QS World University Rankings by Subject 2012 - Chemistry

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Rankings

QS Rank	QS Rank	School Name	Country	Overall	Academic Reputation The Academic Reputation Index is the centrepiece of the QS World University Rankings® carrying a weighting of 40%. It is an approach to international university evaluation that QS pioneered in 2004 and is the component that attracts the greatest interest and scrutiny. In concert with the Employer Reputation Index it is the aspect which sets this ranking most clearly apart from any other.	Employer Reputation The QS Global Employer Survey has seen a dramatic increase in response in 2012 from 17,000 in 2011 to over 25,500 in 2012. Growth has been seen worldwide but nowhere more profoundly than in Latin America, where a campaign conducted in Spanish met with great success. Responses are closely scrutinized and weighted to eliminate biases that may result from disproportionate response levels.	Citations Per Paper Citations per Paper focuses on the performance of the papers an institution produces that are actually indexed in Scopus – ignoring efforts undertaken resulting in publication in local language journals that may not be covered by Scopus. A publication threshold of 100 papers is applied to eliminate anomalous low numbers of papers from overly benefiting small institutions.
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	97.50	100	94.7	96.5
2	2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	90.50	81.4	91.5	99
3	3	Harvard University	United States	90.40	83.7	100	92.4
4	4	Stanford University	United States	87.00	77.8	92.1	93.7
5	5	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	85.00	80	68.4	98.2
6	6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	84.80	81.2	97.8	81.9
7	7	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	84.70	72.5	79.9	99.4
8	8	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	83.80	76.3	95	85.7
9	9	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	83.30	75.4	90.7	87.4
10	10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	83.20	75	90.8	87.7
11	11	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	82.90	74.2	86	90.1
12	12	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	82.70	76.9	87.8	85.9
13	13	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	82.10	74.1	96.1	83
14	14	The University of Tokyo	Japan	81.50	80	94.3	76.5
15	15	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	80.80	67.6	81.8	93.6
16	16	Yale University	United States	80.40	70.5	84	88.5
17	17	Northwestern University	United States	79.40	69.8	78.9	89.2
18	18	Kyoto University	Japan	78.80	75.8	92.2	75
19	19	Peking University	China	78.60	72.5	95	76.4
20	20	The University of Melbourne	Australia	78.00	67.6	90.8	82
21	21	Technische Universität München	Germany	77.80	68.3	80.6	86
22	22	Columbia University	United States	77.10	67.4	83.5	83.7
23	23	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	77.10	68.3	70.8	89
24	22=	University of Michigan	United States	77.10	61.1	84.4	89.5
25	25	Cornell University	United States	77.00	62.2	80.8	89.9
26	26=	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	76.30	59	83.2	90.2
27	26=	University of British Columbia	Canada	76.30	66.4	77.7	85.6
28	28	University of Texas at Austin	United States	76.20	65.5	66.9	91.6
29	29	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	76.00	63	75.1	89.4
30	30	Princeton University	United States	75.90	65.7	86.4	80.9
31	31	Australian National University	Australia	75.60	66.2	88.5	78.5
32	31=	University of Pennsylvania	United States	75.60	61.3	74.4	90.5
33	33	University of Washington	United States	75.60	56.2	76.6	94.4
34	34	University of Toronto	Canada	75.50	69.3	82.3	78.2
35	35	Tsinghua University	China	75.40	69.1	90.2	74.3
36	36	Monash University	Australia	75.10	63	87.5	81.1
37	37	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	75.10	60.9	78.9	87.5
38	36=	University of Chicago	United States	75.10	65.2	84.4	80.4
39	39	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	75.00	68.4	93	72.7
40	40	Fudan University	China	74.90	63.1	85.1	81.6
41	41	Texas A&M University	United States	74.50	58.9	82.8	86
