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Rank 2015
Rank 2014
Institution
Country
Academic
Employer
Citations
Score
1
1
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States
100
90.9
95.1
97.3
97.2
2
2
Harvard University
United States
97.6
98.7
96
91.3
95.7
3
3=
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
Switzerland
94.1
88.6
95.6
100
95.4
4
5
Stanford University
United States
96.1
93.6
96.2
93.4
95.2
5
3=
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
97.8
100
90.7
89.1
94.1
6
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
99
97.1
94.3
80.8
93.1
7
7
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
96.8
97.2
90.5
87.9
93
7
8
Wageningen University
Netherlands
93.4
77.7
92.9
98.7
93
9
9
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
92.2
85.8
95.2
94.4
92.9
10
14
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore
98.7
93.3
91
84.2
92.6
11
11
The University of Queensland
Australia
88.2
83.7
91.7
99.6
91.5
12
27
University of British Columbia
Canada
92.3
85.7
91.1
91.9
91.2
13
12=
The University of Melbourne
Australia
89.3
91.7
92.2
92.4
91
14
19
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
93.3
81.5
88.9
92.9
90.9
15
15
University of California, Davis
United States
90.3
74.3
90.2
96.4
90.2
16
20=
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark
87.9
68.3
96.2
96.4
90.1
17
12=
Australian National University
Australia
90.1
86.5
91.1
90.2
90
18
46
Princeton University
United States
84
85.6
100
90.8
89.9
19
42
University of Washington
United States
90
71.3
90.7
93.9
89.3
20
20=
Cornell University
United States
87.7
84.4
90.1
91.9
89
21
32=
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
85.4
76.9
91.4
95.4
88.6
22
23=
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States
89
85.9
91.7
83.5
88
23
10
University of Michigan
United States
85
81.3
91.9
91.3
87.9
24
16
Yale University
United States
87.8
92.7
92.2
80
87.4
25
17
Tsinghua University
China
86
79.9
85.7
93.4
87.2
26
36
Duke University
United States
81.6
76.7
95.9
91.3
87.1
27
38
Stockholm University
Sweden
81.9
66.9
95.6
93.9
86.8
28
34
Peking University
China
86.4
82.9
86.1
89.1
86.7
28
23=
University of East Anglia (UEA)
United Kingdom
87.5
40.8
99.8
90.8
86.7
30
51-100
Oregon State University
United States
85.5
49.1
92
97.3
86.4
31
30
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
84.9
75.3
95.6
83.5
86.3
31
48=
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Singapore
86.3
78.5
93.7
82.2
86.3
31
28=
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
Malaysia
76.4
73
98.8
94.9
86.3
34
51-100
University of Minnesota
United States
81.8
76.6
92.6
90.2
86.1
35
43
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
80.9
75.3
89.8
93.9
85.8
36
39
Arizona State University
United States
82.2
67
93.7
90.8
85.7
36
25=
The University of Tokyo
Japan
94
88.4
79.1
77.8
85.7
36
51-100
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
United States
78.9
62.5
98.8
92.9
85.7
36
51-100
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
84.8
63.6
91.5
90.2
85.7
40
32=
Columbia University
United States
80.9
84.1
91.5
86.7
85.3
40
50
The University of New South Wales
Australia
86.1
89.3
85.7
82.2
85.3
42
44
University of Texas at Austin
United States
83.7
80.5
88
86.7
85.2
43
45
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States
90.8
81
87.4
75.3
85.1
43
51-100
McGill University
Canada
83.7
83.7
90.1
82.9
85.1
43
47
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
85.2
77
89.9
83.5
85.1
43
28=
University of Toronto
Canada
82.6
82.5
87.5
87.9
85.1
47
101-150
James Cook University
Australia
85.1
63.2
90.1
88.5
85
48
51-100
Ecole Polytechnique Fé,dé,rale de Lausanne
Switzerland
77.6
81.6
94.4
87.9
84.8
49
51-100
Colorado State University
United States
83.4
64
89.1
90.8
84.7
50
31
Lund University
Sweden
84.2
69.3
90
85.5
84.5
51-100
48=
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
79.4
76.5
86.7
70.9
51-100
51-100
Johns Hopkins University
United States
83.2
73.9
90.4
73.6
51-100
51-100
KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science &, Technology
Korea, South
81.9
78.2
85.5
65.9
51-100
41
Kyoto University
Japan
89.9
81.4
79.6
78.5
51-100
51-100
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
71.1
71.4
93
85.5
51-100
51-100
Michigan State University
United States
70.6
68
88.9
90.8
51-100
51-100
Monash University
Australia
82.4
82.7
87.8
82.9
51-100
51-100
National Taiwan University (NTU)
Taiwan
82.7
74.8
84.7
83.5
51-100
101-150
Ohio State University
United States
73.2
67.7
87.5
82.2
51-100
51-100
Pennsylvania State University
United States
75.5
60.1
91.7
93.9
51-100
51-100
Purdue University
United States
72.9
77.6
87.3
85.5
51-100
18
Seoul National University
Korea, South
86.1
83.6
85.6
78.5
51-100
51-100
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
71.1
74.9
89.4
80.8
51-100
51-100
Texas A&,M University
United States
81.1
77
84.7
89.7
51-100
25=
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
84.9
82.9
89.7
69
51-100
51-100
The University of Adelaide
Australia
75.7
78.8
89.2
79.3
51-100
51-100
The University of Auckland
New Zealand
85.4
88.6
85.4
74.5
51-100
40
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
80.9
77.7
88
76.2
51-100
35
The University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
79.7
65.6
92.5
89.1
51-100
51-100
The University of Sydney
Australia
78.9
88.5
84.4
80
51-100
101-150
The University of Western Australia
Australia
80.4
79.6
83.1
76.2
51-100
51-100
UCL (University College London)
United Kingdom
78.5
77.6
88.1
82.2
51-100
101-150
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Argentina
84.9
74.4
86
70
51-100
51-100
Universidad Nacional Autó,noma de Mé,xico (UNAM)