Лидером международного рейтинга университетов QS 2010 стал Кембриджский университет, потеснив на 2-ю позиции прошлогоднего лидера - Гарвардский. На третьем - Йельский университет. Московский государственный университет им. Ломоносова занял только 93-ю строчку.

Основными критериями в составлении рейтинга QS являются академическая репутация, востребованность у работодателей, соотношение количества студентов и преподавателей, а также цитируемость на международном уровне.

TOP 200

Рейтинг 2010	Рейтинг 2009	Наименование университета	Страна	Баллы 2010
1	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	100.00
2	1	Harvard University	United States	99.18
3	3	Yale University	United States	98.68
4	4	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	98.54
5	9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	98.19
6	5=	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	98.16
7	5=	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	97.78
8	7	University of Chicago	United States	97.52
9	10	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	96.46
10	8	Princeton University	United States	96.03
11	11	Columbia University	United States	95.99
12	12	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)	United States	95.97
13	16	Stanford University	United States	93.62
14	14	Duke University	United States	92.29
15	19	University of Michigan	United States	92.20
16	15	Cornell University	United States	90.44
17	13	Johns Hopkins University	United States	89.67
18	20=	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	89.28
19	18	McGill University	Canada	89.25
20	17	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	88.58
21	23	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	88.45
22	20=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	88.01
23	24	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	87.28
24	22	University of Tokyo, The	Japan	86.74
25	25	Kyoto University	Japan	85.89
26	32=	Northwestern University	United States	85.40
27	34	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	85.22
28	39	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	85.18
29	29	University of Toronto	Canada	84.29
30	26	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	83.33
31	30	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	82.78
32	42	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	82.27
33	28	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)	France	82.09
34	27	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)	United States	81.80
35	32=	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	81.49
36	36=	École Polytechnique, ParisTech	France	81.33
37	36=	University of Sydney	Australia	81.31
38	36=	University of Melbourne	Australia	80.64
39	31	Brown University	United States	80.54
40	35	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	78.67
41	52=	New York University (NYU)	United States	78.41
42	46	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	77.94
43	41	University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	77.56
44	40	University of British Columbia (UBC)	Canada	77.41
45	51	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	76.71
46	47=	University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	76.66
47	52=	Peking University	China	76.35
48	61=	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	76.28
49	43=	Osaka University	Japan	76.21
50	47=	Seoul National University (SNU)	Korea, South	76.06
51	57	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	75.89
52	43=	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	75.04
53	58	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	74.28
54	49=	Tsinghua University	China	74.18
55	80	University of Washington	United States	73.75
56	49=	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	73.45
57	78	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	73.22
58	55=	Technische Universität München (TUM)	Germany	72.99
59	66	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	72.68
60	55=	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	72.59
61	45	Monash University	Australia	72.54
62	75	Uppsala University	Sweden	72.16
63	63=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	United States	71.75
64	54	Boston University	United States	71.73
65	76=	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	71.55
66	98	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)	Germany	71.25
67	76=	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)	United States	71.24
68	61=	University of Auckland	New Zealand	71.13
69	82	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	70.76
70	94	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	70.55
71	72	University of Geneva	Switzerland	70.53
72	67=	Lund University	Sweden	70.38
73	91	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	69.95
74	73=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	69.77
75=	73=	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	69.64
75=	108=	University of Helsinki	Finland	69.64
77	79	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	69.54
78	59	University of Alberta	Canada	69.30
79	69	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	69.05
80	67=	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	68.86
81	95=	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	68.85
82	60	Leiden University	Netherlands	68.81
83	70=	Utrecht University	Netherlands	68.77
84	63=	Aarhus University	Denmark	68.55
85	99	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	68.08
86	65	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	67.56
87	87=	Purdue University	United States	67.54
88	70=	University of York	United Kingdom	67.37
89	84	University of Western Australia (UWA)	Australia	66.95
90	85	Dartmouth College	United States	66.86
91	92=	Nagoya University	Japan	66.41
92	103=	Durham University	United Kingdom	66.29
93	101=	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	66.12
94	95=	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	66.03
95	87=	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	65.69
