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
