QS World University Rankings by Subject 2012 - Philosophy

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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	97.20	100	96.5	75.6
2	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	94.20	95.9	99.2	75.3
3	3	Harvard University	United States	94.00	96.3	97.9	71.3
4	4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	89.60	91.7	82.1	80.2
5	5	Princeton University	United States	88.30	90.2	81.2	80.3
6	6	Australian National University	Australia	86.30	87	85.2	81.3
7	7	University of Chicago	United States	84.10	89	84.9	43.8
8	8	New York University (NYU)	United States	83.60	85	77.7	78.7
9	9	Yale University	United States	83.40	86	92.8	53.3
10	10	Stanford University	United States	82.90	83.2	90.3	73.5
11	11	University of Toronto	Canada	82.00	83.1	85.2	70.1
12	12=	Columbia University	United States	81.80	83.6	83.5	65.2
13	12=	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	81.80	80.5	91	82.7
14	14	University of Michigan	United States	80.70	81	80.5	78.3
15	15	Fudan University	China	79.70	87.1	86.5	13.4
16	16	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	79.20	80.8	73.3	72.6
17	17	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	78.90	79.2	85.5	69.4
18	18	University of Pittsburgh	United States	78.50	81.3	67.8	67.2
19	19	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	77.50	77.1	81.4	76.5
20	20	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	77.20	78.5	85.5	58.3
21	21	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	76.70	82.1	80.4	29.4
22	22=	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	76.30	76.5	89.6	61.2
23	22=	Peking University	China	76.30	82.2	87.3	18.2
24	24	McGill University	Canada	76.10	78.5	78.4	54.9
25	25	University of British Columbia	Canada	75.60	75.3	85.4	68
26	26	Monash University	Australia	73.50	73.8	86.4	57.9
27	27	The University of Sydney	Australia	73.40	72.9	85.8	64.6
28	28	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States	73.30	75.6	39.8	88.2
29	29	Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)	France	72.80	79.6	68.7	22.4
30	30	University of Pennsylvania	United States	72.70	75.3	80.7	43.6
31	31	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	France	72.20	78.6	80.4	12.5
32	32	University of Texas at Austin	United States	72.00	69.9	82.9	78.2
33	33	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	71.90	71	79.3	71.7
34	34	Beijing Normal University	China	71.40	78	63.6	26.5
35	35	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	71.00	76.2	66	34.8
36	36	Cornell University	United States	70.50	70	78.7	66.2
37	37	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	70.10	77.2	69.9	13.4
37	37=	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	70.10	77.2	69.9	13.4
38	37=	University of Minnesota	United States	70.10	73.1	61.8	54.4
39	39	Brown University	United States	69.80	68.2	72	80.2
40	40	Wuhan University	China	69.50	76.5	61.8	21.2
41	41	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	69.30	73.2	74.2	33.2
42	42	The University of Melbourne	Australia	68.90	65.8	87.9	74.4
43	43	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	68.70	68.1	92.2	50.4
44	44	Universidade de São Paulo - USP	Brazil	68.30	73.7	70.8	22.8
45	45	Renmin (People’s) University of China	China	67.40	75.4	70.4
46	46	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	67.30	65.3	84	66.5
47	46=	Northwestern University	United States	67.30	66.1	76.5	68
48	48	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	67.30	71	52.3	52.6
49	46=	University of Vienna	Austria	67.30	73.2	77.7	10
50	50	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	67.30	67.9	52.1	77.4
51	51- 100	Birkbeck College, University of London	United Kingdom	0.00	66.3		63.6
52	51 - 100	Boston University	United States		60.2	74	51.9
53	51- 100	City University of New York	United States	0.00	63.3	41.1	48.3
54	51- 100	Duke University	United States	0.00	61.8	81	74.3
55	51- 100	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	0.00	76.4	45.3	2.9
56	51- 100	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	67.4	46.9	10
57	51- 100	Georgetown University	United States	0.00	60	84.7	52
58	51- 100	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	0.00	57.7	49.6	56.9
59	51 - 100	Indiana University Bloomington	United States		60.5	67.6	53.8
60	51 - 100	Johns Hopkins University	United States		66.3	66.4	49.2
61	51 - 100	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium		63.8	71.3	60.1
62	51- 100	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	0.00	72	57.7	17.9
63	51 - 100	Leiden University	Netherlands		65.1	62.1	56.6
64	51 - 100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany		70.6	56.7	46.1
65	51- 100	Ohio State University	United States	0.00	63.4	75.7	27.1
66	51- 100	Pennsylvania State University	United States	0.00	62.1	77.3	45.8
