2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Natural Sciences

Released on March 1, 2018

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* 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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	98.3	100	95.6	95.7	100
2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	96.9	99.1	100	92.9	93.4
3	Stanford University	United States	96.7	97.2	91.3	98.7	99
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	96.6	98.1	98.7	93.9	94.1
5	Harvard University	United States	96.5	98.8	94	97.5	93.4
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	94.4	98.3	82.1	97.2	96
7	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	93.9	98.8	87.1	92.4	92.2
8	The University of Tokyo	Japan	93.4	95.4	96.3	86.5	93.4
9	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	93.1	99.9	76.7	94.3	94.5
10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	92.7	96.4	91.1	90	89.6
11	Princeton University	United States	90.7	94.6	76.8	95	92.6
12	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	90.5	92	88.5	93.3	86.9
13	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	90.2	90.8	86.6	93.7	89.2
14	Peking University	China	89.9	90.9	88.4	89	90.5
15	Kyoto University	Japan	89.8	91.6	91.9	84.8	89.2
16	Tsinghua University	China	88.8	90.4	87.5	84.6	90.9
17	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	88.4	92.1	74	94.5	89.2
18	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	87.7	91.8	99.2	69.9	85.9
19	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	87.5	86.3	84.1	94.1	86.9
20	Seoul National University	South Korea	87.4	91.8	82.3	87.1	83.9
20	Technical University of Munich	Germany	87.4	90	85.3	87.9	83.9
20	University of Chicago	United States	87.4	90.1	71.5	97.6	87.8
23	University of Toronto	Canada	86.9	89.2	73.3	92.1	90.9
24	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	86.8	90.5	88	80.7	84.4
25	Yale University	United States	86.4	86.2	74.5	96.6	88.7
26	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	86.2	86.5	85.1	91.7	81.1
27	Ecole Polytechnique	France	85.8	85.5	89.4	85.1	83.3
28	The Australian National University	Australia	85.7	88.3	83.2	89	79.9
28	Columbia University	United States	85.7	84.7	74.3	94.9	90.1
28	The University of Melbourne	Australia	85.7	84.4	86.6	88.1	84.9
31	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	85.5	85.6	88.3	84.8	83.3
32	Cornell University	United States	85.3	88.6	70.7	91.5	86.9
33	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	85.2	87.4	72.4	92.6	86.4
33	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	85.2	85	78.5	91.4	85.9
35	Tohoku University	Japan	85.1	87.1	85.7	81.2	84.4
36	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	84.8	81.2	85.3	88.5	87.8
37	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	84.7	83.1	79.8	87.8	89.6
37	Osaka University	Japan	84.7	86	85.3	80.7	85.4
39	Fudan University	China	84.4	83.3	80	91.3	83.9
40	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	84.3	90	80.4	88	73.3
40	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	84.3	84.1	78.9	87.5	86.9
42	University of British Columbia	Canada	84	88	68.2	88.5	87.4
43	The University of Sydney	Australia	83.9	83.8	83.8	85.8	82.2
44	University of Washington	United States	83.8	83.9	66.1	94.2	90.9
45	Nagoya University	Japan	83.7	85.4	79.7	83.5	84.4
46	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	83.4	83.7	71.7	91.7	86.4
47	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	83.3	81.7	80.7	87	85.4
48	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	83.2	85.6	80.2	90.7	74
48	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	83.2	86	65.3	89.5	89.2
50	Northwestern University	United States	83	81.5	66.4	96.9	88.7
50	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	83	82.5	77.8	82.3	90.1
52	University of Michigan	United States	82.8	81.7	72	89.2	89.6
53	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	82.7	83.2	62.6	92.3	92.2
54	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	82.5	78.6	75.2	90.8	89.2
54	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	82.5	83	70	90.4	85.9
54	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	82.5	88.8	40.3	100	94.5
54	University of Science and Technology of China	China	82.5	82.4	68.3	89	90.5
58	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	82.4	85	62	90.1	90.1
59	Durham University	United Kingdom	82.3	79.5	75.5	94.3	82.8
59	University of Texas at Austin	United States	82.3	84.1	64.4	92.8	85.9
61	McGill University	Canada	82.2	83.9	70.7	87.4	84.9
61	Nanjing University	China	82.2	79.6	74.1	88.4	89.2
63	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	82	84.9	87.9	75	77.4
63	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	82	84.1	61.1	91.2	89.6
65	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	81.9	82.9	71.6	89.2	82.8
66	Korea University	South Korea	81.8	79.7	78.6	86.9	83.9
67	The University of Queensland	Australia	81.6	83.8	80.1	88.4	71.8
68	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	81.5	81.1	70.9	89.7	84.9
69	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	81.2	80.8	82.5	81.2	80.5
70	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	81.1	81	73.3	89.8	80.5
71	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	80.8	84.3	80.3	82	73.3
71	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	80.8	83.7	68.7	86.3	81.7
71	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	80.8	82.5	83.3	84.8	71
74	Monash University	Australia	80.7	80.4	83.5	87.5	71.8
75	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	80.5	78.7	77.2	87.6	80.5
76	University of Pennsylvania	United States	80.4	77.2	71.1	92.1	84.4
77	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	80.3	83.9	79	83.9	71
77	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy	80.3	77	78.2	82.9	86.4
79	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea	80.2	80.4	72.7	87.4	79.9
80	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	80.1	78.3	82.7	85.8	75.4
81	Johns Hopkins University	United States	79.9	80.5	64.1	88.8	85.4
81	Lund University	Sweden	79.9	80.8	66.7	86.6	84.4
83	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	79.8	78.3	70.8	89.9	81.7
83	University of Zurich	Switzerland	79.8	73	70.8	94.3	87.8
85	Purdue University	United States	79.7	77.7	64.9	87.2	90.9
86	Kyushu University	Japan	79.6	81.5	82.1	76.9	76.1
86	Yonsei University	South Korea	79.6	79.9	77.8	83.5	76.8
86	Zhejiang University	China	79.6	76.2	76.7	84.7	84.4
89	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	79.4	81.9	75.1	80.8	77.4
89	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	79.4	77	69	89.8	84.4
91	Duke University	United States	79.3	78.5	63.7	90.9	84.9
91	Pennsylvania State University	United States	79.3	80.1	64.5	88.9	82.8
91	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	79.3	81.2	51.4	92.9	89.6
91	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	79.3	77.3	55.2	93.1	93.7
95	Università di Padova	Italy	79.2	74.6	77.5	83.9	85.4
95	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	79.2	78.7	73.3	85.4	79.9
97	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	79	89.5	76	75.1	64.8
97	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	79	85.5	70.2	87.2	66.7
97	University of Pisa	Italy	79	76.2	72.6	83.7	86.4
97	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	79	75.3	71	88.8	84.4

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