* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Rank	University	Country/Region	Overall	H-index Citations	Citations per Paper	Academic Reputation	Employer Reputation
1	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	96.4	83.8	95.7	100	94.7
2	University of British Columbia	Canada	92	94.5	95.7	90.8	89.9
3	The University of Queensland	Australia	91.9	100	98.1	89	87.9
4	The University of Sydney	Australia	90.1	98.7	97.5	85.5	94.1
5	University of Toronto	Canada	89.7	96.9	94.4	88.2	80.8
6	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	87.6	86.8	92.8	86.5	87.2
7	University of Alberta	Canada	87.1	94.5	98.4	83.5	80.2
7	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	87.1	87.4	95.9	87.6	70.2
9	Deakin University	Australia	85.9	85.1	97.9	81	98.7
10	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom	85.2	79.5	95.7	84.3	83.8
11	University of Bath	United Kingdom	85	74.3	92.7	83.2	100
12	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	84.5	88.5	94.3	83.5	70.2
13	University of Otago	New Zealand	84.4	87.4	90.9	83.7	74.6
14	Pennsylvania State University	United States	84.1	70	88.5	87.3	79.6
15	University of Florida	United States	84	87.9	94	81.4	79.1
16	Liverpool John Moores University	United Kingdom	83.6	77.9	92	84.7	72.7
17	The Ohio State University	United States	83.1	95.7	97.9	79.4	64.5
18	KU Leuven	Belgium	82.4	87.9	94.8	80.9	64.1
19	University of Calgary	Canada	82.3	85.1	96	78.4	80.6
20	The University of Western Australia	Australia	82.2	82.5	94.2	81.2	69.9
21	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong SAR	82	75.3	91.1	80.2	89.3
22	Seoul National University	South Korea	81.9	68.8	87	83.2	86.1
22	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	81.9	85.7	94.3	82.6	53.2
24	McMaster University	Canada	81.5	93.7	96.7	79.7	50.8
25	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	80.9	77.9	95.9	77.2	84.9
26	University College London(UCL)	United Kingdom	80.8	77.9	94.2	79	75.9
27	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	80.6	53.8	79.7	84.9	96.3
28	McGill University	Canada	80.5	81	91.5	78.5	75.4
29	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	80.3	67.6	90.1	81	80.6
29	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	80.3	77.1	95.2	77.1	82.4
31	Kyoto University	Japan	80.1	77.1	86.5	78.9	81.9
32	University College Dublin	Ireland	79.6	85.1	94.6	73.5	85.4
32	Western University	Canada	79.6	89	94.2	75.9	66
34	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	79.5	79.5	90.3	77.4	75.7
35	Auckland University of Technology (AUT)	New Zealand	79.4	85.7	95.2	75.4	70.7
35	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	79.4	70	88.2	76.5	97.9
37	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	79.3	80.3	97.6	71.9	94.3
38	La Trobe University	Australia	78.9	96.5	99.1	68.3	86.2
38	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	78.9	87.9	95.6	74.3	68.3
40	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	78.7	75.3	91.9	80.8	51.7
40	Waseda University	Japan	78.7	67.6	81.9	79.8	84.3
42	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	78.6	58.1	77.3	81.3	95.5
42	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	78.6	87.9	85.9	74	81
44	Boston University	United States	78.3	89.5	97.5	69.8	83.9
45	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong SAR	78	71.2	86.9	76.9	81.3
46	Ghent University	Belgium	77.9	92.8	97.1	70.7	70.4
46	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	77.9	70	93.8	75.1	82.7
48	Griffith University	Australia	77.6	87.4	93.2	75.3	53
48	University of Groningen	Netherlands	77.6	89	94.8	71.3	72.7
50	University of Jyväskylä	Finland	77.3	76.2	90.6	77.2	60
51-100	Australian Catholic University	Australia		89.5	98.4	60.1	85.7
51-100	Brock University	Canada		61.7	81.2	73.5	57
51-100	Brunel University London	United Kingdom		73.3	92.3	65	77.2
51-100	Cornell University	United States		72.3	93.9	68.5	72.1
51-100	Curtin University	Australia		90	95.3	63.4	71.1
51-100	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands		72.3	92.5	67	78.3
51-100	Durham University	United Kingdom		58.1	70.8	74.1	83.5
51-100	Edith Cowan University	Australia		79.5	92.4	69.2	77.6
51-100	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland		67.6	85.9	73.8	82.5
51-100	Leeds Beckett University	United Kingdom		67.6	88.7	71.4	56.1
51-100	Maastricht University	Netherlands		86.3	96.2	69.6	50.8
51-100	Michigan State University	United States		64.8	89.9	72.6	74.6
51-100	Northwestern University	United States		86.3	92.1	67.2	72.5
51-100	Peking University	China (Mainland)		51.4	72.6	74.7	91
51-100	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada		78.7	91	68.5	65.7
51-100	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia		77.9	93.4	62.7	74.4
51-100	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany		68.8	88.5	68.4	80.1
51-100	Texas A&M University	United States		67.6	82.2	72	73.6
51-100	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia		80.3	93.9	69	91.4
51-100	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom		78.7	94	63.5	76.6
51-100	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland		77.9	89.8	64.8	80.4
51-100	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain		70	86.6	70.6	76.5
51-100	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain		67.6	86.1	68.9	70.1
51-100	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium		67.6	80.3	73	53.4
51-100	Université de Montréal	Canada		86.3	91.8	65.9	57.2
51-100	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia		68.8	83.7	69.7	76.1
51-100	University of Bern	Switzerland		74.3	87.8	67.6	80.2
51-100	University of Brighton	United Kingdom		80.3	92.6	62.5	77.4
51-100	University of California, Davis	United States		74.3	93.7	69.6	66.5
51-100	University of California, San Francisco	United States		81.8	96.7	65.1	71.4
51-100	University of Canberra	Australia		85.7	96.3	63.3	70.9
51-100	University of Colorado Boulder	United States		71.2	88.4	71.5	75.4
51-100	University of Connecticut	United States		84.4	88.9	70.7	51.9
51-100	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom		75.3	94.6	65.6	74.3
51-100	University of Lausanne	Switzerland		73.3	91.3	68.7	72.9
51-100	University of Leeds	United Kingdom		73.3	93.1	71.2	87.6
51-100	University of Leicester	United Kingdom		63.3	82.8	74.8	56.2
51-100	University of Limerick	Ireland		87.4	95.2	67.3	74.4
51-100	University of Lisbon	Portugal		83.8	92.6	71.7	68.2
51-100	University of Maryland, College Park	United States		66.2	82.3	70.6	71.9
51-100	University of Ottawa	Canada		81	87.4	74.9	62.5
51-100	University of Porto	Portugal		81.8	87.6	71.2	58
51-100	University of South Australia	Australia		91.9	98.4	66.7	72.3
51-100	University of Southern California	United States		85.1	93.6	65.9	65.2
51-100	University of Tsukuba	Japan		67.6	79.5	78.2	66.1
51-100	University of Virginia	United States		81	90.1	63.3	73.4
51-100	University of Waterloo	Canada		78.7	90.5	70.6	65.3
51-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands		85.7	94.6	67	58.3
51-100	Victoria University	Australia		82.5	94.9	68.2	70.4
51-100	Yonsei University	South Korea		77.1	90.6	68	83

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