Nature Index: Physical Sciences (2025)

Recorded placements 110

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

1. #1University of Science and Technology of China1st in the world for physical sciences
2. #3Peking University3rd in the world for physical sciences
3. #5Massachusetts Institute of Technology5th in the world for physical sciences
4. #6University of Tokyo6th in the world for physical sciences
5. #7Tsinghua University7th in the world for physical sciences
6. #8Harvard University8th in the world for physical sciences
7. #9California Institute of Technology9th in the world for physical sciences
8. #10Stanford University10th in the world for physical sciences
9. #11University of Cambridge11th in the world for physical sciences
10. #12Princeton University12th in the world for physical sciences
11. #13University of Chicago13th in the world for physical sciences
12. #14ETH Zurich14th in the world for physical sciences
13. #15University of California, Berkeley15th in the world for physical sciences
14. #16University of Oxford16th in the world for physical sciences
15. #17Kyoto University17th in the world for physical sciences
16. #18University of California, Los Angeles18th in the world for physical sciences
17. #20University of Michigan-Ann Arbor20th in the world for physical sciences
18. #22Shanghai Jiao Tong University22nd in the world for physical sciences
19. #24Imperial College London24th in the world for physical sciences
20. #25Fudan University25th in the world for physical sciences
21. #26Zhejiang University26th in the world for physical sciences
22. #27Cornell University27th in the world for physical sciences
23. #32University of Maryland, College Park32nd in the world for physical sciences
24. #33Durham University33rd in the world for physical sciences
25. #34University of Copenhagen34th in the world for physical sciences
26. #35Johns Hopkins University35th in the world for physical sciences
27. #36Technical University of Munich36th in the world for physical sciences
28. #41National University of Singapore41st in the world for physical sciences
29. #44KAIST44th in the world for physical sciences
30. #45University of Washington45th in the world for physical sciences
31. #46University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign46th in the world for physical sciences
32. #48Sorbonne University48th in the world for physical sciences
33. #50EPFL50th in the world for physical sciences
34. #54Pennsylvania State University54th in the world for physical sciences
35. #57Yale University57th in the world for physical sciences
36. #58Seoul National University58th in the world for physical sciences
37. #59University of Minnesota59th in the world for physical sciences
38. #61New York University61st in the world for physical sciences
39. #62King's College London62nd in the world for physical sciences
40. #66University of California, San Diego66th in the world for physical sciences
41. #67Tohoku University67th in the world for physical sciences
42. #68Nanyang Technological University68th in the world for physical sciences
43. #69University of Zurich69th in the world for physical sciences
44. #70University of Edinburgh70th in the world for physical sciences
45. #71Tel Aviv University71st in the world for physical sciences
46. #72Columbia University72nd in the world for physical sciences
47. #74McGill University74th in the world for physical sciences
48. #75University of Southampton75th in the world for physical sciences
49. #76Heidelberg University76th in the world for physical sciences
50. #77Purdue University77th in the world for physical sciences
51. #79Northwestern University79th in the world for physical sciences
52. #80University of Manchester80th in the world for physical sciences
53. #82University of Texas at Austin82nd in the world for physical sciences
54. #87Osaka University87th in the world for physical sciences
55. #88Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich88th in the world for physical sciences
56. #93University College London93rd in the world for physical sciences
57. #94University of Amsterdam94th in the world for physical sciences
58. #97University of Vienna97th in the world for physical sciences
59. #98University of Wisconsin-Madison98th in the world for physical sciences
60. #101Boston University101st in the world for physical sciences
61. #103KU Leuven103rd in the world for physical sciences
62. #106Institute of Science Tokyo106th in the world for physical sciences
63. #107KTH Royal Institute of Technology107th in the world for physical sciences
64. #109Queen Mary University of London109th in the world for physical sciences
65. #110University of Hong Kong110th in the world for physical sciences
66. #111University of Toronto111th in the world for physical sciences
67. #112Brown University112th in the world for physical sciences
68. #113Hebrew University of Jerusalem113th in the world for physical sciences
69. #119Lund University119th in the world for physical sciences
70. #120Hong Kong University of Science and Technology120th in the world for physical sciences
71. #121Utrecht University121st in the world for physical sciences
72. #122Ohio State University122nd in the world for physical sciences
73. #125Delft University of Technology125th in the world for physical sciences
74. #128RWTH Aachen University128th in the world for physical sciences
75. #133Rice University133rd in the world for physical sciences
76. #134PSL University134th in the world for physical sciences
77. #138Australian National University138th in the world for physical sciences
78. #139University of New South Wales139th in the world for physical sciences
79. #148University of Pennsylvania148th in the world for physical sciences
80. #158University of British Columbia158th in the world for physical sciences
81. #178National Autonomous University of Mexico178th in the world for physical sciences
82. #179University of Southern California179th in the world for physical sciences
83. #199Duke University199th in the world for physical sciences
84. #203University of Nottingham203rd in the world for physical sciences
85. #204University of Pittsburgh204th in the world for physical sciences
86. #209Georgia Institute of Technology209th in the world for physical sciences
87. #211University of Glasgow211th in the world for physical sciences
88. #217University of Alberta217th in the world for physical sciences
89. #218Monash University218th in the world for physical sciences
90. #222University of Leeds222nd in the world for physical sciences
91. #227University of Warwick227th in the world for physical sciences
92. #228King Abdullah University of Science and Technology228th in the world for physical sciences
93. #245University of Sao Paulo245th in the world for physical sciences
94. #247Carnegie Mellon University247th in the world for physical sciences
95. #253Vanderbilt University253rd in the world for physical sciences
96. #254University of Western Australia254th in the world for physical sciences
97. #274Chinese University of Hong Kong274th in the world for physical sciences
98. #280Yonsei University280th in the world for physical sciences
99. #287University of Melbourne287th in the world for physical sciences
100. #297University of Bristol297th in the world for physical sciences
101. #314University of Sydney314th in the world for physical sciences
102. #334University of St Andrews334th in the world for physical sciences
103. #338University of Sheffield338th in the world for physical sciences
104. #350University of Birmingham350th in the world for physical sciences
105. #351Swinburne University of Technology351st in the world for physical sciences
106. #358City University of Hong Kong358th in the world for physical sciences
107. #359University of Montreal359th in the world for physical sciences
108. #363University of Queensland363rd in the world for physical sciences
109. #394University of Adelaide394th in the world for physical sciences
110. #416Korea University416th in the world for physical sciences