2016-03-23 来源：新东方前途出国综合
, , , In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Politics 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.
| 2016 | 2015 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | H | Score |
| 1 , , | 1 , , | Harvard University | United States | 91.8 | 100.0 | 94.2 | 96.7 | 95.0 |
| 2 , , | 3 , , | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 89.2 | 98.6 | 90.1 | 99.2 | 93.1 |
| 3 , , | 4 , , | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 87.7 | 95.4 | 93.6 | 100.0 | 91.8 |
| 4 , , | 5 , , | Sciences Po Paris | France | 100.0 | 82.1 | 82.6 | 69.3 | 89.8 |
| 5 , , | 6 , , | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 85.8 | 99.3 | 83.4 | 79.1 | 88.9 |
| 6 , , | 9 , , | Yale University | United States | 85.5 | 87.5 | 95.3 | 95.8 | 88.1 |
| 7 , , | 8 , , | Stanford University | United States | 84.6 | 92.3 | 90.1 | 89.8 | 88.0 |
| 8 , , | 7 , , | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 87.7 | 88.0 | 84.6 | 86.3 | 87.3 |
| 9 , , | 2 , , | Princeton University | United States | 84.5 | 79.4 | 100.0 | 94.9 | 85.6 |
| 10 , , | 13 , , | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 85.1 | 79.9 | 93.3 | 87.5 | 84.6 |
| 11 , , | 12 , , | Georgetown University | United States | 88.1 | 74.4 | 89.1 | 86.3 | 83.9 |
| 12 , , | 10= | Columbia University | United States | 82.5 | 83.1 | 84.6 | 83.6 | 83.0 |
| 13 , , | 14 , , | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 78.9 | 87.7 | 80.0 | 75.6 | 81.3 |
| 14 , , | 17 , , | University of Chicago | United States | 79.3 | 78.9 | 91.7 | 83.6 | 80.9 |
| 15 , , | 22 , , | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 75.0 | 83.1 | 89.7 | 82.2 | 79.6 |
| 16 , , | 10= | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 81.3 | 76.1 | 82.3 | 75.6 | 79.3 |
| 17 , , | 15 , , | New York University (NYU) | United States | 73.1 | 81.2 | 92.1 | 89.8 | 79.1 |
| 18 , , | 19= | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany | 84.1 | 65.3 | 88.3 | 83.6 | 78.8 |
| 19 , , | 18 , , | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 76.2 | 89.9 | 72.4 | 64.3 | 78.7 |
| 20 , , | 16 , , | Cornell University | United States | 76.1 | 74.3 | 92.7 | 86.3 | 78.2 |
| 21= | 19= | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , | United States | 66.2 | 91.3 | 89.2 | 80.7 | 77.5 |
| 21= | 21 , , | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 83.0 | 59.5 | 97.9 | 83.6 | 77.5 |
| 23 , , | 26 , , | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 72.3 | 90.5 | 77.1 | 64.3 | 77.4 |
| 24 , , | 27 , , | University of Toronto | Canada | 74.7 | 76.0 | 89.3 | 82.2 | 77.3 |
| 25 , , | 23 , , | Leiden University | Netherlands | 78.7 | 67.9 | 88.5 | 85.0 | 77.1 |
| 26 , , | 25 , , | The University of Sydney | Australia | 69.9 | 83.6 | 85.2 | 79.1 | 76.5 |
| 27 , , | 24 , , | George Washington University | United States | 72.0 | 69.3 | 96.9 | 88.7 | 75.4 |
| 28 , , | 36= | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom | 70.7 | 77.6 | 82.6 | 83.6 | 75.3 |
| 29 , , | 32 , , | Peking University | China | 70.9 | 87.4 | 71.3 | 61.3 | 74.9 |
| 30= | 30 , , | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 68.0 | 81.1 | 85.6 | 79.1 | 74.8 |
| 30= | 51-100 , , | University of Essex | United Kingdom | 76.9 | 63.2 | 90.3 | 83.6 | 74.8 |
| 32 , , | 33= | McGill University | Canada | 71.5 | 77.6 | 82.0 | 73.6 | 74.6 |
| 33 , , | 31 , , | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 68.6 | 72.1 | 93.3 | 92.0 | 74.5 |
| 34 , , | 28 , , | University of Michigan | United States | 75.6 | 65.0 | 88.9 | 82.2 | 74.4 |
| 35 , , | 35 , , | SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , | United Kingdom | 81.1 | 66.9 | 75.0 | 61.3 | 74.3 |
| 36 , , | 40= | Fudan University | China | 68.9 | 84.8 | 70.6 | 66.9 | 73.6 |
| 37 , , | 48= | University of British Columbia | Canada | 69.6 | 71.2 | 91.5 | 80.7 | 73.4 |
| 38 , , | 48= | Tsinghua University | China | 66.7 | 84.0 | 75.6 | 71.6 | 73.3 |
| 39 , , | 36= | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 69.3 | 85.4 | 69.8 | 58.0 | 73.1 |
| 40 , , | 29 , , | Central European University | Hungary | 73.2 | 73.3 | 74.1 | 69.3 | 72.9 |
| 41 , , | 42 , , | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 71.2 | 77.1 | 68.5 | 66.9 | 72.3 |
| 42 , , | 43 , , | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 67.3 | 73.2 | 84.0 | 80.7 | 72.1 |
| 43 , , | 33= | Trinity College Dublin (TCD) | Ireland | 66.4 | 74.0 | 88.0 | 77.4 | 71.9 |
| 44 , , | 51-100 , , | European University Institute | Italy | 80.9 | 46.2 | 87.7 | 85.0 | 71.6 |
| 45 , , | 40= | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 61.4 | 84.0 | 81.2 | 73.6 | 71.4 |
| 46 , , | 39 , , | Duke University | United States | 66.5 | 69.0 | 90.1 | 83.6 | 71.3 |
| 47 , , | 45 , , | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 63.2 | 75.1 | 88.3 | 82.2 | 71.2 |
| 48 , , | 44 , , | Kyoto University | Japan | 73.5 | 80.4 | 51.6 | 50.0 | 71.0 |
| 49 , , | 51-100 , , | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 60.3 | 75.0 | 91.8 | 85.0 | 70.3 |
| 50 , , | 46 , , | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 58.6 | 78.3 | 88.0 | 83.6 | 70.0 |
