japan
26 University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
27 Brown University - United States
28 École Normale Supérieure, Paris - France
29 University of Manchester - United Kingdom
30 National University of SINGAPORE(NUS) - Singapore
30 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - United States
32 University of Bristol - United Kingdom
33 Northwestern University - United States
34 École Polytechnique - France
34 University of British Columbia - Canada
36 University of California, Berkeley - United States
37 The University of Sydney - Australia
38 The University of Melbourne - Australia
39 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology - Hong Kong
40 New York University (NYU) - United States
41 University of Toronto - Canada
42 The Chinese University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong
43 University of Queensland - Australia
44 Osaka University - Japan
45 University of New South Wales - Australia
46 Boston University - United States
47 Monash University - Australia
48 University of Copenhagen - Denmark
49 Trinity College Dublin - Ireland
50 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland
50 Peking University - China
50 Seoul National University - Korea, South
53 University of Amsterdam - Netherlands
54 Dartmouth College - United States
55 University of WISCONSIN-Madison - United States
56 Tsinghua University - China
57 Heidelberg Universität - Germany
58 University of California, San Diego - United States
59 University of Washington - United States
60 Washington University in St. Louis - United States
61 Tokyo Institute of Technology - Japan
62 Emory University - United States
63 Uppsala University - Sweden
64 Leiden University - Netherlands
65 The University of Auckland - New Zealand
66 London School of Economics and Political Science - United Kingdom
67 Utrecht University - Netherlands
68 University of Geneva - Switzerland
69 University of Warwick - United Kingdom
70 University of Texas at Austin - United States
71 University of Illinois - United States
72 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium
73 University of Glasgow - United Kingdom
74 University of Alberta - Canada
75 University of Birmingham - United Kingdom
76 University of Sheffield - United Kingdom
77 Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
78 Delft University of Technology - Netherlands
78 Rice University - United States
78 Technische Universität München - Germany
81 University of Aarhus - Denmark
81 University of York - United Kingdom
83 Georgia Institute of Technology - United States
83 The University of Western Australia - Australia
83 University of St Andrews - United Kingdom
86 University of Nottingham - United Kingdom
87 University of Minnesota - United States
88 Lund University - Sweden
89 University of California, Davis - United States
90 Case Western Reserve University - United States
91 Université de Montréal - Canada
91 University of Helsinki - Finland
93 Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Israel
93 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Germany
95 Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology - Korea, South
96 University of Virginia - United States
97 University of Pittsburgh - United States
98 University of California, Santa Barbara - United States
99 Purdue University - United States
99 University of Southampton - United Kingdom