2011 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Natural Sciences

2011 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Natural Sciences

QS World University Rankings by Subject: Physics and Astronomy

Rank	Title	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	Score
1	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	100.0	100.0	41.3	82.4
2	Harvard University	United States	91.6	78.0	53.8	77.5
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	91.6	75.7	39.9	72.9
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	97.4	61.2	39.5	72.8
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	90.8	48.5	45.2	68.7
6	Stanford University	United States	81.7	38.4	53.0	64.4
7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	81.5	40.7	39.2	60.7
8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	70.2	63.8	33.2	57.8
9	Princeton University	United States	76.4	30.3	44.1	57.5
10	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	69.6	42.2	46.9	57.3
11	The University of Tokyo	Japan	79.7	34.6	22.7	53.6
12	University of Chicago	United States	57.1	34.4	53.3	51.4
13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	55.9	51.3	43.0	51.1
14	The University of Melbourne	Australia	46.6	41.5	64.4	50.9
15	Columbia University	United States	46.2	44.0	61.9	50.5
16=	Cornell University	United States	55.0	28.0	50.8	48.3
16=	École Normale Supérieure, Paris	France	59.5	41.2	34.5	48.3
18	University of British Columbia	Canada	51.1	47.6	41.0	47.4
19	Yale University	United States	54.0	46.0	34.9	46.7
20	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	57.3	35.9	32.7	45.6
21	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	45.4	15.7	62.5	44.6
22=	Kyoto University	Japan	63.7	38.9	16.2	44.5
22=	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	53.6	20.9	45.2	44.5
24	University of Toronto	Canada	57.6	30.3	30.8	44.1
25	University of Basel	Switzerland	19.3	19.6	100.0	43.6
26	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	42.9	29.3	52.3	43.0
27	Peking University	China	56.6	43.9	19.5	42.9
28	Australian National University	Australia	52.6	42.0	21.5	41.2
29	École Polytechnique	France	44.8	49.8	29.2	41.1
30	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	38.7	38.7	45.0	40.6
31	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	14.3	19.6	97.5	40.3
32	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	30.0	48.9	51.5	40.2
33	Durham University	United Kingdom	24.5	38.2	63.9	39.1
34	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	36.1	42.5	39.2	38.3
35	McGill University	Canada	42.8	49.3	20.8	37.5
36	Brown University	United States	19.2	22.5	76.4	37.0
37	Tsinghua University	China	50.0	32.8	17.7	36.9
38=	Seoul National University	Korea, South	50.8	26.9	20.2	36.8
38=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	46.2	12.4	37.3	36.8
40	Technische Universität München	Germany	44.1	34.0	25.9	36.6
41=	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	31.5	60.3	28.9	36.5
41=	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	37.9	26.7	40.6	36.5
41=	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	36.2	49.9	28.2	36.5
44	King’s College London (University of London)	United Kingdom	24.5	42.5	49.5	35.6
45	University of Pennsylvania	United States	28.0	37.7	46.4	35.5
46	University of Washington	United States	25.6	25.7	57.2	35.1
47	Royal Holloway University of London	United Kingdom	7.9	5.0	100.0	35.0
48	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	30.6	32.2	42.8	34.6
49=	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland	28.8	42.6	37.5	34.2
49=	University of Michigan	United States	35.7	32.3	33.1	34.2
51-100	Carleton University	Canada	5.4	14.5	88.4
51-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	27.2	29.4	47.7
51-100	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	28.3	25.0	28.7
51-100	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	36.5	19.8	24.3
51-100	Duke University	United States	24.4	28.8	35.9
51-100	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	16.0	13.7	56.6
51-100	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France	18.5	35.7	36.4
51-100	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	25.7	27.2	31.2
51-100	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	32.1	2.0	38.3
51-100	Fudan University	China	30.7	27.9	22.7
51-100	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	18.7	18.9	53.3
51-100	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	32.9	21.6	33.5
51-100	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	36.6	28.5	29.4
