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

 

2016	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	University of Pennsylvania	United States	100.0	69.9	92.4	97.1	93.8
2	Johns Hopkins University	United States	92.4	84.5	93.1	96.5	93.1
3	University of Toronto	Canada	86.0	87.2	93.5	100.0	92.6
4	University of Alberta	Canada	92.2	85.0	92.6	89.9	90.9
5	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	98.4	74.1	93.3	83.7	90.0
6	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	99.9	74.5	87.0	86.9	89.6
7	University of Michigan	United States	89.0	74.0	90.2	91.3	88.6
8	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	97.8	71.7	87.1	82.8	87.5
9	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	77.9	62.9	96.5	95.3	87.2
10	University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)	United States	85.6	53.3	93.2	93.3	87.0
11	University of Washington	United States	91.7	47.3	90.5	89.9	86.4
12	University of Pittsburgh	United States	77.2	63.4	93.3	94.0	85.7
13	The University of Sydney	Australia	80.6	100.0	86.5	84.5	85.5
14	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	91.1	53.4	94.7	80.2	85.1
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	72.0	86.7	92.4	89.9	85.0
16	Monash University	Australia	83.3	92.8	85.7	82.8	84.8
17	Yale University	United States	74.2	91.0	93.4	84.5	84.7
18	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	85.5	72.4	91.4	81.1	84.6
19	The University of Melbourne	Australia	84.6	88.7	85.9	77.3	83.2
20=	University of British Columbia	Canada	78.6	80.7	89.9	81.1	83.0
20=	University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)	Australia	85.5	93.3	85.7	74.3	83.0
22=	Deakin University	Australia	83.4	87.6	88.2	73.2	82.2
22=	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	78.3	90.3	90.2	75.3	82.2
24=	Duke University	United States	77.6	71.2	87.9	84.5	82.1
24=	University of Turku	Finland	79.6	86.3	91.1	74.3	82.1
26	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	80.4	70.3	92.4	75.3	81.5
27	University of Minnesota	United States	61.2	76.9	94.0	90.6	81.4
28	Western University	Canada	61.0	61.9	100.0	89.2	81.3
29	Griffith University	Australia	81.2	74.5	85.8	78.3	81.0
30	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	77.1	81.3	84.5	81.1	80.9
31	Trinity College Dublin (TCD)	Ireland	93.8	83.1	81.2	66.1	80.6
32	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	77.7	84.3	89.2	73.2	80.5
33	McGill University	Canada	67.8	75.5	93.7	81.1	80.3
34	University College Cork (UCC)	Ireland	86.4	65.6	86.9	72.1	80.2
35	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	78.2	55.4	91.9	78.3	80.1
36=	McMaster University	Canada	75.6	59.7	91.7	79.3	80.0
36=	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	79.7	94.2	83.6	72.1	80.0
38=	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	90.6	72.6	83.4	67.4	79.7
38=	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	72.9	71.2	87.0	82.0	79.7
40	Columbia University	United States	69.0	72.4	89.5	82.8	79.6
41	University of Ulster	United Kingdom	76.0	82.2	88.0	72.1	79.1
42	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	82.0	79.6	83.9	71.0	79.0
43	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	69.3	78.5	91.4	75.3	78.7
44	Pennsylvania State University	United States	70.4	63.2	91.0	79.3	78.5
45=	New York University (NYU)	United States	78.9	69.5	83.4	75.3	78.2
45=	University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC)	United States	74.9	61.9	87.9	77.3	78.2
47=	Lund University	Sweden	66.9	67.8	91.9	78.3	77.9
47=	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	83.0	60.6	86.5	69.8	77.9
49	University of Western Sydney	Australia	63.6	81.3	90.0	78.3	77.7
50	University of South Australia (UniSA)	Australia	77.8	77.3	88.9	66.1	77.6