2020 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Physics & Astronomy

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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	98.9	98.5	95.9	100	100
2	Stanford University	United States	97.5	100	98.1	96.1	97.4
3	Harvard University	United States	97.4	94.9	96.6	97.9	99.9
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	96.2	94.2	92.7	98	97.9
5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.5	93.1	95.5	96	96.9
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	95	93.5	96.7	96.6	91.8
7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	93.7	94.2	91.3	95.1	92.8
8	Princeton University	United States	92.2	91.7	94.8	94	86.4
9	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	91.8	89.7	92.5	92.1	92.5
10	The University of Tokyo	Japan	90.3	90.6	86.9	93.4	87.2
11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.1	90	91.4	89.1	91
12	University of Chicago	United States	88.5	97	93.8	87.4	76.7
13	Yale University	United States	88.4	89	98	83.8	87.2
14	Columbia University	United States	87.8	90.7	97.3	83.2	84.4
15	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	87	89.6	95.2	83.3	83.8
15	Tsinghua University	China (Mainland)	87	90.7	85.6	86	86.9
17	Technical University of Munich	Germany	86.4	82.7	89	87.4	85.6
18	Peking University	China (Mainland)	86.3	87.2	87.2	85.6	85.8
19	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	86.2	87	91.9	82	88.1
19	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	86.2	88.5	91.8	85.1	80.7
21	University of Toronto	Canada	86	88.8	91.2	83.3	83.2
22	Cornell University	United States	85.9	86.7	93.5	84	81.2
22	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	85.9	86.7	93.1	90.4	69.1
24	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	85.5	82.8	92.9	85.2	81.2
25	Kyoto University	Japan	84.6	84.7	83.6	86.4	82
25	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	84.6	91	99	87.3	58.4
27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	84	89.7	90.2	79.1	81.9
28	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	83.5	87	92.3	83.1	72
28	University College London(UCL)	United Kingdom	83.5	86.2	88.3	80.6	81.8
30	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	83.3	92.8	94.2	78.3	72.7
31	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	83.2	82.1	89.8	80.9	82.2
31	University of Texas at Austin	United States	83.2	88.8	92.5	77.8	78.9
33	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	83.1	87.5	74.8	80.2	92.9
34	Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)	Japan	82.9	81	79.7	84.6	84.6
35	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	82.7	90.6	85.8	80.6	76
36	Seoul National University	South Korea	82.5	82.4	86.2	82.9	78
37	Ecole Polytechnique	France	82.3	83.1	90.7	76.7	84.4
37	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	82.3	87.6	88.3	77.6	80.4
37	Université PSL	France	82.3	85.8	88	80	77.6
40	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	82.1	88.2	94.4	74.5	78.7
41	University of British Columbia	Canada	81.6	84.9	91.1	76.2	79.8
42	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	81.2	77.5	85.3	79.1	85.2
42	KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany	81.2	86.1	87.2	77.6	77.3
42	Sorbonne University	France	81.2	86.3	91.3	75.7	76.9
45	The Australian National University	Australia	81.1	80.5	89.6	82	71.5
46	Tohoku University	Japan	81	81.3	81.2	82	78.7
47	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong SAR	80.9	75.4	90.9	79.7	78.9
48	McGill University	Canada	80.6	84	88.3	76.2	78.1
48	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China (Mainland)	80.6	83.5	81.2	78.1	82
50	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	80.2	80.8	93.5	71.2	84.1
50	Osaka University	Japan	80.2	81.7	78.8	81.8	76.7
50	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	80.2	83.9	88.1	72.7	83.5
50	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	80.2	82.3	93.8	76.7	71.3
50	University of Pennsylvania	United States	80.2	84.6	93.8	73.3	75.8
51-100	Durham University	United Kingdom		79	93.4	72.2	76.1
51-100	Fudan University	China (Mainland)		80.2	90	74.5	81.5
51-100	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States		80.5	88.1	75	81.9
51-100	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany		82.4	92.1	72.4	63.2
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	United States		84.7	88.5	73.9	71.6
51-100	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea		72.1	83.2	81.6	78.4
51-100	King's College London	United Kingdom		80.7	94	67.6	72.7
51-100	Korea University	South Korea		80.4	86.4	70	73.5
51-100	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden		80.7	81.3	72.8	74.9
51-100	Lund University	Sweden		82.4	84	73.6	69.1
51-100	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech)	Russia		79	78.8	75.3	91.5
51-100	Nagoya University	Japan		80.8	80.9	76.3	73.6
51-100	Nanjing University	China (Mainland)		85.3	86.4	73.2	63.4
51-100	National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)	Russia		82	70.2	72.6	84
51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan		82.1	85	77.4	76.9
51-100	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan		77.7	82.2	71.2	77.7
51-100	Northwestern University	United States		87.5	93	71.3	70.7
51-100	Novosibirsk State University	Russia		81.8	79.9	69.8	86.3
51-100	The Ohio State University	United States		89.1	92.6	71.9	68.3
51-100	Pennsylvania State University	United States		84.8	90.6	69	73.9
51-100	Purdue University	United States		86.4	87.7	68.1	78.6
51-100	Rice University	United States		85.1	98.2	63.7	71
51-100	Stony Brook University, State University of New York	United States		86.1	95.2	65	70.1
51-100	Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU)	South Korea		82.8	90	73.5	74.1
51-100	The University of Melbourne	Australia		83.6	88.9	75.8	74.1
51-100	The University of Sydney	Australia		82.8	86.9	74.7	72.8
51-100	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain		86.1	93.6	72.6	66.9
51-100	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil		83.1	77.7	72.5	81.3
51-100	Università di Padova	Italy		85.8	84.8	69.1	75.7
51-100	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy		86.1	84.6	69.8	74.9
51-100	University of Pisa	Italy		86.6	88.2	66.2	77.8
51-100	Universität Hamburg	Germany		85.7	87.2	72	73.7
51-100	Université Paris-Saclay	France		81.6	89.2	72.8	65.3
51-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom		83.1	95.1	66.4	78.6
51-100	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States		85.2	89.7	76.4	73
51-100	University of Colorado Boulder	United States		84.6	90.3	73.3	66
51-100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark		86.3	93.7	73	64.3
51-100	University of Geneva	Switzerland		86.1	93.6	73.1	60.6
51-100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		85.5	90.6	68.9	69.9
51-100	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR		75.2	90.2	74.2	79.1
51-100	University of Science and Technology of China	China (Mainland)		88.3	85.1	80.7	60.9
51-100	University of Southampton	United Kingdom		83.1	87.4	71	77.2
51-100	University of Washington	United States		87.5	92.7	72.1	66.3
51-100	University of Waterloo	Canada		76.8	90.3	67.2	79.9
51-100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States		87.7	90.3	70.4	73.2
51-100	Zhejiang University	China (Mainland)		78.3	82	70.8	82.1

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