World's Best Universities
U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, identified these to be world's top universities in 2009.
49 Tsinghua University China
51 University of Copenhagen
52 New York University (NYU)
52 Peking University China
61 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
63 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign United States
73 Washington University in St. Louis
76 University of California, San Diego United States
76 University of Texas at Austin United States
78 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States