42	42	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	74.30	62.8	74.8	85.6
43	43	The University of Sydney	Australia	73.90	67.2	87.5	73.8
44	44	Seoul National University	South Korea	73.80	70.1	90.4	69.1
45	45	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	73.70	63.3	72.3	84.9
46	46=	McGill University	Canada	73.50	62	80.7	81.5
47	46=	Osaka University	Japan	73.50	66.6	90.7	71.7
48	48	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	73.40	62.9	88.4	76.3
49	49=	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	73.30	60.3	86.7	79.6
50	49=	Rice University	United States	73.30	50.9	64.9	100
51	51- 100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	0.00	56.7	76	81.3
52	51- 100	Duke University	United States	0.00	53.7	83.6	84.1
53	51 - 100	Durham University	United Kingdom		53.3	70.2	90.3
54	51- 100	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	0.00	57.1	68.2	82.5
55	51- 100	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	62	66.7	78.4
56	51 - 100	Hokkaido University	Japan		62.5	88.6	70.9
57	51 - 100	Johns Hopkins University	United States		61.9	74.8	81.4
58	51- 100	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea	0.00	69.9	74	70.6
59	51 - 100	KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie	Germany		59.6	78.6	79.8
60	51- 100	Kyushu University	Japan	0.00	58	89.1	75.1
61	51- 100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	0.00	66.9	70.1	78.3
62	51- 100	Lund University	Sweden	0.00	56.8	82.5	74.3
63	51- 100	Nagoya University	Japan	0.00	61.9	87.5	76.7
64	51- 100	Nanjing University	China	0.00	62.8	65.5	82.3
65	51- 100	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	0.00	59.6	90.2	76.5
66	51- 100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	0.00	66.3	82.9	69.1
67	51 - 100	Pennsylvania State University	United States		52.2	77.5	90.7
68	51 - 100	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea		71	61.7	79.3
69	51 - 100	Purdue University	United States		58.7	78.3	84.8
70	51- 100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	0.00	62.3	88.1	67
71	51- 100	Stockholm University	Sweden	0.00	60.5	73.5	82.8
72	51 - 100	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong		55.3	78.3	79.3
73	51 - 100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand		56.2	80.6	77.2
74	51 - 100	The University of New South Wales	Australia		58.6	88.2	75.3
75	51- 100	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	0.00	58.4	75.2	80.3
76	51- 100	The University of Queensland	Australia	0.00	57.9	84.8	71.5
77	51- 100	Tohoku University	Japan	0.00	66.4	86.3	67.9
78	51- 100	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	51.7	75.5	84.4
79	51- 100	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	0.00	59.8	80.2	75.7
80	51- 100	Universidade de São Paulo - USP	Brazil	0.00	60.9	87	69.7
81	51- 100	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil	0.00	62.4	77.6	73.2
82	51- 100	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain	0.00	52.4	70	88.2
83	51- 100	University of Barcelona	Spain	0.00	55.4	74.7	79.9
84	51- 100	Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany	0.00	47.6	65.2	92.5
85	51 - 100	Université de Strasbourg	France		62.9	53.6	90.3
86	51- 100	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	0.00	57.3	66	82.6
87	51- 100	University of California, Davis	United States	0.00	57.2	78.6	78.7
88	51- 100	University of California, Irvine	United States	0.00	54.4	74.8	79.6
89	51 - 100	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom		61.2	79.3	76.7
90	51 - 100	University of Geneva	Switzerland		55.3	66.1	85.5
91	51- 100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	0.00	54.8	75.3	83.2
92	51- 100	University of Helsinki	Finland	0.00	49.5	80.2	82.7
93	51- 100	University of Minnesota	United States	0.00	56.5	65.6	90.6
94	51- 100	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	0.00	57	70.3	85.8
95	51- 100	University of Science and Technology of China	China	0.00	64.8	59.8	77.8
96	51- 100	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	0.00	48.9	75.2	90.7
97	51- 100	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	0.00	55.3	74.3	88.3
