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QS World University Rankings by Subject: Accounting & Finance

Rank Title Country Academic Employer Citations Score
1 Harvard University United States 100.0 100.0 92.6 99.3
2 University of Oxford United Kingdom 80.0 96.9 22.9 81.1
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States 81.4 77.4 63.1 78.0
4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 78.9 90.6 20.5 77.7
5 Stanford University United States 77.3 83.1 38.4 75.7
6 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom 71.5 86.1 19.9 72.2
7 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States 74.4 67.7 45.6 68.8
8 University of Chicago United States 75.1 56.8 66.3 66.9
9 University of Pennsylvania United States 63.1 61.9 100.0 66.3
10 London Business School United Kingdom 55.9 70.1 54.5 61.4
11 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States 66.4 57.5 39.2 60.1
12 Yale University United States 59.9 65.9 35.4 59.9
13 Columbia University United States 55.9 66.3 50.7 59.5
14 The University of Melbourne Australia 59.3 67.7 13.0 58.0
15 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 63.0 58.4 20.7 56.9
16 New York University (NYU) United States 56.7 53.8 52.5 55.1
17 University of Toronto Canada 56.7 54.7 24.6 52.7
18 Princeton University United States 54.9 41.6 53.5 49.4
19 University of Michigan United States 45.1 52.7 48.6 48.5
20 Australian National University Australia 58.2 43.0 15.3 47.8
21 McGill University Canada 36.2 63.9 36.1 47.3
22= The University of New South Wales Australia 49.6 52.3 14.9 47.2
22= The University of Tokyo Japan 54.9 44.3 20.3 47.2
24 Cornell University United States 46.8 46.8 49.2 47.0
25 Monash University Australia 44.2 59.5 9.3 46.8
26 Università  Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Italy 39.4 59.3 25.3 46.0
27 Duke University United States 48.8 39.0 54.5 45.5
28 The University of Sydney Australia 45.8 54.0 8.3 45.3
29 Northwestern University United States 41.1 50.5 44.1 45.2
30 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 53.3 38.6 21.5 44.2
31 The University of Manchester United Kingdom 48.0 44.5 15.7 43.4
32 University of British Columbia Canada 55.8 28.4 27.0 42.0
33 The University of Auckland New Zealand 36.5 53.6 17.3 41.4
34 University of Texas at Austin United States 38.8 37.8 60.5 40.6
35= Peking University China 39.0 49.0 13.1 40.4
35= The University of Warwick United Kingdom 35.1 52.8 17.7 40.4
37 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands 38.2 44.9 32.2 40.3
38 Imperial College London United Kingdom 35.8 52.6 10.7 40.0
39 Tsinghua University China 36.2 42.8 33.7 38.6
40 The University of Queensland Australia 33.8 46.6 15.7 37.1
41 University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 41.1 33.1 24.7 36.3
42 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill United States 29.2 29.2 92.6 35.5
43 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States 35.5 35.8 32.0 35.3
44 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore 38.6 35.9 6.8 34.3
45 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 29.0 33.6 53.2 33.3
46 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States 26.8 33.7 51.0 32.0
47 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 28.9 39.2 16.2 31.8
48 Stockholm School of Economics Sweden 25.6 37.6 34.7 31.3
49 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 32.4 31.4 22.7 31.0
50 The University of Western Australia Australia 26.9 39.4 14.9 30.7
51-100 Athens University of Economics And Business Greece 9.3 39.3 14.6
51-100 Boston College United States 23.7 21.9 46.2
51-100 Boston University United States 25.6 31.7 13.6
51-100 Cardiff University United Kingdom 19.4 26.8 13.9
51-100 Carnegie Mellon University United States 31.0 35.5 8.8
51-100 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 31.1 33.5 8.3
51-100 Deakin University Australia 19.7 29.9 3.8
51-100 George Washington University United States 19.4 26.4 18.2
51-100 Georgetown University United States 22.3 29.1 25.4
51-100 Georgia Institute of Technology United States 15.2 36.7 33.0
51-100 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 16.3 30.6 18.3
51-100 Johns Hopkins University United States 21.2 26.9 19.2
