* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank	University	Country/Region	Overall	Citations per Paper	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation
1	Harvard University	United States	98.9	89	100	100
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	96.1	85.2	97.6	96.2
3	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	95.3	87.2	97.5	91.5
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	93.4	72.6	95.5	96.4
5	Stanford University	United States	92.1	87.3	92.6	92.9
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	91.5	71.8	95	89
7	The University of Tokyo	Japan	90.3	76.9	93.9	84.6
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	89.2	86.1	88.5	93
9	Johns Hopkins University	United States	88.3	81	92.5	77
10	University of York	United Kingdom	87.1	78.6	93.6	68.5
11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	87	67.3	89.7	87.2
12	Columbia University	United States	86.1	80.6	87.7	83.4
13	The Australian National University	Australia	85.9	61.1	89.7	85.2
14	Seoul National University	South Korea	85.6	75.5	88	82.2
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	85.4	73.2	86.9	86
16	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	85.2	81.6	88.1	77
17	The University of Melbourne	Australia	85	73.4	85.9	87.6
18	University of Chicago	United States	84	62.8	88.8	77.8
19	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	83.3	76.2	87.3	73
20	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR	83	70.9	85.6	79.8
21	University College London(UCL)	United Kingdom	82.8	74	83.6	84.6
22	Syracuse University	United States	82.6	82.6	92.7	47
23	Leiden University	Netherlands	82.5	70.5	87.9	69.7
23	Sciences Po	France	82.5	68.4	87.5	71.9
25	Princeton University	United States	82.3	50.6	86.9	81.9
26	Peking University	China (Mainland)	81.8	63.9	83.5	84.6
27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	81.6	82.4	83.5	74.6
28	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	81.5	81.4	83.5	74.3
29	The University of Sydney	Australia	81.3	66.9	82	85.8
30	University of Toronto	Canada	81.1	68.5	83	80.6
31	Utrecht University	Netherlands	80.6	90.8	85.1	59.6
32	Georgetown University	United States	80.5	99.2	80.6	70.8
33	KU Leuven	Belgium	80.4	62.4	85.1	72.8
34	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong SAR	79.9	75.2	81.7	76
35	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR	79.1	73	81	75.3
36	Aarhus University	Denmark	78.9	85.5	80.6	69.4
36	Stockholm University	Sweden	78.9	70.8	84.9	62.1
36	Tsinghua University	China (Mainland)	78.9	65.8	79.6	83
39	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	South Korea	78.8	55.9	83.4	74.3
40	King's College London	United Kingdom	78.6	83.5	79.4	73.2
41	Freie Universitaet Berlin	Germany	78.5	80.9	79.4	73.9
41	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	78.5	59.6	79.3	85
43	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	78	76.6	84.8	54.7
44	Korea University	South Korea	77.9	54.9	80.9	79
45	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.6	75.4	77.1	80.4
46	New York University (NYU)	United States	76.9	71.1	76.7	80.4
46	University of Bath	United Kingdom	76.9	55.7	82.1	69.4
48	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	76.7	79.2	77.2	73.5
49	Lund University	Sweden	76.6	88	76.9	69.8
50	Fudan University	China (Mainland)	76.4	69.1	77.5	76
51-100	American University	United States		62.6	70.7	69.9
51-100	Beijing Normal University	China (Mainland)		71.2	74.3	56.6
51-100	Cardiff University	United Kingdom		82.4	71.9	69.3
51-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States		69.1	74.5	68.6
51-100	Central European University	Hungary		67.4	80.6	57.9
51-100	Cornell University	United States		85.2	69.4	76.3
51-100	Duke University	United States		55.7	74.7	75.7
51-100	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands		82.7	76.5	68
51-100	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland		83.5	71.9	78.4
51-100	George Washington University	United States		78.1	73.2	67
51-100	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States		79.9	69.9	68
51-100	Imperial College London	United Kingdom		70.4	69.8	84.6
51-100	Karolinska Institutet	Sweden		64.1	73.9	62.3
51-100	Kyoto University	Japan			79	79.4
51-100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany		72.6	69.5	73.2
51-100	Monash University	Australia		63.1	68.4	86.1
51-100	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore		62.2	68.1	83.1
51-100	HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics)	Russia		47.3	72.7	75.7
51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan		49.7	78.1	70.8
51-100	Northwestern University	United States		93.1	73.7	67
51-100	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile		50.1	72.4	87.6
51-100	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom		62.5	72.7	65.7
51-100	Roskilde University	Denmark		74.1	73.6	59.7
51-100	Rutgers University–Newark	United States		72.1	74.9	55.9
51-100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China (Mainland)		84.9	66.5	78.3
51-100	Sun Yat-sen University	China (Mainland)		65.8	81.4	59.8
51-100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand		61.9	69.9	76.9
51-100	The University of Georgia	United States		86.9	82.3	41.4
51-100	The University of Queensland	Australia		77.3	71	80.5
51-100	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom		84.8	71.2	69.4
51-100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom		80.3	66.5	77.4
51-100	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland		72.8	73.7	75.3
51-100	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain		64.5	70.3	69.7
51-100	Universität Bremen	Germany		66.9	82.4	50.7
51-100	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain		74.2	71.1	75.1
51-100	Universität Konstanz	Germany		80.5	74.2	66
51-100	University College Dublin	Ireland		57	72.1	70
51-100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		76.1	77.7	63.1
51-100	University of Helsinki	Finland		61	76.1	63.8
51-100	University of Kent	United Kingdom		66.5	76.2	60.6
51-100	University of Leeds	United Kingdom		64.6	76	74.3
51-100	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States		76.5	69.9	66.7
51-100	University of Pennsylvania	United States		75.6	72.3	81
51-100	University of Pittsburgh	United States		76	77.3	47.2
51-100	University of Southern California	United States		73.3	79.2	66.9
51-100	University of Southern Denmark (SDU)	Denmark		71.1	80	60.9
51-100	University of Texas at Austin	United States		83.9	68.1	69
51-100	University of Washington	United States		76.5	71.8	66.6
51-100	University of Zurich	Switzerland		81.3	72.1	68.2
51-100	Yonsei University	South Korea		62.8	78	76.5

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