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。

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 、United States
     
2 University of California, Berkeley、United States
     
3 University of Cambridge、United Kingdom
     
4 Harvard University、United States
     
5 University of Oxford、United Kingdom
    
6 Princeton University、United States
     
7 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)、United States
     
8 Stanford University、United States
     
9 University of Toronto、Canada
     
10 University of Tokyo、Japan
     
11 Cornell University、United States
     
12 University of Chicago、United States
     
13 Kyoto University、Japan
     
14 Imperial College London、United Kingdom
     
15 Eth Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)、Switzerland
     
16 Peking University、China
     
17 Yale University、United States
     
18 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)、United States
     
19 école Normale Supérieure, Paris、France
     
20 University of British Columbia、Canada
     
21 Australian National University、Australia
     
22 Mcgill University、Canada
     
23 Columbia University、United States
     
24 University of California, Santa Barbara、United States
     
25 Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris Vi、France
     
26 école Polytechnique、France
     
27 The University of Melbourne、Australia
     
28 Tsinghua University、China
     
29 Lomonosov Moscow State University、Russia
     
30 University of California, San Diego、United States
     
31 National University of Singapore(NUS)、Singapore
     
31Seoul National University、Korea, South
     
31 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology、Israel
     
34 University of Texas at Austin、United States5
     
35 University of Michigan、United States
     
36 University of Illinois、United States
     
37 Università degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza、Italy
     
37 Utrecht University、Netherlands
     
39 University of New South Wales、Australia
     
40 Osaka University、Japan
     
40 Technische Universitt München、Germany
     
42 University of Waterloo、Canada
     
43 Heidelberg Universitt、Germany
     
44 The University of Sydney、Australia
     
45 Johns Hopkins University、United States
     
46 Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology、Korea, South
     
47 University of Pennsylvania、United States
     
48 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt München、Germany
     
49 University of Science and Technology of China、China
     
50 National Taiwan University、Taiwan