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Rank 2015
Rank 2014
Institution
Country
Academic
Employer
Citations
Score
1
2
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
99.7
100
73.2
97.1
2
1
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
100
98.5
68.1
96.7
3
3
Harvard University
United States
96.3
95
78.9
94.4
4
5
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
94.8
80.7
91.1
93
5
4
Yale University
United States
93.1
89
79.6
91.3
6
7
Stanford University
United States
91
89
86.7
90.4
7
8=
Columbia University
United States
89.4
83.6
84.3
88.3
8
6
University of Chicago
United States
88.6
80.1
87.9
87.7
9
10
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States
88.9
84.1
76.1
87.1
10
8=
Princeton University
United States
89
82.1
73.6
86.8
11
14
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
89.5
78.2
66.6
86.1
12
17=
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
88.2
87.2
61.9
85.5
13
13
University of Toronto
Canada
86.9
79
73.4
84.8
14
11
University of Pennsylvania
United States
82.1
73.6
98.3
82.9
15
41=
New York University (NYU)
United States
82.2
78
90.2
82.6
16
12
Cornell University
United States
82.1
79.2
85.6
82.2
17
15
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom
84.6
82.9
61
82.1
18
19
The University of Sydney
Australia
82
79.3
82.6
81.8
19
17=
Duke University
United States
82.7
70.4
85
81.7
20
21
The University of Melbourne
Australia
82.1
83.7
72.8
81.3
21
33
University of British Columbia
Canada
80.3
81
86.8
81
22
16
The University of Warwick
United Kingdom
80
81.9
80.1
80.2
23
23
University of Michigan
United States
79.3
74.9
90.9
80
24
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
81
85.4
62.9
79.6
25
Australian National University
Australia
78.9
83.2
69.6
78.4
26
24
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
76.9
85.3
82.3
78.3
27
48
King's College London (KCL)
United Kingdom
80.1
75.4
63.9
78
28
The University of Tokyo
Japan
81
89
37
77.4
29
29
University of Texas at Austin
United States
77.7
72.8
77.4
77.2
29
26
University of York
United Kingdom
78.2
67.9
78.2
77.2
31
34
McGill University
Canada
77.3
76.9
71.9
76.7
32
25
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
77.7
79.5
63.9
76.5
33
51-100
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
75.6
86.2
61.9
75.3
33
37
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
76.4
71.9
70.3
75.3
35
51-100
Peking University
China
75.2
87.6
62.9
75.2
36
51-100
Brown University
United States
75.1
71.1
73.9
74.6
36
51-100
Durham University
United Kingdom
74.3
81.9
69.3
74.6
38
30
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
75.6
63.3
77.3
74.5
38
36
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
74.1
72.1
80.4
74.5
40
51-100
Johns Hopkins University
United States
73.8
71
82.4
74.4
41
32
University of Virginia
United States
72.8
71.9
87.7
74.2
42
27
Monash University
Australia
74.3
77.4
63.9
73.6
43
20
The University of Queensland
Australia
73.2
74.4
74.6
73.5
44
45
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
United Kingdom
73.8
65.5
74.9
73.1
45
51-100
Université, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
France
76.2
79.6
38.7
72.8
46
41=
The University of New South Wales
Australia
70.5
79.3
80.4
72.4
47
39
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
70.7
79.5
76.9
72.2
48
51-100
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
71.3
73.6
76.3
72
48
43
University of Exeter
United Kingdom
72.8
66.7
70.8
72
50
22
University of Alberta
Canada
71.6
70.1
69.9
71.3
51-100
51-100
Birkbeck College, University of London
United Kingdom
70
31.3
80.4
51-100
101-150
Boston University
United States
64.9
79.7
79.6
51-100
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
69.6
76.5
43
51-100
51-100
Emory University
United States
63.7
52.4
91.1
51-100
51-100
Freie Universitä,t Berlin
Germany
70.9
67.5
73.1
51-100
51-100
Georgetown University
United States
67
63.4
68.8
51-100
51-100
Humboldt-Universitä,t zu Berlin
Germany
70.9
70.1
57.3
51-100
49
Indiana University Bloomington
United States
68.4
68.1
84.4
51-100
51-100
KU Leuven
Belgium
66.5
61.7
75.1
51-100
Korea University
Korea, South
70.3
85.6
51-100
Kyoto University
Japan
67.3
83.3
14.3
51-100
51-100
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
66
62
71
51-100
101-150
Leiden University
Netherlands
66.6
68.3
71
51-100
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä,t Mü,nchen
Germany
66.6
53
54.5
51-100
101-150
Macquarie University
Australia
65.5
62.9
59.7
51-100
46
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore
73.5
73.1
51.3
51-100
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
69.1
83.7
37
51-100
51-100
Northwestern University
United States
63.2
68.1
90.4
51-100
47
Ohio State University
United States
63.9
58.6
90.5
51-100
38
Pennsylvania State University
United States
63.9
68.6
78
51-100
51-100
Royal Holloway University of London
United Kingdom
61.7
52.3
80.8
51-100
51-100
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick