Rank 2015 | Rank 2014 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | Score | |
1 | 1 | Harvard University | United States | 99 | 100 | 96.7 | 100 | 99.1 |
2 | 2= | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 97.3 | 90.9 | 95.4 | 96.9 | 96.5 |
3 | 4 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 100 | 83.5 | 91.2 | 84.2 | 95.5 |
4 | 6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 94.6 | 98.8 | 92.3 | 92.9 | 94.7 |
5 | 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 96.2 | 93.9 | 89.9 | 86.3 | 94.2 |
6 | 2= | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 95.8 | 86.5 | 93.4 | 90.1 | 93.9 |
7 | 7 | Stanford University | United States | 90.5 | 94.6 | 97.1 | 97.4 | 92.3 |
8 | 8 | University of Chicago | United States | 93.5 | 84.6 | 92.6 | 84.2 | 91.2 |
9 | 12 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 92.8 | 96 | 83.9 | 77.7 | 90.4 |
10 | 10 | Princeton University | United States | 88.4 | 85.9 | 96.7 | 92.4 | 89.2 |
11 | 9 | Columbia University | United States | 88.2 | 79.8 | 92 | 90.7 | 87.9 |
12 | 11 | University of Michigan | United States | 86.8 | 83.2 | 92.5 | 93.5 | 87.7 |
12 | 13 | Yale University | United States | 86.4 | 83.6 | 96.1 | 94 | 87.7 |
14 | 14= | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 84.7 | 79.7 | 93.9 | 90.1 | 85.5 |
14 | 18 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 87.4 | 67.7 | 90.3 | 87 | 85.5 |
16 | 14= | Australian National University | Australia | 85.8 | 93.2 | 84.7 | 76.8 | 85.1 |
17 | 17 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 88.6 | 77.4 | 84.6 | 72.7 | 84.9 |
18 | 21 | University of Toronto | Canada | 82.5 | 79.1 | 87.6 | 84.2 | 82.7 |
19 | 16 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 85.5 | 71.3 | 87.2 | 73.8 | 82.4 |
20 | 20 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 81.7 | 60.5 | 96.5 | 94 | 82.2 |
21 | 30= | Monash University | Australia | 82.2 | 85.9 | 80.1 | 70.5 | 80.7 |
22 | 19 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 76.6 | 88.8 | 90.6 | 88.3 | 80.3 |
23 | 23 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 79.9 | 79.1 | 83.4 | 73.8 | 79.1 |
24 | | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 85.5 | 89.8 | 64.9 | 45.6 | 78.9 |
25 | 22 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 79.6 | 74.6 | 85.9 | 75.8 | 78.8 |
26 | 39 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 79.7 | 85.7 | 84.1 | 66.7 | 78.6 |
27 | 26 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 76.5 | 74.5 | 94.2 | 82.7 | 78.1 |
28 | 25 | Cornell University | United States | 76.4 | 64.4 | 93.1 | 88.9 | 77.9 |
29 | 51-100 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 77.8 | 78.4 | 83 | 74.8 | 77.7 |
30 | 34 | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany | 79.9 | 68.8 | 84.1 | 68 | 77.2 |
30 | 32 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 84.2 | 63.1 | 74.1 | 55.2 | 77.2 |
32 | 30= | Seoul National University | Korea, South | 78.5 | 93.3 | 74.3 | 60.7 | 77.1 |
33 | 35 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 71.3 | 91.5 | 96.7 | 87 | 76.9 |
33 | 49= | Peking University | China | 81 | 80.4 | 77.9 | 55.2 | 76.9 |
35 | 49= | Stockholm University | Sweden | 80.7 | 35 | 93.6 | 80.3 | 76.7 |
36 | 24 | University of Essex | United Kingdom | 80.2 | 33.4 | 94.7 | 82 | 76.5 |
37 | 41= | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 78.1 | 80.3 | 80.9 | 62.3 | 76.1 |
38 | 51-100 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 75.7 | 81.5 | 84.7 | 69.3 | 75.8 |
39 | 46 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 71.4 | 89.1 | 90.7 | 82 | 75.7 |
40 | 27 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 75.3 | 59.8 | 90.1 | 82.7 | 75.6 |
41 | 29 | Duke University | United States | 70.8 | 84.1 | 92.2 | 86.3 | 75.5 |
42 | 51-100 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | Mexico | 81.4 | 82.2 | 60.7 | 42.7 | 74.6 |
43 | 37 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 70.5 | 77.7 | 92 | 85 | 74.5 |
44 | 28 | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 71.6 | 88.7 | 83.8 | 74.8 | 74.4 |
45 | | Goldsmiths, University of London | United Kingdom | 82.1 | 34.1 | 73.2 | 63.8 | 74.1 |
46 | | Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) | France | 80.4 | 78.4 | 59.5 | 45.6 | 73.9 |
47 | 43 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 74 | 68.9 | 84.9 | 71.6 | 73.7 |
48 | 44= | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 67.5 | 82.8 | 93.1 | 89.5 | 73.6 |
49 | 51-100 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 70 | 94.9 | 85.6 | 71.6 | 73.5 |
