今年6月中旬，《美國新聞與世界報道》雜志公布了2008年全球400所大學(xué)的排名，同時也按不同學(xué)科對全球大學(xué)進(jìn)行了排名，以下為《美國新聞與世界報道》所評出的全球50大自然科學(xué)排名。
    1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 、United States
    2 University of California, Berkeley、United States
    3 University of Cambridge、United Kingdom
    4 Harvard University、United States
    5 University of Oxford、United Kingdom
    6 Princeton University、United States
    7 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)、United States
    8 Stanford University、United States
    9 University of Toronto、Canada
    10 University of Tokyo、Japan
    11 Cornell University、United States
    12 University of Chicago、United States
    13 Kyoto University、Japan
    14 Imperial College London、United Kingdom
    15 Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)、Switzerland
    16 Peking University、China
    17 Yale University、United States
    18 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)、United States
    19 école Normale Supérieure, Paris、France
    20 University of British Columbia、Canada
    21 Australian National University、Australia
    22 Mcgill University、Canada
    23 Columbia University、United States
    24 University of California, Santa Barbara、United States
    25 Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris Vi、France
    26 école Polytechnique、France
    27 The University of Melbourne、Australia
    28 Tsinghua University、China
    29 Lomonosov Moscow State University、Russia
    30 University of California, San Diego、United States
    31 National University of Singapore(NUS)、Singapore
    31Seoul National University、Korea, South
    31 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology、Israel
    34 University of Texas at Austin、United States5
    35 University of Michigan、United States
    36 University of Illinois、United States
    37 Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza、Italy
    37 Utrecht University、Netherlands
    39 University of New South Wales、Australia
    40 Osaka University、Japan
    40 Technische Universitt München、Germany
    42 University of Waterloo、Canada
    43 Heidelberg Universitt、Germany
    44 The University of Sydney、Australia
    45 Johns Hopkins University、United States
    46 Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology、Korea, South
    47 University of Pennsylvania、United States
    48 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt München、Germany
    49 University of Science and Technology of China、China
    50 National Taiwan University、Taiwan