Rank 2015 | Rank 2014 | Institution | Country | Academic | Employer | Citations | Score | |
1 | 1 | Harvard University | United States | 100 | 96.6 | 95.3 | 98 | 98 |
2 | 2 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 96.6 | 97.2 | 94.1 | 86.2 | 94.1 |
3 | 4 | Stanford University | United States | 95.5 | 81.7 | 97.3 | 96.2 | 93.2 |
4 | 3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 94.8 | 97.4 | 92.3 | 85.3 | 92.9 |
5 | 6 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 91.2 | 75.1 | 97 | 100 | 90.9 |
5 | 5 | Yale University | United States | 90.7 | 80.7 | 96 | 96.2 | 90.9 |
7 | 10= | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 91.7 | 77.1 | 95.7 | 89.5 | 89.1 |
7 | 7 | University of Michigan | United States | 93.9 | 63.4 | 96.1 | 98.3 | 89.1 |
9 | 9 | UCL (University College London) | United Kingdom | 89.8 | 77.1 | 93.3 | 95.1 | 89 |
10 | 12 | Princeton University | United States | 91.5 | 75.6 | 100 | 79.9 | 87.7 |
11 | 8 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 89.7 | 76.4 | 91.2 | 87.7 | 86.9 |
11 | 16 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands | 86.8 | 71.4 | 95 | 94.4 | 86.9 |
13 | 13 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 85.7 | 76.5 | 93.3 | 91.6 | 86.6 |
14 | 10= | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 84 | 97.2 | 88.2 | 78.7 | 86.4 |
15 | 15 | The University of New South Wales | Australia | 85.3 | 93.7 | 87.4 | 79.3 | 86.2 |
16 | 17 | Columbia University | United States | 82.2 | 76.1 | 92.7 | 93.2 | 85.3 |
17 | 21 | University of Chicago | United States | 85.6 | 73.6 | 95.5 | 84.3 | 84.9 |
18 | 14 | The University of Queensland | Australia | 83.8 | 89.9 | 85.2 | 79.3 | 84.4 |
18 | 18 | University of Toronto | Canada | 83.4 | 74.8 | 89.4 | 90.8 | 84.4 |
20 | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 84.7 | 81.7 | 94.4 | 74.3 | 84 |
21 | 27 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 80.6 | 74.9 | 94.1 | 89.5 | 83.9 |
22 | 28 | King's College London (KCL) | United Kingdom | 76.7 | 75.1 | 96.1 | 92.4 | 83.4 |
23 | 20 | McGill University | Canada | 84.2 | 75 | 89.2 | 81.1 | 82.7 |
24 | 24 | The University of Sydney | Australia | 79.4 | 100 | 81.5 | 72.2 | 82.5 |
24 | 23 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 86.3 | 61.8 | 91.4 | 86.7 | 82.5 |
26 | 30 | Australian National University | Australia | 81.7 | 92.3 | 83.9 | 67.5 | 81.4 |
27 | 31 | The University of Western Australia | Australia | 80.5 | 77.4 | 89.4 | 74.3 | 80.4 |
28 | 34 | The University of Auckland | New Zealand | 77.4 | 98 | 82.6 | 65.8 | 80.2 |
29 | 46 | University of Minnesota | United States | 81.9 | 52 | 91.8 | 91.2 | 79.8 |
30 | 32= | University of Ghent | Belgium | 74.1 | 73.1 | 93 | 84.3 | 79.7 |
31 | 19 | University of Otago | New Zealand | 76.3 | 87.7 | 88.7 | 69.2 | 79.6 |
32 | 47 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 75 | 65.2 | 93.4 | 88.6 | 79.4 |
33 | 43 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States | 76.4 | 63.1 | 92.4 | 87.7 | 79.2 |
34 | 25= | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 76.3 | 90.8 | 82 | 69.9 | 79.1 |
35 | 32= | Duke University | United States | 72.2 | 64.9 | 96 | 89 | 78.9 |
36 | 40 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom | 78.5 | 68 | 91 | 78.1 | 78.8 |
37 | 29 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 75.4 | 71.3 | 91.2 | 78.7 | 78.4 |
38 | 51-100 | Northwestern University | United States | 73.3 | 58.6 | 95.4 | 90.3 | 78.2 |
39 | 51-100 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Netherlands | 72 | 64 | 95.9 | 86.2 | 78 |
40 | 22 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | United Kingdom | 86.2 | 91.6 | 69.6 | 55.9 | 77.9 |
41 | 25= | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 76.2 | 93.6 | 78.5 | 63.1 | 77.5 |
41 | 36 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom | 68.9 | 80.5 | 89.3 | 79.9 | 77.5 |
43 | 41 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 74.2 | 85.3 | 83.8 | 68.4 | 77.2 |
44 | 45 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 79.3 | 77.1 | 80.9 | 67.5 | 76.8 |
45 | 51-100 | Brown University | United States | 72.2 | 69.2 | 89 | 81.1 | 76.7 |
46 | 101-150 | Ohio State University | United States | 79.7 | 50.2 | 90.3 | 83.2 | 76.6 |
46 | 44 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 68.4 | 59.5 | 94.9 | 91.6 | 76.6 |
48 | 51-100 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 70.7 | 69.8 | 92 | 79.3 | 76.5 |
48 | 38= | Monash University | Australia | 66.9 | 96.3 | 81.5 | 70.7 | 76.5 |
50 | 51-100 | Radboud University | Netherlands | 71.6 | 59.2 | 91.5 | 88.1 | 76.4 |
