QS World University Rankings by Subject 2012 - Physics & Astronomy

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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	91.60	100	92.8	82.5
2	2	Harvard University	United States	89.60	87.4	93.7	89.8
3	3	Stanford University	United States	87.20	86.6	89.8	86.5
4	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	87.00	86.9	93.5	83.9
5	5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	86.30	85	96.9	82.2
6	6	Princeton University	United States	86.10	83.3	84.1	90
7	7	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	85.70	86.7	85.4	84.8
8	8	University of Chicago	United States	85.50	79.3	82.2	93.3
9	9	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	84.00	74.2	97.1	87.2
10	10	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	83.70	82	85.4	84.5
11	11	Columbia University	United States	82.50	74	83	90.8
12	12	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	82.40	75.5	69.4	95.7
13	13	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	82.00	81	86.7	80.7
14	14	The University of Tokyo	Japan	81.50	86.3	90.9	72
15	15	Cornell University	United States	81.20	77.4	78.4	86.3
16	16	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	81.10	77.8	78.4	85.8
17	17	Yale University	United States	80.10	77.4	87	79.3
18	18	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	79.70	86.2	68.3	78.9
19	19	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	78.40	65.3	82.2	89.5
20	20	The University of Melbourne	Australia	77.90	63.9	80.8	90.4
21	21	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	77.80	73.1	75.8	83.5
22	22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	77.70	77.2	73.5	80.3
23	23=	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	77.40	69.7	84.3	81.7
24	23=	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.40	71	78.3	83.4
25	25	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	77.00	70.2	78.8	82.9
26	26	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	76.70	68.7	74.2	86
27	27	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	76.60	72.1	59.2	89.9
28	28	Brown University	United States	76.50	63.3	71.2	92.3
29	29	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	75.90	73.6	88.3	71.9
30	30	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	75.90	67	76.4	84.5
31	31	University of Pennsylvania	United States	75.80	66.7	72.2	86.6
32	31=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	75.80	72.3	79.2	77.5
33	33	Australian National University	Australia	75.60	73.6	83	74
34	33=	Durham University	United Kingdom	75.60	58.6	71.4	94.6
35	33=	Kyoto University	Japan	75.60	80	87.8	65.1
36	36	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	75.50	60.3	81.4	87.7
37	37	Ecole normale supérieure, Paris	France	75.40	78.6	72.9	73.5
38	38	University of Washington	United States	75.20	64.3	70	88.7
39	39=	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	75.00	62.2	77.5	86.5
40	40	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	75.00	74.5	100	62.9
41	41	Michigan State University	United States	75.00	69.1	79.7	78.5
41	39=	University of Michigan	United States	75.00	69.1	79.7	78.5
42	42	Boston University	United States	74.80	64.4	78.9	83.2
43	43=	Peking University	China	74.40	76.6	87.7	65.5
44	43=	Tohoku University	Japan	74.40	77.3	89.5	63.9
45	43=	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	74.40	64.9	67.8	87.2
46	46	Technische Universität München	Germany	74.30	75.6	75.9	72.1
47	47=	Ecole Polytechnique	France	74.10	72.8	62.4	81.3
48	48	Lund University	Sweden	74.10	64	74.8	83.8
49	49	Northwestern University	United States	74.00	62.1	75.8	85
50	50	University of Pisa	Italy	74.00	65.1	68.4	85.6
51	49=	University of Basel	Switzerland	74.00	61.4	59	94
52	51- 100	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	0.00	66.2	78.3	71.4
53	51 - 100	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany		52.7	65.4	86.2
54	51- 100	Fudan University	China	0.00	68	83.3	65.7
55	51 - 100	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany		65.9	61.7	80.8
56	51- 100	Johns Hopkins University	United States	0.00	58.5	70.9	82
57	51 - 100	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom		54.8	81.5	78.8
58	51 - 100	KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie	Germany		68.2	78.1	75.7
59	51- 100	Michigan State University	United States	0.00	50	76.9	83.7
60	51- 100	Nagoya University	Japan	0.00	67.3	82.5	75
61	51- 100	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	0.00	70.7	86.1	64.4
62	51- 100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	0.00	68.3	80.4	63.7
63	51- 100	New York University (NYU)	United States	0.00	55.6	73.3	79.6
64	51- 100	Ohio State University	United States	0.00	60.1	68.4	81.9
64	51 - 100	Monash University	Australia		60.1	68.4	81.9
65	51- 100	Osaka University	Japan	0.00	76.4	84.8	58
66	51- 100	Pennsylvania State University	United States	0.00	61.3	74.7	77.3
67	51 - 100	Rice University	United States		62	63	82
