| The World's Top Social Science universities |
|
| Rank | Name | Country | Normalised
score |
Citations
per paper |
| 1 | Harvard University | US | 200.00 | 9.53 |
| 2 | London School of Economics | UK | 185.25 | 4.90 |
| 3 | University of California, Berkeley | US | 163.26 | 6.83 |
| 4 | Oxford University | UK | 157.00 | 5.20 |
| 5 | Chicago University | US | 131.96 | 9.76 |
| 6 | Stanford University | US | 122.99 | 8.59 |
| 7 | Yale University | US | 110.10 | 7.59 |
| 8 | Cambridge University | UK | 100.37 | 4.60 |
| 9 | Massachusetts Inst of Tech | US | 100.02 | 9.33 |
| 10 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 82.14 | 3.10 |
| 11 | Princeton University | US | 79.62 | 7.93 |
| 12 | Melbourne University | Australia | 79.25 | 2.72 |
| 13 | Cornell University | US | 67.54 | 5.78 |
| 14 | Columbia University | US | 67.30 | 6.79 |
| 15 | Tokyo University | Japan | 62.13 | 0 |
| 16 | Australian National University | Australia | 59.82 | 3.39 |
| 17 | Pennsylvania University | US | 51.93 | 7.60 |
| 18 | University of California, Los Angeles | US | 47.37 | 7.42 |
| 19 | Beijing University | China | 46.52 | 0 |
| 20 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands | 46.41 | 4.72 |
| 21 | New York University | US | 44.96 | 6.30 |
| 22 | McGill University | Canada | 42.96 | 4.34 |
| 23 | New South Wales University | Australia | 42.03 | 3.49 |
| 24 | Sydney University | Australia | 39.79 | 4.05 |
| 25 | London University College | UK | 39.53 | 5.51 |
| 25 | Manchester University & UMIST | UK | 39.53 | 4.14 |
| 27 | Michigan University | US | 37.92 | 7.91 |
| 28 | Monash University | Australia | 37.31 | 3.47 |
| 29 | Warwick University | UK | 37.29 | 3.54 |
| 30 | University of Toronto | Canada | 34.96 | 4.22 |
| 31 | Carnegie Mellon University | US | 34.31 | 8.99 |
| 31 | Sorbonne Paris | France | 34.31 | 0 |
| 33 | Boston University | US | 33.14 | 6.56 |
| 34 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium | 32.64 | 3.96 |
| 35 | Copenhagen University | Denmark | 32.40 | 2.93 |
| 36 | Queensland University | Australia | 31.23 | 2.64 |
| 37 | Duke University | US | 27.60 | 8.36 |
| 38 | Bonn University | Germany | 26.58 | 0 |
| 38 | Massachusetts University | US | 26.58 | 4.46 |
| 40 | Hebrew University Jerusalem | Israel | 26.25 | 3.94 |
| 41 | Edinburgh University | UK | 26.16 | 4.26 |
| 42 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | 26.10 | 0 |
| 43 | Barcelona University Autonoma | Spain | 25.68 | 0 |
| 44 | Kyoto University | Japan | 24.75 | 0 |
| 45 | Hong Kong University | Hong Kong | 24.66 | 2.37 |
| 46 | Chulalongkorn University | Thailand | 24.34 | 0 |
| 46 | Indian Institutes of Technology | India | 24.34 | 4.86 |
| 48 | Sussex University | UK | 24.25 | 5.18 |
| 49 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | 24.16 | 0 |
| 50 | Macquarie University | Australia | 24.10 | 3.05 |
| 51 | Humboldt University Berlin | Germany | 24.01 | 0 |
| 52 | Aarhus University | Denmark | 23.99 | 0 |
| 53 | Bologna University | Italy | 23.92 | 0 |
| 53 | Stockholm School of Economics | Sweden | 23.92 | 6.87 |
| 53 | University of British Columbia | Canada | 23.92 | 4.93 |
| 56 | University of Texas at Austin | US | 23.12 | 5.23 |
| 57 | Hong Kong Uni of Sci & Tech | Hong Kong | 22.43 | 5.12 |
| 58 | Chinese University Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 22.10 | 3.23 |
| 58 | Michigan State University | US | 22.10 | 5.55 |
| 60 | Johns Hopkins University | US | 21.60 | 6.35 |
| 61 | City University Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 20.01 | 0 |
| 62 | Helsinki University | Finland | 19.84 | 4.50 |
| 62 | Toulouse University | France | 19.84 | 5.57 |
| 64 | Bocconi | Italy | 19.75 | 0 |
| 65 | Trinity College Dublin | Ireland | 19.60 | 0 |
| 66 | Heidelberg University | Germany | 19.36 | 0 |
| 66 | Illinois University | US | 19.36 | 5.16 |
| 68 | Säo Paulo University | Brazil | 19.27 | 2.03 |
| 69 | Wisconsin University | US | 18.88 | 5.35 |
| 70 | Fudan University | China | 17.77 | 0 |
| 70 | Nanyang University | Singapore | 17.77 | 0 |
| 70 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | China | 17.77 | 0 |
| 73 | Munich University | Germany | 17.69 | 0 |
| 74 | University of California, San Diego | US | 17.54 | 8.65 |
| 75 | ESADE | Spain | 17.45 | 0 |
| 75 | Rochester University | US | 17.45 | 8.13 |
| 77 | Maastricht University | Netherlands | 17.36 | 4.70 |
| 77 | Purdue University | US | 17.36 | 5.26 |
| 79 | North Carolina University | US | 16.88 | 5.15 |
| 80 | Nagasaki University | Japan | 15.78 | 0 |
| 81 | York University | UK | 15.69 | 4.38 |
| 82 | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris | France | 15.60 | 0 |
| 83 | Hitotsubashi University | Japan | 15.54 | 0 |
| 84 | Nanjing University | China | 15.45 | 0 |
| 84 | RMIT University | Australia | 15.45 | 0 |
| 84 | School of Oriental and African Studies | UK | 15.45 | 0 |
| 84 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 15.45 | 0 |
| 84 | Texas A&M University | US | 15.45 | 4.70 |
| 89 | Florence University | Italy | 15.36 | 0 |
| 89 | Roma La Sapienza University | Italy | 15.36 | 0 |
| 91 | Brown University | US | 15.21 | 6.38 |
| 92 | Minnesota University | US | 15.12 | 6.25 |
| 92 | Oslo University | Norway | 15.12 | 3.12 |
| 92 | Turin University | Italy | 15.12 | 0 |
| 92 | Vienna University | Austria | 15.12 | 0 |
| 96 | Penn State University | US | 14.80 | 5.27 |
| 97 | Lancaster University | UK | 13.60 | 4.15 |
| 98 | Lahore University | Pakistan | 13.45 | 0 |
| 99 | Madrid University Complutense | Spain | 13.36 | 5.74 |
| 99 | Gothenburg University | Sweden | 13.36 | 3.39 |
| 99 | Durham University | UK | 13.36 | 3.85 |