QS World University Rankings by Subject 2012 - Linguistics

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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	96.70	99.3	83.2	88.9
2	2	Harvard University	United States	96.50	96.4	97	96.5
3	3	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	96.10	100	86.4	74.4
4	4	Stanford University	United States	93.60	95.9	87.7	81.1
5	5	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.30	94.1	96	83.9
6	6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	91.10	91.8	94.4	81.7
7	7	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	87.30	88.5	83.1	81.5
8	8	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	87.00	89.8	83	68.3
9	9=	Australian National University	Australia	86.50	83.4	100	97.8
10	9=	The University of Tokyo	Japan	86.50	89.2	88.8	62.5
11	11	University of Chicago	United States	85.90	85.7	81.5	91.8
12	12	Princeton University	United States	85.60	84.7	83.3	95
13	13	University of Pennsylvania	United States	85.20	86.5	78.9	81
14	14	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States	84.80	88.2	60.9	81.4
15	15	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	84.50	83.4	84.7	92.9
16	16	University of Toronto	Canada	83.70	83.2	81.4	90.3
17	17	McGill University	Canada	82.20	81.5	82.5	87.4
18	18	Université du Québec	Canada	82.20	90.9	46.4	48.5
19	19	The University of Melbourne	Australia	81.30	80.8	91.7	74.7
20	20	The University of Sydney	Australia	81.00	82.7	86.9	61.6
21	21	Peking University	China	79.10	85.6	84.6	21.9
22	22	University of Michigan	United States	78.70	77.7	81.1	84.6
23	23	Yale University	United States	78.20	76.3	87.7	83.7
24	24	Kyoto University	Japan	78.00	79.3	85.3	60.2
25	25=	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	76.50	81	50.7	66.5
26	25=	University of British Columbia	Canada	76.50	75.5	79.7	81.5
27	27	Cornell University	United States	76.00	74.1	78.3	88.6
28	28	University of Texas at Austin	United States	75.50	75	68.2	87.1
29	29	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	75.30	80.6	57.1	50.9
29	29=	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	75.30	80.6	57.1	50.9
30	30	Ohio State University	United States	75.30	79.3	59.4	59.2
32	32	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	74.90	76.3	58	80.2
33	32=	The University of Queensland	Australia	74.90	73.4	98.3	63.9
34	34	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	73.90	73	74.6	80.4
35	35=	New York University (NYU)	United States	73.70	73.3	75.6	75.3
36	35=	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	73.70	74.4	84.1	58
37	37	Seoul National University	South Korea	73.60	81.8	72.3	9.3
38	38=	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	73.40	75.3	94.7	36.4
39	38=	University of Arizona	United States	73.40	74	58.1	84.3
40	40	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	73.30	77.7	64.6	47.1
41	41	Leiden University	Netherlands	72.90	77.3	52.5	57.7
42	42	Columbia University	United States	72.80	71.5	83.3	72.8
43	43	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	72.60	72.1	79.5	69.8
44	44	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	72.00	75	70.4	49.9
45	45	University of Helsinki	Finland	71.80	72.3	62.7	76.9
46	46=	University of Vienna	Austria	71.30	72.8	73.5	56.7
47	47	University of Washington	United States	71.30	71.5	67	74
48	48	Tsinghua University	China	71.20	76.2	85.3	17.2
49	49	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	71.00	71.7	57.5	78.7
50	50	Macquarie University	Australia	70.70	69.9	68.2	79.8
51	51- 100	Aarhus University	Denmark	0.00	60.3	63.1	73.6
52	51- 100	Beijing Normal University	China	0.00	65.2	65.5	69.1
53	51 - 100	Boston University	United States		59	65.5	99.7
54	51- 100	Brown University	United States	0.00	58.9	74.1	82
55	51- 100	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	0.00	60.7	53	74.9
56	51- 100	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	0.00	63.4	67.1	64.4
57	51- 100	City University of New York	United States	0.00	66.5	38.5	67.2
58	51- 100	Duke University	United States	0.00	62.4	77.8	73.3
59	51- 100	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	77	44.8	39.6
60	51 - 100	Georgetown University	United States		68	67.5	81.9
61	51- 100	Johns Hopkins University	United States	0.00	64.8	66.3	86.8
62	51- 100	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	0.00	71.3	63.1	70.6
63	51- 100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	0.00	72.2	56.7	47.9
64	51- 100	Lund University	Sweden	0.00	63.4	64.9	70.7
65	51- 100	Michigan State University	United States	0.00	62.5	65.5	74.9
66	51 - 100	Monash University	Australia		68.3	86.2	69.2
67	51- 100	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	0.00	61.2	83	73.2
68	51- 100	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	0.00	74.6	58.8	41.6