51-100	Johns Hopkins University	United States	25.9	25.7	40.7
51-100	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology	Korea, South	41.4	23.3	18.8
51-100	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	40.2	27.4	9.6
51-100	Lund University	Sweden	27.1	21.6	46.8
51-100	Monash University	Australia	35.1	31.6	24.4
51-100	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	38.6	17.9	25.5
51-100	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	42.0	16.7	21.4
51-100	New York University (NYU)	United States	20.6	38.1	37.2
51-100	Northwestern University	United States	22.8	14.2	46.7
51-100	Osaka University	Japan	46.4	17.2	12.6
51-100	Pennsylvania State University	United States	24.0	23.0	35.7
51-100	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	26.3	8.1	54.5
51-100	Sapienza - Università di Roma	Italy	42.5	6.6	20.5
51-100	Syracuse University	United States	10.6	0.0	83.6
51-100	Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Israel	37.1	20.1	25.3
51-100	Tohoku University	Japan	38.2	18.7	17.5
51-100	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	44.4	31.0	16.2
51-100	Tufts University	United States	6.0	2.8	87.5
51-100	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	28.6	20.0	35.7
51-100	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	28.3	28.3	30.4
51-100	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	34.3	0.0	38.2
51-100	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	31.5	28.4	42.2
51-100	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	30.4	39.0	17.1
51-100	University of California, Davis	United States	21.4	21.2	48.4
51-100	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	25.1	0.0	51.8
51-100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	28.2	31.1	37.3
51-100	University of Helsinki	Finland	26.5	6.0	51.2
51-100	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	34.6	34.0	25.1
51-100	The University of New South Wales	Australia	35.0	21.1	30.0
51-100	University of Science and Technology of China	China	38.0	34.2	23.2
51-100	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	25.3	28.3	43.8
51-100	The University of Sydney	Australia	44.5	25.0	21.2
51-100	University of Texas at Austin	United States	39.2	20.7	32.2
51-100	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	24.7	48.0	17.9
51-100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	26.4	17.9	42.8
51-100	University of Zurich	Switzerland	19.1	4.9	75.0
51-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	35.5	5.7	38.8
51-100	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel	17.4	0.0	72.3
101-150	Aarhus University	Denmark	27.8	13.9	30.6
101-150	Boston University	United States	25.7	8.5	35.1
101-150	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	30.7	3.7	25.8
101-150	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	22.7	21.0	31.9
101-150	Florida State University	United States	12.1	0.0	60.7
101-150	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	23.9	18.2	30.5
101-150	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	27.4	13.0	32.0
101-150	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	26.7	28.3	18.0
101-150	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	30.5	25.3	16.1
101-150	Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz	Germany	19.5	1.5	46.9
101-150	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	26.9	13.9	23.6
101-150	Leiden University	Netherlands	32.1	5.0	23.2
101-150	Nagoya University	Japan	26.5	14.6	26.7
101-150	Nanjing University	China	25.5	21.8	19.4
101-150	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	30.2	11.6	20.0
101-150	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	18.5	23.3	38.2
101-150	Rice University	United States	18.1	0.0	48.6
101-150	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick	United States	19.4	4.1	39.6
101-150	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	24.9	30.0	19.4
101-150	Stony Brook University	United States	21.0	18.2	30.3
101-150	Tel Aviv University	Israel	27.4	2.8	30.8
101-150	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	26.7	14.1	23.2
101-150	Università degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata	Italy	23.1	20.0	24.1
101-150	Università di Bologna (UNIBO)	Italy	24.2	25.1	18.7
101-150	Università di Pisa	Italy	27.4	4.3	41.2
101-150	Universitat de Barcelona (UB)	Spain	24.6	22.1	33.5
101-150	Universität Hamburg	Germany	26.8	1.5	31.0
101-150	Universität Innsbruck	Austria	25.4	18.2	36.1
101-150	Universität Karlsruhe	Germany	32.5	14.3	24.6
101-150	Université Paris-Sud 11	France	29.5	0.0	38.2