98	51- 100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	0.00	65.3	71.7	80.4
99	51- 100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	0.00	57.8	67.6	87.5
100	51 - 100	Waseda University	Japan		60	91.7	65.7
101	51- 100	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	0.00	54.6	60.5	88
102	101- 150	Aarhus University	Denmark	0.00	50.3	73.5	74.8
103	101 - 150	Arizona State University	United States		45	68.3	88.1
104	101 - 150	Boston University	United States		40.1	82.2	84.1
105	101- 150	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	0.00	52	81.5	73.1
106	101 - 150	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand		53.7	87.6	66.4
107	101- 150	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	0.00	53.7	72.9	73.4
108	101- 150	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	0.00	53.3	61.2	78.7
109	101 - 150	Ecole Polytechnique	France		51.9	74.9	77.5
110	101 - 150	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany		56.5	64.4	73.1
111	101- 150	Indian Institute of Science	India	0.00	54.3	79.7	71.6
112	101 - 150	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India		59	77	64.6
113	101- 150	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)	India	0.00	51.3	79.4	70.7
114	101- 150	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	0.00	50.7	78.9	74
115	101 - 150	Keio University	Japan		53.4	86.7	72.4
116	101- 150	Korea University	South Korea	0.00	60	76	72.4
117	101 - 150	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden		48.9	80.4	74.6
118	101- 150	Leiden University	Netherlands	0.00	54	69.3	80.8
119	101- 150	New York University (NYU)	United States	0.00	48.5	73.9	79
120	101 - 150	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy		57.1	70.8	71.4
121	101- 150	Shanghai University	China	0.00	56.3	76	68
122	101 - 150	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark		51	73.9	81
123	101- 150	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	57.3	77.6	72.9
124	101- 150	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	0.00	54.9	71.5	78.6
125	101- 150	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	0.00	46.3	81.2	82.8
126	101- 150	Tokyo University of Science	Japan	0.00	51.3	99.5	69
127	101- 150	University Complutense Madrid	Spain	0.00	53.5	64.8	80.4
128	101- 150	University of Bologna	Italy	0.00	53.9	70.5	78
129	101- 150	Universität Freiburg	Germany	0.00	52.3	75.1	78.7
130	101- 150	Universität Stuttgart	Germany	0.00	52.1	76.8	71.2
131	101- 150	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	0.00	50.1	84.7	71.6
132	101 - 150	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France		56.9	79.9	73.6
133	101 - 150	University of Alberta	Canada		58.5	71.2	71.7
134	101 - 150	University of Basel	Switzerland		53.4	65.6	80.3
135	101- 150	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	0.00	52.3	82.7	70.6
136	101 - 150	University of Florida	United States		48.3	77.9	80
137	101 - 150	University of Groningen	Netherlands		53.1	60.2	81.3
138	101 - 150	University of Leeds	United Kingdom		53.5	80.9	71.3
139	101 - 150	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom		56.6	64.7	78.7
140	101 - 150	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States		50.7	65.8	84
141	101 - 150	University of Otago	New Zealand		54.2	75.3	73.7
142	101 - 150	University of Tasmania	Australia		49.6	75.5	77.7
143	101- 150	University of Tsukuba	Japan	0.00	63.6	67.7	68.1
144	101- 150	University of York	United Kingdom	0.00	40.3	78.9	84.1
145	101- 150	University of Zurich	Switzerland	0.00	54.7	74.5	71.4
146	101- 150	Uppsala University	Sweden	0.00	60.3	74.4	73.6
147	101 - 150	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand		33.5	72.2	96.1
148	101- 150	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster	Germany	0.00	46.8	66.4	88.4
149	101- 150	Yonsei University	South Korea	0.00	62.9	65.4	74.2
150	101- 150	Zhejiang University	China	0.00	56.9	82.3	69.3
151	151 - 200	Brown University	United States		41.1	76.6	77.4
152	151 - 200	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong		43.9	70.2	75.4
153	151- 200	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	0.00	49.6	46.4	84.2
