QS World University Rankings 2015/16
QS World University Rankings 2015/16 by QS Quacquarelli Symonds: 10 universities ranked, led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The entries on record...
- Publisher
- QS Quacquarelli Symonds
- Published
- September 14, 2015
- On this page
- 10 of 891 ranked
- Method
- Mixed
- Reliability
- Grade B
MIT first for the fourth straight year, with Harvard second and Cambridge and Stanford tied third. QS changed how citations are normalized by faculty area, which raised institutions strong in arts, humanities and social sciences such as LSE (35th).
Method changed. Positions in this edition are not directly comparable with the previous one.
Citations per faculty normalized by faculty area to give fairer treatment to institutions strong in arts, humanities and social sciences.
The list on record
This page shows the 10 entries on record of 891 published. Top 10 from the QS press release. See the original list.
| Rank | Name | Location | Since 2014/15 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | New |
| 2 | Harvard University | United States | Up 2 |
| =3 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | Down 1 |
| =3 | Stanford University | United States | Up 4 |
| 5 | California Institute of Technology | United States | New |
| 6 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | Down 1 |
| 7 | University College London | United Kingdom | New |
| 8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom | Down 6 |
| 9 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland | Up 3 |
| 10 | University of Chicago | United States | Up 1 |
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