In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Psychology 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	1	Harvard University	United States	100.0	99.9	89.2	100.0	97.8
2	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	96.4	99.7	84.6	90.9	93.6
3	2	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	97.9	100.0	83.9	83.4	92.6
4	3	Stanford University	United States	95.2	88.6	89.5	93.9	92.5
5	9	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	96.4	75.8	85.0	98.6	90.4
6	5=	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	91.6	79.8	86.3	99.3	89.7
7	5=	Yale University	United States	91.6	86.8	85.8	92.2	89.6
8	7=	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	93.1	79.7	88.5	91.8	89.2
9	20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	87.6	90.2	89.4	76.8	86.3
10=	10	Princeton University	United States	91.8	78.2	91.4	76.8	86.0
10=	11=	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	88.2	74.4	86.4	92.6	86.0
12	18=	University of Toronto	Canada	87.7	77.1	82.7	94.3	85.9
13	11=	New York University (NYU)	United States	90.3	77.5	81.8	88.5	85.7
14	14	The University of Melbourne	Australia	88.2	93.4	80.3	78.1	85.6
15	13	University of Pennsylvania	United States	85.4	78.1	85.8	92.6	85.5
16	15	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	87.0	92.2	79.6	80.5	85.3
17	21	University of British Columbia	Canada	84.9	77.3	86.7	92.2	85.2
18=	16	Columbia University	United States	84.7	77.8	83.5	94.3	85.0
18=	7=	University of Michigan	United States	92.4	65.6	83.3	91.3	85.0
20	17	University of Chicago	United States	87.9	74.6	85.4	88.5	84.9
21=	22	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	80.2	75.6	85.9	92.2	82.8
21=	18=	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	84.3	85.7	78.1	81.7	82.8
23	23	McGill University	Canada	86.1	73.6	82.8	84.0	82.5
24	24=	The University of Sydney	Australia	81.5	94.7	75.7	74.8	81.6
25	35	Duke University	United States	78.8	67.6	87.7	91.3	80.8
26	38	Northwestern University	United States	77.2	63.9	89.7	90.4	79.7
27=	41=	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	83.5	91.9	76.2	62.5	79.5
27=	30	University of Ghent	Belgium	77.1	75.2	83.0	85.0	79.5
29=	26	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	83.6	90.9	75.3	63.4	79.4
29=	28	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	80.2	92.9	76.8	67.0	79.4
31	37	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	81.0	72.8	82.2	78.1	79.0
32	24=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	82.5	60.3	84.6	84.5	78.9
33	32	University of Texas at Austin	United States	72.8	67.9	87.0	91.8	78.5
34=	27	The University of Western Australia (UWA)	Australia	80.7	75.9	80.7	73.3	78.3
34=	33	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	75.1	65.5	85.4	90.4	78.3
36	51-100	Western University	Canada	75.3	61.5	96.5	79.9	77.7
37=	51-100	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	78.0	77.0	77.5	77.4	77.6
37=	31	University of Otago	New Zealand	76.6	83.7	81.5	69.5	77.6
37=	39	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands	73.6	64.9	87.3	88.5	77.6
40	40	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	87.6	92.7	65.6	53.7	77.4
41	34	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	79.8	89.0	75.3	62.5	77.3
42	46=	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	73.9	62.2	84.8	91.3	77.2
43=	51-100	Cornell University	United States	72.6	71.3	84.8	82.9	76.8
43=	41=	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	76.0	78.0	78.5	75.4	76.8
45	51-100	Boston University	United States	70.5	71.9	83.8	86.6	76.7
46	48=	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	74.4	72.9	82.7	78.7	76.6
47=	50	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands	74.5	58.7	84.5	90.4	76.5
47=	29	University of Minnesota	United States	80.5	48.7	82.8	90.0	76.5
49	36	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	81.4	63.8	82.3	73.3	76.4
50	51-100	Utrecht University	Netherlands	73.8	63.8	84.1	85.6	76.2