QS World University Rankings by Subject 2012 - Geography

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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	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	94.30	97	90.8	86.7
2	2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	93.70	99.9	77.5	79.9
3	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.50	95.7	91.8	71.8
4	4	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	89.70	90.6	83.2	89.7
5	5	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	87.90	93.2	78.9	73.7
6	6	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	86.50	91.8	85	68.5
7	7	The University of Tokyo	Japan	85.90	93.6	79.3	62.3
8	8	University of British Columbia	Canada	84.90	89.9	71.7	73.9
9	9	Australian National University	Australia	84.30	87.8	85.3	71.5
10	9=	University of Chicago	United States	84.30	85.5	78.4	83.2
11	11	University of Toronto	Canada	83.90	89.5	73.4	69.7
12	12	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	81.40	80.5	79.8	85.5
13	13	Durham University	United Kingdom	80.60	77.9	66.9	96.8
14	14	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	80.30	80.8	68.5	84.3
15	15	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	80.00	81.1	83.9	74.4
16	16	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	78.90	77.6	76.7	84.5
17	17	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	78.70	80.6	62.6	80.3
18	18=	McGill University	Canada	77.70	83.2	73.9	60.4
19	18=	University of Washington	United States	77.70	75.7	69	88.9
20	20	Lund University	Sweden	77.50	77.9	59.6	85
21	21	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	77.40	82.2	39.7	79.3
22	22	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	76.60	76	68.6	82.6
23	23	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	76.50	77	70.2	78.1
24	24=	The University of Melbourne	Australia	76.30	77.3	84.4	68.6
25	24=	The University of Sydney	Australia	76.30	78.8	79.9	65.5
26	26	Kyoto University	Japan	76.00	82.7	75.9	52.4
27	27	Seoul National University	South Korea	75.80	81.2	65.2	62.1
28	28	University of Vienna	Austria	75.10	75.7	65.1	78.1
29	29	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	75.00	77.2	59.4	75.1
30	30	University of Minnesota	United States	73.80	73.2	54.1	85.5
31	31	Universidade de São Paulo - USP	Brazil	73.70	75	57.7	77
32	32	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	73.50	81.3	54.7	55.4
32	32	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	73.50	81.3	54.7	55.4
33	33	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	73.40	76	63.3	69.1
34	34	Peking University	China	73.20	76.6	76.5	59.4
36	35=	Tsinghua University	China	72.50	71.8	77.4	72.7
37	37=	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	72.10	80.5	34.1	61.6
38	37=	Utrecht University	Netherlands	72.10	75	49.6	73.1
39	39	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	71.60	73.4	38	82.1
40	40	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	71.20	70.2	73.6	73.3
41	41	Pennsylvania State University	United States	71.10	70.8	75.4	70
42	42	Monash University	Australia	70.50	73.1	78	57.4
43	43=	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	70.20	70.6	46.3	80.7
44	43=	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	70.20	67.7	71	78.4
45	45	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	70.00	70.2	60.3	74.2
46	46	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	69.30	75.5	47.7	58.4
47	47	Dartmouth College	United States	69.20	67.3	62.9	78.8
48	48	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	68.40	65.9	53.9	84.3
49	49=	Northwestern University	United States	68.20	67.8	63.7	71.6
50	49=	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	68.20	65.5	74.3	74.5
51	49=	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	68.20	66.9	56.4	78.5
51	51 - 100	University of Kansas	United States	68.20	66.9	56.4	78.5
52	51- 100	Brigham Young University	United States	0.00	67.2	25.3	76.9
53	51- 100	Charles University	Czech Republic	0.00	56	57.4	85.3
54	51- 100	City University of New York	United States	0.00	66.7	29.6	74.6
55	51 - 100	Clark University	United States		64.9		77.6
56	51 - 100	George Washington University	United States		62.9	59.1	62.5
57	51 - 100	Jawaharlal Nehru University	India		81.6	42.6	27.6
58	51- 100	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	0.00	65.2	53	75.5
59	51- 100	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	0.00	57	58.7	94.7
60	51- 100	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	0.00	71.6	62.9	23.3
61	51- 100	McMaster University	Canada	0.00	60.6	60.7	77.8
62	51- 100	Michigan State University	United States	0.00	59.4	55.6	67.8
63	51- 100	Nagoya University	Japan	0.00	65.4	62.1	43.7
64	51- 100	Nanjing University	China	0.00	65.2	61.4	42.1
65	51- 100	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	0.00	58.3	59.1	75.5
66	51- 100	Ohio State University	United States	0.00	56.7	49.9	85
