* 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	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	96.1	92.8	99.4	100	72.3
2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	92.9	98.4	93.4	90.9	96
3	Harvard University	United States	92.5	85.6	99.5	91.2	100
4	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	91.3	96.6	94.2	89.9	87.2
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	89.7	86.5	87.5	89.9	96.5
6	SOAS University of London	United Kingdom	88.8	91.4	93.5	91.5	61.4
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	88.8	88.2	94.4	87.9	86.6
8	Stanford University	United States	87.5	84.7	91.2	86.6	91.5
9	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	85.5	100	100	80.8	69.8
10	University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business	South Africa	85.1	78.2	84.4	90.3	65.2
11	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	83.6	86.5	94.2	81.8	74.3
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	82	72.8	91.8	81.1	86
13	The Australian National University	Australia	81.8	83.7	85.3	81.1	77.9
14	Wageningen University & Research Centre	Netherlands	81.4	94.8	91.9	78.4	63.2
15	Princeton University	United States	81.1	77	83.4	82.1	77.8
16	The University of Melbourne	Australia	81	81.7	89.2	78.2	84.3
17	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	80.8	84.7	92.7	77.5	77
18	The University of Tokyo	Japan	80.4	71.2	78.6	82.3	85
19	University of Witwatersrand	South Africa	79.7	81.7	83.8	80.7	64.1
20	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR	79.5	67.8	88	79.2	85.7
21	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	79.4	82.7	90.8	77.1	70.9
22	University of Chicago	United States	79.1	65.9	83	82.1	75.3
23	University of Toronto	Canada	78.9	82.7	87.5	76.7	73.5
24	Lund University	Sweden	78.4	80.6	91.8	77	63.8
25	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	77.9	87.4	93.5	76.8	47.1
26	The University of Sydney	Australia	77.6	79.4	92	72.6	83.2
27	University of California, Davis	United States	77	79.4	92.4	76.7	51.7
28	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	France	76.4	78.2	82.9	72.9	85.4
29	Uppsala University	Sweden	76.3	77	88.4	77.5	50.3
30	Duke University	United States	76.1	77	88.6	74.4	66.2
30	King's College London	United Kingdom	76.1	86.5	91.4	72.2	61.3
32	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	75.8	77	89	72.3	75.2
33	Leiden University	Netherlands	75.7	75.7	83.6	73	79.6
33	Purdue University	United States	75.7	85.6	96.5	71.4	55.5
35	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	75.6	84.7	91.9	68	82.8
36	Universidad de los Andes	Colombia	75.1	67.8	72.8	76.5	81.2
37	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	75	89.1	94.9	66.3	75.8
37	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	75	59.2	72.6	76.6	92.4
37	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	75	89.1	94.1	67.2	71.9
40	Sciences Po	France	74.4	59.2	68.5	77.9	85.3
41	Kyung Hee University	South Korea	74	71.2	92.7	70.9	68.9
41	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	74	78.2	85.6	74.5	46.8
41	University of Delhi	India	74	61.6	73.2	78	69.8
44	Brown University	United States	73.7	71.2	80.4	74.4	63.1
45	McGill University	Canada	72.9	78.2	87.3	69.3	64.6
46	University of Oslo	Norway	72.8	75.7	83.1	73.6	48.4
47	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	72.6	61.6	74.8	72.1	88.4
48	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	72.5	80.6	87.3	65.6	79.9
49	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	72.4	72.8	83.7	69.8	70
50	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	72.2	81.7	88.4	66.7	67.1
51-100	Aarhus University	Denmark		74.3	90	60.5	71.5
51-100	American University	United States		83.7	91.6	56.8	61.7
51-100	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon		63.8	65	70.2	87.8
51-100	Arizona State University	United States		79.4	92.2	62.8	51.1
51-100	Boston University	United States		65.9	79.8	62.3	70.2
51-100	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand		53.4	61.7	73	68.4
51-100	Fudan University	China (Mainland)		65.9	76.8	63.4	79.8
51-100	University of Göttingen	Germany		81.7	90.1	65.4	58.1
51-100	George Washington University	United States		71.2	81.9	64.5	70.7
51-100	Imperial College London	United Kingdom		65.9	75	70.6	75.4
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	United States		72.8	83.7	67.4	70.8
51-100	KU Leuven	Belgium		88.2	94.9	55.4	58.3
51-100	Maastricht University	Netherlands		69.6	79.7	65.3	57
51-100	Makerere University	Uganda		71.2	77.9	70.2	49.2
51-100	Massey University	New Zealand		79.4	82.4	59.1	75.3
51-100	Michigan State University	United States		86.5	91.3	62.6	59.1
51-100	Monash University	Australia		80.6	88.5	60.2	79.8
51-100	The New School	United States		67.8	79.5	66.7	43.2
51-100	Newcastle University	United Kingdom		74.3	85.4	64.3	64.4
51-100	The Ohio State University	United States		77	91.3	64.4	51.9
51-100	Paris School of Economics	France		61.6	74.1	69.1	61.5
51-100	Roskilde University	Denmark		81.7	85.9	58.6	62.8
51-100	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy		61.6	75.4	64.5	75.8
51-100	The American University in Cairo	Egypt		46	53.5	73.3	96.2
51-100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand		75.7	81.8	61	80.5
51-100	The University of Queensland	Australia		89.8	95.5	58.4	78.7
51-100	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil		63.8	71.9	73.9	66.5
51-100	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia		50	55.6	75.4	79.1
51-100	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium		69.6	85.7	67.1	63.5
51-100	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia		67.8	80	65.7	68.7
51-100	University of Bern	Switzerland		74.3	84	67	51.6
51-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom		77	88	64.7	73.4
51-100	University of Geneva	Switzerland		67.8	77.2	68.3	57.5
51-100	Ghent University	Belgium		89.1	92.7	55.8	59.3
51-100	University of Kwazulu-Natal	South Africa		82.7	84.5	59	57.8
51-100	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States		67.8	77.7	64.5	58.8
51-100	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States		82.7	93.4	59.3	61.9
51-100	University of Otago	New Zealand		81.7	89.7	63	76.9
51-100	University of Ottawa	Canada		84.7	88.7	60.7	68.4
51-100	University of Pennsylvania	United States		78.2	88.3	61.5	80.9
51-100	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom		71.2	78	64	58.4
51-100	University of the Philippines	Philippines		53.4	60.8	71.7	88.9
51-100	University of the Western Cape	South Africa		65.9	90.6	68	37
51-100	University of Waterloo	Canada		89.1	97.4	60.6	68.2
51-100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States		78.2	88.6	67.9	53.5
51-100	University of York	United Kingdom		75.7	80	62.8	72.5
51-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands		81.7	91.3	62.6	62.9
51-100	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands		83.7	94.7	63.8	59.5
51-100	Yonsei University	South Korea		46	61.3	73.4	78.4
51-100	York University	Canada		81.7	89.1	58.5	75.8
51-100	Zhejiang University	China (Mainland)		67.8	81.7	64	73.3

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