2008 World Rankings

 

This ranking is calculated by adding together the points (i.e. 3 for a win, 2 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd and 0 for 4th) won by each team representing an institution at the World Debating championships over the previous 5 competitive Worlds for that institution. 

Where an institution hosted the championships in the last 5 years, and was therefore barred from participation that year, their score will be calculated over the past 6 years.

Where teams are tied on the the same points these ties have been broken based on the total known points (i.e. all points that institution has earned since Cork 96)

 

Rank Team Country 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 Total All Time Points All Time Rank
1 Sydney Australia 101 150 111 106 109   577 1090 1
2 Oxford Union England 99 121 103 93 95   511 1012 2
3 Cambridge England 77 94 101 95 88   455 870 3
4 Monash Australia 87 59 50 103 90   389 836 4
5 UC Dublin Ireland 103 101 0 98 68 15 385 706 6
6 Yale US 91 100 109 37 32   369 679 7
7 UC Cork Ireland 64 64 99 59 60   346 669 8
8 Ateneo de Manila University Philippines 76 48 49 77 94   344 774 5
9 Queensland Australia 90 98 78 28 46   340 622 12
10 TC Dublin Ireland 68 65 133 33 35   334 656 10
11 Hart House U of Toronto Canada 56 82 76 52 47   313 616 13
12 Int. Islamic Uni Malaysia Malaysia 74 42 43 77 72   308 566 14
13 Melbourne Australia 83 18 53 75 65   294 665 9
14 New South Wales Uni of (UNSW) Australia 45 49 44 51 95   284 655 11
15 Hong Kong Uni Hong Kong 65 70 25 59 56   275 396 30
16 MARA, Uni Teknologi Malaysia 60 38 16 93 60   267 377 34
17 Nanyang NTU Singapore 77 27 31 89 0 42 266 480 18
18 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 34 54 53 68 56   265 369 35
19 Victoria Wellington New Zealand 87 0 18 63 74   242 444 22
20 La Verne US 51 49 59 41 38   238 542 16
21 British Columbia, University of Canada 29 0 45 49 74 41 238 305 45
22 Alberta Canada 62 64 38 18 55   237 427 24
23 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 66 46 28 29 61   230 566 15
24 Australian National University Australia 45 44 25 26 85   225 523 17
25 Queens Canada 49 49 62 31 34   225 426 25
26 Harvard US 49 73 60 0 42   224 344 39
27 Bates College US 26 63 76 30 28   223 479 19
28 International Christian University Japan 32 33 38 60 60   223 368 36
29 Singapore Management University Singapore 44 37 14 71 53   219 229 64
30 Multimedia University Malaysia (Voices) Malaysia 51 27 24 0 70 41 213 283 47
31 Princeton US 51 44 39 30 47   211 455 21
32 McGill Canada 52 50 52 16 38   208 425 26
33 Universitas Indonesia Indonesia 63 0 35 40 67   205 270 51
34 Keio Japan 45 38 44 48 26   201 227 66
35 Macquarie Australia 35 38 62 16 49   200 421 27
36 Durham England 14 53 60 30 34   191 384 33
37 Sydney, Uni of Tech Australia 38 26 58 46 17   185 358 37
38 Colgate US 45 55 52 33 0   185 233 63
39 Ewha Womans University (EDiS) South Korea 37 14 47 61 24   183 183 77
40 Stanford US 32 52 33 33 32   182 392 32
41 Dilman, Uni Philippines Philippines 46 0 0 65 65   176 285 46
42 Galway L&D Ireland 32 29 51 36 28   176 236 62
43 St Andrews Scotland 48 50 59 14 0   171 309 43
44 Alaska US 43 48 53 0 27   171 225 67
45 Hong Kong Polytechnic Hong Kong 30 0 51 39 39   159 171 83
46 Glasgow Union Scotland 15 31 63 29 13   151 472 20
47 Swarthmore US 31 39 44 0 33   147 242 59
48 Chulalongkorn Thailand 46 0 0 55 45   146 261 53
49 Hebrew Israel 44 27 35 0 38   144 400 29
50 Mahidol Thailand 49 26 0 42 24   141 180 79
51 Middle Temple England 34 33 32 17 22   138 321 41
52 National Law School of India (NLSIU) India 70 15 13 13 23   134 191 76
53 Rhodes South Africa 59 0 33 0 39   131 436 23
54 Zagreb Croatia  36 35 14 21 25   131 339 40
55 Uni of London Union England 16 0 86 27 0   129 307 44
56 Brandeis US 46 15 24 18 26   129 243 57
57 Auckland New Zealand 63 0 11 34 20   128 241 60
58 Bristol England 16 12 18 33 49   128 204 72
59 Fordham US 0 46 40 0 41   127 405 28
60 Portland US 26 72 26 0 0   124 166 87
61 Kyung Hee South Korea 38 19 19 27 19   122 122 104
62 New York University US 28 13 28 16 36   121 228 65
63 Cape Town South Africa 33 0 68 0 18   119 277 48
64 Boston US 0 26 39 28 26   119 119 105
65 Inner Temple England 17 14 42 22 20   115 277 49
66 Malaya Malaysia 39 0 0 37 38   114 114 107
67 Claremont US 29 40 43 0 0   112 211 71
68 Duke US 47 26 39 0 0   112 112 110
69 Seikei Japan 28 29 0 28 21   106 156 91
70 Manila, Uni Philippines Philippines 40 0 0 63 0   103 192 75
71 London School of Economics England 44 45 0 0 14   103 169 86
72 Kansai Gaidai Univ (KGU) Japan 20 37 9 26 10   102 102 121
73 Mona UWI West Indies 9 40 0 28 23   100 165 89
74 Western Australia Australia 13 0 34 17 35   99 245 55
75 Dhaka Bangladesh 28 41 0 10 20   99 99 123
76 Jamaica, Uni of Tech West Indies 20 27 20 11 20   98 143 96
77 Minnesota US 0 12 25