In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Environmental Sciences 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	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	100.0	89.3	95.5	96.6	97.0
2	4	Stanford University	United States	94.8	94.3	99.0	93.8	95.6
3	6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	98.6	97.9	95.1	84.1	94.0
4	7=	Wageningen University	Netherlands	92.9	80.1	94.1	100.0	93.7
5	2	Harvard University	United States	96.9	99.2	94.3	85.2	93.6
6=	3	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	91.1	89.0	95.3	96.6	93.3
6=	7=	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.8	98.3	91.9	88.8	93.3
8	5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	97.5	100.0	90.9	84.7	92.9
9	9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	89.4	88.0	96.4	91.6	91.6
10	10	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	90.6	91.7	94.0	87.8	90.9
11	12	University of British Columbia	Canada	90.5	82.7	91.8	92.9	90.6
12	11	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	84.3	83.3	91.8	95.9	89.0
13	15	University of California, Davis (UCD)	United States	88.9	70.7	91.4	93.8	88.9
14	14	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	88.2	82.2	89.3	90.7	88.5
15	13	The University of Melbourne	Australia	83.9	90.4	90.7	91.6	88.2
16	24	Yale University	United States	83.7	90.7	97.4	84.7	88.1
17	20	Cornell University	United States	84.3	82.7	91.9	91.2	87.8
18	22	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	87.0	88.8	92.6	81.2	87.1
19	19	University of Washington	United States	84.3	64.4	92.8	91.6	86.3
20	25	Tsinghua University	China	81.6	83.4	87.4	93.4	86.2
21	43=	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	86.7	79.0	93.9	79.4	85.9
22	21	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	80.3	72.7	93.6	92.1	85.8
23	18	Princeton University	United States	77.3	84.5	99.0	86.3	85.7
24=	17	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	82.2	84.0	90.6	86.3	85.5
24=	40=	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	82.2	88.6	89.4	85.8	85.5
26	23	University of Michigan	United States	79.2	80.8	91.8	90.7	85.4
27	31=	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	76.0	81.0	99.6	87.3	85.2
28	27	Stockholm University	Sweden	76.0	66.0	97.2	93.8	84.8
29	36=	The University of Tokyo	Japan	91.7	87.5	81.9	74.6	84.6
30=	43=	McGill University	Canada	77.7	80.4	93.9	87.8	84.5
30=	16	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	76.1	68.2	94.8	94.2	84.5
32	26	Duke University	United States	76.2	74.9	95.4	90.2	84.4
33	28=	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	82.4	43.4	98.2	89.8	84.3
34	36=	Arizona State University	United States	75.4	69.9	95.7	90.7	83.8
35	28=	Peking University	China	81.9	86.7	87.5	81.2	83.6
36	42	University of Texas at Austin	United States	77.1	79.0	90.5	87.8	83.3
37	43=	University of Toronto	Canada	77.8	81.7	89.1	85.8	83.0
38	36=	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	71.0	60.9	100.0	92.9	82.7
39	48	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	68.4	84.0	97.3	88.3	82.2
40	51-100	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	80.1	82.9	87.7	79.4	82.1
41	35	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	75.4	72.0	90.6	87.8	82.0
42	51-100	Texas A&M University	United States	76.4	74.7	85.5	89.8	81.9
43	51-100	Pennsylvania State University	United States	70.2	71.9	92.3	92.5	81.5
44=	40=	Columbia University	United States	72.9	83.7	92.5	83.0	81.4
44=	50	Lund University	Sweden	78.1	71.2	90.3	81.8	81.4
44=	43=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	78.1	77.6	89.6	80.0	81.4
47	34	University of Minnesota	United States	70.6	74.3	92.3	90.2	81.3
48=	31=	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	74.2	77.6	94.1	80.6	81.1
48=	36=	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	76.0	66.5	90.3	85.8	81.1
50	30	Oregon State University	United States	73.8	47.7	92.1	93.8	80.8