68	51- 100	Royal Holloway University of London	United Kingdom	0.00	43.5	58.3	100
69	51- 100	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States	0.00	60.6	65	80.9
70	51- 100	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	0.00	70.1	66.8	71.8
71	51 - 100	Seoul National University	South Korea		74.6	77.2	62.9
72	51- 100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	0.00	65.3	88	64.3
73	51- 100	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	65.7	90.9	69.2
74	51- 100	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	0.00	70.5	78.9	71.4
75	51- 100	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	0.00	70.2	81.2	71
76	51- 100	The University of New South Wales	Australia	0.00	62.7	82.5	74.2
77	77	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom		62.1	76.4	70.9
78	51- 100	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	0.00	56.3	69.5	81.9
79	51- 100	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	59.8	72.3	76
80	51- 100	Tsinghua University	China	0.00	73.8	82.2	65
81	51- 100	Tufts University	United States	0.00	38	88.1	89.7
82	51 - 100	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico		66.4	67.9	73.1
83	51- 100	Università¡ degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata	Italy	0.00	60.4	76	76.3
84	51- 100	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain	0.00	63.2	70.2	74.7
85	51- 100	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium	0.00	60.4	80	75.7
86	51 - 100	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France		62	72.6	81.7
86	51- 100	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	0.00	62	72.6	81.7
87	51- 100	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	0.00	68.9	50.5	78.7
88	51- 100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	0.00	63.8	76.7	74.9
89	51- 100	University of California, Davis	United States	0.00	47.8	77.7	86.5
90	51 - 100	University of California, Irvine	United States		54.6	76.3	88.1
91	51- 100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	0.00	60.4	73.4	77.7
92	51- 100	University of Helsinki	Finland	0.00	57.8	77.1	86.7
93	51- 100	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	0.00	67.2	82.9	68.9
94	51- 100	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	0.00	67.6	67.7	76
95	51- 100	University of Notre Dame	United States	0.00	51.7	65.6	89.3
96	51 - 100	University of Science and Technology of China	China		66.9	63.2	74.8
97	51- 100	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	0.00	58.7	57.9	91.2
98	51- 100	University of Toronto	Canada	0.00	71.4	75.7	74.4
99	51- 100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	0.00	59.9	66.9	85.5
100	51- 100	University of Zurich	Switzerland	0.00	55.6	73.7	91.2
101	101 - 150	Aarhus University	Denmark		61.8	68.9	74.7
102	101- 150	Arizona State University	United States	0.00	61.8	63.8	71.5
103	101- 150	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	0.00	71.4	66.2	65.8
104	101 - 150	Duke University	United States		52.7	76.8	79.8
105	101- 150	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	0.00	58.3	70.4	72.8
106	101- 150	Florida State University	United States	0.00	53.4	60.6	87.2
107	101- 150	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	0.00	63.9	64.7	74.1
108	101- 150	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	0.00	63.5	70.1	71.6
109	101- 150	Indian Institute of Science	India	0.00	62.6	75.3	64
110	101 - 150	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	South Korea		74.5	68.7	62
111	101 - 150	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium		65.4	79.2	64.3
112	101- 150	Korea University	South Korea	0.00	65.7	68.6	64.4
113	101- 150	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	0.00	59.1	79.8	69.2
114	101- 150	Leiden University	Netherlands	0.00	66.4	64.8	69.4
115	101 - 150	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia		69.3	73.9	57
116	101 - 150	McGill University	Canada		66.3	67	69.6
117	101 - 150	Politecnico di Milano	Italy		59.6	80.9	67.9
118	101- 150	Purdue University	United States	0.00	59.4	69.4	71.8
119	101- 150	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	0.00	63	28.6	92.3
120	101- 150	Stony Brook University	United States	0.00	61.8	49.6	78.3
121	101- 150	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Germany	0.00	59	73.3	73.7
122	101- 150	Texas A&M University	United States	0.00	49.8	82.5	74.5
123	101- 150	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	0.00	56.4	73.5	71.8
124	101- 150	The University of Adelaide	Australia	0.00	63.4	73.6	66.1
125	101- 150	The University of Queensland	Australia	0.00	53.6	75.5	75.4
126	101- 150	The University of Sydney	Australia	0.00	64.5	78.7	66.2
127	101 - 150	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom		56.5	83.8	67.4
128	101- 150	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	0.00	63.6	70.1	72
129	101- 150	Universidade de São Paulo - USP	Brazil	0.00	65.1	87.9	61.7
130	101- 150	Universidade Estadual de Campinas	Brazil	0.00	67.4	70.5	63