50 | 40 | Northwestern University | United States | 68.6 | 60.1 | 100 | 94.5 | 73.2 |
51-100 | 51-100 | Brown University | United States | 61.4 | 72.6 | 85.6 | 71.6 | |
51-100 | | Central European University | Hungary | 72.5 | 78.9 | 76.8 | 65.3 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 62.6 | 76.6 | 79.1 | 62.3 | |
51-100 | 47= | City University of New York | United States | 71.7 | 60.6 | 85 | 79.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Durham University | United Kingdom | 70.9 | 72.7 | 91.3 | 77.7 | |
51-100 | | Fudan University | China | 67.4 | 77 | 67.5 | 48.3 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 61.9 | 83.9 | 88.7 | 76.8 | |
51-100 | | Jawaharlal Nehru University | India | 71.3 | 56 | 68.8 | 50.8 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | KU Leuven | Belgium | 65.3 | 80.1 | 90.4 | 76.8 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Korea University | Korea, South | 72.1 | 91.1 | 73.9 | 59 | |
51-100 | | Kyoto University | Japan | 70.4 | 83.7 | 59 | 35.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | La Trobe University | Australia | 66 | 92.2 | 78.1 | 59 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 67.6 | 69 | 80.4 | 63.8 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | McGill University | Canada | 66.2 | 82.4 | 85.9 | 72.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 64.9 | 62.6 | 91.5 | 87 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Chile | 74.9 | 82.1 | 66.9 | 50.8 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | Germany | 65.2 | 67.8 | 74.5 | 60.7 | |
51-100 | 36 | Sciences Po Paris | France | 74.2 | 63.8 | 80.1 | 65.3 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | The University of New South Wales | Australia | 69.4 | 71.1 | 80.8 | 62.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | United Kingdom | 64.4 | 58.5 | 84.7 | 75.8 | |
51-100 | | Tsinghua University | China | 74.8 | 77.9 | 65.9 | 42.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Argentina | 76.3 | 78.4 | 63.8 | 39.3 | |
51-100 | | Universidad de Chile | Chile | 70.1 | 79.3 | 54.1 | 35.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) | Brazil | 70.9 | 76.2 | 70.4 | 50.8 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universidade Estadual de Campinas | Brazil | 73.9 | 67.5 | 57.9 | 39.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 75.5 | 50.8 | 63.4 | 42.7 | |
51-100 | 33 | Universität Bielefeld | Germany | 79.5 | 37.7 | 77.3 | 65.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Barcelona | Spain | 70.1 | 68.1 | 67.2 | 55.2 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Universität Frankfurt am Main | Germany | 73.1 | 44.6 | 77.1 | 57.1 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Universität Mannheim | Germany | 64.1 | 60.8 | 88.7 | 74.8 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Vienna | Austria | 66.5 | 65 | 78.2 | 65.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Université de Montréal | Canada | 62.9 | 78.4 | 84.8 | 73.8 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 69.5 | 73.3 | 83.8 | 68 | |
51-100 | 41= | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 70.6 | 66.7 | 87.3 | 73.8 | |
51-100 | 44= | University of California, Irvine | United States | 63.9 | 75.2 | 93 | 85.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 62.8 | 67.8 | 94.4 | 82 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden | 68.5 | 34.8 | 86.4 | 72.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Helsinki | Finland | 70.8 | 71.8 | 83.4 | 68 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 59.1 | 66 | 91.6 | 82 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 65.6 | 77.4 | 85.1 | 73.8 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States | 66.7 | 43.3 | 89.8 | 84.2 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Notre Dame | United States | 64.4 | 70.8 | 91.1 | 80.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Oslo | Norway | 69.3 | 60.8 | 87.3 | 74.8 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Washington | United States | 66.9 | 54.5 | 95.8 | 91.3 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 64.1 | 65.9 | 86.3 | 62.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of York | United Kingdom | 67.8 | 64.9 | 84.8 | 68 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Uppsala University | Sweden | 68.8 | 56.3 | 84.8 | 69.3 | |
51-100 | 151-200 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand | 64.5 | 77.3 | 79.7 | 59 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands | 64.5 | 59.1 | 93.3 | 74.8 | |
51-100 | 47= | Yonsei University | Korea, South | 71.9 | 91.4 | 75.8 | 53.1 | |