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大社會科學名校排名。

1 Harvard University、United States、

2 University of California, Berkeley、United States

3 Stanford University、United States

4 London School of Economics and Political Science、United Kingdom

5 University of Cambridge、United Kingdom

6 University of Oxford、United Kingdom

7 Yale University、United States

8 University of Chicago、United States

9 Princeton University、United States

10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)、United States

11 Columbia University、United States

12 University of British Columbia、Canada

13 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)、United States

14 Australian National University、Australia

14 Mcgill University、Canada

16 University of Toronto、Canada

17 Cornell University、United States

18 National University of SINGAPORE(NUS)、Singapore

19 The University of Melbourne、Australia

20 University of Michigan、United States

21 University of Tokyo、Japan

22 University of Pennsylvania、United States

23 New York University (NYU)、United States

24 Peking University、China

25 Monash University、Australia

26 Duke University、United States

27 The University of Sydney、Australia

28 University of New South Wales、Australia

29 Northwestern University、United States

30 The University of Auckland、New Zealand

31 University College London、United Kingdom

31 University of Copenhagen、Denmark

33 Seoul National University、Korea, South

34 University of Hong Kong、Hong Kong

35 Carnegie Mellon University、United States

35 University of Warwick、United Kingdom

37 Université catholique de Louvain、Belgium

38 University of California, San Diego、United States

39 University of Queensland、Australia

40 University of WISCONSIN-Madison、United States

41 Johns Hopkins University、United States

42 Kyoto University、Japan

43 University of Amsterdam、Netherlands

44 Tsinghua University、China

45 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven、Belgium

46 Boston University、United States

47 Georgetown University、United States

48 King'S College London、United Kingdom

49 Hebrew University of Jerusalem、Israel

50 Maastricht University、Netherlands

來源：騰訊教育