World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Public Administration

2026 edition, Public Administration. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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1 Leiden University 1st in the world for Public Administration
2 Aarhus University 2nd in the world for Public Administration
3 Roskilde University 3rd in the world for Public Administration
4 Erasmus University Rotterdam 4th in the world for Public Administration
5 Utrecht University 5th in the world for Public Administration
6 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 6th in the world for Public Administration
7 Renmin University of China 7th in the world for Public Administration
8 American University 8th in the world for Public Administration
9 University of Oxford 9th in the world for Public Administration
10 City University of Hong Kong 10th in the world for Public Administration
11 Tsinghua University 11th in the world for Public Administration
12 Florida State University 12th in the world for Public Administration
13 University of Georgia 13th in the world for Public Administration
14 University of Oslo 14th in the world for Public Administration
15 University of Edinburgh 15th in the world for Public Administration
16 Ohio State University 16th in the world for Public Administration
17 National University of Singapore 17th in the world for Public Administration
18 London School of Economics and Political Science 18th in the world for Public Administration
19 Georgetown University 19th in the world for Public Administration
20 Syracuse University 20th in the world for Public Administration
21 University of Potsdam 21st in the world for Public Administration
22 University of Antwerp 22nd in the world for Public Administration
23 University College London 23rd in the world for Public Administration
24 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 24th in the world for Public Administration
25 The University of Texas at Dallas 25th in the world for Public Administration
27 University of Gothenburg 27th in the world for Public Administration
28 University of Haifa 28th in the world for Public Administration
29 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 29th in the world for Public Administration
30 University of Melbourne 30th in the world for Public Administration
31 Indiana University Bloomington 31st in the world for Public Administration
32 Ghent University 32nd in the world for Public Administration
33 Bocconi University 33rd in the world for Public Administration
34 University of Central Florida 34th in the world for Public Administration
35 KU Leuven 35th in the world for Public Administration
36 European University Institute 36th in the world for Public Administration
37 University of Bologna 37th in the world for Public Administration
38 King's College London 38th in the world for Public Administration
39 University at Albany, State University of New York 39th in the world for Public Administration
=40 Harvard University 40th in the world for Public Administration
=40 The Open University 40th in the world for Public Administration
42 University of Exeter 42nd in the world for Public Administration
43 Radboud University Nijmegen 43rd in the world for Public Administration
44 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 44th in the world for Public Administration
45 University of Bern 45th in the world for Public Administration
46 Universität Hamburg 46th in the world for Public Administration
47 University of Amsterdam 47th in the world for Public Administration
=48 Zhejiang University 48th in the world for Public Administration
=48 Arizona State University 48th in the world for Public Administration
50 University of Konstanz 50th in the world for Public Administration
=51 ETH Zurich 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Peking University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Copenhagen Business School 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 University of Copenhagen 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Sun Yat-sen University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 University of Glasgow 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 University of Nottingham 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 University of Southern California 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 George Washington University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 University of Strathclyde 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Virginia Tech 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Tilburg University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Aalborg University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 University of Bergen 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Simon Fraser University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=51 Cardiff University 51st in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of Texas at Austin 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of Washington 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Yonsei University 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of California, Berkeley 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of Queensland 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Australian National University 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Fudan University 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Texas A&M University 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of Arizona 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Chongqing University 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Georgia Institute of Technology 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of California, Davis 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of Hawaii at Manoa 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of Minnesota 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Seoul National University 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Queen Mary University of London 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 Georgia State University 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 University of Illinois Chicago 76th in the world for Public Administration
=76 George Mason University 76th in the world for Public Administration