51-100 | 101-150 | Arizona State University | United States | 64.1 | 59 | 92.2 | 89.9 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Birkbeck College, University of London | United Kingdom | 66.4 | 52.8 | 94 | 76.3 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Boston University | United States | 69.5 | 66.8 | 91.5 | 83.2 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 66.9 | 63.1 | 94.1 | 76.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Cornell University | United States | 67.9 | 71.3 | 93.8 | 79.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany | 70.4 | 63 | 83.4 | 66.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Indiana University Bloomington | United States | 61.4 | 64.1 | 91.7 | 79.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Johns Hopkins University | United States | 66.2 | 58.7 | 87.7 | 81.6 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden | 60.2 | 56.5 | 95.9 | 79.9 | |
51-100 | 38= | KU Leuven | Belgium | 73.3 | 73.9 | 83.8 | 76.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Leiden University | Netherlands | 69.6 | 57.2 | 90.6 | 79.9 | |
51-100 | 37 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany | 71.9 | 77.6 | 86.4 | 70.7 | |
51-100 | 35 | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 65.9 | 81.1 | 90.6 | 78.1 | |
51-100 | 48= | Macquarie University | Australia | 68.9 | 90.5 | 84 | 68.4 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Michigan State University | United States | 58.3 | 57.2 | 91.7 | 87.7 | |
51-100 | 48= | Peking University | China | 73.2 | 89.3 | 80.2 | 63.1 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Pennsylvania State University | United States | 70.8 | 60.4 | 89.9 | 81.6 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Queen's University, Ontario | Canada | 62.9 | 66.3 | 92.6 | 75.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | The University of Adelaide | Australia | 71.6 | 78.5 | 77 | 62.2 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 72.7 | 88.1 | 70.3 | 55.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 67.3 | 78.6 | 82.5 | 65 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Western University | Canada | 65.9 | 57.8 | 94 | 82.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Tilburg University | Netherlands | 72.8 | 59.3 | 84.1 | 71.4 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 69.5 | 77 | 81.5 | 67.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Bologna | Italy | 66.6 | 71.6 | 84.2 | 66.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) | Belgium | 65.9 | 73.4 | 88.8 | 72.9 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | Université de Montréal | Canada | 70.8 | 63.6 | 83 | 72.2 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom | 65 | 69.8 | 85.5 | 73.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom | 62.8 | 74.5 | 89.2 | 72.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of California, Davis | United States | 54.9 | 68.2 | 93.4 | 85.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 67.5 | 55.5 | 96.5 | 82.2 | |
51-100 | 151-200 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States | 69.5 | 47.3 | 92.2 | 77.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States | 67.8 | 51.8 | 95.9 | 80.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom | 69.2 | 62.1 | 91.8 | 74.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Florida | United States | 60.2 | 60.8 | 89 | 82.2 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 62.7 | 62.7 | 88.9 | 78.7 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom | 61.8 | 72.4 | 87.9 | 68.4 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 66.9 | 60.2 | 89.3 | 79.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom | 60.8 | 73.1 | 89.4 | 69.9 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | United States | 65.2 | 53.4 | 92.7 | 89.5 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Southern California | United States | 63 | 55.3 | 91 | 81.1 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom | 66.8 | 68.8 | 81.6 | 68.4 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Virginia | United States | 64.2 | 56.9 | 97 | 85.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Washington | United States | 69 | 61.8 | 91 | 86.2 | |
51-100 | 101-150 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 67.6 | 63.1 | 88.2 | 70.7 | |
51-100 | 42 | University of York | United Kingdom | 71.1 | 67.9 | 88.7 | 75 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | University of Zurich (UZH) | Switzerland | 63.7 | 79.4 | 87.6 | 75.6 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Utrecht University | Netherlands | 68.5 | 63.3 | 90.7 | 83.2 | |
51-100 | 48= | Vanderbilt University | United States | 73 | 53.8 | 91.7 | 83.8 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Victoria University of Wellington | New Zealand | 73.7 | 88.1 | 79.5 | 62.2 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States | 60.9 | 45.5 | 97.8 | 90.3 | |
51-100 | 51-100 | York University | Canada | 68.5 | 63.5 | 91.2 | 77.5 | |