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2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	98.2	98.4	97.1	100.0	98.4
2	3	Stanford University	United States	88.7	95.2	98.1	99.4	93.7
3	2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	91.7	89.3	100.0	99.1	93.3
4	4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	89.5	100.0	90.5	87.5	92.5
5	5	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	85.3	95.6	90.7	94.0	90.5
6=	7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	87.8	85.9	97.8	89.2	88.9
6=	14	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	92.5	90.0	83.3	82.6	88.9
6=	6	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.2	90.5	85.3	85.6	88.9
9	10	Kyoto University	Japan	87.9	88.8	86.1	88.8	88.0
10	8=	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	81.4	99.3	88.0	82.6	87.9
11	8=	The University of Tokyo	Japan	83.8	92.6	86.0	88.4	87.5
12	11=	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	86.7	86.7	87.2	90.9	87.4
13	15	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	93.9	74.4	89.8	90.1	86.9
14	16	Princeton University	United States	90.0	80.4	89.5	82.6	85.9
15=	20	Tsinghua University	China	81.1	88.5	83.4	94.7	85.7
15=	11=	University of Minnesota	United States	100.0	67.0	85.3	85.6	85.7
17	13	University of Texas at Austin	United States	83.4	80.6	92.0	87.9	84.5
18	21	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	69.6	93.5	91.4	95.8	84.0
19	17	KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	76.5	85.7	89.9	90.1	83.3
20	19	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	74.8	89.4	84.5	90.5	83.0
21	29=	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	77.6	83.5	88.9	89.2	82.8
22	24	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	84.4	76.8	83.7	80.9	81.5
23	29=	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan	77.1	88.1	79.9	80.4	81.3
24	22	Monash University	Australia	72.1	90.8	84.7	82.6	81.2
25	23	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	77.0	80.0	87.9	86.1	80.9
26	25	Yale University	United States	78.5	81.7	86.5	78.0	80.6
27=	18	The University of Melbourne	Australia	73.7	90.4	83.4	74.0	80.2
27=	31	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	68.7	87.4	92.9	83.6	80.2
29	40	Cornell University	United States	73.6	79.9	92.8	84.6	80.0
30	27	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	74.4	88.0	83.3	74.0	79.8
31	26	Northwestern University	United States	69.2	76.0	98.6	96.5	79.7
32	38	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	82.7	73.3	81.9	78.0	79.1
33	28	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	69.3	88.4	83.7	78.0	78.5
34	35	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	69.8	84.5	82.8	83.1	78.2
35	36	Purdue University	United States	74.8	76.7	82.5	82.6	77.7
36	34	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	72.5	78.7	84.4	81.5	77.5
37=	39	Osaka University	Japan	67.3	81.2	85.6	86.6	77.1
37=	32=	University of Pennsylvania	United States	68.4	79.5	90.0	82.6	77.1
37=	32=	University of Toronto	Canada	69.3	76.7	89.8	86.1	77.1
40	42	McGill University	Canada	75.2	76.9	82.8	73.3	76.6
41	41	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	76.6	69.2	83.7	80.9	76.1
42=	37	University of Michigan	United States	64.2	80.4	88.8	85.6	76.0
42=	51-100	Zhejiang University	China	64.6	79.7	80.8	94.0	76.0
44	47	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	62.7	76.7	94.8	90.1	75.8
45	43	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea	64.6	80.9	90.4	80.4	75.7
46=	51-100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	61.2	87.5	79.7	84.6	75.4
46=	51-100	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	68.0	84.8	79.4	72.6	75.4
48	46	Tohoku University	Japan	65.6	81.5	82.5	81.5	75.3
49=	51-100	University of British Columbia	Canada	68.6	79.1	82.6	75.4	74.9
49=	51-100	University of Delaware	United States	82.5	51.1	89.3	87.5	74.9