154	151 - 200	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India		61.2	70	64.6
155	151- 200	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR)	India	0.00	40.4	66.8	85.8
156	151- 200	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	0.00	39	65.2	82.4
157	151- 200	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey	0.00	46.5	81.7	66.7
158	151- 200	Jilin University	China	0.00	54.4	61.7	69.1
159	151- 200	McMaster University	Canada	0.00	50.2	66.4	74.1
160	151 - 200	Michigan State University	United States		40.1	80	77.7
161	151- 200	Nankai University	China	0.00	43.9	65.1	81.8
162	151- 200	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	0.00	51	65	72.6
163	151- 200	Ohio State University	United States	0.00	47.7	73.2	72.5
164	151 - 200	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom		40.8	68.7	80.9
165	151- 200	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	0.00	34.7	77.6	87.6
166	151- 200	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	0.00	37.6	81.4	80.6
167	151 - 200	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany		47.1	70.2	79.1
168	151 - 200	Ruhr-Universität Bochum	Germany		47.1	72.8	76.8
169	151- 200	Sun Yat-sen University	China	0.00	45.6	56.7	83.9
170	151- 200	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	0.00	60.6	60.1	64.2
171	151 - 200	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany		44.6	86.2	72.4
172	151- 200	Vienna University of Technology	Austria	0.00	52.1	75.6	71.1
173	151- 200	The University of Adelaide	Australia	0.00	51.4	79.7	64.9
174	151 - 200	The University of Western Australia	Australia		46.8	77.4	71.2
175	151- 200	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	0.00	49.4	67.8	73.4
176	151- 200	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	0.00	63.2	76.2	56.9
177	151 - 200	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil		49.5	75.3	66.9
178	151- 200	University of Milano	Italy	0.00	47.1	67.4	77.4
179	151- 200	Università¡ degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata	Italy	0.00	44	74	72.9
180	151- 200	University of Pisa	Italy	0.00	42.2	83.7	71.6
181	151- 200	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany	0.00	49.6	60	72.8
182	151- 200	University of Vienna	Austria	0.00	50.2	67.5	70.2
183	151- 200	Université de Montréal	Canada	0.00	48.3	65.3	73.8
184	151- 200	Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1	France	0.00	50.8	71.3	71.2
185	151 - 200	University College Dublin	Ireland		46.1	75.2	70.2
186	151- 200	University of Bath	United Kingdom	0.00	35.8	75	84.6
187	151- 200	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	0.00	53.9	76.5	66.3
188	151- 200	University of Calgary	Canada	0.00	43.1	61	84
189	151 - 200	University of Canterbury	New Zealand		43.5	73.1	75.1
190	151- 200	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	0.00	42.8	74.7	79.8
191	151- 200	University of Houston	United States	0.00	41.5	65.6	78.5
192	151- 200	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States	0.00	44.7	64.8	79.3
193	151- 200	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	0.00	41.9	66	82
194	151- 200	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	0.00	42.6	70.5	81
195	151 - 200	University of Notre Dame	United States		37.8	70	88.7
196	151- 200	University of Ottawa	Canada	0.00	40.4	59.3	83.4
197	151- 200	University of Southern California	United States	0.00	40.8	63.1	82.2
198	151 - 200	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom		47.1	63.1	75.2
199	151 - 200	Wuhan University	China		36.3	64	85.6
200	151 - 200	Xiamen University	China		48.5	64	72.3

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XL	VERY LARGE >= 30,000 students
L	LARGE >= 12,000 students
M	MEDIUM >= 5,000 students
S	SMALL < 5,000 students

Focus
FC	Fully Comprehensive All faculty areas + medical school
CO	Comprehensive All faculty areas
FO	Focused > 2 faculty areas
SP	Specialist <= 2 faculty areas

Research
VH	Very High
HI	High
MD	Moderate
LO	Limited or None

Age
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4	Mature >= 50 years old
3	Established > 25 years old
2	Young >= 10 years old
1	New < 10 years old

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