69	51- 100	Pennsylvania State University	United States	0.00	60.5	72.9	84.2
70	51- 100	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	0.00	63.1	41.6	66.1
71	51 - 100	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany		66.8	51.5	52.8
72	51- 100	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States	0.00	65.8	36.8	82.7
73	51 - 100	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China		76.3	71.3	17.5
74	51 - 100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand		67.3	73	62.5
75	51- 100	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	0.00	57.9	77.1	72
76	51 - 100	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands		61.7	83.7	49.8
77	51- 100	The University of Western Australia	Australia	0.00	59.4	80.3	80
78	51- 100	Universidade de São Paulo - USP	Brazil	0.00	65.8	62	38.8
79	51 - 100	University of Bologna	Italy		68.4	57.3	76
80	51- 100	University of Barcelona	Spain	0.00	70.1	55	81.3
81	51- 100	Universität Hamburg	Germany	0.00	71.6		43.3
82	51 - 100	Universität zu Köln	Germany		61.3	63.4	89.6
83	51- 100	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	0.00	62.7	55.6	90.7
84	51- 100	Université de Montréal	Canada	0.00	63.2	54.7	79
85	51- 100	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	0.00	67.4	69.9	88.4
86	51- 100	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	0.00	70.2		79.4
87	51- 100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	0.00	70.6	64.5	29.5
88	51- 100	University of Groningen	Netherlands	0.00	63.5	39	66.9
89	51- 100	University of Hawaii at Mañoa	United States	0.00	76.4		41.2
90	51- 100	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	0.00	62.5	71.8	62.8
91	51- 100	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	0.00	67.1	47.3	70.6
92	51 - 100	University of Oslo	Norway		65	42.2	51
93	51- 100	University of York	United Kingdom	0.00	62.6	66.4	83.7
94	51 - 100	University of Zurich	Switzerland		68.1	63.3	59.6
95	51 - 100	Uppsala University	Sweden		64.5	65	87.7
96	51- 100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	0.00	70.8		42.4
97	51- 100	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	0.00	60.3	69.5	81.5
99	51- 100	Waseda University	Japan	0.00	66.3	77.2	40.8
100	51 - 100	York University	Canada		61.2	69.2	97.4
101	101- 150	Bangor University	United Kingdom	0.00	59.9	26.7	96.2
102	101- 150	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	0.00	59.1	53.6	62.4
103	101- 150	La Trobe University	Australia	0.00	53.9	52.1	48
104	101 - 150	Nagoya University	Japan		51.7	70	41.6
105	101- 150	National Cheng Kung University	Taiwan	0.00	54.1	64.2	59
106	101- 150	National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	0.00	54.7	63.9	28.4
107	101- 150	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	0.00	66.1		30
108	101 - 150	Newcastle University	United Kingdom		56.3	58.8	80.1
109	101- 150	Northwestern University	United States	0.00	54.3	71.7	83.6
110	101- 150	Purdue University	United States	0.00	50	77.8	77.9
111	101- 150	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	0.00	64.1		75.2
112	101- 150	Rice University	United States	0.00	51.3	35.3	74.3
113	101- 150	Simon Fraser University	Canada	0.00	50.2	58.6	83.1
114	101 - 150	Stockholm University	Sweden		63.5	43.3	55.6
115	101- 150	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	55.8	43	75.7
116	101- 150	The University of New South Wales	Australia	0.00	56.3	84.8	59.4
117	101- 150	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	0.00	59.8	60	66.9
118	101- 150	Tohoku University	Japan	0.00	57.1	76.2	56.7
119	101 - 150	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain		64.2	46.5	44.4
120	101- 150	University of Padua	Italy	0.00	54.1		100
121	101 - 150	Universität Bielefeld	Germany		54.5	38.8	58.4
122	101- 150	Universitat de Valencia	Spain	0.00	53.9	27.9	68.4
123	101 - 150	Universität des Saarlandes	Germany		59.5		61.2
124	101- 150	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany	0.00	59	30.4	67.3
125	101- 150	Universität Freiburg	Germany	0.00	66.3		65.1
126	101- 150	Universität Leipzig	Germany	0.00	64.9		56.3
127	101- 150	Universität Potsdam	Germany	0.00	58.6	40.3	71.7
128	101- 150	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium	0.00	56.3	51.1	66.5
129	101 - 150	University of Alberta	Canada		54.8	70.7	68.2
130	101 - 150	University of Antwerp	Belgium		55.4	46.5	57.4
131	101- 150	University of Bergen	Norway	0.00	53.1	47.9	70.4
132	101 - 150	University of Calgary	Canada		54	62.9	52.8
133	101- 150	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	0.00	61.4		79.4
134	101- 150	University of Canterbury	New Zealand	0.00	55	57	67.1
135	101- 150	University of Cape Town	South Africa	0.00	58.1	56.4	42.1
136	101 - 150	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States		57	57	76.6