96	105	University of Minnesota	United States	65.58
97	122=	Universität Freiburg	Germany	65.11
98	120=	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)	United States	64.91
99	108=	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	64.48
100	101	University of Oslo	Norway	64.21
101	92=	University of Zurich	Switzerland	64.04
102	97	Tohoku University	Japan	63.96
103	81	University of Adelaide	Australia	63.87
104	122=	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	63.72
105	103=	Fudan University	China	63.44
106	86	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	63.34
107	90	Emory University	United States	63.15
108	83	Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)	Netherlands	63.14
109	102	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	63.11
110	108=	University of California, Davis (UCD)	United States	62.85
111	116	Maastricht University	Netherlands	62.77
112	134	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	Korea, South	62.75
113	112	University of Southern California (USC)	United States	62.66
114	89	University College Dublin (UCD)	Ireland	62.42
115	100	Rice University	United States	61.52
116	106	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	61.37
117	129=	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	61.30
118	117	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	60.50
119	114=	University of Pittsburgh	United States	60.37
120	138=	University of Groningen	Netherlands	60.34
121	137	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	59.50
122	135	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	59.47
123	146=	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	59.30
124	126=	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	59.08
125	129=	Ohio State University	United States	59.05
126	120=	Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven)	Netherlands	58.52
127=	119	Case Western Reserve University	United States	58.42
127=	141	University of Rochester	United States	58.42
129	124	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	58.38
130	128	University of Virginia	United States	58.30
131	149=	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	58.19
132	118	Queen's University	Canada	58.17
133	144=	University of Bergen	Norway	57.92
134	140	Vanderbilt University	United States	57.24
135	125	University of Otago	New Zealand	57.08
136	107	Université de Montréal	Canada	56.87
137	108=	University of Basel	Switzerland	56.68
138	114=	Tel Aviv University	Israel	56.44
139	126=	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon)	France	56.20
140	158	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	56.06
141	159	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	55.63
142	151=	Yonsei University	Korea, South	55.51
143	132=	University of Vienna	Austria	55.27
144	144=	University of Bath	United Kingdom	55.25
145	113	University of Waterloo	Canada	54.73
146	161	University of California, Irvine	United States	54.68
147	164	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	54.47
148	171=	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	54.28
149	220=	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	54.20
150	174=	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	53.73
151	153	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)	China	53.68
152	168=	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	53.37
153	155=	Kyushu University	Japan	53.32
154	154	University of Science and Technology of China	China	53.25
155	129=	Georgetown University	United States	53.11
156	166=	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	53.08
157	160	Tufts University	United States	52.69
158	182	RWTH Aachen	Germany	52.58
159	132=	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	52.38
160	166=	University of Arizona	United States	52.35
161	146=	University of Cape Town	South Africa	51.98
162=	143	McMaster University	Canada	51.85
162=	193=	University of Bern	Switzerland	51.85
164	151=	University of Western Ontario	Canada	51.83
165	149=	University of Calgary	Canada	51.74
166=	195	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	51.67
166=	184	Universität Karlsruhe	Germany	51.67
168	215=	Stockholm University	Sweden	51.51
169	196=	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	51.50
170	186=	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	51.47
171	165	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)	Netherlands	51.43
172	174=	University of Tsukuba	Japan	51.42
173	211=	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	51.26
174	186=	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	51.23
175	171=	Hokkaido University	Japan	51.06
176	174=	Università di Bologna	Italy	50.85
177	168=	Nanjing University	China	50.63
178	155=	Wageningen University	Netherlands	50.35
179	177=	University of Antwerp	Belgium	50.26
180	138=	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	50.21
181	162	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	50.20
182	148	Waseda University	Japan	50.12
183	185	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	50.10
184	207=	University College Cork (UCC)	Ireland	50.07
185	191=	University of Reading	United Kingdom	50.00
186	228	Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris 4	France	49.03
187	163	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	48.79
188	225	University of Iowa	United States	48.74
189	188	University of Canterbury	New Zealand	48.51
190	205	Sapienza Università di Roma	Italy	48.41
191	211=	Korea University	Korea, South	48.40
192	136	University of Ghent	Belgium	48.38
193	201=	University of Florida	United States	48.25
194	173	Stony Brook University	United States	48.19
195	233	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany	48.15
196	223=	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	47.94
197	201=	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	47.90
198	179	Texas A&M University	United States	47.87
199	200	University of Twente	Netherlands	47.66
200	237=	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	47.51