QS World University Rankings by Subject 2012 - Psychology

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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	Harvard University	United States	97.90	100	96.3	95.1
2	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	93.20	94.2	91.1	93.7
3	3	Stanford University	United States	92.00	93.2	87.8	95.1
4	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	91.00	90.2	92.8	90.2
5	5=	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	88.80	92.7	82.8	87.8
6	5=	Yale University	United States	88.80	90.1	84.1	92.5
7	7	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	87.40	88	82.5	93.4
8	8	University of Michigan	United States	86.00	88.8	77.6	91.7
9	9	Princeton University	United States	85.40	84.1	81.7	94.3
10	10	University of Chicago	United States	85.30	82.8	84.3	92.9
11	11	Columbia University	United States	84.40	81.8	82.9	93
12	12	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	84.10	84	81	88.8
13	13	University of Toronto	Canada	83.70	86.5	77.8	85.7
14	14	University of Pennsylvania	United States	83.50	82.2	79.5	92.9
15	15=	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	83.40	80.5	100	65.7
16	16	New York University (NYU)	United States	83.40	83.3	75.5	95.7
17	15=	The University of Melbourne	Australia	83.40	80.6	89	81.9
18	18	McGill University	Canada	82.80	83.9	77.4	88.1
19	19	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	81.70	82.8	86	72.6
20	20=	The University of Tokyo	Japan	81.40	80.7	94.6	63.1
21	20=	University of British Columbia	Canada	81.40	81.9	75.4	89.1
22	22	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	80.90	80.5	87.8	71.4
23	23	The University of Sydney	Australia	80.80	77.2	86.4	81.3
24	24	Australian National University	Australia	80.10	74	90.6	79.8
25	25	The University of Queensland	Australia	79.10	74.1	87.5	78.8
26	26	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	78.70	77.7	76.3	85
27	27	Duke University	United States	78.50	73.8	77.1	92.3
28	28	The University of New South Wales	Australia	78.10	67.8	90.9	84.4
29	29	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	78.00	72.8	72.2	99.5
30	30	Peking University	China	77.70	70.3	95.1	70.1
31	31	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	77.50	78.9	68.1	88.2
32	32	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	77.30	73.8	77.5	85.8
33	33	Northwestern University	United States	76.90	70.2	77.1	93.4
34	34	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	76.80	72.6	74.3	91.1
35	35	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	76.70	74	68.6	95.4
36	36	University of Texas at Austin	United States	76.50	72.2	72.8	92.6
37	37	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	76.30	75.2	83.4	68.6
38	38	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	75.60	77.4	65.8	85.9
39	39=	Cornell University	United States	75.30	65.4	79.6	93.4
40	39=	University of Otago	New Zealand	75.30	70.4	77.8	83.9
41	41	Monash University	Australia	74.80	67	87.7	74.8
42	42	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	74.40	72.2	81.7	69.1
43	43	The University of Western Australia	Australia	74.10	70.2	76.3	80.3
44	44	University of Minnesota	United States	73.80	71.4	63.1	95.6
45	45=	Kyoto University	Japan	73.60	71.7	87.4	57.6
46	45=	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	73.60	74.9	68.1	78.7
47	47	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	73.50	65.1	78.7	86.5
48	48	University of California, Davis	United States	73.40	65.3	69.1	100
49	49	University of Washington	United States	73.30	67.3	69.3	94.5
50	50	The University of Western Ontario	Canada	72.60	67.5	69.2	90.6
51	51- 100	Brown University	United States	0.00	66.8	69.7	86.5
52	51- 100	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	0.00	67.3	63.6	74.6
53	51- 100	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	0.00	67.9	78.5	60.5
54	51- 100	Emory University	United States	0.00	61.1	58.6	97.6
55	51- 100	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	0.00	63.2	72.2	83.2
56	51 - 100	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany		68.8	65.1	69.7
57	51- 100	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	0.00	62	66.1	84.3
58	51- 100	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	0.00	64.7	59.7	88.6
59	51- 100	Johns Hopkins University	United States	0.00	64.4	70.7	86
60	51- 100	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	0.00	67.4	69.1	80.3
61	51 - 100	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom		64.2	73.3	91
62	51- 100	Kyushu University	Japan	0.00	62	81.1	65
63	51- 100	Leiden University	Netherlands	0.00	65.4	61.1	86.7
64	51- 100	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	0.00	67.5	66.7	78.2
65	51 - 100	McMaster University	Canada		59.1	67.6	87.5
66	51- 100	Michigan State University	United States	0.00	57.4	69.1	97
67	51 - 100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan		67.1	75.6	67
68	51- 100	Osaka University	Japan	0.00	69.1	74.7	65.1
