Rank Institution Country Academic Employer Citations Score 1 University of Oxford United Kingdom 97.0 90.8 86.7 94.3 2 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 99.9 77.5 79.9 93.7 3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 95.7 91.8 71.8 90.5 4 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 90.6 83.2 89.7 89.7 5 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 93.2 78.9 73.7 87.9 6 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 91.8 85.0 68.5 86.5 7 The University of Tokyo Japan 93.6 79.3 62.3 85.9 8 University of British Columbia Canada 89.9 71.7 73.9 84.9 9= Australian National University (ANU) Australia 87.8 85.3 71.5 84.3 9= University of Chicago United States 85.5 78.4 83.2 84.3 11 University of Toronto Canada 89.5 73.4 69.7 83.9 12 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 80.5 79.8 85.5 81.4 13 Durham University United Kingdom 77.9 66.9 96.8 80.6 14 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 80.8 68.5 84.3 80.3 15 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 81.1 83.9 74.4 80.0 16 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 77.6 76.7 84.5 78.9 17 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 80.6 62.6 80.3 78.7 18= McGill University Canada 83.2 73.9 60.4 77.7 18= University of Washington United States 75.7 69.0 88.9 77.7 20 Lund University Sweden 77.9 59.6 85.0 77.5 21 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 82.2 39.7 79.3 77.4 22 King's College London (KCL) United Kingdom 76.0 68.6 82.6 76.6 23 University of Bristol United Kingdom 77.0 70.2 78.1 76.5 24= The University of Melbourne Australia 77.3 84.4 68.6 76.3 24= The University of Sydney Australia 78.8 79.9 65.5 76.3 26 Kyoto University Japan 82.7 75.9 52.4 76.0 27 Seoul National University (SNU) Korea, South 81.2 65.2 62.1 75.8 28 Universität Wien Austria 75.7 65.1 78.1 75.1 29 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico 77.2 59.4 75.1 75.0 30 University of Minnesota United States 73.2 54.1 85.5 73.8 31 Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Brazil 75.0 57.7 77.0 73.7 32 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 81.3 54.7 55.4 73.5 33 The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Hong Kong 76.0 63.3 69.1 73.4 34 Peking University China 76.6 76.5 59.4 73.2 35= The University of Warwick United Kingdom 74.3 75.5 64.7 72.5 35= Tsinghua University China 71.8 77.4 72.7 72.5 37= Freie Universität Berlin Germany 80.5 34.1 61.6 72.1 37= Utrecht University Netherlands 75.0 49.6 73.1 72.1 39 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 73.4 38.0 82.1 71.6 40 Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Ireland 70.2 73.6 73.3 71.2 41 Pennsylvania State University United States 70.8 75.4 70.0 71.1 42 Monash University Australia 73.1 78.0 57.4 70.5 43= Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Belgium 70.6 46.3 80.7 70.2 43= University of Birmingham United Kingdom 67.7 71.0 78.4 70.2 45 Indiana University Bloomington United States 70.2 60.3 74.2 70.0 46 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 75.5 47.7 58.4 69.3 47 Dartmouth College United States 67.3 62.9 78.8 69.2 48 The University of Sheffield United Kingdom 65.9 53.9 84.3 68.4 49= Northwestern University United States 67.8 63.7 71.6 68.2 49= The University of Auckland New Zealand 65.5 74.3 74.5 68.2 49= University of Sussex United Kingdom 66.9 56.4 78.5 68.2

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