137	101- 150	University of Connecticut	United States	0.00	57.6	52.6	62
138	101- 150	University of Essex	United Kingdom	0.00	61.9		80.8
139	101 - 150	University of Geneva	Switzerland		63.9	42.4	54.8
140	101 - 150	University of Ghent	Belgium		54	54.6	66.3
141	101- 150	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	0.00	53.5	75.8	66.2
142	101 - 150	University of Iowa	United States		57.1	40.9	81.6
143	101 - 150	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom		46.4	70.4	79.3
144	101- 150	University of Oregon	United States	0.00	61.8		81.6
145	101- 150	University of Ottawa	Canada	0.00	67.2		68.3
146	101 - 150	University of Pittsburgh	United States		50.2	64	83.4
147	101- 150	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	0.00	44.7	72.4	92.9
148	101- 150	University of Tromso	Norway	0.00	63.7		62.2
149	101- 150	University of Tsukuba	Japan	0.00	55.1	45.7	54.3
150	101 - 150	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States		52.2	69.4	91.8
151	151- 200	Arizona State University	United States	0.00	48.7		67.6
152	151- 200	Bar-Ilan University	Israel	0.00	37.8		71.8
153	151 - 200	Birkbeck College, University of London	United Kingdom		50.9		91.8
154	151- 200	Bogazici University	Turkey	0.00	45.1		87.5
155	151- 200	Brigham Young University	United States	0.00	39.7	34.3	60.1
156	151- 200	Carleton University	Canada	0.00	28.8	61.6	49.5
157	151- 200	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	0.00	55.4		72.8
158	151- 200	Emory University	United States	0.00	32		79.7
159	151 - 200	Florida State University	United States		35.8	40.8	89.8
160	151 - 200	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel		45.5	48.7	53.7
161	151- 200	Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz	Germany	0.00	55.4		31.6
162	151- 200	Kobe University	Japan	0.00	28.9	56.6	47.6
163	151 - 200	Maastricht University	Netherlands		38	65.7	93.4
164	151- 200	National Chung Cheng University	Taiwan	0.00	60.8		21.4
165	151- 200	Philipps-Universität Marburg	Germany	0.00	40.7		68.4
166	151- 200	Queen's University	Canada	0.00	41.3	72.1	45.1
167	151 - 200	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom		36.8	73.2	13.3
168	151 - 200	Stellenbosch University	South Africa		41.6	53.2	65.7
169	151- 200	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany	0.00	37.4		69.7
170	151 - 200	Tel Aviv University	Israel		37.8	42.7	71.8
171	151- 200	Temple University	United States	0.00	34.9		59.6
172	151 - 200	The Open University	United Kingdom		38.8		78.3
173	151- 200	The University of Western Ontario	Canada	0.00	41.2	60.7	74.7
174	151- 200	Tufts University	United States	0.00	30.4		95
175	151 - 200	University of Granada	Spain		53.5		48.9
176	151- 200	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela	Spain	0.00	58.7		21.7
177	151- 200	Universität Düsseldorf	Germany	0.00	43.4		85.5
178	151- 200	Universität Konstanz	Germany	0.00	59.5		16.6
179	151- 200	Universität Stuttgart	Germany	0.00	57.8
180	151 - 200	Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I	France		52.5		92.9
181	151- 200	Université Paris Descartes	France	0.00	39.7		44.4
182	151- 200	University at Buffalo SUNY	United States	0.00	42		38.8
183	151 - 200	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom		36.5	53.1	71.4
184	151- 200	University of California, Davis	United States	0.00	43.4	54.8	76.9
185	151- 200	University of California, Irvine	United States	0.00	42.9	50.5	87.7
186	151- 200	University of East Anglia (UEA)		0.00	47.4	58.7	48.1
187	151 - 200	University of Florida	United States		32.7	73.8	87.1
188	151- 200	University of Lisbon	Portugal	0.00	38.2		59.5
189	151 - 200	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	United States		43		41.6
190	151 - 200	University of Minnesota	United States		40.7	61.6	61.6
191	151- 200	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	0.00	47.5	47.8	67.5
192	151- 200	University of Pretoria	South Africa	0.00	41.2	17.7
193	151- 200	University of Reading	United Kingdom	0.00	35.3	57.9	83.1
194	151- 200	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	0.00	49.2	47.1	39.1
195	151- 200	University of Southern California	United States	0.00	56		68.7
196	151- 200	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	0.00	40.1	65.8	50
197	151- 200	University of Victoria	Canada	0.00	31.9	22.9	77.4
198	151- 200	University of Western Sydney	Australia	0.00	34.2		64.5
199	151 - 200	Washington University in St. Louis	United States		27.6	46.6	89.8
200	151- 200	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster	Germany	0.00	45.4	43	40.5

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M	MEDIUM >= 5,000 students
S	SMALL < 5,000 students

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Age
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