SCImago Research Group
SCImago Institutions Rankings 2025 — Social Sciences
2025 edition · Social Sciences
Standing
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Citing other editions of this index
In the 2026 list, Istanbul Medeniyet University ranked 2589th among universities in the world.
Istanbul Medeniyet Universitysource · retrieved 2026-09-06
has climbed 47 positions and is ranked the world's 407th best
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunyasource · retrieved 2026-09-06
Recorded placements 115
Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.
- 1University of Oxford1st in the world for Social Sciences
- 2University College London2nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 3University of Toronto3rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 4Harvard University4th in the world for Social Sciences
- 5University of Cambridge5th in the world for Social Sciences
- 6University of Melbourne6th in the world for Social Sciences
- 7University of Michigan-Ann Arbor7th in the world for Social Sciences
- 8Tsinghua University8th in the world for Social Sciences
- 9University of Amsterdam9th in the world for Social Sciences
- 10University of Washington10th in the world for Social Sciences
- 11Stanford University11th in the world for Social Sciences
- 13Pennsylvania State University13th in the world for Social Sciences
- 15University of Queensland15th in the world for Social Sciences
- 16University of Sydney16th in the world for Social Sciences
- 18Utrecht University18th in the world for Social Sciences
- 19University of California, Berkeley19th in the world for Social Sciences
- 20University of Edinburgh20th in the world for Social Sciences
- 21Columbia University21st in the world for Social Sciences
- 22University of British Columbia22nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 23New York University23rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 24University of Texas at Austin24th in the world for Social Sciences
- 25University of New South Wales25th in the world for Social Sciences
- 26National University of Singapore26th in the world for Social Sciences
- 28Johns Hopkins University28th in the world for Social Sciences
- 29Zhejiang University29th in the world for Social Sciences
- 30University of Hong Kong30th in the world for Social Sciences
- 32King's College London32nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 33Peking University33rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 35University of California, Los Angeles35th in the world for Social Sciences
- 36University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign36th in the world for Social Sciences
- 37University of Manchester37th in the world for Social Sciences
- 39University of Pennsylvania39th in the world for Social Sciences
- 40University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill40th in the world for Social Sciences
- 41University of Wisconsin-Madison41st in the world for Social Sciences
- 42University of Sao Paulo42nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 43Massachusetts Institute of Technology43rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 50McGill University50th in the world for Social Sciences
- 52Yale University52nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 53Cornell University53rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 54London School of Economics and Political Science54th in the world for Social Sciences
- 56Carnegie Mellon University56th in the world for Social Sciences
- 57University of Southern California57th in the world for Social Sciences
- 59Nanyang Technological University59th in the world for Social Sciences
- 63Chinese University of Hong Kong63rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 64University of Sheffield64th in the world for Social Sciences
- 66University of Copenhagen66th in the world for Social Sciences
- 67Deakin University67th in the world for Social Sciences
- 68University of Leeds68th in the world for Social Sciences
- 69University of Chicago69th in the world for Social Sciences
- 72Griffith University72nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 73Shanghai Jiao Tong University73rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 77Lund University77th in the world for Social Sciences
- 78Delft University of Technology78th in the world for Social Sciences
- 79Purdue University79th in the world for Social Sciences
- 80Australian National University80th in the world for Social Sciences
- 82University of Nottingham82nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 88University of Birmingham88th in the world for Social Sciences
- 90University of Maryland, College Park90th in the world for Social Sciences
- 94University of Auckland94th in the world for Social Sciences
- 96Queensland University of Technology96th in the world for Social Sciences
- 107Duke University107th in the world for Social Sciences
- 108Boston University108th in the world for Social Sciences
- 111University of Glasgow111th in the world for Social Sciences
- 114University of Bristol114th in the world for Social Sciences
- 115University of Pittsburgh115th in the world for Social Sciences
- 117University of Zurich117th in the world for Social Sciences
- 119Vanderbilt University119th in the world for Social Sciences
- 122University of Warwick122nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 123University of Technology Sydney123rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 124University of Alberta124th in the world for Social Sciences
- 128University of California, San Diego128th in the world for Social Sciences
- 141Macquarie University141st in the world for Social Sciences
- 142University of Southampton142nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 145University of Tokyo145th in the world for Social Sciences
- 151Curtin University151st in the world for Social Sciences
- 152Princeton University152nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 153Seoul National University153rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 154Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile154th in the world for Social Sciences
- 161University of Montreal161st in the world for Social Sciences
- 164Imperial College London164th in the world for Social Sciences
- 172Georgia Institute of Technology172nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 174Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich174th in the world for Social Sciences
- 185Fudan University185th in the world for Social Sciences
- 187Politecnico di Milano187th in the world for Social Sciences
- 195Tel Aviv University195th in the world for Social Sciences
- 196City University of Hong Kong196th in the world for Social Sciences
- 203Brown University203rd in the world for Social Sciences
- 204La Trobe University204th in the world for Social Sciences
- 205University of California, San Francisco205th in the world for Social Sciences
- 214Hebrew University of Jerusalem214th in the world for Social Sciences
- 221Queen Mary University of London221st in the world for Social Sciences
- 222Universiti Malaya222nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 234Trinity College Dublin234th in the world for Social Sciences
- 244University of Western Australia244th in the world for Social Sciences
- 256University of Wollongong256th in the world for Social Sciences
- 262University of Science and Technology of China262nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 267University of Otago267th in the world for Social Sciences
- 277Swinburne University of Technology277th in the world for Social Sciences
- 287University of Buenos Aires287th in the world for Social Sciences
- 290University of Adelaide290th in the world for Social Sciences
- 292Sorbonne University292nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 301Hong Kong University of Science and Technology301st in the world for Social Sciences
- 302University of Newcastle302nd in the world for Social Sciences
- 318Yonsei University318th in the world for Social Sciences
- 349Kyoto University349th in the world for Social Sciences
- 355Korea University355th in the world for Social Sciences
- 364EPFL364th in the world for Social Sciences
- 365KAIST365th in the world for Social Sciences
- 368PSL University368th in the world for Social Sciences
- 378Flinders University378th in the world for Social Sciences
- 397Edith Cowan University397th in the world for Social Sciences
- 410RWTH Aachen University410th in the world for Social Sciences
- 439Australian Catholic University439th in the world for Social Sciences
- 444University of St Andrews444th in the world for Social Sciences
- 463James Cook University463rd in the world for Social Sciences