69	51 - 100	Pennsylvania State University	United States		60.9	74.7	85.2
70	51- 100	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	0.00	76.6	77.7	52.3
71	51- 100	Purdue University	United States	0.00	70.1	69.3	83.2
72	51- 100	Queen's University	Canada	0.00	63.3	70.4	84
73	51- 100	Seoul National University	South Korea	0.00	63.2	84.8	77
74	51- 100	Texas A&M University	United States	0.00	64.2	72.2	85.5
75	51- 100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	0.00	58.2	76.9	75.6
76	51- 100	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	67.2	75.2	77.5
77	51 - 100	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina		78.2	76.4	52
78	51 - 100	Universidad de Chile	Chile		72.7	74.2	59.2
79	51 - 100	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico		77	74.9	46.1
80	51 - 100	Universidade de São Paulo - USP	Brazil		72.3	77.4	59.7
81	51 - 100	University of Bologna	Italy		65.7	74.1	77.2
82	51 - 100	University of Barcelona	Spain		71.3	68.3	72.7
83	51 - 100	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium		67	71.7	70.7
84	51- 100	Université de Montréal	Canada	0.00	63.5	59.6	89.5
85	51- 100	University of Alberta	Canada	0.00	62.8	69.2	77.7
86	51- 100	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	0.00	65.3	78	73.2
87	51 - 100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom		67.1	71.8	83
88	51- 100	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	0.00	63.1	59.8	95.9
89	51- 100	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	0.00	60.6	65.9	84.4
90	51- 100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	0.00	58	72.3	81.6
91	51- 100	University of Helsinki	Finland	0.00	65.3	70.4	83.6
92	51- 100	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	0.00	68.1	59.2	94.7
93	51- 100	University of Pittsburgh	United States	0.00	64.8	64.9	92.8
94	51- 100	University of Virginia	United States	0.00	62.8	66.3	91.1
95	51 - 100	University of York	United Kingdom		63.7	66.2	84
96	51- 100	Uppsala University	Sweden	0.00	63.9	68.8	78.9
97	51- 100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	0.00	65.4	62.5	85.6
98	51- 100	Vanderbilt University	United States	0.00	66.6	53.9	99.7
99	51- 100	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	0.00	66.6	64.5	82.3
100	51- 100	Yonsei University	South Korea	0.00	62.3	73.4	76.4
101	101- 150	Aarhus University	Denmark	0.00	57.5	71.8	82.9
102	101 - 150	Bangor University	United Kingdom		50.1	71.9	77.1
103	101- 150	Boston University	United States	0.00	53.6	70	94.7
104	101- 150	Dalhousie University	Canada	0.00	56.8	60.5	86.8
105	101- 150	Dartmouth College	United States	0.00	51.5	66.5	89.1
106	101- 150	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	0.00	56.3	70.9	74.7
107	101- 150	Flinders University	Australia	0.00	59.9	58.9	71.3
108	101 - 150	Hokkaido University	Japan		57	75.4	63.6
109	101- 150	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	0.00	67.5	58.4	69.3
109	101- 150	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	0.00	67.5	58.4	69.3
110	101- 150	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	0.00	60	58.6	86.4
111	101- 150	Keio University	Japan	0.00	45.7	84.4	65
112	101- 150	Korea University	South Korea	0.00	60.1	72.8	73.7
113	101 - 150	Maastricht University	Netherlands		52.3	69.1	89.7
114	101 - 150	Macquarie University	Australia		56.1	74.6	82.3
115	101 - 150	Nagoya University	Japan		53	81	54.4
116	101- 150	Ohio State University	United States	0.00	52.8	65.3	90.6
117	101- 150	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	0.00	48.6	79.2	67.2
118	101- 150	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	0.00	53.1	77.1	59.9
119	101 - 150	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands		56.1	62	79.2
120	101- 150	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	0.00	62	67	74.7
121	101- 150	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	0.00	57.3	65.7	69
122	101- 150	Simon Fraser University	Canada	0.00	61.9	63	80.4
123	101- 150	Stockholm University	Sweden	0.00	55.1	61.5	76.3
124	101- 150	The University of Adelaide	Australia	0.00	54.5	80	72.5
125	101- 150	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	0.00	48.5	70.8	78.3
126	101- 150	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	0.00	53.7	59.9	85.8
127	101- 150	Tilburg University	Netherlands	0.00	56.8	63.8	73.9
128	101 - 150	Tohoku University	Japan		52.5	82.2	63.3
129	101- 150	University Complutense Madrid	Spain	0.00	66.6	71.6	58.5
130	101 - 150	University of Padua	Italy		55.9	64.1	73.3
131	101 - 150	Université Paris Descartes	France		61.3	68.1	60.4
132	101 - 150	University of California, Irvine	United States		55.5	63	94.8
133	101- 150	University of Canterbury	New Zealand	0.00	60	72.7	58.9
134	101 - 150	University of Cape Town	South Africa		51.6	66	78.2
135	101- 150	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	0.00	58.2	71.1	76.7
136	101- 150	University of Florida	United States	0.00	54.6	70.9	89.2
