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所最好大學的排名，同時也按不同學科對全球大學進行了排名，以下為《美國新聞與世界報道》所評出的全球50大自然科學名校排名。
 
1MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology(MIT)、UnitedStates

2UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley、UnitedStates

3UniversityofCambridge、UnitedKingdom

4HarvardUniversity、UnitedStates

5UniversityofOxford、UnitedKingdom

6PrincetonUniversity、UnitedStates

7CaliforniaInstituteofTechnology(Caltech)、UnitedStates

8StanfordUniversity、UnitedStates

9UniversityofToronto、Canada

10UniversityofTokyo、Japan

11CornellUniversity、UnitedStates

12UniversityofChicago、UnitedStates

13KyotoUniversity、Japan

14ImperialCollegeLondon、UnitedKingdom

15EthZurich(SwissFederalInstituteofTechnology)、Switzerland

16PekingUniversity、China

17YaleUniversity、UnitedStates

18UniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles(UCLA)、UnitedStates

19écoleNormaleSupérieure,Paris、France

20UniversityofBritishColumbia、Canada

21AustralianNationalUniversity、Australia

22McgillUniversity、Canada

23ColumbiaUniversity、UnitedStates

24UniversityofCalifornia,SantaBarbara、UnitedStates

25UniversitéPierre-et-Marie-CurieParisVi、France

26écolePolytechnique、France

27TheUniversityofMelbourne、Australia

28TsinghuaUniversity、China

29LomonosovMoscowStateUniversity、Russia

30UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego、UnitedStates

31NationalUniversityofSingapore(NUS)、Singapore

31SeoulNationalUniversity、Korea,South

31Technion-IsraelInstituteofTechnology、Israel

34UniversityofTexasatAustin、UnitedStates5

35UniversityofMichigan、UnitedStates

36UniversityofIllinois、UnitedStates

37UniversitàdegliStudidiRoma-LaSapienza、Italy

37UtrechtUniversity、Netherlands

39UniversityofNewSouthWales、Australia

40OsakaUniversity、Japan

40TechnischeUniversittMünchen、Germany

42UniversityofWaterloo、Canada

43HeidelbergUniversitt、Germany

44TheUniversityofSydney、Australia

45JohnsHopkinsUniversity、UnitedStates

46Kaist-KoreaAdvancedInstituteofScience&Technology、Korea,South

47UniversityofPennsylvania、UnitedStates

48Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversittMünchen、Germany

49UniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChina、China

50NationalTaiwanUniversity、Taiwan

來源：騰訊出國論壇