2010 World's Best Universities: Social Sciences

World's Best Universities: Social Sciences

Posted September 21, 2010

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U.S.News & World Report's World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, identified these to be the world's top universities for social sciences in 2010.

 Schools Ranked by Location World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Asian and Middle Eastern Universities World's Best Universities: Australian and New Zealand Universities World's Best Universities: British and European Universities World's Best Universities: Canadian Universities World's Best Universities: Latin American Universities   Schools Ranked by Subject World's Best Universities: Top 400 World's Best Universities: Arts and Humanities Universities World's Best Universities: Engineering and IT Universities World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities World's Best Universities: Natural & Physical Sciences Universities World's Best Universities: Social Sciences Universities   Methodologies World's Best Universities: Methodology World's Best Universities: About the Rankings World's Best Universities: Academic Peer Review World's Best Universities: Citations per Faculty Member World's Best Universities: Employer Review Survey World's Best Universities: International Student and International Faculty Factors World's Best Universities: Statistical Scores and Weightings World's Best Universities: Student-to-Faculty Ratio World's Best Universities: Subject Area Rankings 

Rank		Subject Score	Citations per Paper
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	100.0	4.5
2	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	90.3	2.8
3	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	89.7	3.0
4	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)United Kingdom	84.1	2.9
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)United States	83.7	3.8
6	Stanford UniversityUnited States	80.5	4.6
7	University of ChicagoUnited States	74.1	3.4
8	Yale UniversityUnited States	72.9	4.0
9	Columbia UniversityUnited States	68.7	3.7
10	Princeton UniversityUnited States	67.2	5.3
11	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)United States	66.5	3.7
12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States	64.8	6.0
13	Australian National University (ANU)Australia	61.0	2.2
14	University of MichiganUnited States	56.8	4.3
15	University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)United States	56.4	3.9
16	National University of Singapore (NUS)Singapore	56.0	1.9
17	University of TorontoCanada	55.6	2.8
18	University of British Columbia (UBC)Canada	54.8	3.4
19	New York University (NYU)United States	54.3	3.7
20	The University of TokyoJapan	53.9	1.4
21	University of MelbourneAustralia	49.9	2.1
22	Cornell UniversityUnited States	49.8	3.4
23	Peking UniversityChina	47.8	1.3
24	University of WarwickUnited Kingdom	46.7	2.5
25	UCL (University College London)United Kingdom	46.5	3.0
26	Duke UniversityUnited States	46.4	4.0
27	McGill UniversityCanada	46.1	2.4
28	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	45.6	4.1
29	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	45.1	3.0
30	University of SydneyAustralia	44.0	1.8
31	University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States	43.2	4.0
32	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	41.9	3.1
33	University of New South Wales (UNSW)Australia	41.0	2.0
34	Monash UniversityAustralia	40.7	1.6
35	University of Hong Kong (HKU)Hong Kong	40.3	1.7
36	University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)United States	39.3	2.8
37	Université Paris 1, Pantheon-SorbonneFrance	38.1	0.9
38	University of AucklandNew Zealand	38.0	3.0
39	Kyoto UniversityJapan	37.0	1.5
40	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)Germany	36.8	2.6
41	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	36.7	2.8
42	Seoul National University (SNU)South Korea	36.4	1.2
43	Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)Hong Kong	35.9	2.0
44	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)United States	35.5	3.8
45	University of North Carolina, Chapel HillUnited States	35.0	3.7
46	King's College London (KCL)United Kingdom	34.9	4.0
46	Tsinghua UniversityChina	34.9	0.7
48	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)United States	34.7	4.7
48	Università Commerciale Luigi BocconiItaly	34.7	2.9
50	University of MinnesotaUnited States	34.5	3.3
51	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany	34.4	1.5
52	Sciences Po, ParisFrance	34.0	0.6
53	Freie Universität BerlinGermany	33.7	2.3
54	Fudan UniversityChina	33.1	0.7
54	Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris 4France	33.1	0.6
56	University of CopenhagenDenmark	32.7	2.1
57	Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands	32.5	3.8
58	Brown UniversityUnited States	31.9	4.6
58	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Hong Kong	31.9	2.9
60	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)Singapore	31.8	1.4
61	University of Queensland (UQ)Australia	31.7	2.1
62	Universität Pompeu FabraSpain	31.6	4.0
63	Boston UniversityUnited States	31.4	3.0
64	Stockholm School of EconomicsSweden	31.3	2.5
65	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	31.0	2.9
65	University of BristolUnited Kingdom	31.0	2.7
65	University of WashingtonUnited States	31.0	3.5
65	Uppsala UniversitySweden	31.0	2.2
65	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)Belgium	31.0	2.9
70	Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)United States	30.7	5.0
70	Leiden UniversityNetherlands	30.7	3.9
72	Trinity College DublinIreland	30.2	1.6
72	National Taiwan University (NTU)Taiwan	30.2	1.1
74	Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenBelgium	30.1	2.7
74	Universität MannheimGermany	30.1	2.2
76	Lund UniversitySweden	29.9	1.9
77	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	29.6	3.7
78	Università di BolognaItaly	29.5	2.2
78	Chulalongkorn UniversityThailand	29.5	1.9
80	University of EssexUnited Kingdom	29.4	2.3
81	University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom	29.3	2.4
82	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergGermany	29.1	2.1
83	Université Toulouse 1, CapitoleFrance	29.0	1.7
84	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	28.9	2.3
85	Universität Autónoma de BarcelonaSpain	28.0	1.4
86	Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)United States	27.8	2.7
87	University of HelsinkiFinland	27.7	1.5
88	Ohio State UniversityUnited States	27.5	3.0
88	Waseda UniversityJapan	27.5	0.7
88	HEC Paris, ParisTechFrance	27.5	2.0
91	SOAS - School of Oriental and African StudiesUnited Kingdom	27.4	0.0
92	Stockholm UniversitySweden	27.3	2.6
93	Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom	27.1	2.9
94	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	27.0	3.5
95	University of IndonesiaIndonesia	26.9	1.9
96	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Switzerland	26.8	2.3
96	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris)France	26.8	2.0
96	University of Western OntarioCanada	26.8	3.3
99	University of OsloNorway	26.6	2.0
99	Georgetown UniversityUnited States	26.6	2.2