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How Do the Universities Rank? (2008)
The annual Times Higher Education survey of the Top 200 World Universities is a good barometer for seeing how universities around the globe compare to each other. In the rankings below, we have edited the list to concentrate on universities in the three main German-speaking countries for 2008.
Times Higher Education Rankings: Top Universities in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
The rankings below are listed by country. The first number is the 2008 rank of the university named. The number in ( ) is that university’s rank in the previous year (2007).
AUSTRIA 2008
- 115 University of Vienna (85)
Vienna was the only university in Austria to make the Top 200 list in 2008. It dropped from 85th in 2007 to 115th in 2008.
GERMANY 2008
- 57 Heidelberg University (60)
- 78 Technical University of Munich (67)
- 93 Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich (65)
- 137 Free University of Berlin (146)
Tied with Texas A&M University - 139 Humboldt University of Berlin (126)
- 147 Freiburg University (144)
Tied with City University of Hong Kong - 155 Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (142)
Tied with VU University Amsterdam - 166 Göttingen University (168)
Tied with Chulalongkorn University (Thailand) - 169 University of Frankfurt am Main (209)
- 188 Technical University of Berlin (203)
- 190 Stuttgart University (165)
The following German universities on the Times Higher Education list above had a better rank in 2008, compared to the previous year: Heidelberg (57/60), Berlin’s Free University (137/146), Frankfurt (169/209), Göttingen (166/168), and Berlin’s Technical University (188/203)
SWITZERLAND 2008
- 24 ETH Zurich Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (42)
- 50 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (117)
- 68 University of Geneva (105)
- 106 University of Zurich (140)
- 131 University of Basel (114)
- 161 University of Lausanne (217)
- 192 University of Bern (214)
Tied with the University of Bologna (Italy)
Except for Basel, all of the Swiss universities on the Times Higher Education list above had a better rank in 2008, compared to 2007.
Source: Times Higher Education - Top 200 World Universities 2008
Also see: Top 200 World Universities 2009
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