In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings®, - Development Studies 2015, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.
Rank 2015
Rank 2014
Institution
Country
Academic
Employer
Citations
Score
1
University of Sussex
United Kingdom
100
44.6
90
85
90.7
2
Harvard University
United States
87.6
100
93.4
83.2
89.1
3
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
85
84.3
94.8
98.9
88.5
4
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
82.3
99
90.2
100
87.8
5
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
United Kingdom
83.9
92
90.9
95.4
87.5
6
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
82.1
84.4
100
92.8
86.6
7
University of Cape Town
South Africa
84.8
87.6
92.2
81.3
85.7
8
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
79.9
96.2
91
92.8
85.1
9
Stanford University
United States
77.5
92.7
95.1
81.3
82.2
10
Australian National University
Australia
75.5
91.5
87.3
85
80.3
11
University of East Anglia (UEA)
United Kingdom
77.5
37.9
94.8
81.3
76.7
12
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States
73.6
83
91.9
69.1
76.6
13
SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
United Kingdom
72.1
69.8
86.8
86.7
76.3
13
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
73
80
86.6
77
76.3
15
University of The Witwatersrand
South Africa
75.3
86.6
80.1
65.9
75.7
16
The University of Tokyo
Japan
72.1
88.4
81.1
72
75.1
17
University of Delhi
India
70.6
86.6
79.1
79.2
74.8
18
Princeton University
United States
75.1
90.5
73.4
62.4
74.5
19
The University of Melbourne
Australia
70.2
82.8
84.5
74.6
74.3
20
University of Toronto
Canada
68.4
54.9
90.7
85
72.9
21
The University of Queensland
Australia
60.4
76.5
97.8
94.1
72.7
22
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
66
74.4
92.8
77
72.5
23
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
69.6
89.8
77
65.9
72.2
24
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
64.3
72.1
92.4
81.3
71.8
25
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
65.3
80.5
86
77
71.7
26
Johns Hopkins University
United States
65.7
74.8
87.8
77
71.6
26
Wageningen University
Netherlands
65.7
44.8
91.8
92.8
71.6
28
King's College London (KCL)
United Kingdom
65.8
78.6
83.8
69.1
70.3
28
Universidad Nacional Autó,noma de Mé,xico (UNAM)
Mexico
78.2
75.9
57.1
48.3
70.3
30
The University of Sydney
Australia
64.4
74.4
85.1
72
69.6
31
Uppsala University
Sweden
69.5
51.6
78.7
72
69.5
32
Universiti Malaya (UM)
Malaysia
69
81.8
65.2
65.9
69.2
33
Makerere University
Uganda
73.3
59.6
62
53.8
67.3
34
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
55.5
71.6
89.2
88.4
67.1
34
University of Chicago
United States
62.5
85.7
78
62.4
67.1
36
Brown University
United States
60.3
73.4
84.9
69.1
66.6
37
University of Reading
United Kingdom
57.7
44.8
92.6
88.4
66.3
38
Monash University
Australia
53.1
76.8
90.9
86.7
66.2
39
KU Leuven
Belgium
58.2
51.7
94.1
79.2
66.1
40
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
61.9
94.5
68.3
58.4
65.6
41
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
67.3
63.5
66.7
58.4
65.5
42
McGill University
Canada
63.4
53.8
79.8
65.9
65.3
43
American University in Cairo
Egypt
67.8
59.2
64.4
53.8
64.3
44
Universidad de Los Andes Colombia
Colombia
65
73.6
64.1
53.8
64
45
University College Dublin
Ireland
61.7
57
77.4
62.4
63.7
46
Stellenbosch University
South Africa
54.2
78.3
80.5
74.6
63.6
47
The University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
53.3
54.5
88.9
81.3
63
47
University of Bath
United Kingdom
56.2
52.1
83.2
77
63
47
University of Nairobi
Kenya
64.7
33.4
72.7
65.9
63
50
Georg-August-Universitä,t Gö,ttingen
Germany
56.4
38.4
89.2
79.2
62.9
50
Lund University
Sweden
58.4
51.7
82.2
69.1
62.9
51-100
American University
United States
49.4
56.8
88.2
77
51-100
Beijing Normal University
China
50.1
61.9
71.1
69.1
51-100
Boston University
United States
51.9
70.4
67.4
62.4
51-100
Carleton University
Canada
48.4
73.6
75.7
69.1
51-100
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
45.9
56.7
84.4
74.6
51-100
Duke University
United States
36.4
81.6
90.9
81.3
51-100
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands
35.6
68.4
89.3
81.3
51-100
Fudan University
China
45.8
74.6
70.8
53.8
51-100
George Washington University
United States
51.2
50.9
84.6
74.6
51-100
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
53.4
63.7
84.5
62.4
51-100
Leiden University
Netherlands
56
50.4
72
69.1
51-100
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)