2019 Best Global Universities for Physics
Ranked by US News
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| Subject Rank | School | Subject Score | Country/Region | Location | Global Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 100 | United States | Cambridge, MA | #2 |
| #2 | Stanford University | 97.6 | United States | Stanford, CA | #3 |
| #3 | University of California--Berkeley | 97.1 | United States | Berkeley, CA | #4 |
| #4 | Harvard University | 94.6 | United States | Cambridge, MA | #1 |
| #5 | Universite Paris Saclay (ComUE) | 93.8 | France | Saint-Aubin | #30 |
| #6 | California Institute of Technology | 92.8 | United States | Pasadena, CA | #6 |
| #7 | University of Chicago | 92.6 | United States | Chicago, IL | #14 |
| #8 | University of Tokyo | 90.1 | Japan | Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo | #62 |
| #9 | University of Oxford | 89.2 | United Kingdom | Oxford | #5 |
| #10 | Princeton University | 89.1 | United States | Princeton, NJ | #9 |
| #11 | University of Cambridge | 88.8 | United Kingdom | Cambridge | #7 |
| #12 | Columbia University | 87.6 | United States | New York, NY | #8 |
| #13 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | 86.3 | Switzerland | Zurich | #25 |
| #14 | Yale University | 85.2 | United States | New Haven, CT | #11 |
| #15 | University of Maryland--College Park | 85.1 | United States | College Park, MD | #51 |
| #16 | M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University | 84.4 | Russia | Moscow | #275 |
| #17 | University of California--Santa Barbara | 84.2 | United States | Santa Barbara, CA | #37 |
| #18 | Tsinghua University | 84.1 | China | Beijing | #50 |
| #19 | Sapienza University of Rome | 83.3 | Italy | Rome | #125 |
| #20 | Cornell University | 83.1 | United States | Ithaca, NY | #23 |
| #20 | Imperial College London | 83.1 | United Kingdom | London | #18 |
| #22 | Peking University | 83 | China | Beijing | #68 |
| #23 | University of Munich | 82.9 | Germany | Munich | #46 |
| #24 | University of Washington | 82.5 | United States | Seattle, WA | #10 |
| #25 | University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign | 82.1 | United States | Champaign, IL | #54 |
| #26 | Ohio State University--Columbus | 81.5 | United States | Columbus, OH | #46 |
| #27 | University of Michigan--Ann Arbor | 81.4 | United States | Ann Arbor, MI | #18 |
| #28 | University of Wisconsin--Madison | 81 | United States | Madison, WI | #35 |
| #29 | University of Texas--Austin | 80.8 | United States | Austin, TX | #36 |
| #29 | École Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne | 80.8 | Switzerland | Lausanne | #40 |
| #31 | University of California--Los Angeles | 80.7 | United States | Los Angeles, CA | #13 |
| #32 | University of Toronto | 80.6 | Canada | Toronto, Ontario | #20 |
| #33 | Heidelberg University | 80.1 | Germany | Heidelberg | #54 |
| #33 | Rice University | 80.1 | United States | Houston, TX | #107 |
| #35 | University of Colorado--Boulder | 80 | United States | Boulder, CO | #43 |
| #36 | Kyoto University | 79.9 | Japan | Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto | #119 |
| #37 | University of Edinburgh | 79.5 | United Kingdom | Edinburgh, Scotland | #27 |
| #37 | University of Pisa | 79.5 | Italy | Pisa | #204 |
| #39 | University of Science and Technology of China | 79.3 | China | Hefei, Anhui | #138 |
| #40 | PSL Research University Paris (ComUE) | 78.9 | France | Paris | #84 |
| #41 | Boston University | 78.6 | United States | Boston, MA | #46 |
| #42 | University of Manchester | 78 | United Kingdom | Manchester | #58 |
| #42 | Weizmann Institute of Science | 78 | Israel | Rehovot | #112 |
| #44 | Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite-USPC (ComUE) | 77.9 | France | Paris | #62 |
| #45 | University of Rome Tor Vergata | 77.8 | Italy | Rome | #238 |
| #46 | Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes | 77.6 | France | Saint-Martin-d'Heres | #125 |
| #47 | University of Hamburg | 77.1 | Germany | Hamburg | #148 |
| #48 | Autonomous University of Madrid | 77 | Spain | Madrid | #200 |
| #48 | Universite de Lyon (ComUE) | 77 | France | Lyon | #148 |