67	51 - 100	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile		70.1	66.5	59.6
68	51- 100	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	0.00	61.6	50.7	92
69	51- 100	Queen's University	Canada	0.00	69	65.2	65.8
70	51- 100	Simon Fraser University	Canada	0.00	62.4	49.3	67.5
71	51 - 100	Stockholm University	Sweden		69	32.8	81
72	51 - 100	The University of New South Wales	Australia		67.8	77	58.8
73	51 - 100	The University of Queensland	Australia		65	82.3	68.8
74	51- 100	The University of Western Australia	Australia	0.00	53.7	71.3	79.3
75	51- 100	University Complutense Madrid	Spain	0.00	63.2	58.5	59.9
76	51- 100	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	0.00	70.6	65.2	58.3
77	51- 100	Universidad de Chile	Chile	0.00	63.8	57.3	69.4
78	51- 100	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain	0.00	62.8	28.2	74.4
79	51- 100	University of Barcelona	Spain	0.00	62.4	44.6	69.3
80	51- 100	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany	0.00	68.6	38.2	51.2
81	51- 100	Universität Hamburg	Germany	0.00	65.7	47.6	59.4
82	51 - 100	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	France		70.1	60.5	55.8
83	51 - 100	University of Alberta	Canada		63.2	66.4	63.5
84	51 - 100	University of Arizona	United States		62.2	50.3	73.2
85	51 - 100	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States		72.3		86.5
86	51 - 100	University of Cape Town	South Africa		59	56.8	79.5
87	51- 100	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	0.00	65.6	47.3	83
88	51 - 100	University of Ghent	Belgium		61.5	44.7	63
89	51 - 100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		63	71.3	77.7
90	51- 100	University of Hawaii at Mañoa	United States	0.00	68.5		82.7
91	51- 100	University of Helsinki	Finland	0.00	67	53.1	77.9
92	51- 100	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	0.00	62.7	71.4	71.3
93	51- 100	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	0.00	64.2	65	76.2
94	51- 100	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	0.00	54.7	61.8	79.8
95	51- 100	University of Oslo	Norway	0.00	65.2	32	70.5
96	51- 100	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	0.00	59.2	37.2	81.5
97	51- 100	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	0.00	53.7	62.7	82
98	51- 100	University of Victoria	Canada	0.00	66.5	13.7	61.1
99	51- 100	University of Zurich	Switzerland	0.00	64.7	60.2	82.5
100	51- 100	York University	Canada	0.00	64.6	60.7	56.4
101	101- 150	Arizona State University	United States	0.00	60		76.5
102	101- 150	Beijing Normal University	China	0.00	60.5	59.1	45.5
103	101- 150	Boston University	United States	0.00	53.7	65.5	68.4
104	101 - 150	Cardiff University	United Kingdom		55.5	53.6	72.1
105	101 - 150	Carleton University	Canada		50.8	52.4	67.7
106	101 - 150	Flinders University	Australia		51.6	47.1	60.6
107	101- 150	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	0.00	52.4	54.4	57.9
108	101- 150	Jagiellonian University	Poland	0.00	62.3	52.4	47.2
109	101- 150	Kobe University	Japan	0.00	48.3	96.8	63.4
109	101 - 150	Kobe University	Japan		48.3	96.8	63.4
110	101- 150	Korea University	South Korea	0.00	64.7		60.7
111	101- 150	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	0.00	47.4	54.7	76.5
112	101- 150	National University of Ireland Maynooth	Ireland	0.00	58.4	24.9	51.5
113	101- 150	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	0.00	53.5	66.6	64.9
114	101- 150	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	0.00	67.1		55
115	101 - 150	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States		56.6	27.7	71.8
116	101 - 150	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy		59.6	48.5	65.8
117	101- 150	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	0.00	44.9	42.9	100
118	101- 150	Syracuse University	United States	0.00	59.6		56.8
119	101- 150	The University of Adelaide	Australia	0.00	55.4	52.8	45.2
120	101 - 150	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom		55.5	66.3	66.1
121	101 - 150	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil		62.9		52.8
122	101- 150	University of Florence	Italy	0.00	54.3		75.7
123	101- 150	Universität Freiburg	Germany	0.00	59.2		72.2
124	101- 150	Universität Innsbruck	Austria	0.00	57.8	49.8	65.8
125	101- 150	Universität zu Köln	Germany	0.00	64.6	53.8	32.6
126	101- 150	Université de Montréal	Canada	0.00	58.4	54.8	59.5
127	101- 150	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)	Malaysia	0.00	69.1	55	29.6
128	101- 150	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	0.00	54.3	70.8	40
129	101- 150	University College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	58.3	67.4	61.5
130	101- 150	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	0.00	46.7	48.2	78.6
131	101- 150	University of Bern	Switzerland	0.00	50.7	51.4	80.3
132	101 - 150	University of Calgary	Canada		56.5	60.4	59.9
133	101 - 150	University of California, Davis	United States		50.7	59.5	84.1
