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2011 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Natural Sciences

QS World University Rankings by Subject: Earth and Marine Sciences

Rank Title Country Academic Employer Citations Score
1 Harvard University United States 87.3 100.0 85.1 87.9
2 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 100.0 96.2 51.3 85.0
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 96.8 82.8 42.2 79.0
4 University of Oxford United Kingdom 91.5 83.0 47.3 77.4
5 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 85.5 55.7 60.8 75.1
6 Princeton University United States 59.0 54.8 100.0 70.9
7 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States 78.2 53.7 53.7 68.4
8 Stanford University United States 80.2 65.8 40.0 66.7
9 Australian National University Australia 79.0 48.6 38.0 63.7
10 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 78.9 39.6 33.8 61.4
11 University of Chicago United States 43.6 41.6 100.0 60.3
12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 59.5 40.2 60.3 57.8
13 Imperial College London United Kingdom 68.4 62.4 30.4 56.4
14 University of British Columbia Canada 54.6 45.6 49.8 52.3
15 The University of Tokyo Japan 68.2 42.4 23.5 52.2
16 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 54.3 52.0 46.9 51.9
17= The University of Sydney Australia 57.9 37.4 36.7 49.5
17= Yale University United States 42.1 55.8 62.2 49.5
19 Cornell University United States 41.9 46.5 65.2 49.4
20 University of Toronto Canada 45.4 37.1 54.3 47.2
21 Columbia University United States 45.4 52.0 47.9 46.8
22= Johns Hopkins University United States 31.1 24.2 82.8 45.9
22= University of Pennsylvania United States 16.4 60.3 100.0 45.9
24 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 50.7 38.7 36.5 45.2
25 University of Bristol United Kingdom 49.4 51.8 31.7 44.3
26 Brown University United States 20.2 21.7 95.0 42.8
27 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 48.5 60.8 25.1 42.7
28 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 49.6 18.5 36.7 42.6
29 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute United States 18.6 34.9 92.5 42.4
30 The University of Melbourne Australia 47.2 62.2 24.0 41.7
31 University of Arizona United States 29.4 32.3 68.2 41.3
32 University of Colorado at Boulder United States 43.3 33.0 34.5 39.6
33 Kyoto University Japan 49.6 37.9 18.2 39.0
34 Durham University United Kingdom 28.8 48.6 54.3 38.4
35 University of Leeds United Kingdom 42.0 49.1 27.4 38.3
36 University of Texas at Austin United States 29.4 48.2 49.2 37.2
37= McGill University Canada 40.4 61.2 22.5 37.1
37= The University of Manchester United Kingdom 41.8 50.1 23.3 37.1
39 Monash University Australia 37.9 50.0 25.2 35.3
40 University of Southampton United Kingdom 39.1 32.8 26.8 34.8
41 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Chile 30.2 23.1 46.7 34.4
42 Pennsylvania State University United States 24.7 42.9 49.2 33.9
43 Seoul National University Korea, South 44.5 19.1 16.3 33.5
44 University of Washington United States 29.4 23.8 41.8 32.6
45 University of Michigan United States 25.4 62.2 36.1 32.3
46 Peking University China 35.8 48.5 18.5 31.9
47 Ohio State University United States 21.8 41.6 47.6 31.5
48 University of California, Santa Cruz United States 9.9 0.0 83.2 30.9
49= Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) France 37.3 0.0 28.1 30.8
49= Utrecht University Netherlands 39.7 9.5 20.2 30.8
51-100 Boston University United States 30.3 13.1 34.7
51-100 Case Western Reserve University United States 6.6 6.1 83.8
51-100 Colorado State University United States 25.7 36.7 25.4
51-100 Dalhousie University Canada 21.8 52.0 20.4
51-100 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 31.2 31.9 10.5
51-100 École Normale Supérieure, Paris France 30.6 19.4 21.3
51-100 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 28.4 40.8 22.5
51-100 King’s College London (University of London) United Kingdom 23.2 31.3 30.3
51-100 Lund University Sweden 25.2 14.1 24.7
51-100 Macquarie University Australia 26.7 30.0 35.2
51-100 Michigan State University United States 15.8 9.9 59.0
51-100 Northwestern University United States 24.3 21.7 42.0
51-100 Purdue University United States 25.6 37.7 17.5
51-100 Queen's University Canada 21.6 69.8 30.2
51-100 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 22.5 16.8 43.7
51-100 Stockholm University Sweden 30.6 0.0 27.7
