2010 World's Best Universities: Natural and Physical Sciences

World's Best Universities: Natural and Physical Sciences

Posted September 21, 2010

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U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, identified these to be the world's top universities for natural and physical sciences in 2010.

 Schools Ranked by Location World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Asian and Middle Eastern Universities World's Best Universities: Australian and New Zealand Universities World's Best Universities: British and European Universities World's Best Universities: Canadian Universities World's Best Universities: Latin American Universities   Schools Ranked by Subject World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Arts and Humanities Universities World's Best Universities: Engineering and IT Universities World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities World's Best Universities: Natural & Physical Sciences Universities World's Best Universities: Social Sciences Universities   Methodologies World's Best Universities: Methodology World's Best Universities: About the Rankings World's Best Universities: Academic Peer Review World's Best Universities: Citations per Faculty Member World's Best Universities: Employer Review Survey World's Best Universities: International Student and International Faculty Factors World's Best Universities: Statistical Scores and Weightings World's Best Universities: Student-to-Faculty Ratio World's Best Universities: Subject Area Rankings 

Rank		Subject Score	Citations per Paper
1	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	100.0	9.7
2	Harvard UniversityUnited States	91.8	13.7
3	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	91.1	9.8
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States	87.8	11.0
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)United States	87.7	12.9
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States	76.4	10.8
7	Princeton UniversityUnited States	73.7	12.4
8	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)United States	71.6	15.4
9	The University of TokyoJapan	69.4	6.8
10	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Switzerland	67.5	9.4
11	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	66.4	8.8
12	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)France	57.6	8.3
13	Kyoto UniversityJapan	57.4	6.3
14	University of TorontoCanada	57.2	9.7
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States	57.1	11.1
16	University of ChicagoUnited States	54.5	13.6
17	Yale UniversityUnited States	54.1	11.3
18	University of British Columbia (UBC)Canada	52.4	9.3
19	Cornell UniversityUnited States	52.2	10.9
20	Australian National University (ANU)Australia	50.6	7.4
21	Peking UniversityChina	49.0	5.1
22	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)France	48.2	7.5
23	Columbia UniversityUnited States	47.0	11.6
24	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergGermany	46.4	8.1
25	National University of Singapore (NUS)Singapore	45.7	5.7
25	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)Germany	45.7	8.0
27	Tsinghua UniversityChina	43.9	4.0
28	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)United States	43.5	11.9
29	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia	43.4	2.5
30	Sapienza Università di RomaItaly	43.1	5.6
31	École Polytechnique, ParisTechFrance	42.9	8.2
32	University of MelbourneAustralia	41.7	8.8
32	Technische Universität München (TUM)Germany	41.7	7.1
34	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)United States	41.0	10.6
35	McGill UniversityCanada	40.5	7.9
36	University of SydneyAustralia	39.4	7.5
37	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)United States	39.2	9.0
38	University of MichiganUnited States	38.4	10.6
38	Seoul National University (SNU)South Korea	38.4	6.1
40	University of BristolUnited Kingdom	38.3	8.3
41	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	38.1	10.9
41	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)United States	38.1	10.3
43	Université Paris 11, SudFrance	36.2	7.3
44	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany	36.0	7.3
44	Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael	36.0	6.0
44	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnGermany	36.0	8.3
47	University of CopenhagenDenmark	35.5	7.9
48	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	35.2	8.1
49	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)Switzerland	35.0	9.3
50	UCL (University College London)United Kingdom	34.9	8.1
50	National Taiwan University (NTU)Taiwan	34.9	5.6
52	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	34.8	7.0
53	University of New South Wales (UNSW)Australia	33.8	6.2
54	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom	33.7	6.4
54	Universität de BarcelonaSpain	33.7	7.8
56	University of Hong Kong (HKU)Hong Kong	33.0	6.3
57	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & TechnologySouth Korea	32.8	5.2
58	Osaka UniversityJapan	32.7	5.3
59	RWTH AachenGermany	32.6	8.7
60	University of WashingtonUnited States	32.5	11.3
61	Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain	31.8	7.5
62	University of ViennaAustria	31.7	5.9
63	University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States	31.6	8.0
64	Tokyo Institute of TechnologyJapan	31.4	5.8
64	Leiden UniversityNetherlands	31.4	7.1
66	Freie Universität BerlinGermany	31.3	6.8
67	Lund UniversitySweden	31.0	8.5
68	University of AucklandNew Zealand	30.7	6.7
69	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	30.5	8.6
69	Monash UniversityAustralia	30.5	6.9
71	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	30.4	14.7
71	University of Queensland (UQ)Australia	30.4	7.7
71	Uppsala UniversitySweden	30.4	6.6
71	Universität Autónoma de BarcelonaSpain	30.4	8.9
75	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)United States	30.3	14.2
75	Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael	30.3	7.6
77	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina	30.1	4.9
78	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)United States	29.9	9.1
78	Universität KarlsruheGermany	29.9	7.1
80	University of WaterlooCanada	29.7	6.6
81	Trinity College DublinIreland	29.6	7.5
82	Technische Universität BerlinGermany	29.5	6.4
83	Università di PisaItaly	29.3	6.8
84	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)Netherlands	29.2	6.9
84	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael	29.2	8.2
86	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	28.9	8.4
86	University of AlbertaCanada	28.9	6.2
88	Georg-August-Universität GottingenGermany	28.6	7.3
89	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	28.2	9.6
90	Università di BolognaItaly	28.1	8.2
91	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Hong Kong	28.0	5.4
92	Duke UniversityUnited States	27.5	9.6
92	Fudan UniversityChina	27.5	5.2
94	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Hong Kong	27.1	7.7
95	Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom	27.0	12.1
95	Université de StrasbourgFrance	27.0	8.9
95	Université Grenoble, Joseph FourierFrance	27.0	7.1
98	Universität HamburgGermany	26.9	6.8
99	KTH, Royal Institute of TechnologySweden	26.8	5.5
99	Universität InnsbruckAustria	26.8	7.7