134	101- 150	University of Canterbury	New Zealand	0.00	52.9	65.9	77.2
135	101 - 150	University of Delhi	India		64.6	60.4	14.9
136	136	University of East Anglia (UEA)			52.6	49.4	76.4
137	101 - 150	University of Exeter	United Kingdom		51.5	43.9	80
139	101- 150	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	0.00	52.9	37.8	85.8
140	101- 150	The University of Newcastle		0.00	54.4	57.1	64.9
141	101- 150	University of Otago	New Zealand	0.00	54.5	65.8	71.1
142	101- 150	University of Reading	United Kingdom	0.00	48.7	55.1	74.9
143	101- 150	University of the Philippines	Philippines	0.00	55	73.2	51.9
144	101- 150	University of Waterloo	Canada	0.00	57	67.6	59.1
145	101- 150	University of Wollongong	Australia	0.00	52.4	44.1	58.8
146	101- 150	University of York	United Kingdom	0.00	48.5	62.2	83
147	101 - 150	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand		54.9	72.6	63.6
148	101- 150	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	0.00	50.9	52.4	60.1
149	101 - 150	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster	Germany		49.3	32.6	81.7
150	101- 150	Zhejiang University	China	0.00	56.8	67	43.1
151	151 - 200	Aberystwyth University	United Kingdom		45.2		83.1
152	151 - 200	Colorado State University	United States		38.8	39.3	68.3
153	151- 200	Dalhousie University	Canada	0.00	44.6	54.5	56.6
154	151- 200	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	0.00	54.7		69.6
155	151- 200	James Cook University	Australia	0.00	46.3	45.4	59.1
156	151- 200	Laval University	Canada	0.00	56.3	29.2	48
157	151- 200	Louisiana State University	United States	0.00	52.4		63.5
158	151- 200	Macquarie University	Australia	0.00	41.3	75.8	65.9
159	151- 200	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Greece	0.00	45.8	36.4	67.4
160	151- 200	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan	0.00	48.3	58	53.6
161	151- 200	Oxford Brookes University	United Kingdom	0.00	34.9	59.6	75.4
162	151- 200	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	0.00	37.3	68.5	78.8
163	151 - 200	RMIT University	Australia		41.9	68.8	58.5
164	151 - 200	University of Guelph	Canada		49.4		63.6
165	151- 200	Sun Yat-sen University	China	0.00	37.9	56.4	61.1
166	151- 200	Tel Aviv University	Israel	0.00	45.4	50.1	60.1
167	151 - 200	Texas A&M University	United States		46.5	65	59.1
168	151- 200	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	0.00	41.7	33	71.8
169	151- 200	The Open University	United Kingdom	0.00	50.1		83.9
170	151- 200	The University of Western Ontario	Canada	0.00	39	56.7	71.3
171	151- 200	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	0.00	50.4	37.2	60.3
172	151- 200	Universidad de Sevilla	Spain	0.00	56.4		42.8
173	151- 200	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil	0.00	56.5	12	53.6
174	151- 200	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	0.00	45.2	36	64.2
175	151- 200	University of Pisa	Italy	0.00	46.5	42.5	48.5
176	151- 200	Universität Bremen	Germany	0.00	50.7	30.5	64.3
177	151- 200	Universitat de Valencia	Spain	0.00	46.4	37.8	60.5
178	151 - 200	Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense	France		46	47.8	43
179	151 - 200	University at Buffalo SUNY	United States		54.2		70.5
180	151 - 200	University College Cork	Ireland		46.5	70.2	48
181	151 - 200	University of Antwerp	Belgium		46.5	36.2	59.9
182	151- 200	University of Eastern Finland	Finland	0.00	58.7		54.3
183	151- 200	University of Florida	United States	0.00	36.4	64.2	67.5
184	151 - 200	University of Geneva	Switzerland		56.2	32.4	33.6
186	151 - 200	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States		40.3	53	68.1
187	151- 200	University of Iowa	United States	0.00	39	54.1	78.7
188	151- 200	University of Kentucky	United States	0.00	46.9	28	69.6
189	151- 200	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	United States	0.00	49.4		65
190	151- 200	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States	0.00	48.4	62.4	53.6
191	151- 200	University of Miami	United States	0.00	49.4	28.2	59.3
192	151- 200	University of New England	Australia	0.00	48.8	48.4	43.8
193	151- 200	University of Oregon	United States	0.00	49.2		71.8
194	151- 200	University of Pittsburgh	United States	0.00	39.5	60.3	77.1
195	151 - 200	University of Plymouth	United Kingdom		52.4		70.1
196	151 - 200	University of Saskatchewan	Canada		47.6	56.4	56.6
197	151- 200	University of Tasmania	Australia	0.00	48.2	45.4	59.2
198	151 - 200	University of The Witwatersrand	South Africa		53.6	36.9	56.9
199	151 - 200	University of Waikato	New Zealand		45.9	67.6	60.4
200	151- 200	University of Warsaw	Poland	0.00	66	34	8.6

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QS Classifications: Key

Size
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
5	Historic >= 100 years old
4	Mature >= 50 years old
3	Established > 25 years old
2	Young >= 10 years old
1	New < 10 years old

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