2016-03-24 来源：新东方前途出国综合
In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Development Studies ,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 , , | 2 , , | Harvard University | United States | 91.8 | 100.0 | 93.6 | 84.1 | 91.7 |
| 2 , , | 1 , , | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | 100.0 | 63.7 | 84.8 | 82.3 | 91.4 |
| 3 , , | 5 , , | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 88.3 | 92.0 | 93.6 | 100.0 | 91.2 |
| 4 , , | 4 , , | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 89.1 | 99.4 | 87.7 | 96.8 | 91.1 |
| 5 , , | 6 , , | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 88.8 | 84.7 | 100.0 | 91.8 | 90.5 |
| 6 , , | 8 , , | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 87.5 | 96.6 | 91.8 | 93.1 | 89.9 |
| 7 , , | 3 , , | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 87.0 | 83.0 | 90.7 | 96.8 | 88.6 |
| 8 , , | 10 , , | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 86.7 | 92.9 | 86.4 | 90.4 | 87.8 |
| 9= | 9 , , | Stanford University | United States | 84.5 | 90.9 | 97.4 | 84.1 | 87.0 |
| 9= | 7 , , | University of Cape Town | South Africa | 86.6 | 86.3 | 90.1 | 85.8 | 87.0 |
| 11 , , | 13= | SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , | United Kingdom | 85.5 | 78.1 | 88.7 | 80.4 | 84.5 |
| 12 , , | 11 , , | University of East Anglia (UEA) | United Kingdom | 86.1 | 41.3 | 86.8 | 80.4 | 80.9 |
| 13 , , | 26= | Wageningen University | Netherlands | 79.9 | 54.9 | 87.2 | 94.4 | 80.7 |
| 14= | 15 , , | University of The Witwatersrand | South Africa | 81.5 | 90.6 | 74.7 | 73.8 | 80.2 |
| 14= | 20 , , | University of Toronto | Canada | 76.9 | 61.5 | 94.1 | 91.8 | 80.2 |
| 16 , , | 12 , , | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 79.6 | 84.1 | 80.9 | 73.8 | 79.4 |
| 17 , , | 18 , , | Princeton University | United States | 80.9 | 83.7 | 74.0 | 71.2 | 78.7 |
| 18 , , | 17 , , | University of Delhi | India | 77.4 | 88.6 | 78.3 | 73.8 | 78.1 |
| 19 , , | 13= | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 74.1 | 83.9 | 83.3 | 80.4 | 77.4 |
| 20 , , | 16 , , | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 79.3 | 87.2 | 67.8 | 71.2 | 77.2 |
| 21 , , | 19 , , | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 77.1 | 75.8 | 79.3 | 73.8 | 76.8 |
| 22 , , | 25 , , | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 72.3 | 80.2 | 88.2 | 80.4 | 76.7 |
| 23= | 21 , , | The University of Queensland (UQ) | Australia | 71.2 | 69.4 | 91.2 | 87.4 | 76.5 |
| 23= | 22 , , | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 76.0 | 79.3 | 81.6 | 71.2 | 76.5 |
| 25 , , | 24 , , | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 72.4 | 70.2 | 90.1 | 82.3 | 76.3 |
| 26 , , | 23 , , | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 74.5 | 85.6 | 77.5 | 73.8 | 76.0 |
| 27 , , | 30 , , | The University of Sydney | Australia | 73.6 | 74.0 | 85.1 | 76.2 | 75.8 |
| 28 , , | 36 , , | Brown University | United States | 73.5 | 64.5 | 85.3 | 76.2 | 74.8 |
| 29 , , | 28= | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 83.3 | 82.6 | 48.4 | 53.2 | 73.5 |
| 30= | 33 , , | Makerere University | Uganda | 75.0 | 82.3 | 65.2 | 68.4 | 73.3 |
| 30= | 32 , , | Universiti Malaya (UM) | Malaysia | 76.9 | 79.4 | 62.9 | 65.3 | 73.3 |
| 32 , , | 31 , , | Uppsala University | Sweden | 74.9 | 50.7 | 78.8 | 71.2 | 72.5 |
| 33 , , | 26= | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 69.3 | 72.6 | 85.2 | 71.2 | 72.3 |
| 34 , , | 51-100 , , | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 63.7 | 72.4 | 91.5 | 85.8 | 72.1 |
| 35 , , | 42 , , | McGill University | Canada | 73.1 | 58.5 | 77.3 | 71.2 | 72.0 |
| 36 , , | 50= | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Germany | 66.5 | 70.9 | 87.4 | 78.4 | 71.9 |
| 37 , , | 28= | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom | 69.4 | 76.1 | 79.0 | 71.2 | 71.8 |
| 38 , , | 51-100 , , | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 65.7 | 81.9 | 81.8 | 78.4 | 71.6 |
| 39 , , | 34= | University of Chicago | United States | 71.5 | 79.1 | 76.8 | 57.8 | 71.0 |
| 40 , , | Arizona State University | United States | 63.9 | 63.6 | 89.3 | 82.3 | 70.4 | |
| 41 , , | 47= | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 64.7 | 53.3 | 91.5 | 82.3 | 70.2 |
| 42 , , | 37 , , | University of Reading | United Kingdom | 61.8 | 54.0 | 94.2 | 89.0 | 70.0 |
| 43 , , | 50= | Lund University | Sweden | 65.0 | 65.5 | 85.8 | 76.2 | 69.9 |
| 44 , , | 47= | University of Bath | United Kingdom | 64.6 | 54.7 | 86.2 | 82.3 | 69.5 |
| 45 , , | 39 , , | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , | Belgium | 64.4 | 58.4 | 84.8 | 80.4 | 69.3 |
| 46 , , | 51-100 , , | The Open University | United Kingdom | 64.5 | 52.8 | 85.8 | 82.3 | 69.2 |
| 47 , , | 38 , , | Monash University | Australia | 60.3 | 71.7 | 85.8 | 85.8 | 69.1 |
| 48 , , | 51-100 , , | Duke University | United States | 57.6 | 80.8 | 90.9 | 84.1 | 68.9 |
| 49 , , | 40 , , | National Taiwan University (NTU) | Taiwan | 68.5 | 89.3 | 67.6 | 57.8 | 68.8 |
| 50 , , | University of Ghent | Belgium | 61.1 | 57.8 | 87.7 | 87.4 | 68.7 |
