World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Political Sciences

2026 edition, Political Sciences. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world for Political Sciences
2 Stanford University 2nd in the world for Political Sciences
3 Princeton University 3rd in the world for Political Sciences
4 University of California, Berkeley 4th in the world for Political Sciences
5 New York University 5th in the world for Political Sciences
6 Duke University 6th in the world for Political Sciences
7 Columbia University 7th in the world for Political Sciences
8 Australian National University 8th in the world for Political Sciences
9 George Washington University 9th in the world for Political Sciences
10 London School of Economics and Political Science 10th in the world for Political Sciences
11 European University Institute 11th in the world for Political Sciences
12 University of Oxford 12th in the world for Political Sciences
13 University of Pennsylvania 13th in the world for Political Sciences
14 Ohio State University 14th in the world for Political Sciences
15 Yale University 15th in the world for Political Sciences
16 University of California, San Diego 16th in the world for Political Sciences
17 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 17th in the world for Political Sciences
18 King's College London 18th in the world for Political Sciences
19 University of Chicago 19th in the world for Political Sciences
20 Cornell University 20th in the world for Political Sciences
21 Georgetown University 21st in the world for Political Sciences
22 University of California, Los Angeles 22nd in the world for Political Sciences
23 University of Amsterdam 23rd in the world for Political Sciences
24 ETH Zurich 24th in the world for Political Sciences
25 Johns Hopkins University 25th in the world for Political Sciences
26 Aarhus University 26th in the world for Political Sciences
27 Leiden University 27th in the world for Political Sciences
28 University College London 28th in the world for Political Sciences
29 University of Zurich 29th in the world for Political Sciences
30 Indiana University Bloomington 30th in the world for Political Sciences
31 University of Copenhagen 31st in the world for Political Sciences
=32 University of Cambridge 32nd in the world for Political Sciences
=32 University of Texas at Austin 32nd in the world for Political Sciences
34 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 34th in the world for Political Sciences
35 University of Warwick 35th in the world for Political Sciences
36 University of Toronto 36th in the world for Political Sciences
37 Uppsala University 37th in the world for Political Sciences
38 University of California, Irvine 38th in the world for Political Sciences
39 Northwestern University 39th in the world for Political Sciences
40 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 40th in the world for Political Sciences
41 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 41st in the world for Political Sciences
42 University of Konstanz 42nd in the world for Political Sciences
43 University of Glasgow 43rd in the world for Political Sciences
44 Vanderbilt University 44th in the world for Political Sciences
45 Dartmouth College 45th in the world for Political Sciences
46 University of Gothenburg 46th in the world for Political Sciences
47 Emory University 47th in the world for Political Sciences
48 Washington University in St. Louis 48th in the world for Political Sciences
49 Stockholm University 49th in the world for Political Sciences
50 University of Manchester 50th in the world for Political Sciences
=51 National University of Singapore 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Edinburgh 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Vienna 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Exeter 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 Durham University 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of California, Davis 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Pittsburgh 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Birmingham 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 Arizona State University 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Bristol 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Leeds 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Georgia 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Oslo 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Geneva 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 Bocconi University 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Bergen 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=51 University of Notre Dame 51st in the world for Political Sciences
=76 McGill University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Zhejiang University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Monash University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 University of Sydney 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 University of British Columbia 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Texas A&M University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Michigan State University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 University of Melbourne 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 University of Maryland, College Park 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 University of Nottingham 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Newcastle University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Queen Mary University of London 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Rice University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Syracuse University 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 Royal Holloway University of London 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=76 University of Rochester 76th in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Tsinghua University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Hong Kong 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Sheffield 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Washington 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Copenhagen Business School 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Erasmus University Rotterdam 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Florida 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Utrecht University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Brown University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Minnesota 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Virginia 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Technical University of Munich 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Heidelberg University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 KU Leuven 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of California, Santa Barbara 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Connecticut 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Southern California 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Montreal 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Southampton 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Milan 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Florida State University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Lund University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Strathclyde 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Western University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Boston University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Houston 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Maastricht University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Tel Aviv University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Helsinki 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 Simon Fraser University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 University of Bath 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=101 George Mason University 101st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Griffith University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Colorado Boulder 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Wageningen University & Research 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Yonsei University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Queensland 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of St Andrews 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Bern 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Groningen 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Fudan University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Arizona 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Purdue University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Washington State University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Lisbon 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Norwegian University of Science and Technology 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Ghent University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Massachusetts Amherst 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Trinity College Dublin 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Miami 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 The University of Texas at Dallas 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Adelaide University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Cincinnati 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University College Dublin 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Waterloo 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Radboud University Nijmegen 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Wake Forest University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Illinois Chicago 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Duisburg-Essen 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Cardiff University 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of East Anglia 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 University of Utah 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Queen's University Belfast 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Universitat Pompeu Fabra 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=151 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 151st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 City University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Deakin University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Korea University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Nanyang Technological University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Ocean University of China 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Peking University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of New South Wales 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Surrey 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Carnegie Mellon University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Nanjing University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Tokyo 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Oregon State University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Sun Yat-sen University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Canberra 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Chinese University of Hong Kong 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Georgia Institute of Technology 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Osaka University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Hawaii at Manoa 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Renmin University of China 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Seoul National University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Colorado State University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Reading 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Bremen 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Virginia Tech 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Sungkyunkwan University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Tasmania 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Macau 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Johannesburg 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Loughborough University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Aalborg University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Iowa 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Georgia State University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Temple University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Stony Brook University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 York University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of North Texas 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Victoria 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Missouri 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Tufts University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Murdoch University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University at Albany, State University of New York 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Stavanger 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Universität Hamburg 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 Dalhousie University 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of Portsmouth 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 University of California, Santa Cruz 201st in the world for Political Sciences
=201 BI Norwegian Business School 201st in the world for Political Sciences