2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Physics & Astronomy

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	99	100	100	94.8	100
2	Harvard University	United States	97.4	97.3	99.6	96.4	96.4
3	Stanford University	United States	97	95.3	97.5	97.2	99.6
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	95.8	97.7	99.2	91.6	92.6
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	95.4	96.4	92.5	95.7	96.1
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95	95.6	97.6	93.3	92.9
7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	94.3	95	93.7	92	95.8
8	Princeton University	United States	92.4	93.1	89.1	93.4	93.3
9	The University of Tokyo	Japan	91.5	92.2	92.8	86.6	93.8
10	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	90.6	91.8	88.1	90.6	90.7
11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.1	90.1	92.9	88.7	88.7
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	88.1	85.9	86.6	92.8	89.5
13	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	87.7	86.5	85	92	88.6
14	Columbia University	United States	87.1	82.5	84.5	96.1	90.1
15	Yale University	United States	87	83.3	83.5	95.8	89.2
16	University of Chicago	United States	86.9	86.6	74.6	98	88.7
17	Kyoto University	Japan	86.3	85.1	90	83.8	87.7
18	Peking University	China	85.9	84.6	88	85.3	87.1
19	Cornell University	United States	85.4	83.7	78.9	92.2	88.3
19	Tsinghua University	China	85.4	83.4	89.1	83.1	88.1
21	Technical University of Munich	Germany	85.1	82.7	88.4	89.1	82.7
22	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	84.7	86.9	70.1	92.4	87.1
23	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	84.5	87.7	53	100	94.3
23	University of Toronto	Canada	84.5	79.1	83.8	91.2	89.5
25	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	84.4	83.5	81.2	90.7	83.3
26	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	84.3	84	88.3	81.1	84.1
27	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	83.9	80.3	97.3	74.4	87
27	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	83.9	84.3	71.4	90.8	88.7
29	Ecole Polytechnique	France	83.8	80.7	80.1	92.3	85
30	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	83.3	80.8	82.1	85.9	86.8
31	Seoul National University	South Korea	83.2	81.9	82	86.8	83.2
32	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	83.1	82.7	72.6	90.7	87
33	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	82.9	79.4	83.7	86	86
34	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	82.5	80.2	88.3	82.3	81.5
35	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	82.4	78.4	81	85.9	88.1
35	Tohoku University	Japan	82.4	82.1	82.1	80.5	85.3
37	Osaka University	Japan	82.3	82.5	84.6	78.1	83.9
38	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	82	79.9	80.8	87.5	81.7
39	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	81.9	79.7	74.5	85.2	90.3
40	University of Michigan	United States	81.8	74.1	81.7	89.3	89.8
41	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	81.6	79.4	63.2	93.1	92.9
41	University of Texas at Austin	United States	81.6	75.8	76.2	91.9	88.2
43	University of British Columbia	Canada	81.1	75	77.7	90.8	86.8
44	The Australian National University	Australia	81	81.6	74.5	87.7	79.5
45	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	80.6	73.9	83	89.6	82.5
45	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	80.6	74.4	78.1	91.3	85
47	The University of Melbourne	Australia	80.5	75.6	79.2	88.9	83.2
47	Universität Hamburg	Germany	80.5	75.3	74.7	90.4	86.7
49	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	80.3	79.6	83.8	82.4	76.2
49	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	80.3	77.8	69.1	94.4	82.2
49	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	80.3	70	80.2	90.5	90.7
51-100	Boston University	United States		73.2	66.2	93.3	88.3
51-100	Durham University	United Kingdom		68.3	81.3	92.8	81.9
51-100	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France		82	71.8	83.4	65.6
51-100	Fudan University	China		73.4	74	85.4	76.2
51-100	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States		70.7	85.6	87.6	82.2
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	United States		74.7	68.3	89	87
51-100	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea		78.9	82.1	83.8	74.9
51-100	Korea University	South Korea		66.6	78.3	83.7	82.7
51-100	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden		73.4	75.9	79.2	79.8
51-100	Leiden University	Netherlands		79.1	72.6	90.6	78
51-100	Lund University	Sweden		73.5	65.7	85.8	83.9
51-100	McGill University	Canada		75.5	78.4	87.1	84.4
51-100	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)	Russia		74.9	94.1	76.9	72
51-100	Nagoya University	Japan		77.7	76.6	82.9	83.8
51-100	National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)	Russia		75	89.3	68.7	81.5
51-100	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan		72.3	85.1	81.8	74.1
51-100	New York University (NYU)	United States		67.6	70.8	95.8	84.9
51-100	Northwestern University	United States		71.1	70.9	90.9	86.7
51-100	Novosibirsk State University	Russia		72.8	92.6	81.6	79.3
51-100	The Ohio State University	United States		64.4	69.8	92.4	91.4
51-100	Pennsylvania State University	United States		68.6	73.1	88.3	82.4
51-100	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile		73.6	77.5	83.6	78.7
51-100	Purdue University	United States		67.4	84.6	86.5	88.6
51-100	RWTH Aachen University	Germany		72.2	81.2	89.3	86.3
51-100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China		72	78.4	80	80
51-100	Stony Brook University, State University of New York	United States		70.1	59.1	95.3	86.8
51-100	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea		67.7	75.3	88.4	84.3
51-100	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany		74.6	81.7	82.7	70.3
51-100	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Germany		68.8	80.1	83.5	78.7
51-100	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong		76.8	82.8	88.1	72
51-100	The University of Sydney	Australia		73	72.5	85.1	83
51-100	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain		71.9	64.9	91.5	87.8
51-100	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil		73.5	76.3	77	83.6
51-100	University of Pisa	Italy		71.2	71	87.8	86.8
51-100	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain		70.7	60.9	92.2	83.3
51-100	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France		74.1	67.7	89.5	87.7
51-100	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom		70.5	70.8	88.1	83.2
51-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom		69.5	78.6	88.6	81.5
51-100	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States		75.9	65.1	87.4	86.3
51-100	University of Colorado Boulder	United States		76.5	66.6	90.4	87.1
51-100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark		71.5	67.8	90.8	86.2
51-100	University of Geneva	Switzerland		73.5	62.1	94.4	87.7
51-100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		68.3	68.4	89.2	83.9
51-100	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong		73	87.7	89.5	71.1
51-100	University of Pennsylvania	United States		73.4	73.3	91.9	85.6
51-100	University of Science and Technology of China	China		71.5	65.6	84.2	88.1
51-100	University of Southampton	United Kingdom		73.8	79.4	85.4	79.8
51-100	University of Washington	United States		70.4	67.7	93.4	89.5
51-100	University of Zurich	Switzerland		65	67.6	99.2	87.7

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