In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® - History 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

 

2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1=	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	99.9	100.0	88.9	100.0	98.3
1=	3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	100.0	98.7	90.7	98.5	98.3
3	1	Harvard University	United States	98.9	97.4	95.2	97.0	97.9
4	4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	93.5	83.2	96.8	90.3	92.5
5	5	Yale University	United States	94.3	87.5	91.1	88.5	92.3
6	6	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	94.1	93.2	89.7	86.5	92.2
7	8	Stanford University	United States	89.0	90.5	99.1	97.0	91.9
8	7	Princeton University	United States	93.3	79.6	94.8	84.4	90.8
9	10	Columbia University	United States	89.7	80.2	92.8	88.5	89.0
10	13	University of Chicago	United States	88.6	74.9	94.0	92.1	88.6
11	11	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	86.0	82.8	91.7	93.8	87.7
12	9	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	90.3	77.7	85.2	71.9	85.5
13	12	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	83.6	59.3	100.0	90.3	84.6
14	18	University of Toronto	Canada	81.7	76.6	91.1	88.5	83.6
15	32	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	76.1	88.4	94.1	98.5	83.4
16	22=	University of Michigan	United States	79.3	70.7	96.5	92.1	82.9
17	27	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	81.8	85.7	85.4	82.2	82.8
18	16	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	France	87.1	81.1	76.0	65.5	81.6
19	29	Leiden University	Netherlands	80.9	74.9	86.6	79.9	81.0
20	28	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	81.5	80.6	79.3	77.4	80.5
21	31	The University of Sydney	Australia	78.4	83.6	84.6	82.2	80.4
22	15	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	78.4	85.3	84.8	79.9	80.3
23	24	University of Pennsylvania	United States	73.6	78.4	96.6	90.3	80.0
24	20	Duke University	United States	78.4	69.9	90.6	79.9	79.6
25=	25	The University of Melbourne	Australia	73.7	85.3	90.9	84.4	79.0
25=	17	The University of Tokyo	Japan	84.2	82.0	70.0	65.5	79.0
27	19	Johns Hopkins University	United States	78.7	59.3	90.2	79.9	78.7
28	22=	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	83.5	83.4	72.9	61.8	78.6
29=	21	Cornell University	United States	72.5	74.2	93.7	88.5	78.3
29=	14	Kyoto University	Japan	85.7	79.5	68.5	57.8	78.3
31	51-100	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	72.5	83.3	87.4	88.5	78.2
32=	50=	New York University (NYU)	United States	71.2	75.9	97.1	86.5	77.9
32=	40=	University of British Columbia	Canada	72.6	72.7	95.8	84.4	77.9
34	38	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	70.4	87.9	89.8	86.5	77.5
35	44	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.6	68.2	88.7	79.9	76.9
36	34=	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	80.5	76.7	73.5	65.5	76.8
37	46	Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)	United Kingdom	71.9	72.5	88.0	82.2	75.9
38	30	Peking University	China	82.0	81.2	68.9	53.3	75.7
39	51-100	Durham University	United Kingdom	66.4	85.7	91.5	86.5	75.1
40	26	Utrecht University	Netherlands	70.7	68.1	89.7	82.2	75.0
41	47	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	76.3	61.7	79.6	71.9	74.7
42	36	McGill University	Canada	70.5	72.6	87.2	79.9	74.6
43	101-150	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	66.8	73.1	92.3	88.5	74.5
44	51-100	SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	United Kingdom	77.1	75.9	72.2	61.8	74.0
45	51-100	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	71.3	71.9	81.9	77.4	73.9
46	51-100	Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg	Germany	75.0	82.6	68.0	68.8	73.8
47	37	Northwestern University	United States	65.0	65.5	94.7	92.1	73.6
48	43	University of York	United Kingdom	67.4	74.5	90.0	79.9	73.4
49	34=	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	66.4	79.0	88.2	82.2	73.3
50	51-100	Monash University	Australia	69.4	73.9	83.0	77.4	73.1