51-100 Texas A&M University United States 31.1 34.9 17.4
51-100 Tohoku University Japan 34.0 28.5 21.8
51-100 Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 26.2 38.8 22.5
51-100 Universidade de São Paulo Brazil 39.8 7.7 14.3
51-100 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico 29.6 21.8 18.1
51-100 Universität Bremen Germany 26.7 9.9 21.6
51-100 Universität Hamburg Germany 30.8 2.6 21.3
51-100 Université Grenoble, Joseph Fourier France 24.9 19.0 24.8
51-100 The University of Adelaide Australia 26.1 43.0 19.1
51-100 University of Alberta Canada 28.3 65.5 18.4
51-100 The University of Auckland New Zealand 30.4 56.3 16.9
51-100 University of Basel Switzerland 6.6 5.9 76.0
51-100 University of Birmingham United Kingdom 25.7 34.5 30.8
51-100 University of Calgary Canada 27.0 52.8 11.4
51-100 University of California, Davis United States 30.3 11.2 31.8
51-100 University of California, Irvine United States 21.7 0.0 44.5
51-100 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) United States 24.2 10.9 44.0
51-100 University of Canterbury New Zealand 23.9 52.6 15.1
51-100 University of Copenhagen Denmark 21.2 31.5 34.1
51-100 University of East Anglia (UEA) United Kingdom 27.3 1.4 36.7
51-100 University of Florida United States 26.4 33.0 28.3
51-100 University of Glasgow United Kingdom 31.6 35.9 17.8
51-100 University of Hawaii at Manoa United States 18.4 0.0 56.4
51-100 University of Liverpool United Kingdom 27.1 24.3 19.5
51-100 University of Maryland, College Park United States 19.3 0.0 39.3
51-100 University of Massachusetts, Amherst United States 12.4 11.2 49.6
51-100 University of Minnesota United States 23.6 22.5 29.7
51-100 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 26.2 15.2 24.7
51-100 University of Oslo Norway 24.6 13.2 27.8
51-100 The University of Sheffield United Kingdom 23.9 31.6 26.5
51-100 University of Vienna Austria 30.5 16.5 17.7
51-100 University of Waterloo Canada 28.4 22.1 25.4
51-100 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 25.5 27.9 33.7
51-100 Uppsala University Sweden 29.2 16.8 24.6
101-150 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece 24.1 8.2 11.9
101-150 Cardiff University United Kingdom 19.7 25.6 28.7
101-150 Chulalongkorn University Thailand 24.7 11.0 22.0
101-150 Duke University United States 15.5 44.1 30.4
101-150 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany 19.1 10.9 21.3
101-150 École Normale Supérieure de Lyon France 10.2 25.6 40.6
101-150 Eötvös Loránd University Hungary 10.2 15.3 44.2
101-150 Freie Universität Berlin Germany 27.2 3.9 21.9
101-150 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 13.8 0.0 42.5
101-150 Hokkaido University Japan 27.4 19.8 16.4
101-150 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 19.2 30.1 23.7
101-150 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) India 21.1 39.2 8.4
101-150 Kyushu University Japan 29.2 19.8 11.4
101-150 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 21.1 15.8 23.1
101-150 McMaster University Canada 12.1 25.0 33.3
101-150 Nagoya University Japan 12.5 22.6 31.1
101-150 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 23.6 14.6 17.4
101-150 The Open University United Kingdom 17.5 15.2 25.6
101-150 Osaka University Japan 22.6 26.4 8.0
101-150 Rice University United States 14.4 0.0 38.1
101-150 Technische Universität München Germany 19.5 28.1 19.1
101-150 Tel Aviv University Israel 12.6 4.6 41.2
101-150 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 18.0 53.2 16.6
101-150 Tsinghua University China 25.9 27.8 8.6
101-150 Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina 28.1 22.1 13.0
101-150 Universidad de Chile Chile 21.6 7.0 23.5
101-150 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) Brazil 28.2 0.0 8.1
101-150 Università di Bologna (UNIBO) Italy 14.8 37.9 26.6
101-150 Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain 22.1 21.1 18.1
101-150 Université de Montréal Canada 14.5 6.1 35.3
101-150 University of Bern Switzerland 22.9 0.0 24.2
101-150 University of Delaware United States 18.9 0.0 27.0
101-150 University of Geneva Switzerland 19.7 5.9 34.1
101-150 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 19.2 26.2 25.0
101-150 University of Leicester United Kingdom 14.0 11.7 38.9
101-150 The University of New South Wales Australia 21.6 44.1 19.6
101-150 The University of Nottingham United Kingdom 5.2 41.2 43.8
