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Noviembre 12, 2015

Subject Ranking 2015-2016: social sciences top 100

The triumph of the US and the UK in the Times Higher Education subject ranking for social sciences sends a “powerful warning” to policymakers to “tinker” with funding “at your peril”.

That is the view of James Wilsdon, professor of science and democracy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex and chair of the Campaign for Social Science, who said that the success of the countries in the ranking “won’t continue without a focused concentration [on social sciences] by policy and by funding”.

The US has 43 institutions in THE’s top 100 list, including nine in the top 10, led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in first place. The University of Oxford tops the UK’s 17 institutions in fourth place, while King’s College London makes its debut in the top 20 and the University of Edinburgh joins the top 30.

Professor Wilsdon said that the results should be viewed alongside the drive from the US Congress to cut the proportion of investment in the social and behavioural sciences.

“If I was [looking at the ranking] as a US policymaker, I would take it as a powerful warning to think twice before I start to chip away at what’s clearly a very strong US position,” he said.

He added that the table also provides a timely reminder to the UK government ahead of its spending review on 25 November that although science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects “tend to still dominate a lot of the discussion about UK science”, social sciences are “also a huge UK strength”.

“The message I take home is tinker at your peril with the ingredients that have given us a world-class social science base,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Nordic countries of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland all appear in the ranking for the first time.

Part of this reflects methodological changes, specifically the move from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science to Elsevier’s larger Scopus database to examine citations, but it also indicates improvements in these countries’ social sciences research.

Troels Østergaard Sørensen, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, the highest-ranked Nordic institution, in joint 52nd place, said that there were now incentives for researchers in the discipline to publish work in top journals.

“At the end of each year, we collect where research has been published, and this influences the way we allocate research funds in departments,” he said.

“[The department of] economics offers researchers salary supplements if they publish in the best journals.”

The THE subject rankings use the same 13 performance indicators as the flagship World University Rankings, but are recalibrated with different weightings to suit each field.

View the full methodology, along with the top 100 universities for social sciences.

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Subject Ranking 2015-2016: social sciences top 100

The 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Social Sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

Rank Title
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States of America
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2 Stanford University

United States of America
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3 Princeton University

United States of America
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4 University of Oxford

United Kingdom
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5 Yale University

United States of America
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6 Harvard University

United States of America
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7 University of Chicago

United States of America
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=8 University of Pennsylvania

United States of America
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=8 University of Michigan

United States of America
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10 University of California, Berkeley

United States of America
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11 University of Cambridge

United Kingdom
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12 London School of Economics and Political Science

United Kingdom
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13 Columbia University

United States of America
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14 Duke University

United States of America
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15 University of California, Los Angeles

United States of America
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16 University College London

United Kingdom
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17 Northwestern University

United States of America
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18 New York University

United States of America
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19 University of Toronto

Canada
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20 King’s College London

United Kingdom
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21 University of British Columbia

Canada
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22 University of Melbourne

Australia
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23 Cornell University

United States of America
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24 KU Leuven

Belgium
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25 Humboldt University of Berlin

Germany
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26 University of Wisconsin-Madison

United States of America
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27 Australian National University

Australia
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28 National University of Singapore

Singapore
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29 McGill University

Canada
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30 University of Edinburgh

United Kingdom
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31 University of Pittsburgh

United States of America
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32 University of Amsterdam

Netherlands
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33 University of Notre Dame

United States of America
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34 University of Manchester

United Kingdom
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35 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

United States of America
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36 Durham University

United Kingdom
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37 University of Texas at Austin

United States of America
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38 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

United States of America
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=39 California Institute of Technology

United States of America
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=39 University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong
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41 Free University of Berlin

Germany
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=42 ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Switzerland
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=42 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

United States of America
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44 University of Southern California

United States of America
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45 LMU Munich

Germany
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46 University of St Andrews

United Kingdom
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47 University of Washington

United States of America
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48 University of California, San Diego

United States of America
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49 Utrecht University

Netherlands
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50 University of Warwick

United Kingdom
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51 Carnegie Mellon University

United States of America
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=52 University of Copenhagen

Denmark
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=52 Georgetown University

United States of America
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=52 Michigan State University

United States of America
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=52 Peking University

China
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=52 University of Sydney

Australia
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57 École Normale Supérieure

France
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58 Heidelberg University

Germany
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59 University of Groningen

Netherlands
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60 University of Minnesota

United States of America
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61 Pennsylvania State University

United States of America
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62 Johns Hopkins University

United States of America
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63 Erasmus University Rotterdam

Netherlands
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64 University of Mannheim

Germany
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=65 University of Sussex

United Kingdom
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=65 Tilburg University

Netherlands
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67 University of California, Santa Barbara

United States of America
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68 Vanderbilt University

United States of America
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69 University of Sheffield

United Kingdom
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70 Brown University

United States of America
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71 Ohio State University

United States of America
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72 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong
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73 University of California, Irvine

United States of America
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=74 Boston University

United States of America
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=74 University of Helsinki

Finland
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=76 Dartmouth College

United States of America
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=76 Monash University

Australia
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78 University of Tübingen

Germany
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=79 University of Leeds

United Kingdom
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=79 Maastricht University

Netherlands
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81 University of Exeter

United Kingdom
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82 Washington University in St Louis

United States of America
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83 University of Tokyo

Japan
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84 Lancaster University

United Kingdom
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85 University of Essex

United Kingdom
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86 University of New South Wales

Australia
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87 University of Bristol

United Kingdom
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=88 Copenhagen Business School

Denmark
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=88 University of Oslo

Norway
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90 The University of Queensland

Australia
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91 University of Freiburg

Germany
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92 Boston College

United States of America
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93 Tsinghua University

China
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94 University of Maryland, College Park

United States of America
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=95 Lund University

Sweden
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=95 Nanyang Technological University

Singapore
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=95 Pompeu Fabra University

Spain
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98 University of Virginia

United States of America
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=99 Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1

France
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=99 University of Zurich

Switzerland
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