Ben Sowter, QS Head of research says: “These latest results reveal more diversity than ever in the distribution of world-class universities at the highest levels. We’re providing prospective students with the richest picture yet.”
A new approach to “citations per faculty”, a measure of research impact, has delivered fairer evaluations for universities with a strong profile in areas with lower research activity, such as arts, humanities and social sciences. Over 70 thousand (76,798) academics and 44,226 employers contributed to the rankings through the QS global surveys. QS also analysed 11.1 million research papers indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database. Three thousand, five hundred and thirty-nine institutions were considered for inclusion, and 891 ranked.
2015
|
2014
|
Top 20
|
Country
|
1
|
1
|
MIT
|
US
|
2
|
4
|
HARVARD
|
US
|
3=
|
2=
|
CAMBRIDGE
|
UK
|
3=
|
7
|
STANFORD
|
US
|
5
|
8
|
CALTECH
|
US
|
6
|
5=
|
OXFORD
|
UK
|
7
|
5=
|
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
|
UK
|
8
|
2=
|
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
|
UK
|
9
|
12
|
ETH ZURICH
|
CH
|
10
|
11
|
CHICAGO
|
US
|
11
|
9
|
PRINCETON
|
US
|
12
|
22
|
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SINGAPORE
|
SG
|
13
|
39
|
NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
|
SG
|
14
|
17=
|
EPFL
|
CH
|
15
|
10
|
YALE
|
US
|
16
|
14=
|
JOHNS HOPKINS
|
US
|
17
|
19
|
CORNELL
|
US
|
18
|
13
|
U PENN
|
US
|
19=
|
25=
|
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
|
AU
|
19=
|
16
|
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
|
UK
|
© QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2004-2015.
*The rankings include universities from 82 countries. Thirty-four countries feature in the Top 200. The US dominates, with 49 institutions, ahead of the UK (30), Netherlands (12), Germany (11), Canada, Australia, and Japan (eight), China (seven), France, Sweden and Hong Kong (five). | |||
