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Rank 2015
Rank 2014
Institution
Country
Academic
Employer
Citations
Score
1
1
Harvard University
United States
99
100
96.7
100
99.1
2
2=
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
97.3
90.9
95.4
96.9
96.5
3
4
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
100
83.5
91.2
84.2
95.5
4
6
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
94.6
98.8
92.3
92.9
94.7
5
5
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
United Kingdom
96.2
93.9
89.9
86.3
94.2
6
2=
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States
95.8
86.5
93.4
90.1
93.9
7
7
Stanford University
United States
90.5
94.6
97.1
97.4
92.3
8
8
University of Chicago
United States
93.5
84.6
92.6
84.2
91.2
9
12
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
92.8
96
83.9
77.7
90.4
10
10
Princeton University
United States
88.4
85.9
96.7
92.4
89.2
11
9
Columbia University
United States
88.2
79.8
92
90.7
87.9
12
11
University of Michigan
United States
86.8
83.2
92.5
93.5
87.7
12
13
Yale University
United States
86.4
83.6
96.1
94
87.7
14
14=
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
84.7
79.7
93.9
90.1
85.5
14
18
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
87.4
67.7
90.3
87
85.5
16
14=
Australian National University
Australia
85.8
93.2
84.7
76.8
85.1
17
17
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
88.6
77.4
84.6
72.7
84.9
18
21
University of Toronto
Canada
82.5
79.1
87.6
84.2
82.7
19
16
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
85.5
71.3
87.2
73.8
82.4
20
20
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
United States
81.7
60.5
96.5
94
82.2
21
30=
Monash University
Australia
82.2
85.9
80.1
70.5
80.7
22
19
New York University (NYU)
United States
76.6
88.8
90.6
88.3
80.3
23
23
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
79.9
79.1
83.4
73.8
79.1
24
The University of Tokyo
Japan
85.5
89.8
64.9
45.6
78.9
25
22
The University of Queensland
Australia
79.6
74.6
85.9
75.8
78.8
26
39
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
79.7
85.7
84.1
66.7
78.6
27
26
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
76.5
74.5
94.2
82.7
78.1
28
25
Cornell University
United States
76.4
64.4
93.1
88.9
77.9
29
51-100
The University of Sydney
Australia
77.8
78.4
83
74.8
77.7
30
34
Freie Universitä,t Berlin
Germany
79.9
68.8
84.1
68
77.2
30
32
Humboldt-Universitä,t zu Berlin
Germany
84.2
63.1
74.1
55.2
77.2
32
30=
Seoul National University
Korea, South
78.5
93.3
74.3
60.7
77.1
33
35
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
71.3
91.5
96.7
87
76.9
33
49=
Peking University
China
81
80.4
77.9
55.2
76.9
35
49=
Stockholm University
Sweden
80.7
35
93.6
80.3
76.7
36
24
University of Essex
United Kingdom
80.2
33.4
94.7
82
76.5
37
41=
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
78.1
80.3
80.9
62.3
76.1
38
51-100
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
75.7
81.5
84.7
69.3
75.8
39
46
University of British Columbia
Canada
71.4
89.1
90.7
82
75.7
40
27
Utrecht University
Netherlands
75.3
59.8
90.1
82.7
75.6
41
29
Duke University
United States
70.8
84.1
92.2
86.3
75.5
42
51-100
Universidad Nacional Autó,noma de Mé,xico (UNAM)