Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016
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Total 480 universities
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| 1 |
Harvard University
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🇺🇸 United States | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 79.2 | 100.0 |
| 2 |
Stanford University
(SU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 74.7 | 42.9 | 89.6 | 80.1 | 73.6 | 55.8 | 73.1 |
| 3 |
University of California, Berkeley
(UCB)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 70.1 | 65.1 | 79.4 | 64.9 | 68.7 | 59.0 | 68.4 |
| 4 |
University of Cambridge
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 69.6 | 78.3 | 96.6 | 51.3 | 56.7 | 58.5 | 67.8 |
| 5 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 69.2 | 69.4 | 80.7 | 55.3 | 71.7 | 69.7 | 61.7 |
| 6 |
Princeton University
|
🇺🇸 United States | 62.0 | 53.3 | 98.0 | 51.3 | 47.2 | 74.4 | 42.9 |
| 7 |
University of Oxford
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 58.9 | 49.7 | 54.9 | 56.2 | 55.0 | 46.1 | 74.5 |
| 8 |
California Institute of Technology
(CIT)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 57.8 | 51.0 | 66.7 | 39.7 | 57.3 | 100.0 | 43.6 |
| 9 |
Columbia University
(CU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 56.7 | 63.5 | 65.9 | 41.0 | 53.3 | 33.3 | 68.9 |
| 10 |
University of Chicago
(UC)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 54.2 | 59.8 | 86.3 | 34.0 | 42.7 | 44.5 | 50.2 |
| 11 |
Yale University
|
🇺🇸 United States | 52.8 | 47.6 | 50.4 | 44.7 | 58.4 | 37.1 | 62.6 |
| 12 |
University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 51.5 | 29.5 | 47.1 | 58.0 | 44.5 | 33.4 | 71.4 |
| 13 |
Cornell University
(CU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 49.0 | 42.0 | 49.8 | 41.0 | 47.0 | 40.9 | 60.5 |
| 14 |
University of California San Diego
(UCSD)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 47.8 | 19.2 | 35.5 | 49.2 | 57.8 | 37.0 | 63.5 |
| 15 |
University of Washington
(UW)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 47.3 | 21.2 | 31.6 | 49.2 | 52.1 | 31.0 | 72.6 |
| 16 |
Johns Hopkins University
(JHU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 46.0 | 37.7 | 33.6 | 38.4 | 47.0 | 31.1 | 71.9 |
| 17 |
University College London
(UCL)
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 45.3 | 28.1 | 36.2 | 39.7 | 41.6 | 32.2 | 73.9 |
| 18 |
University of Pennsylvania
|
🇺🇸 United States | 44.5 | 31.6 | 33.8 | 42.3 | 39.4 | 37.8 | 67.7 |
| 19 |
ETH Zurich
|
🇨🇭 Switzerland | 43.8 | 29.5 | 35.5 | 35.5 | 50.2 | 46.1 | 55.6 |
| 20 |
The University of Tokyo
(UT)
|
🇯🇵 Japan | 42.2 | 36.3 | 25.3 | 30.8 | 47.5 | 29.7 | 70.0 |
| 21 |
University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 41.9 | 0.0 | 39.9 | 37.0 | 52.1 | 33.5 | 59.3 |
| 22 |
Imperial College London
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 41.6 | 14.5 | 35.8 | 43.5 | 32.9 | 39.9 | 64.0 |
| 23 |
University of Michigan
(UM)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 40.8 | 34.4 | 0.0 | 51.3 | 41.6 | 25.8 | 76.6 |
| 23 |
Washington University in St. Louis
(WUSTL)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 40.8 | 22.9 | 24.9 | 51.3 | 42.0 | 37.2 | 51.7 |
| 25 |
Duke University
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🇺🇸 United States | 40.4 | 15.4 | 19.2 | 57.1 | 38.9 | 25.9 | 62.1 |
