2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Development Studies

Released on March 1, 2018

* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank	University	Country Name	Overall Score	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation	Citations per Paper	H-index Citations
1	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	93.8	100	63.8	93.1	89.6
2	Harvard University	United States	89.8	88.4	100	95.7	82.9
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	89.6	85.5	96.4	90.9	100
4	SOAS University of London	United Kingdom	88.3	89.6	71.1	91	92
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	87.9	82.4	96	95.2	97.2
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	87.8	85.3	86.1	97.2	89.6
7	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	87.7	83.4	86.6	94.2	99.1
8	Stanford University	United States	86.4	81.5	90.7	100	89.6
9	The Australian National University	Australia	84.8	84.2	83.2	86.2	87.1
10	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	82.4	81.9	68.3	88.9	87.1
11	University of Cape Town	South Africa	82.1	79.7	82.7	90.7	82.9
12	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	80.5	81.5	41	93.7	89.6
13	Wageningen University	Netherlands	79.6	77.7	54.6	91.6	92
14	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	78.1	71.1	65.3	94.6	98.2
15	University of Toronto	Canada	77.2	68.7	67.9	97.5	97.2
16	The University of Melbourne	Australia	76.4	72.5	82.9	87.5	76.5
17	University of Delhi	India	76.3	74.4	83.9	80.3	74.6
18	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	75.6	74.8	83.3	85.8	63.6
19	University of Witwatersrand	South Africa	75.3	75	85.2	76.8	68.4
20	Princeton University	United States	75.2	75.5	82.3	78.6	66.1
21	The University of Sydney	Australia	74.9	69.3	81.5	89.5	78.2
22	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	74.2	67.7	73.8	91.5	82.9
23	University of Chicago	United States	73.9	77.1	75.4	82.6	51.1
24	The University of Queensland	Australia	73.7	64.5	71.3	95.2	90.8
25	The University of Tokyo	Japan	73.4	75.4	86.2	69.3	60.9
26	Brown University	United States	73.2	73.4	63.4	81.7	70.6
26	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	73.2	67.8	66.8	89.5	82.9
28	Lund University	Sweden	72.5	69.2	58.5	91.2	76.5
29	King's College London	United Kingdom	71.6	69.7	59	82.9	76.5
30	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	71.5	72.7	79.2	71.9	60.9
31	University of California, Davis	United States	71.4	69.4	55.7	86.5	74.6
32	Duke University	United States	71.1	64.6	65.3	89.2	82.9
33	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	71	75.8	90	59	51.1
34	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	70.8	68.7	73.1	82.6	66.1
35	Uppsala University	Sweden	70.4	72	37.9	81.2	74.6
36	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	70.3	56.5	80.7	93.8	95.2
37	Michigan State University	United States	69.4	63.3	63.8	86.7	79.9
38	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	69.1	58.1	61.4	96.6	90.8
39	McGill University	Canada	68.3	66.9	62.5	80	66.1
39	University of Otago	New Zealand	68.3	61.1	73.7	85.3	76.5
41	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	68.2	62.5	68	84.9	74.6
41	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	68.2	66.2	77.9	74	63.6
43	Arizona State University	United States	68.1	63.6	51.3	89.1	76.5
44	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	68	64.1	63.7	83.8	70.6
45	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	67.5	59.9	70	87.3	76.5
46	KU Leuven	Belgium	67	59	47.7	93.3	85.8
47	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	66.5	54.9	65.2	96.1	84.4
48	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	66.3	55.4	61	90.2	89.6
48	University of Pennsylvania	United States	66.3	58.5	76.1	84.6	72.7
50	Makerere University	Uganda	66.2	66.4	62.4	73.1	60.9
51-100	Aarhus University	Denmark		53.3	74.6	84.1	70.6
51-100	American University	United States		44.8	63.6	85.6	79.9
51-100	Beijing Normal University	China		51.4	73.3	74.6	63.6
51-100	Clark University	United States		76.6		66	54.7
51-100	Curtin University	Australia		50.9	61.9	78.7	60.9
51-100	University of Göttingen	Germany		50.8	54	91.7	79.9
51-100	George Washington University	United States		54.8	66.5	79	63.6
51-100	Georgetown University	United States		64.1	76.3	70	51.1
51-100	Griffith University	Australia		40.4	68.7	97.7	81.4
51-100	Imperial College London	United Kingdom		57.3	69.2	67.9	51.1
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	United States		60.2	67.2	84	66.1
51-100	Korea University	South Korea		49.7	83.5	81.6	51.1
51-100	Kyung Hee University	South Korea		46.2	73.8	87.8	63.6
51-100	Massey University	New Zealand		59.6	70.5	74.8	68.4
51-100	Monash University	Australia		58.1	71.5	88	72.7
51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan		59	93	76.2	60.9
51-100	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada		51	53.9	77.9	66.1
51-100	RMIT University	Australia		52.4	69.7	73.7	60.9
51-100	Roskilde University	Denmark		49.6	58.4	81.4	74.6
51-100	Sciences Po	France		63.2	81.4	48.4	42.5
51-100	Syracuse University	United States		57	42.6	68.6	60.9
51-100	The Open University	United Kingdom		56.6	48.4	80.5	74.6
51-100	The University of Adelaide	Australia		57.9	74.9	72	57.9
51-100	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia		45.4	83.5	84.4	72.7
51-100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom		46.7	82.4	80.3	72.7
51-100	Universidad de los Andes	Colombia		61.8	87	55.6	47.1
51-100	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	Brazil		62.5	66	49.6	42.5
51-100	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil		63.6	66.1	69.2	47.1
51-100	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia		60.5	80.2	66	51.1
51-100	University College Dublin	Ireland		51.1	65.3	79.1	70.6
51-100	University of Bath	United Kingdom		52.1	54.6	87.6	84.4
51-100	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States		49.5	58.3	82.3	72.7
51-100	University of Dar es Salaam			65.2	32.5	67.9	63.6
51-100	University of Ghana	Ghana		61.2	30.1	77.6	72.7
51-100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		57.7	56.2	81.7	72.7
51-100	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States		47.4	43.2	92.3	81.4
51-100	University of Johannesburg	South Africa		43.6	68	87.5	82.9
51-100	University of Kwazulu-Natal	South Africa		52.2	57.4	84.1	81.4
51-100	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States		53.2	69.2	69.8	57.9
51-100	University of Minnesota	United States		47.5	54.1	95.3	79.9
51-100	University of Nairobi	Kenya		60.9	48.6	64.8	54.7
51-100	University of Oslo	Norway		55.1	59.3	82.5	76.5
51-100	University of Ottawa	Canada		51.5	46.9	75.4	72.7
51-100	University of Reading	United Kingdom		56.8	54.3	87.9	82.9
51-100	University of Waikato	New Zealand		47.1	63.1	85.7	68.4
51-100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States		46.4	47.4	91.4	87.1
51-100	University of York	United Kingdom		50.8	61.9	75.8	63.6
51-100	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand		53.5	65.3	76.4	66.1
51-100	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands		47.3	58.6	86.4	72.7
51-100	York University	Canada		47.1	72	84.3	72.7

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