51-100 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium 24.5 23.2 20.0
51-100 Lancaster University United Kingdom 27.3 20.0 8.6
51-100 Maastricht University Netherlands 26.6 23.7 25.8
51-100 Macquarie University Australia 17.0 32.9 12.5
51-100 Michigan State University United States 18.8 31.2 17.6
51-100 Ohio State University United States 19.9 26.9 53.1
51-100 Pennsylvania State University United States 23.0 25.3 23.6
51-100 Purdue University United States 23.0 42.4 18.0
51-100 Queen's University Canada 26.5 27.4 22.9
51-100 RMIT University Australia 14.5 40.2 11.1
51-100 Seoul National University Korea, South 29.6 26.4 19.3
51-100 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 15.5 42.5 15.0
51-100 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 22.4 36.1 22.6
51-100 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom 25.1 37.9 27.8
51-100 Università di Bologna (UNIBO) Italy 16.7 36.2 20.9
51-100 Universität zu Köln Germany 15.9 26.1 38.1
51-100 Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne France 21.1 30.2 21.4
51-100 The University of Adelaide Australia 24.9 34.8 15.2
51-100 University of Alberta Canada 23.3 18.9 38.8
51-100 University of Birmingham United Kingdom 18.2 39.8 14.9
51-100 University of Bristol United Kingdom 16.2 42.4 23.0
51-100 University of Calgary Canada 20.3 23.1 23.1
51-100 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) United States 26.0 23.4 32.4
51-100 University of Canterbury New Zealand 21.5 46.3 3.1
51-100 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom 24.0 40.9 9.8
51-100 University of Glasgow United Kingdom 29.7 21.2 8.5
51-100 University of Maryland, College Park United States 22.3 25.9 46.9
51-100 University of Minnesota United States 23.8 27.6 23.1
51-100 University of Rochester United States 27.0 11.5 67.7
51-100 University of St Gallen (HSG) Switzerland 19.0 33.6 14.9
51-100 University of Strathclyde United Kingdom 22.8 26.2 8.5
51-100 University of Technology, Sydney Australia 18.8 36.2 16.2
51-100 University of Virginia United States 23.5 25.9 24.6
51-100 University of Washington United States 24.2 25.2 61.9
51-100 The University of Western Ontario Canada 26.7 34.3 20.5
51-100 University of Zurich Switzerland 20.9 17.4 62.0
51-100 Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand 21.1 26.7 6.2
51-100 York University Canada 27.8 25.2 18.6
101-150 Aarhus University Denmark 12.1 25.3 28.5
101-150 Arizona State University United States 11.7 9.0 60.4
101-150 Aston University United Kingdom 10.9 23.7 9.2
101-150 City University London United Kingdom 11.0 27.5 18.6
101-150 Copenhagen Business School Denmark 15.8 18.5 24.1
101-150 Curtin University of Technology Australia 19.6 26.5 6.8
101-150 Durham University United Kingdom 3.3 35.0 17.7
101-150 Emory University United States 8.4 21.1 44.1
101-150 Freie Universität Berlin Germany 15.2 18.7 16.2
101-150 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 22.0 16.2 19.9
101-150 Indiana University Bloomington United States 16.2 27.4 20.2
101-150 Korea University Korea, South 14.4 18.6 20.1
101-150 Laval University Canada 15.6 21.5 37.5
101-150 Loughborough University United Kingdom 6.7 22.9 18.0
101-150 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 19.2 24.2 20.0
101-150 Lund University Sweden 13.8 30.3 8.9
101-150 Massey University New Zealand 15.8 27.5 6.4
101-150 McMaster University Canada 19.5 13.1 17.4
101-150 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 26.1 12.4 3.3
101-150 Osaka University Japan 14.6 21.0 3.9
101-150 Queen's University of Belfast United Kingdom 9.5 32.2 16.2
101-150 Queensland University of Technology Australia 14.2 28.1 5.3
101-150 Simon Fraser University Canada 23.5 8.2 12.3
101-150 Tel Aviv University Israel 20.0 11.6 35.6
101-150 Texas A&M University United States 15.4 17.1 25.7
101-150 Tilburg University Netherlands 19.0 9.4 18.0
101-150 Universität Frankfurt am Main Germany 13.3 29.2 9.8
101-150 Universität Mannheim Germany 15.1 23.2 11.1
101-150 Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain 20.7 16.8 15.5
101-150 University College Dublin Ireland 10.9 35.0 18.8
101-150 University of Arizona United States 12.3 14.9 32.1
