2020 Best Global Universities for Physics

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Subject Rank	School	Country	Location	Subject Score	Global Overall Rank
#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Cambridge, MA	100	#2
#2	Stanford University	United States	Stanford, CA	96.8	#3
#3	University of California--Berkeley	United States	Berkeley, CA	95.7	#4
#4	Harvard University	United States	Cambridge, MA	94.6	#1
#5	University of Chicago	United States	Chicago, IL	93.9	#13
#6	California Institute of Technology	United States	Pasadena, CA	93.3	#6
#7	University of Tokyo	Japan	Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo	91.9	#74
#8	Princeton University	United States	Princeton, NJ	90	#8
#9	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	Cambridge	89.4	#9
#10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	Oxford	88.2	#5
#11	Columbia University	United States	New York, NY	87.5	#7
#12	Tsinghua University	China	Beijing	86.9	#36
#13	University of Maryland--College Park	United States	College Park, MD	86.7	#51
#14	Yale University	United States	New Haven, CT	86.5	#12
#15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland	Zurich	86.4	#25
#16	M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	Moscow	86.3	#266
#17	Sorbonne Universite	France	Paris	86.2	#37
#18	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	Rome	85.3	#119
#19	University of Washington	United States	Seattle, WA	84.8	#10
#20	University of California--Santa Barbara	United States	Santa Barbara, CA	84.3	#41
#21	Peking University	China	Beijing	84.2	#59
#22	University of Munich	Germany	Munich	83.6	#43
#23	Cornell University	United States	Ithaca, NY	83.2	#23
#23	University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign	United States	Champaign, IL	83.2	#59
#25	University of Pisa	Italy	Pisa	83.1	#186
#26	University of Michigan--Ann Arbor	United States	Ann Arbor, MI	82.4	#17
#27	Université Paris-Sud	France	Orsay	82.3	#118
#28	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	London	82	#20
#29	Kyoto University	Japan	Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto	81.9	#124
#30	University of Texas--Austin	United States	Austin, TX	81.6	#34
#31	Ohio State University--Columbus	United States	Columbus, OH	81.4	#45
#32	University of Toronto	Canada	Toronto, Ontario	81.3	#18
#33	University of Wisconsin--Madison	United States	Madison, WI	80.8	#37
#34	Heidelberg University	Germany	Heidelberg	80.7	#56
#35	PSL Research University Paris (ComUE)	France	Paris	80.3	#82
#35	University of Colorado--Boulder	United States	Boulder, CO	80.3	#50
#37	École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne	Switzerland	Lausanne	80.1	#45
#38	University of California--Los Angeles	United States	Los Angeles, CA	80	#14
#39	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	Edinburgh, Scotland	79.8	#28
#40	Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite-USPC (ComUE)	France	Paris	79.7	#67
#40	University of Rome Tor Vergata	Italy	Rome	79.7	#224
#42	Boston University	United States	Boston, MA	79.5	#51
#43	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel	Rehovot	79.4	#99
#44	Universite de Lyon (ComUE)	France	Lyon	79.2	#139
#45	University of Science and Technology of China	China	Hefei, Anhui	78.8	#128
#46	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain	Madrid	78.5	#183
#46	Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes	France	Saint-Martin-d'Heres	78.5	#144
#48	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	Karlsruhe	78.3	#181
#49	Northwestern University	United States	Evanston, IL	78	#24
#50	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	Copenhagen	77.8	#32
#51	National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)	Russia	Moscow	77.7	#388
#52	Seoul National University	South Korea	Seoul	77.6	#128
#53	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	Russia	Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region	77.5	#402
#53	University of Geneva	Switzerland	Geneva	77.5	#94
#55	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	Novosibirsk	77.4	#424
#55	University of Hamburg	Germany	Hamburg	77.4	#145
#57	University of Minnesota--Twin Cities	United States	Minneapolis, MN	77.2	#47
#58	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	Germany	Mainz	77	#208
#58	Technical University of Munich	Germany	Munich	77	#77
#60	Boğaziçi University	Turkey	Istanbul	76.9	#186
#60	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	Birmingham	76.9	#96
#62	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	Southampton	76.8	#94
#63	Nanjing University	China	Nanjing, Jiangsu	76.5	#168
#64	University of Naples Federico II	Italy	Naples	76.4	#204
#65	Osaka University	Japan	Suita, Osaka	76.3	#242
#66	University of Bern	Switzerland	Bern	76.2	#112
#66	University of British Columbia	Canada	Vancouver, British Columbia	76.2	#30
#68	Charles University in Prague	Czech Republic	Prague 1	76	#210
#68	University of Bologna	Italy	Bologna	76	#116
#70	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	Manchester	75.9	#64
#71	University of California--San Diego	United States	La Jolla, CA	75.8	#19
#71	University of Pennsylvania	United States	Philadelphia, PA	75.8	#16
#73	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	Shanghai	75.7	#136
#73	Stony Brook University--SUNY	United States	Stony Brook, NY	75.7	#171
#73	University of Melbourne	Australia	Parkville, Victoria	75.7	#26
#73	University of Padua	Italy	Padua	75.7	#116
#77	Duke University	United States	Durham, NC	75.4	#22
#77	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	Aachen	75.4	#179
#79	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsterdam	75.1	#40
#80	University College London	United Kingdom	London	75	#21
#81	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	Glasgow, Scotland	74.9	#89
#82	Rice University	United States	Houston, TX	74.8	#108
#82	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy	Pisa	74.8	#204
#84	University of Zurich	Switzerland	Zürich	74.6	#58
#85	Indiana University--Bloomington	United States	Bloomington, IN	74.3	#136
#85	Nagoya University	Japan	Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi	74.3	#290
#85	University of Adelaide	Australia	Adelaide, South Australia	74.3	#80
#88	International School for Advanced Studies	Italy	Trieste	74.2	#164
#88	Purdue University--West Lafayette	United States	West Lafayette, IN	74.2	#114
#88	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	Meguro-ku, Tokyo	74.2	#305
#91	University of California--Irvine	United States	Irvine, CA	74.1	#78
#92	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	Berlin	74	#91
#93	National University of Singapore	Singapore		73.9	#34
#93	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	Seoul	73.9	#195
#95	Pennsylvania State University--University Park	United States	University Park, PA	73.7	#72
#95	Tohoku University	Japan	Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi	73.7	#255
#97	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	Nijmegen	73.6	#104
#98	Stockholm University	Sweden	Stockholm	73.3	#114
#98	Universite Paris Saclay	France	Saint-Aubin	73.3	#274
#100	École Polytechnique	France	Palaiseau	73.2	#301

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