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 Universität 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-Universität 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-Universität München | 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 | United States | 64.8 | 70.2 | 92.8 | | |
51-100 | | Seoul National University | Korea, South | 70.3 | 87.4 | | | |
51-100 | | Sogang University | Korea, South | 63.1 | 77 | 37 | | |
51-100 | | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 70 | 81 | 33.3 | | |
51-100 | 44 | The University of Nottingham | United Kingdom | 68.1 | 74.9 | 74.2 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Western University | Canada | 59.2 | 67.1 | 84.9 | | |
51-100 | | Tsinghua University | China | 64.8 | 83.8 | 74.6 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universität Freiburg | Germany | 62.2 | 63.5 | 87.8 | | |
51-100 | | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia | 65.5 | 73.4 | 63.9 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University College Dublin | Ireland | 70.2 | 76.8 | 69.6 | | |
51-100 | 40 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 66.9 | 77.6 | 70.8 | | |
51-100 | 35 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 63.7 | 63.2 | 92.1 | | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 60.2 | 70.2 | 82 | | |
51-100 | 50 | University of Cape Town | South Africa | 64.3 | 64.7 | 66.5 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of East Anglia (UEA) | United Kingdom | 65.6 | 63 | 60.8 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 64 | 61.1 | 69.6 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 67 | 78.3 | 85.8 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 60 | 43.8 | 100 | | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Minnesota | United States | 60.3 | 64.3 | 72.3 | | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 65.2 | 49.6 | 76.4 | | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Oslo | Norway | 62.3 | 60.3 | 59.7 | | |
51-100 | 28 | University of Otago | New Zealand | 63.8 | 60.8 | 49.5 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom | 69.7 | 62.6 | 52.8 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | 67.6 | 56.3 | 90.5 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Washington | United States | 64.5 | 64.5 | 80.3 | | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 69.8 | 73.1 | 76 | | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 63.6 | 67.2 | 85.6 | | |
51-100 | 31 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand | 68.6 | 63.4 | 57.3 | | |
51-100 | | Yonsei University | Korea, South | 63.7 | 85.5 | 22.7 | | |