| #50 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 76.9 | Germany | Karlsruhe | #183 |
| #50 | University of Geneva | 76.9 | Switzerland | Geneva | #88 |
| #52 | Northwestern University | 76.8 | United States | Evanston, IL | #24 |
| #53 | Technical University of Munich | 76.7 | Germany | Munich | #80 |
| #54 | University of British Columbia | 76.3 | Canada | Vancouver, British Columbia | #29 |
| #55 | University of California--San Diego | 76.2 | United States | La Jolla, CA | #17 |
| #56 | Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz | 76.1 | Germany | Mainz | #200 |
| #57 | University of Pennsylvania | 76 | United States | Philadelphia, PA | #16 |
| #58 | National University of Singapore | 75.8 | Singapore | #38 | |
| #58 | Seoul National University | 75.8 | South Korea | Seoul | #129 |
| #60 | University of Minnesota--Twin Cities | 75.7 | United States | Minneapolis, MN | #41 |
| #61 | Stony Brook University--SUNY | 75.6 | United States | Stony Brook, NY | #166 |
| #61 | University of Copenhagen | 75.6 | Denmark | Copenhagen | #34 |
| #63 | University College London | 75.5 | United Kingdom | London | #21 |
| #64 | Duke University | 75.3 | United States | Durham, NC | #22 |
| #64 | University of Southampton | 75.3 | United Kingdom | Southampton | #94 |
| #66 | Boğaziçi University | 75.2 | Turkey | Istanbul | #234 |
| #66 | Charles University in Prague | 75.2 | Czech Republic | Prague 1 | #204 |
| #68 | Purdue University--West Lafayette | 75.1 | United States | West Lafayette, IN | #113 |
| #69 | University of Massachusetts--Amherst | 75 | United States | Amherst, MA | #119 |
| #70 | Nanjing University | 74.9 | China | Nanjing, Jiangsu | #179 |
| #71 | Sungkyunkwan University | 74.8 | South Korea | Seoul | #188 |
| #71 | University of Birmingham | 74.8 | United Kingdom | Birmingham | #96 |
| #71 | University of Naples Federico II | 74.8 | Italy | Naples | #225 |
| #74 | Osaka University | 74.7 | Japan | Suita, Osaka | #215 |
| #75 | Novosibirsk State University | 74.6 | Russia | Novosibirsk | #433 |
| #76 | National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) | 74.2 | Russia | Moscow | #419 |
| #76 | RWTH Aachen University | 74.2 | Germany | Aachen | #179 |
| #78 | University of California--Irvine | 73.9 | United States | Irvine, CA | #78 |
| #79 | Lund University | 73.8 | Sweden | Lund | #88 |
| #80 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | 73.7 | Japan | Meguro-ku, Tokyo | #289 |
| #81 | Tohoku University | 73.6 | Japan | Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi | #227 |
| #82 | University of Amsterdam | 73.5 | Netherlands | Amsterdam | #51 |
| #83 | Michigan State University | 73.4 | United States | East Lansing, MI | #90 |
| #83 | University of Bologna | 73.4 | Italy | Bologna | #122 |
| #85 | University of Glasgow | 73.3 | United Kingdom | Glasgow, Scotland | #95 |
| #86 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 73.2 | Germany | Berlin | #90 |
| #86 | University of Bern | 73.2 | Switzerland | Bern | #117 |
| #86 | University of Melbourne | 73.2 | Australia | Parkville, Victoria | #26 |
| #89 | Pennsylvania State University--University Park | 73.1 | United States | University Park, PA | #71 |
| #89 | University of Padua | 73.1 | Italy | Padua | #122 |
| #91 | Universidade de São Paulo | 73 | Brazil | São Paulo | #148 |
| #92 | Johns Hopkins University | 72.9 | United States | Baltimore, MD | #12 |
| #92 | Nagoya University | 72.9 | Japan | Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi | #272 |
| #92 | Tel Aviv University | 72.9 | Israel | Tel Aviv | #174 |
| #95 | Indiana University--Bloomington | 72.6 | United States | Bloomington, IN | #138 |
| #96 | McGill University | 72.5 | Canada | Montréal, Québec | #43 |
| #96 | Nanyang Technological University | 72.5 | Singapore | #49 | |
| #98 | Stockholm University | 72.1 | Sweden | Stockholm | #115 |
| #99 | Radboud University Nijmegen | 71.9 | Netherlands | Nijmegen | #99 |
| #99 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey--New Brunswick | 71.9 | United States | Piscataway Township, NJ | #103 |
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