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全球大学进行了排名，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。
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