131	101- 150	University of Milano	Italy	0.00	61.4	69.4	72.7
132	101- 150	University of Barcelona	Spain	0.00	53.7	67.7	79.5
133	101 - 150	Universität Hamburg	Germany		62.7	53.1	79.5
134	101 - 150	Universität Innsbruck	Austria		66.2	51	74.5
135	101- 150	Universität Stuttgart	Germany	0.00	61.8	70.6	72.8
136	101 - 150	University of Vienna	Austria		63.9	65.2	70.4
137	101- 150	Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1	France	0.00	58.9	70	73.1
138	101- 150	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	0.00	60.2	72.3	69.9
139	101- 150	University of Geneva	Switzerland	0.00	60.9	52.3	77.2
140	101 - 150	University of Ghent	Belgium		49.2	63.6	82.3
141	101- 150	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	0.00	62.8	66.9	66.9
142	101 - 150	University of Groningen	Netherlands		57.6	49.2	81.9
143	101 - 150	University of Leeds	United Kingdom		56.8	72.7	71.2
144	101 - 150	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom		58.4	72	71
145	101- 150	University of Minnesota	United States	0.00	50	63.1	86.8
146	101 - 150	University of Salford	United Kingdom		79	49	60.9
147	101 - 150	University of Victoria	Canada		44.4	63.7	88.9
148	101 - 150	Uppsala University	Sweden		59.2	76.3	72.6
149	101- 150	Utrecht University	Netherlands	0.00	64.1	63.2	73.3
150	101 - 150	Yonsei University	South Korea		62.6	57.6	76.4
151	151- 200	Bogazici University	Turkey	0.00	57.2	64.6	67.3
152	151- 200	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong S.A.R., China	0.00	44.9	68.9	76.1
153	151- 200	Hokkaido University	Japan	0.00	56.2	88.8	59.1
154	151- 200	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	0.00	63.4	81.8	55.8
155	151- 200	Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN)	Mexico	0.00	58	68.3	64
156	151 - 200	Iowa State University	United States		42.3	52	86.9
157	151 - 200	Kyushu University	Japan		56.3	84.7	58.9
158	151- 200	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	0.00	45.9	73.8	75.9
159	151- 200	Linköping University	Sweden	0.00	51.7	70.8	70.3
161	151- 200	Nanjing University	China	0.00	60.9	68.5	64.7
162	151- 200	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	0.00	64.1	63.9	59.1
163	151- 200	Northeastern University	United States	0.00	47.3	64.3	75.9
164	151- 200	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	0.00	61.5	71.9	58.5
165	151- 200	Pusan National University	South Korea	0.00	60	67.9	61
166	151- 200	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	0.00	51.1	64.1	79.1
167	151- 200	Ruhr-Universität Bochum	Germany	0.00	50.3	67.2	75.9
168	151 - 200	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark		56.8	67.4	71
169	151- 200	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	0.00	63.6	49.6	72.9
170	151 - 200	Technische Universität Dresden	Germany		52.5	72.2	70.9
171	151 - 200	Vienna University of Technology	Austria		64.1	62	66.2
172	151- 200	Tel Aviv University	Israel	0.00	58.1	42	78.9
173	151- 200	Tokyo Metropolitan University	Japan	0.00	42.3	69.7	82.5
174	151 - 200	Tokyo University of Science	Japan		57.8	81.7	58
175	151 - 200	University Complutense Madrid	Spain		54	65.4	67.1
176	151 - 200	University of Granada	Spain		36.3	66.7	88.2
177	151 - 200	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil		61	57.8	67.9
178	151- 200	University of Genoa	Italy	0.00	41	58.2	85.1
179	151- 200	University of Padua	Italy	0.00	53.7	66.2	68.5
180	151- 200	University of Bologna	Italy	0.00	60.9	62.7	63.3
181	151- 200	Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany	0.00	51.4	61.8	75.9
182	151- 200	Universität Freiburg	Germany	0.00	54.9	59.8	77.8
183	151- 200	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	0.00	54.4	72	68
184	151- 200	Université de Strasbourg	France	0.00	52.7	62.7	69.8
185	151- 200	University College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	57.9	68.8	63.4
186	151 - 200	University of Alabama	United States		44.7	57.9	85.7
187	151- 200	University of Alberta	Canada	0.00	53	65.3	69.5
188	151- 200	University of Arizona	United States	0.00	64.2	66.6	64.6
189	151- 200	University of Bath	United Kingdom	0.00	53.4	77.8	61.6
190	151 - 200	University of Bern	Switzerland		54.4	62.3	68.9
191	151 - 200	University of Florida	United States		53.3	71.3	70.9
192	151 - 200	University of Pittsburgh	United States		51.8	85.3	67.1
193	151 - 200	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom		64.8	66.3	60.1
194	151- 200	University of Surrey	United Kingdom	0.00	62.5	66.6	59.7
195	151- 200	University of Virginia	United States	0.00	51.5	64.9	73
196	151- 200	University of Warsaw	Poland	0.00	55.2	52.1	74.7
197	151 - 200	University of Waterloo	Canada		54.5	63	69
198	151- 200	Waseda University	Japan	0.00	54.6	84.2	57.9
199	151 - 200	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel		58.4		96
200	151- 200	Zhejiang University	China	0.00	55.4	79	63.1

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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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