World University Index

SCImago Institutions Rankings 2025 — Social Sciences

2025 edition, Social Sciences. Published by SCImago Research Group.

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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.

Rank Institution Claim
1 University of Oxford 1st in the world for Social Sciences
2 University College London 2nd in the world for Social Sciences
3 University of Toronto 3rd in the world for Social Sciences
4 Harvard University 4th in the world for Social Sciences
5 University of Cambridge 5th in the world for Social Sciences
6 University of Melbourne 6th in the world for Social Sciences
7 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 7th in the world for Social Sciences
8 Tsinghua University 8th in the world for Social Sciences
9 University of Amsterdam 9th in the world for Social Sciences
10 University of Washington 10th in the world for Social Sciences
11 Stanford University 11th in the world for Social Sciences
13 Pennsylvania State University 13th in the world for Social Sciences
15 University of Queensland 15th in the world for Social Sciences
16 University of Sydney 16th in the world for Social Sciences
18 Utrecht University 18th in the world for Social Sciences
19 University of California, Berkeley 19th in the world for Social Sciences
20 University of Edinburgh 20th in the world for Social Sciences
21 Columbia University 21st in the world for Social Sciences
22 University of British Columbia 22nd in the world for Social Sciences
23 New York University 23rd in the world for Social Sciences
24 University of Texas at Austin 24th in the world for Social Sciences
25 University of New South Wales 25th in the world for Social Sciences
26 National University of Singapore 26th in the world for Social Sciences
28 Johns Hopkins University 28th in the world for Social Sciences
29 Zhejiang University 29th in the world for Social Sciences
30 University of Hong Kong 30th in the world for Social Sciences
32 King's College London 32nd in the world for Social Sciences
33 Peking University 33rd in the world for Social Sciences
35 University of California, Los Angeles 35th in the world for Social Sciences
36 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 36th in the world for Social Sciences
37 University of Manchester 37th in the world for Social Sciences
39 University of Pennsylvania 39th in the world for Social Sciences
40 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 40th in the world for Social Sciences
41 University of Wisconsin-Madison 41st in the world for Social Sciences
42 University of Sao Paulo 42nd in the world for Social Sciences
43 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 43rd in the world for Social Sciences
50 McGill University 50th in the world for Social Sciences
52 Yale University 52nd in the world for Social Sciences
53 Cornell University 53rd in the world for Social Sciences
54 London School of Economics and Political Science 54th in the world for Social Sciences
56 Carnegie Mellon University 56th in the world for Social Sciences
57 University of Southern California 57th in the world for Social Sciences
59 Nanyang Technological University 59th in the world for Social Sciences
63 Chinese University of Hong Kong 63rd in the world for Social Sciences
64 University of Sheffield 64th in the world for Social Sciences
66 University of Copenhagen 66th in the world for Social Sciences
67 Deakin University 67th in the world for Social Sciences
68 University of Leeds 68th in the world for Social Sciences
69 University of Chicago 69th in the world for Social Sciences
72 Griffith University 72nd in the world for Social Sciences
73 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 73rd in the world for Social Sciences
77 Lund University 77th in the world for Social Sciences
78 Delft University of Technology 78th in the world for Social Sciences
79 Purdue University 79th in the world for Social Sciences
80 Australian National University 80th in the world for Social Sciences
82 University of Nottingham 82nd in the world for Social Sciences
88 University of Birmingham 88th in the world for Social Sciences
90 University of Maryland, College Park 90th in the world for Social Sciences
94 University of Auckland 94th in the world for Social Sciences
96 Queensland University of Technology 96th in the world for Social Sciences
107 Duke University 107th in the world for Social Sciences
108 Boston University 108th in the world for Social Sciences
111 University of Glasgow 111th in the world for Social Sciences
114 University of Bristol 114th in the world for Social Sciences
115 University of Pittsburgh 115th in the world for Social Sciences
117 University of Zurich 117th in the world for Social Sciences
119 Vanderbilt University 119th in the world for Social Sciences
122 University of Warwick 122nd in the world for Social Sciences
123 University of Technology Sydney 123rd in the world for Social Sciences
124 University of Alberta 124th in the world for Social Sciences
128 University of California, San Diego 128th in the world for Social Sciences
141 Macquarie University 141st in the world for Social Sciences
142 University of Southampton 142nd in the world for Social Sciences
145 University of Tokyo 145th in the world for Social Sciences
151 Curtin University 151st in the world for Social Sciences
152 Princeton University 152nd in the world for Social Sciences
153 Seoul National University 153rd in the world for Social Sciences
154 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 154th in the world for Social Sciences
161 University of Montreal 161st in the world for Social Sciences
164 Imperial College London 164th in the world for Social Sciences
172 Georgia Institute of Technology 172nd in the world for Social Sciences
174 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 174th in the world for Social Sciences
185 Fudan University 185th in the world for Social Sciences
187 Politecnico di Milano 187th in the world for Social Sciences
195 Tel Aviv University 195th in the world for Social Sciences
196 City University of Hong Kong 196th in the world for Social Sciences
203 Brown University 203rd in the world for Social Sciences
204 La Trobe University 204th in the world for Social Sciences
205 University of California, San Francisco 205th in the world for Social Sciences
214 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 214th in the world for Social Sciences
221 Queen Mary University of London 221st in the world for Social Sciences
222 Universiti Malaya 222nd in the world for Social Sciences
234 Trinity College Dublin 234th in the world for Social Sciences
244 University of Western Australia 244th in the world for Social Sciences
256 University of Wollongong 256th in the world for Social Sciences
262 University of Science and Technology of China 262nd in the world for Social Sciences
267 University of Otago 267th in the world for Social Sciences
277 Swinburne University of Technology 277th in the world for Social Sciences
287 University of Buenos Aires 287th in the world for Social Sciences
290 University of Adelaide 290th in the world for Social Sciences
292 Sorbonne University 292nd in the world for Social Sciences
301 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 301st in the world for Social Sciences
302 University of Newcastle 302nd in the world for Social Sciences
318 Yonsei University 318th in the world for Social Sciences
349 Kyoto University 349th in the world for Social Sciences
355 Korea University 355th in the world for Social Sciences
364 EPFL 364th in the world for Social Sciences
365 KAIST 365th in the world for Social Sciences
368 PSL University 368th in the world for Social Sciences
378 Flinders University 378th in the world for Social Sciences
397 Edith Cowan University 397th in the world for Social Sciences
410 RWTH Aachen University 410th in the world for Social Sciences
439 Australian Catholic University 439th in the world for Social Sciences
444 University of St Andrews 444th in the world for Social Sciences
463 James Cook University 463rd in the world for Social Sciences