101-150 University of Otago New Zealand 18.5 44.0 16.5
101-150 The University of Queensland Australia 17.4 46.8 19.1
101-150 University of Science and Technology of China China 20.8 34.3 18.6
101-150 University of St Andrews United Kingdom 8.8 21.7 42.6
101-150 University of Tasmania Australia 22.7 18.3 21.5
101-150 University of Virginia United States 5.0 17.8 52.7
101-150 The University of Western Australia Australia 22.7 40.1 17.8
101-150 Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand 25.9 17.6 19.1
101-150 VU University Amsterdam Netherlands 19.3 9.9 24.6
101-150 Wageningen University Netherlands 19.9 0.0 26.9
101-150 Waseda University Japan 22.6 32.8 14.3
101-150 Washington State University United States 12.1 18.3 44.0
101-150 Yonsei University Korea, South 19.1 13.8 28.8
151-200 Aarhus University Denmark 13.1 23.1 25.5
151-200 Arizona State University United States 9.9 10.9 36.3
151-200 Chiba University Japan 18.1 19.5 11.5
151-200 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 15.5 22.7 14.3
151-200 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Germany 12.7 0.0 23.3
151-200 Dartmouth College United States 9.7 23.0 33.4
151-200 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Germany 17.3 2.6 22.6
151-200 Georgia State University United States 9.8 0.0 39.8
151-200 Indian Institute of Science India 23.3 17.0 8.9
151-200 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) India 17.4 16.8 9.8
151-200 Jadavpur University India 21.1 0.0 10.0
151-200 Korea University Korea, South 23.5 8.8 6.9
151-200 Lancaster University United Kingdom 13.6 28.3 23.0
151-200 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 22.0 37.8 3.3
151-200 Louisiana State University United States 8.2 33.0 22.4
151-200 Massey University New Zealand 12.5 34.0 12.2
151-200 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore 22.4 27.4 4.7
151-200 National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland 11.5 22.9 23.2
151-200 Oregon State University United States 14.7 0.0 30.0
151-200 Royal Holloway University of London United Kingdom 12.6 8.6 27.6
151-200 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick United States 9.7 6.1 39.3
151-200 Sapienza - Università di Roma Italy 18.4 10.5 12.4
151-200 Technical University of Denmark Denmark 6.6 36.3 24.2
151-200 Technische Universität Berlin Germany 17.6 22.1 6.3
151-200 University Complutense Madrid Spain 11.3 16.7 21.6
151-200 Universidad de Granada Spain 18.8 0.0 13.9
151-200 Universität Bayreuth Germany 13.1 0.0 24.7
151-200 Universität Freiburg Germany 14.4 16.1 17.2
151-200 Universität Karlsruhe Germany 14.4 13.5 17.1
151-200 Universität Potsdam Germany 10.8 9.9 23.8
151-200 Université Bordeaux 1, Sciences Technologies France 14.8 0.0 22.5
151-200 Université Montpellier 2, Sciences et Techniques France 13.1 0.0 23.6
151-200 University College Cork Ireland 7.3 30.2 25.8
151-200 University College Dublin Ireland 8.2 50.8 15.8
151-200 University of Aberdeen United Kingdom 13.1 14.3 23.6
151-200 University of Alabama United States 12.3 19.7 20.0
151-200 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 9.7 14.1 24.7
151-200 University of Athens Greece 13.1 17.0 16.9
151-200 University of Bergen Norway 19.1 0.0 20.1
151-200 University of California, Riverside United States 6.6 10.9 34.6
151-200 University of Exeter United Kingdom 10.3 21.4 25.4
151-200 University of Ghent Belgium 15.0 14.4 17.8
151-200 University of Guelph Canada 13.6 13.3 18.3
151-200 University of Helsinki Finland 10.4 9.8 26.6
151-200 University of Lausanne Switzerland 7.7 16.7 33.3
151-200 University of Maryland, Baltimore County United States 6.6 0.0 42.3
151-200 University of Miami United States 20.0 6.1 19.0
151-200 University of Missouri, Columbia United States 0.0 37.9 40.0
151-200 University of New Mexico United States 12.1 0.0 27.1
151-200 University of Notre Dame United States 2.8 11.2 51.7
151-200 University of Southern California United States 14.6 0.0 23.7
151-200 University of Victoria Canada 6.6 0.0 46.0
151-200 University of Zurich Switzerland 7.4 7.8 42.3
151-200 Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) United States 18.1 33.0 10.0

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In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® - Earth and Marine Sciences 2011, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

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