101-150	University of Alberta	Canada	26.9	33.6	23.4
101-150	University of Arizona	United States	22.8	34.7	19.3
101-150	University of Bern	Switzerland	15.3	18.2	37.0
101-150	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	24.8	37.4	22.7
101-150	University of California, Irvine	United States	15.9	0.0	51.0
101-150	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	6.5	0.7	65.6
101-150	University of Geneva	Switzerland	28.0	3.7	29.3
101-150	University of Ghent	Belgium	18.6	9.0	39.5
101-150	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	21.1	34.9	19.2
101-150	University of Groningen	Netherlands	21.9	4.0	40.1
101-150	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	17.5	45.6	24.5
101-150	University of Minnesota	United States	14.7	14.7	47.4
101-150	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	18.6	34.1	27.4
101-150	The University of Queensland	Australia	28.1	23.3	27.9
101-150	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	17.6	19.9	38.6
101-150	University of Victoria	Canada	6.7	0.0	71.8
101-150	University of Vienna	Austria	34.6	10.0	20.7
101-150	University of Waterloo	Canada	28.5	14.7	23.9
101-150	Uppsala University	Sweden	27.0	10.4	25.9
151-200	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	26.4	7.2	17.1
151-200	Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM)	India	22.2	24.0	11.6
151-200	Johannes Kepler University Linz	Austria	16.5	15.6	25.9
151-200	Korea University	Korea, South	25.6	12.7	19.8
151-200	KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	26.6	3.7	20.6
151-200	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	10.1	26.7	35.5
151-200	McMaster University	Canada	17.3	26.2	23.9
151-200	Michigan State University	United States	15.3	5.6	37.6
151-200	Ohio State University	United States	14.7	13.7	37.9
151-200	Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH)	Korea, South	24.9	11.6	24.0
151-200	Politecnico di Milano	Italy	20.1	19.8	19.5
151-200	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	18.8	15.0	22.8
151-200	Purdue University	United States	24.6	9.0	26.7
151-200	Queen's University	Canada	12.8	30.0	21.1
151-200	Queen's University of Belfast	United Kingdom	11.6	27.3	24.9
151-200	RMIT University	Australia	21.8	18.1	14.1
151-200	Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia	22.1	30.5	6.7
151-200	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	19.3	12.7	25.3
151-200	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	27.3	13.5	18.4
151-200	Technische Universität Darmstadt	Germany	17.6	17.2	21.7
151-200	University Complutense Madrid	Spain	21.0	20.3	15.9
151-200	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina	20.5	14.3	19.2
151-200	Universidad de Granada	Spain	6.8	0.0	62.1
151-200	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	28.7	4.9	15.0
151-200	Università degli Studi di Genova	Italy	10.6	0.0	48.6
151-200	Università degli Studi di Milano	Italy	20.3	13.2	19.4
151-200	Universität Frankfurt am Main	Germany	20.5	24.5	17.4
151-200	Universität Freiburg	Germany	16.2	10.2	32.3
151-200	Universität Stuttgart	Germany	20.1	9.8	21.9
151-200	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	21.6	7.3	27.7
151-200	Université Grenoble, Joseph Fourier	France	19.9	26.3	22.4
151-200	Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)	Belgium	21.9	18.2	25.8
151-200	University College Cork	Ireland	14.6	25.2	26.8
151-200	University College Dublin	Ireland	13.9	36.8	19.6
151-200	The University of Adelaide	Australia	24.4	18.7	18.4
151-200	University of Alabama	United States	7.6	12.7	49.8
151-200	University of Bath	United Kingdom	9.7	43.1	20.8
151-200	University of Calgary	Canada	14.2	21.9	23.7
151-200	University of Canterbury	New Zealand	19.5	19.3	22.9
151-200	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	19.4	15.3	23.6
151-200	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	24.9	0.0	28.9
151-200	University of Notre Dame	United States	12.5	7.6	47.9
151-200	University of Otago	New Zealand	14.5	22.8	29.7
151-200	University of Rochester	United States	18.7	19.7	29.3
151-200	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	21.2	13.7	21.2
151-200	University of York	United Kingdom	12.7	36.5	26.8
151-200	Vienna University of Technology	Austria	22.4	25.5	19.6
151-200	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	17.3	5.6	32.3
151-200	Waseda University	Japan	26.2	27.9	11.5
151-200	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	11.9	0.7	44.6
151-200	Yonsei University	Korea, South	16.2	2.5	34.5

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