| 26 |
Northwestern University
(NU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 40.0 | 15.4 | 22.1 | 54.3 | 35.6 | 32.8 | 59.6 |
| 27 |
University of Toronto
|
🇨🇦 Canada | 39.4 | 19.9 | 17.2 | 32.4 | 38.2 | 30.3 | 80.1 |
| 28 |
University of Wisconsin–Madison
(UW)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 39.2 | 32.8 | 34.8 | 30.8 | 35.0 | 24.3 | 62.7 |
| 29 |
New York University
(NYU)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 38.0 | 28.1 | 31.9 | 32.4 | 39.5 | 22.0 | 57.3 |
| 30 |
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 37.7 | 29.9 | 36.2 | 30.8 | 33.1 | 29.1 | 55.1 |
| 30 |
University of Copenhagen
(UCPH)
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🇩🇰 Denmark | 37.7 | 21.8 | 18.8 | 32.4 | 36.2 | 41.9 | 65.2 |
| 32 |
Kyoto University
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🇯🇵 Japan | 37.2 | 31.6 | 37.2 | 27.1 | 31.5 | 23.8 | 58.4 |
| 33 |
University of Minnesota
|
🇺🇸 United States | 36.8 | 29.5 | 16.3 | 39.7 | 32.5 | 24.1 | 64.8 |
| 34 |
University of British Columbia
(UBC)
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🇨🇦 Canada | 36.7 | 15.4 | 18.8 | 42.3 | 32.7 | 27.2 | 64.5 |
| 35 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(UNC)
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🇺🇸 United States | 36.4 | 8.9 | 23.7 | 39.7 | 32.6 | 33.8 | 60.8 |
| 35 |
University of Manchester
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 36.4 | 18.5 | 32.6 | 37.0 | 26.4 | 29.0 | 58.4 |
| 37 |
Rockefeller University
|
🇺🇸 United States | 36.1 | 17.0 | 59.8 | 27.1 | 41.8 | 40.0 | 19.3 |
| 38 |
University of Colorado Boulder
(UCB)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 35.1 | 12.6 | 34.1 | 30.8 | 36.8 | 35.1 | 46.2 |
| 39 |
Sorbonne Université
|
🇫🇷 France | 34.5 | 33.6 | 27.4 | 20.5 | 29.7 | 25.3 | 61.9 |
| 40 |
The University of Melbourne
|
🇦🇺 Australia | 33.9 | 17.0 | 13.3 | 35.5 | 24.8 | 32.2 | 67.9 |
| 41 |
University of Edinburgh
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 33.6 | 20.5 | 24.9 | 32.4 | 31.3 | 26.8 | 52.1 |
| 42 |
University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB)
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🇺🇸 United States | 33.3 | 14.5 | 39.1 | 32.4 | 27.3 | 38.2 | 37.7 |
| 44 |
The University of Texas at Austin
|
🇺🇸 United States | 32.7 | 16.2 | 16.3 | 29.0 | 37.0 | 26.6 | 56.3 |
| 44 |
Karolinska Institutet
(KI)
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🇸🇪 Sweden | 32.7 | 25.6 | 26.6 | 22.9 | 25.1 | 40.2 | 52.6 |
| 47 |
Heidelberg University
|
🇩🇪 Germany | 32.3 | 19.9 | 25.3 | 22.9 | 30.6 | 34.9 | 51.8 |
| 47 |
Technical University of Munich
(TUM)
|
🇩🇪 Germany | 32.3 | 34.8 | 21.6 | 29.0 | 23.3 | 34.6 | 49.7 |
| 49 |
University of Southern California
(USC)
|
🇺🇸 United States | 32.2 | 0.0 | 31.7 | 35.5 | 23.4 | 26.2 | 53.9 |
| 50 |
King's College London
(KCL)
|
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | 31.6 | 21.2 | 21.0 | 34.0 | 19.6 | 27.9 | 55.3 |
| 51 |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
(LMU)
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🇩🇪 Germany | 31.4 | 25.6 | 19.1 | 25.1 | 29.4 | 33.9 | 50.3 |
| 52 |
University of Maryland, College Park
(UMD)
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🇺🇸 United States | 31.0 | 19.2 | 20.0 | 22.9 | 32.8 | 27.6 | 52.7 |