67	67	Stockholm University	Sweden		60.4	45.5	50.9
68	51- 100	Texas A&M University	United States	0.00	56.8	85	43.6
69	51- 100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	0.00	59.3	73.6	65.9
70	51- 100	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	0.00	63.8	82	75
71	51- 100	The University of New South Wales	Australia	0.00	62.2	86.7	46.7
72	51- 100	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	0.00	58.7	75.8	59.2
73	51- 100	The University of Queensland	Australia	0.00	55.4	87.7	64.9
74	51 - 100	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom		54.3	67.8	76
75	51 - 100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom		61.4	85	66.4
76	51- 100	The University of Western Ontario	Canada	0.00	63.2	68.4	33.7
77	51 - 100	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland		61	71.2	47.4
78	51- 100	Tsinghua University	China	0.00	65.3	87.3	56.4
79	51- 100	Tufts University	United States	0.00	59	83	46.9
80	51- 100	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	0.00	73.9	72
81	51 - 100	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain		59.3	52.7	44
82	51- 100	University of Barcelona	Spain	0.00	65.7	55.2	56.3
83	51 - 100	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany		61	35.7	100
84	51- 100	University of Arizona	United States	0.00	62.6	70.7	81.1
85	51- 100	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	0.00	54.6	79.9	52
86	51- 100	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	0.00	62.3	70.7	74.2
87	51- 100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	0.00	65.3	69.7	41.7
88	51- 100	University of Florida	United States	0.00	59.7	76.2	54.9
89	51- 100	University of Geneva	Switzerland	0.00	61.5	44.5	36.6
90	51- 100	University of Helsinki	Finland	0.00	67.9	61.5	45
91	51- 100	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States	0.00	59.8	32.5	69.9
92	51 - 100	University of Leeds	United Kingdom		58.2	72.8	82.6
93	51- 100	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	0.00	64.5	49.3	72.8
94	51- 100	University of Notre Dame	United States	0.00	66.2	74.8	63.3
95	51- 100	University of Oslo	Norway	0.00	69	44.5	17.9
96	51 - 100	University of Otago	New Zealand		64	55.8	64.8
97	51 - 100	University of Washington	United States		56.5	71.7	50
98	51 - 100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States		62.6	71.9	67.6
99	51- 100	University of Zurich	Switzerland	0.00	64.2	62	70.9
100	51- 100	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	0.00	56	72	50.4
101	101- 150	Arizona State University	United States	0.00	42.8	67.8	56.3
102	101 - 150	Bilkent University	Turkey		54.5		26.8
103	101- 150	Boston College	United States	0.00	57.6	60.7	25.9
104	101 - 150	Central European University	Hungary		55.7	57.2	51.9
105	101- 150	Charles University	Czech Republic	0.00	54.6	45.2	57.3
106	101- 150	Durham University	United Kingdom	0.00	53.7	70.2	66.8
107	101- 150	Emory University	United States	0.00	50.7	70.2	26.8
108	101 - 150	Fordham University	United States		45.3	64.1	45.7
109	101- 150	Loyola University Chicago	United States	0.00	47	37.5	45.5
110	101- 150	Macquarie University	Australia	0.00	46	65.8	51.1
111	101 - 150	Manchester Metropolitan University	United Kingdom		52.8	47.1	63.5
112	101- 150	McMaster University	Canada	0.00	53.5	66.8	35.4
113	101- 150	Michigan State University	United States	0.00	59.7	64.5	20.8
114	101- 150	Purdue University	United States	0.00	43.6	80.6	60.6
115	101- 150	Queen's University	Canada	0.00	48.1	71.2	44.6
116	101 - 150	Sun Yat-sen University	China		59.8	74.5	7.4
117	101- 150	Syracuse University	United States	0.00	58.2		68.4
118	101- 150	Tel Aviv University	Israel	0.00	46.4	44.8	58.5
119	101 - 150	Temple University	United States		55.5		47.6
120	101- 150	The University of Western Australia	Australia	0.00	46.3	75.5	41.1
121	101- 150	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	0.00	57.2	48.1	26.8
122	101- 150	University Complutense Madrid	Spain	0.00	61	65.8
123	101 - 150	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil		56.6	66.3	33.2
124	101- 150	University of Padua	Italy	0.00	47.7	61.9	36.6
125	101- 150	Universität Freiburg	Germany	0.00	62.5		17.9
126	101- 150	Universität Hamburg	Germany	0.00	63		45.6
127	101- 150	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	0.00	62	55.6
128	101- 150	Université de Montréal	Canada	0.00	52.3	61.4	19.8
129	101- 150	Université du Québec	Canada	0.00	43.4	55.4	66.8
130	101 - 150	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium		51.6	80.8	26.8
131	101- 150	University College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	49.2	69.6	32.2
132	101 - 150	University of Alberta	Canada		51.6	74.5	51.2
133	101- 150	University of Calgary	Canada	0.00	51.1	61.3	41.8
134	101- 150	University of California, Irvine	United States	0.00	52.5	56.4	53.9
135	101- 150	University of Essex	United Kingdom	0.00	55.3		29.4
