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 Assumption, Bangkok Vancouver UC Dublin MMU Malayaia Nanyang Singapore Stellenbosch Total
1 Sydney Australia 101 150 111 106 109   577
2 Oxford Union England 99 121 103 93 95   511
3 Cambridge England 77 94 101 95 88   455
4 Monash Australia 87 59 50 103 90   389
6 UC Dublin Ireland 103 101 0 98 68 15 385
7 Yale US 91 100 109 37 32   369
8 UC Cork Ireland 64 64 99 59 60   346
5 Ateneo de Manila University Philippines 76 48 49 77 94   344
12 Queensland Australia 90 98 78 28 46   340
10 TC Dublin Ireland 68 65 133 33 35   334
13 Hart House U of Toronto Canada 56 82 76 52 47   313
14 Int. Islamic Uni Malaysia Malaysia 74 42 43 77 72   308
9 Melbourne Australia 83 18 53 75 65   294
11 New South Wales Uni of (UNSW) Australia 45 49 44 51 95   284
30 Hong Kong Uni Hong Kong 65 70 25 59 56   275
34 MARA, Uni Teknologi Malaysia 60 38 16 93 60   267
18 Nanyang NTU Singapore 77 27 31 89 0 42 266
35 Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 34 54 53 68 56   265
22 Victoria Wellington New Zealand 87 0 18 63 74   242
16 La Verne US 51 49 59 41 38   238
45 British Columbia, University of Canada 29 0 45 49 74 41 238
24 Alberta Canada 62 64 38 18 55   237
15 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 66 46 28 29 61   230
25 Queens Canada 49 49 62 31 34   225
17 Australian National University Australia 45 44 25 26 85   225
39 Harvard US 49 73 60 0 42   224
36 International Christian University Japan 32 33 38 60 60   223
19 Bates College US 26 63 76 30 28   223
64 Singapore Management University Singapore 44 37 14 71 53   219
47 Multimedia University Malaysia (Voices) Malaysia 51 27 24 0 70 41 213
21 Princeton US 51 44 39 30 47   211
26 McGill Canada 52 50 52 16 38   208
51 Universitas Indonesia Indonesia 63 0 35 40 67   205
66 Keio Japan 45 38 44 48 26   201
27 Macquarie Australia 35 38 62 16 49   200
33 Durham England 14 53 60 30 34   191
63 Colgate US 45 55 52 33 0   185
37 Sydney, Uni of Tech Australia 38 26 58 46 17   185
77 Ewha Womans University (EDiS) South Korea 37 14 47 61 24   183
32 Stanford US 32 52 33 33 32   182
46 Dilman, Uni Philippines Philippines 46 0 0 65 65   176
62 Galway L&D Ireland 32 29 51 36 28   176
43 St Andrews Scotland 48 50 59 14 0   171
67 Alaska US 43 48 53 0 27   171
83 Hong Kong Polytechnic Hong Kong 30 0 51 39 39   159
20 Glasgow Union Scotland 15 31 63 29 13   151
59 Swarthmore US 31 39 44 0 33   147
53 Chulalongkorn Thailand 46 0 0 55 45   146
29 Hebrew Israel 44 27 35 0 38   144
79 Mahidol Thailand 49 26 0 42 24   141
41 Middle Temple England 34 33 32 17 22   138
76 National Law School of India (NLSIU) India 70 15 13 13 23   134
23 Rhodes South Africa 59 0 33 0 39   131
40 Zagreb Croatia  36 35 14 21 25   131
57 Brandeis US 46 15 24 18 26   129
44 Uni of London Union England 16 0 86 27 0   129
60 Auckland New Zealand 63 0 11 34 20   128
72 Bristol England 16 12 18 33 49   128
28 Fordham US 0 46 40 0 41   127