101-150 University of California, Irvine United States 13.4 11.2 33.7
101-150 University of Florida United States 18.1 16.3 40.0
101-150 University of Groningen Netherlands 23.2 16.3 19.9
101-150 University of Iowa United States 10.6 21.2 52.0
101-150 University of Lausanne Switzerland 6.4 25.4 26.3
101-150 University of Leeds United Kingdom 13.8 24.0 11.2
101-150 The University of Nottingham United Kingdom 22.4 20.6 20.3
101-150 University of Otago New Zealand 14.2 35.5 1.4
101-150 University of Science and Technology of China China 12.3 31.8 0.0
101-150 The University of Sheffield United Kingdom 13.2 19.2 15.8
101-150 University of Southampton United Kingdom 14.7 17.8 29.4
101-150 University of Southern California United States 14.3 19.5 47.2
101-150 University of St Andrews United Kingdom 11.5 20.2 14.8
101-150 University of Waikato New Zealand 16.7 29.8 10.7
101-150 University of Waterloo Canada 13.7 31.4 6.6
101-150 University of Wollongong Australia 12.3 28.9 10.2
101-150 University of York United Kingdom 14.7 19.1 20.8
101-150 Uppsala University Sweden 13.9 23.1 14.4
101-150 VU University Amsterdam Netherlands 13.9 16.5 18.5
151-200 American University United States 8.6 18.1 14.8
151-200 Auckland University of Technology New Zealand 7.1 6.3 11.2
151-200 Brigham Young University United States 11.7 4.1 42.7
151-200 Brunel University United Kingdom 5.6 20.6 17.8
151-200 City University of New York United States 7.0 16.8 17.3
151-200 Concordia University Canada 13.7 0.0 9.2
151-200 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Germany 2.4 13.0 15.7
151-200 Florida State University United States 14.8 0.0 24.6
151-200 Fordham University United States 14.1 0.0 8.0
151-200 Georgia State University United States 9.0 0.0 36.6
151-200 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 20.5 4.9 19.7
151-200 Heriot-watt University United Kingdom 4.1 19.9 31.0
151-200 Hitotsubashi University Japan 9.3 20.8 7.0
151-200 La Trobe University Australia 9.9 18.5 7.6
151-200 Leibniz Universität Hannover Germany 5.6 8.8 15.2
151-200 Newcastle University United Kingdom 6.0 18.1 6.9
151-200 Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) United Kingdom 8.2 16.7 16.7
151-200 Renmin (People’s) University of China China 13.0 0.0 1.9
151-200 Rice University United States 8.9 10.8 44.9
151-200 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick United States 9.7 11.8 20.0
151-200 Singapore Management University Singapore 8.0 17.9 14.0
151-200 SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London United Kingdom 9.5 11.5 0.0
151-200 Stockholm University Sweden 7.1 18.1 33.0
151-200 Sungkyunkwan University Korea, South 2.3 10.8 15.3
151-200 Syracuse University United States 7.8 0.0 24.2
151-200 Temple University United States 7.0 18.3 13.0
151-200 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Spain 18.1 0.0 13.8
151-200 Universidad de Zaragoza Spain 12.8 0.0 10.3
151-200 Universitat de Valencia Spain 18.6 8.4 14.6
151-200 Universität Innsbruck Austria 12.2 0.0 23.9
151-200 Universität Konstanz Germany 7.0 8.8 1.8
151-200 Université du Québec Canada 16.6 4.1 15.4
151-200 University of Alabama United States 6.3 7.7 20.1
151-200 University of California, Davis United States 10.3 3.6 39.6
151-200 University of California, Santa Cruz United States 6.3 0.0 36.6
151-200 University of Colorado at Boulder United States 3.3 27.1 17.5
151-200 University of Connecticut United States 11.4 3.1 53.0
151-200 University of Essex United Kingdom 13.4 13.4 11.9
151-200 University of Exeter United Kingdom 8.1 15.5 13.7
151-200 University of Geneva Switzerland 2.6 16.4 10.7
151-200 The University of Georgia United States 6.3 11.2 51.6
151-200 University of Houston United States 6.3 16.6 22.8
151-200 University of Kentucky United States 10.4 0.0 17.2
151-200 University of Notre Dame United States 9.7 12.1 32.6
151-200 University of Oklahoma United States 3.3 21.2 17.6
151-200 University of Ottawa Canada 11.7 11.2 10.3
151-200 Vanderbilt University United States 7.0 17.0 28.4
151-200 Washington University in St. Louis United States 8.0 0.5 56.7
151-200 Xiamen University China 13.0 0.0 7.8
151-200 Zhejiang University China 7.5 13.9 1.0

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