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大社会科学名校排名。

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