137	101- 150	University of Geneva	Switzerland	0.00	65.1	58.6	79
138	101 - 150	University of Ghent	Belgium		56.7	62.1	87.7
139	101- 150	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States	0.00	53.8	54.8	89.6
140	101- 150	University of Jyväskylä	Finland	0.00	59.1	61.4	75.7
141	101- 150	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	0.00	55.8	68.6	81.6
142	101- 150	University of Liege	Belgium	0.00	59.4	54	76.5
143	101- 150	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	0.00	54	60.4	90.7
144	101- 150	University of Oslo	Norway	0.00	60.3	63.4	80.3
145	101 - 150	University of South Australia	Australia		62.8	67.8	68.3
146	101- 150	University of Southern California	United States	0.00	60	57.4	83.3
147	101 - 150	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom		56.7	66	84.4
148	101- 150	University of Waterloo	Canada	0.00	58.8	71.1	70.8
149	101 - 150	University of Western Sydney	Australia		62.8	60.1	66.4
150	101- 150	University of Wollongong	Australia	0.00	60.9	68.7	60.1
151	101- 150	University of Zurich	Switzerland	0.00	51.6	65.2	82.1
152	151 - 200	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand		58.8	73.2	62.3
153	101- 150	York University	Canada	0.00	58.9	68.4	81.4
154	151- 200	Beijing Normal University	China	0.00	50.6	74	55.9
155	151- 200	Birkbeck College, University of London	United Kingdom	0.00	57.3	38.5	77.6
156	151- 200	Boston College	United States	0.00	47.1	64.7	77
157	151- 200	Carleton University	Canada	0.00	45.1	64.1	74.9
158	151 - 200	City University London	United Kingdom		40.8	69.4	68.5
159	151 - 200	City University of New York	United States		53.5	50.9	83.8
160	151 - 200	George Washington University	United States		55.9	57.3	68.5
161	151- 200	Georgetown University	United States	0.00	45.6	71.3	80.7
162	151- 200	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	0.00	57.7	46.1	74.2
163	151- 200	James Cook University	Australia	0.00	42.9	61.7	75.5
164	151- 200	La Trobe University	Australia	0.00	41.2	61.9	77.1
165	151- 200	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	0.00	47.8	60.4	63.8
166	151- 200	Lund University	Sweden	0.00	50.1	69.8	68.8
167	151- 200	North Carolina State University	United States	0.00	50	68.6	71.6
168	151- 200	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Colombia	0.00	71.1	68.8	15.2
169	151- 200	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States	0.00	43.9	58.7	87.4
170	151- 200	Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, Newark	United States	0.00	49.8	49.7	79.4
171	151- 200	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	0.00	51	55	64
172	151- 200	Tel Aviv University	Israel	0.00	54.3	54.8	82.9
173	151 - 200	University of Granada	Spain		54.9	54.9	65.2
174	151 - 200	Universidad de Sevilla	Spain		56.6	62.3	52.2
175	151- 200	Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP	Brazil	0.00	53.4	55.9	57.6
176	151- 200	University of Milano	Italy	0.00	51.5	60.6	73.7
177	151- 200	Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona	Spain	0.00	53.6	56.3	67.4
178	151 - 200	Universitat de Valencia	Spain		59.2	46.6	65.6
179	151- 200	Universität Freiburg	Germany	0.00	47	66.1	72.3
180	151- 200	Universität Hamburg	Germany	0.00	43.3	60.9	73.5
181	151 - 200	Universität zu Köln	Germany		48.7	65.1	80.6
182	151- 200	University of Vienna	Austria	0.00	55.3	63	59.9
183	151 - 200	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium		54.6	68.2	65.1
184	151- 200	University College Dublin	Ireland	0.00	46.3	76.5	60.9
185	151 - 200	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom		46.1	56.3	85.1
186	151- 200	University of Arizona	United States	0.00	45.7	61	94.1
187	151- 200	University of Bergen	Norway	0.00	55.1	59.3	74.4
188	151 - 200	University of Calgary	Canada		38.2	67.2	86.5
189	151- 200	University of Connecticut	United States	0.00	48.7	43.5	92.4
190	151- 200	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	0.00	44.4	60.3	82.2
191	151- 200	University of Groningen	Netherlands	0.00	51.6	61.4	75.2
192	151- 200	University of Iowa	United States	0.00	52.4	50.8	91.1
193	151- 200	University of Kent	United Kingdom	0.00	56	58.9	72.2
194	151- 200	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	0.00	43.4	68.6	76.7
195	151- 200	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	United States	0.00	51	54.4	83.1
196	151 - 200	University of Miami	United States		50.9	45.5	90.5
197	151- 200	University of Missouri, Columbia	United States	0.00	44.5	54.4	99.8
198	151- 200	University of South Carolina	United States	0.00	56.6	47.9	73.9
199	151- 200	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	0.00	43.4	61.4	87.5
200	151- 200	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	0.00	45.7	65	77.1
201	151- 200	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	0.00	60.6	26.5	94.2

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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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