In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® - Mathematics 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 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | 98.7 | 100.0 | 97.0 | 100.0 | 98.9 |
| 2 | 1 | Harvard University | United States | 97.4 | 98.3 | 98.0 | 98.2 | 97.9 |
| 3 | 4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States | 100.0 | 94.8 | 94.3 | 97.6 | 97.3 |
| 4= | 5 | Stanford University | United States | 95.9 | 93.7 | 100.0 | 99.4 | 97.0 |
| 4= | 3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | 97.2 | 99.4 | 95.0 | 96.4 | 97.0 |
| 6 | 6 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States | 97.8 | 87.6 | 94.9 | 96.4 | 94.9 |
| 7 | 9 | ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) | Switzerland | 91.4 | 91.1 | 93.3 | 94.4 | 92.3 |
| 8 | 7 | Princeton University | United States | 96.8 | 79.5 | 94.8 | 93.0 | 92.2 |
| 9 | 8 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States | 90.5 | 81.3 | 95.0 | 95.1 | 90.5 |
| 10 | 13 | New York University (NYU) | United States | 92.9 | 83.5 | 93.4 | 87.0 | 89.9 |
| 11= | 12 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore | 86.6 | 89.2 | 91.3 | 91.6 | 89.1 |
| 11= | 10 | University of Chicago | United States | 87.3 | 84.5 | 98.6 | 87.8 | 89.1 |
| 13 | 11 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | 90.0 | 88.4 | 89.4 | 87.0 | 89.0 |
| 14 | 16 | University of Toronto | Canada | 84.2 | 83.7 | 95.4 | 93.0 | 88.1 |
| 15 | 19 | Columbia University | United States | 81.4 | 87.4 | 91.2 | 93.0 | 86.9 |
| 16 | 15 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States | 90.8 | 75.4 | 91.1 | 85.3 | 86.7 |
| 17 | 14 | University of Michigan | United States | 85.3 | 78.2 | 89.9 | 93.7 | 86.5 |
| 18 | 17 | Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech | France | 87.8 | 84.0 | 87.7 | 81.7 | 85.8 |
| 19 | 18 | The University of Tokyo | Japan | 89.9 | 86.5 | 80.3 | 79.7 | 85.3 |
| 20 | 26= | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland | 82.9 | 84.5 | 90.2 | 84.4 | 85.0 |
| 21= | 31 | Australian National University (ANU) | Australia | 81.0 | 85.4 | 91.1 | 85.3 | 84.8 |
| 21= | 22 | University of Texas at Austin | United States | 81.8 | 73.1 | 92.9 | 94.4 | 84.8 |
| 21= | 23 | Yale University | United States | 85.9 | 81.3 | 92.2 | 78.7 | 84.8 |
| 24 | 26= | University of British Columbia | Canada | 80.3 | 79.7 | 92.7 | 90.1 | 84.6 |
| 25 | 24 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States | 83.1 | 77.0 | 90.9 | 88.6 | 84.5 |
| 26 | 25 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) | United States | 82.0 | 73.4 | 90.9 | 91.6 | 84.0 |
| 27= | 44= | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) | France | 86.8 | 69.6 | 96.4 | 78.7 | 83.7 |
| 27= | 42= | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong | 80.0 | 81.3 | 91.1 | 86.1 | 83.7 |
| 29 | 20= | University of Waterloo | Canada | 81.2 | 82.1 | 85.4 | 87.0 | 83.4 |
| 30 | 46= | Peking University | China | 80.3 | 84.9 | 84.4 | 86.1 | 83.2 |
| 31 | 36 | Kyoto University | Japan | 85.6 | 76.9 | 83.9 | 83.5 | 83.1 |
| 32 | 44= | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 86.4 | 75.3 | 85.4 | 78.7 | 82.4 |
| 33 | 42= | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia | 90.8 | 93.1 | 64.7 | 71.9 | 82.3 |
| 34= | 37= | The University of Melbourne | Australia | 79.3 | 89.8 | 86.1 | 76.5 | 82.2 |
| 34= | 41 | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 74.8 | 85.5 | 92.4 | 83.5 | 82.2 |
| 36= | 34= | Cornell University | United States | 82.2 | 76.0 | 87.4 | 81.7 | 81.9 |
| 36= | 29= | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | 76.9 | 76.7 | 93.9 | 85.3 | 81.9 |
| 38 | 34= | The University of Sydney | Australia | 79.3 | 85.2 | 85.5 | 79.7 | 81.8 |
| 39= | 29= | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 74.2 | 80.5 | 93.2 | 86.1 | 81.6 |
| 39= | 32 | Nanyang Technological University (NTU) | Singapore | 73.1 | 87.2 | 87.8 | 87.0 | 81.6 |
| 41 | 40 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | Germany | 85.5 | 65.5 | 90.3 | 80.7 | 81.5 |
| 42 | 48 | Brown University | United States | 80.2 | 71.7 | 92.2 | 82.6 | 81.4 |
| 43 | 51-100 | Tsinghua University | China | 79.0 | 79.9 | 79.2 | 89.4 | 81.3 |
| 44 | 20= | University of Hong Kong (HKU) | Hong Kong | 77.8 | 91.1 | 86.9 | 71.9 | 81.1 |
| 45= | 49= | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany | 82.4 | 80.2 | 83.0 | 75.4 | 80.7 |
| 45= | 51-100 | Technische Universität München | Germany | 80.2 | 79.1 | 83.3 | 80.7 | 80.7 |
| 47= | 51-100 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) | France | 80.8 | 63.4 | 89.0 | 88.6 | 80.5 |
| 47= | 28 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States | 71.3 | 67.6 | 98.1 | 94.4 | 80.5 |
| 47= | 46= | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States | 74.8 | 72.9 | 88.4 | 91.6 | 80.5 |
| 50= | 49= | Seoul National University (SNU) | South Korea | 80.0 | 81.8 | 82.7 | 77.6 | 80.4 |
| 50= | 33 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) | Hong Kong | 74.8 | 85.6 | 89.4 | 77.6 | 80.4 |
