今年6月中旬，《美国新闻与世界报道》杂志公布了2008年全球400所最好大学的排名，同时也按不同学科对球大学进行了排名，以下为《美国新闻与世界报道》所评出的全球50大自然科学名校排名。
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