136	101- 150	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	0.00	49.7	75.4	46.3
137	101- 150	University of Groningen	Netherlands	0.00	52.7	71.4	66.3
138	101 - 150	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States		58.2	77.1
139	101- 150	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	0.00	45.9	67.6	41.4
140	101- 150	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States	0.00	41.1	68.4	69.3
141	101- 150	University of Missouri, Columbia	United States	0.00	55.9	35.1	60.2
142	101- 150	University of Ottawa	Canada	0.00	64		33.7
143	101 - 150	University of Southern California	United States		49.3		70.4
144	101- 150	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	0.00	54.5	64.3	61.7
145	101 - 150	University of Turku	Finland		48.8	56.1	42.9
146	101- 150	University of Utah	United States	0.00	49.2	44.5	43.1
147	101- 150	University of Victoria	Canada	0.00	58.8	28.1	45.5
148	101- 150	University of Waterloo	Canada	0.00	42.4	73.5	43
149	101- 150	University of York	United Kingdom	0.00	48.5	70.4	48.6
150	101 - 150	York University	Canada		51.4	66.6	38.2
151	151- 200	Brandeis University	United States	0.00	40.9	54.5	41.1
152	151- 200	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	0.00	26.2	53.9	4.2
153	151- 200	Carleton University	Canada	0.00	36.6	60.5	39.9
154	151- 200	Dartmouth College	United States	0.00	38.3	69.7	50.6
155	151 - 200	Florida State University	United States		39.3	43	61.8
156	151- 200	Marquette University	United States	0.00	49		10.3
157	151- 200	Masaryk University	Czech Republic	0.00	28.3	47.1	70
158	151- 200	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	0.00	41.8		43.1
159	151 - 200	Rice University	United States		36.8	70.4	26.8
160	151- 200	Ruhr-Universität Bochum	Germany	0.00	35.6	45.1	30.9
161	151 - 200	Stony Brook University	United States		37		48.8
162	151- 200	The Open University	United Kingdom	0.00	21.7		57.9
163	151- 200	The University of Georgia	United States	0.00	29.3		27.1
164	151- 200	University of Granada	Spain	0.00	40.8		54.7
165	151 - 200	University of Murcia	Spain		29.5	48.4	27.3
166	151- 200	University of Navarra	Spain	0.00	35.7
167	151- 200	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	Brazil	0.00	46.7	46.6	29.4
168	151- 200	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	0.00	55.1
169	151- 200	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore	Italy	0.00	36.6	69.1
170	151- 200	Universitat de Valencia	Spain	0.00	45.5	33	35.8
171	151- 200	Université de Fribourg	Switzerland	0.00	41.1		48.7
172	151 - 200	Université de Strasbourg	France		47.7
173	151- 200	University at Buffalo SUNY	United States	0.00	48.8		54.4
174	151 - 200	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom		41.2	53.5	57.2
175	151 - 200	University of Bergen	Norway		29.6	49.3	46.1
176	151 - 200	University of Bern	Switzerland		39.9		39.3
177	151- 200	University of California, Davis	United States	0.00	36.8	67.7	72.4
178	151 - 200	University of California, Riverside	United States		40.6	46.4	69.2
179	151- 200	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	0.00	34.3		59.5
180	151 - 200	University of Cape Town	South Africa		37.4	74.6	16.3
181	151 - 200	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States		37.3	80.7	71.8
182	151- 200	University of Connecticut	United States	0.00	23.1	53.1	47.3
183	151- 200	University of East Anglia (UEA)		0.00	32	58	72.2
184	151- 200	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	0.00	39.9	55.5	39.4
185	151 - 200	University of Ghent	Belgium		41.1	54.9	50.2
186	151- 200	University of Guelph	Canada	0.00	52		38.3
187	151- 200	University of Hawaii at Mañoa	United States	0.00	34.3		31.3
188	151 - 200	University of Kansas	United States		30.2		55.7
189	151- 200	University of Kent	United Kingdom	0.00	30.3		39.1
190	151- 200	University of Ljubljana	Slovenia	0.00	53.2
191	151- 200	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	0.00	39.7	48.8	71.3
192	151- 200	University of Miami	United States	0.00	42.7	26.9	48.7
193	151- 200	University of Pretoria	South Africa	0.00	24	73.3
194	151- 200	University of Reading	United Kingdom	0.00	40.3	57.6	64.9
195	151 - 200	University of Southampton	United Kingdom		37.4	48.7	68.7
196	151 - 200	University of Virginia	United States		41	62.9	50.1
197	151- 200	University of Windsor	Canada	0.00	31.8	47.2	14.8
198	151- 200	Vanderbilt University	United States	0.00	45.1		32.1
199	151- 200	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	0.00	42.8	56.6	44.8
200	151 - 200	Washington University in St. Louis	United States		37.9	47.9	55.1

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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
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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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