2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Natural Sciences

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* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank	University	Country/Region	Overall	H-index Citations	Citations per Paper	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	97.2	98.6	92.7	98.1	98.3
2	Harvard University	United States	96.2	93.1	94.1	96.9	100
2	Stanford University	United States	96.2	100	95.1	95.4	95.1
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	95.8	94.9	90.9	97.6	97.9
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	94.9	92.8	91.9	96.4	97.1
6	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	94.1	94.3	90.2	100	85.8
6	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	94.1	92.8	90.7	98.9	89
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	94.1	94.3	93.8	96.3	89.9
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	91.6	91.6	88.4	94.4	89.2
10	Princeton University	United States	91	93.4	93.5	91.8	84.3
11	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	89.8	89.3	92.5	91.2	84.7
12	University of Chicago	United States	89.6	97.3	100	86.4	77.7
13	The University of Tokyo	Japan	89.5	90.6	84.5	92.5	87.5
14	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	88.4	85.6	91.7	88.4	87.7
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	88.3	87.1	90.2	88.6	87.2
16	Tsinghua University	China (Mainland)	88.2	92.2	84.4	89.6	85.2
17	Peking University	China (Mainland)	87.8	91.6	87.7	87.7	84.5
18	University of Toronto	Canada	87.3	91.9	88.9	86.3	83.1
19	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	87.2	88.6	92.1	84.6	86.1
20	Yale University	United States	86.3	88.9	94.2	80.5	87.5
21	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	86.2	87.1	69.6	88.5	97.5
22	Kyoto University	Japan	85.9	87.1	83.7	87.7	83.4
23	Columbia University	United States	85.6	92.8	93.1	79.6	82.7
24	Cornell University	United States	85.2	86.4	89.8	84.3	81.4
25	University of British Columbia	Canada	85	86.7	86.6	84	83.6
26	Ecole Polytechnique	France	84.8	85.2	88.3	82.6	85.2
26	Université PSL	France	84.8	85.6	84.4	85.1	83.8
28	Technical University of Munich	Germany	84.6	82.7	84.9	88.5	78.3
29	Seoul National University	South Korea	84.4	83.1	83.9	85.4	84.2
30	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	83.5	90.3	88.3	81.9	75
31	Sorbonne University	France	83.4	87.5	85.4	83.6	76.7
32	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	Japan	83.2	81.8	79.4	86.4	82
33	University of Texas at Austin	United States	83.1	90	90.2	80.7	74.1
34	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	82.8	90.6	95	83.9	60.5
35	University of Science and Technology of China	China (Mainland)	82.7	93.1	87.6	83	66.6
36	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	82.5	86.7	89.7	84.5	67.1
37	The Australian National University	Australia	82.4	80.8	86.6	83	78.8
37	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	82.4	88.9	90.2	77.6	77.7
39	Fudan University	China (Mainland)	82.3	83.1	89.1	81	77.4
40	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong SAR	82.2	78.4	90.7	81.7	78.6
40	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	82.2	87.5	88.8	80.4	73.7
42	Northwestern University	United States	82.1	89.3	93.2	77.3	73.2
42	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	82.1	90.6	87.4	77.5	77.5
44	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	81.8	70	83.5	87	81.7
45	University of Washington	United States	81.6	89.6	90.6	78.5	70.8
46	The University of Melbourne	Australia	81.4	85.2	86.1	75.8	84
47	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	81.2	83.1	86.4	79.2	77.9
47	McGill University	Canada	81.2	83.1	84.7	78.4	81.6
49	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	81	88.2	87.2	76.5	76.5
49	The University of Sydney	Australia	81	82.7	84.7	77.7	82.4
49	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR	81	80.4	87	78.2	81
52	University College London(UCL)	United Kingdom	80.9	87.1	88.6	75.1	78.8
52	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	80.9	88.6	89.8	77.8	70.3
54	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	80.8	82.2	83.5	79.3	79.7
55	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	80.7	87.5	89.7	79.2	67.8
55	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China (Mainland)	80.7	84.8	81	79.5	78.5
57	Osaka University	Japan	80.4	83.1	79.5	80.9	77.8
58	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	80.3	87.5	86.1	79.9	68.2
58	Tohoku University	Japan	80.3	80.8	79.8	81.8	77.5
60	Nanjing University	China (Mainland)	80.2	89.3	88.1	79.2	65.4
60	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	80.2	86	90	76	73
62	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	80	78.9	82.6	79.4	79.7
63	Zhejiang University	China (Mainland)	79.6	84.4	83.2	77.5	75.5
64	Novosibirsk State University	Russia	79.5	82.2	74.2	78.3	84.3
65	Pennsylvania State University	United States	79.4	85.2	87.6	75	74.3
65	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	79.4	85.2	86.1	75.9	74
67	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)	Russia	79.3	78.4	75.9	76.5	89
67	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	79.3	94	90.6	71.5	69
69	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	79.2	89.6	80.6	77.3	71
70	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	79.1	90.6	90	76	63
70	University of Pennsylvania	United States	79.1	83.5	90.3	71.2	79.2
72	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	79	83.1	86.7	77.3	70.6
72	Nagoya University	Japan	79	83.1	81.1	78.7	73.6
74	Korea University	South Korea	78.9	82.7	85.8	73.3	79.3
75	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	78.6	78.4	84.6	73.7	82.4
76	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	78.5	86.4	89.5	72.5	71.4
76	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	78.5	83.1	75.8	76.6	80.4
78	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	78.4	84.8	88.8	73.1	72.1
79	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	South Korea	78.3	80.8	86.5	74.4	75.4
80	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	78.2	81.3	88.4	71.5	78.2
80	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	78.2	80.8	87.8	74.6	73.2
80	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	78.2	85.6	89	74.7	66.9
83	Johns Hopkins University	United States	78	85.2	86.1	73.2	72.2
84	Durham University	United Kingdom	77.9	81.8	91	72.9	70.9
84	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	77.9	79.4	80.9	78.6	72.1
86	Purdue University	United States	77.7	87.1	84.2	70.8	75.7
86	University of Waterloo	Canada	77.7	78.4	84.3	74.5	77
88	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	77.6	79.9	73.1	75.7	83.7
89	Monash University	Australia	77.4	77.9	87.2	71.7	78.7
90	Université Paris-Saclay	France	77.3	80.4	85.7	78.7	63
91	The University of Queensland	Australia	77.2	74.5	85.4	74	77.9
92	University of California, Davis	United States	77	83.1	86.9	72.1	71
93	Duke University	United States	76.9	82.7	87.3	71.8	70.7
94	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	76.8	67.8	84.9	79.6	72
94	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	76.8	72	81.6	78.6	73.1
96	Lund University	Sweden	76.7	83.1	84.1	74.3	67.7
96	The University of Adelaide	Australia	76.7	84.8	89.5	69.2	70.7
96	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	76.7	83.1	84.5	71.9	72.1
99	Texas A&M University	United States	76.6	87.1	83.6	71.4	69.6
99	Utrecht University	Netherlands	76.6	81.3	89.5	73.9	64.5

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