In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Earth & Marine Sciences 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	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	100.0	85.6	95.2	92.3	95.4
2	3	Harvard University	United States	92.2	100.0	96.1	97.5	95.3
3	2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	94.2	92.1	96.3	95.9	94.9
4	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	96.3	95.8	94.0	91.4	94.5
5	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.5	98.7	96.0	90.9	94.0
6	6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	95.3	98.6	92.0	89.3	93.3
7	7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	91.7	67.4	93.4	100.0	91.8
8	9	Stanford University	United States	90.4	93.6	93.3	90.6	91.5
9	8	Columbia University	United States	88.9	75.4	98.6	92.8	91.0
10	10	University of Washington	United States	88.6	62.2	97.9	96.5	90.3
11	11	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	88.8	88.5	95.2	86.5	89.8
12	12	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	91.7	83.4	92.0	85.3	89.3
13	19	Princeton University	United States	81.9	78.5	100.0	92.3	88.7
14=	13	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	90.6	60.4	94.3	89.6	88.3
14=	22	University of Toronto	Canada	84.1	81.6	96.2	89.8	88.3
16=	14	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States	82.6	64.0	96.6	98.1	88.1
16=	15=	Utrecht University	Netherlands	87.7	72.9	95.5	87.4	88.1
18	18	The University of Tokyo	Japan	89.3	78.0	87.6	89.8	87.9
19	15=	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	90.1	68.6	92.8	86.5	87.7
20	23	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	88.6	91.7	89.7	81.3	87.4
21	20	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	87.1	67.3	97.1	85.6	87.2
22=	15=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	88.2	75.1	93.1	84.3	87.1
22=	21	Yale University	United States	81.2	82.2	97.7	87.7	87.1
24	27	Durham University	United Kingdom	84.7	75.9	94.1	86.8	86.7
25=	24	University of British Columbia	Canada	83.6	78.6	94.0	85.6	86.2
25=	26	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	78.9	83.9	97.2	87.7	86.2
27	25	University of Texas at Austin	United States	82.4	76.7	91.9	89.8	86.1
28	28	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	88.0	69.5	88.0	81.7	84.6
29	34	The University of Melbourne	Australia	84.8	86.6	89.4	78.3	84.5
30	44=	The University of Western Australia (UWA)	Australia	83.7	85.5	86.6	80.9	83.9
31=	36	Pennsylvania State University	United States	78.4	65.3	92.8	90.1	83.6
31=	32	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	82.6	75.8	89.4	82.4	83.6
33	33	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	84.7	99.0	80.1	78.7	83.5
34=	48	McGill University	Canada	81.8	83.4	88.7	80.6	83.4
34=	41	University of California, Davis (UCD)	United States	77.9	77.9	93.8	84.0	83.4
36=	29	University of Arizona	United States	79.7	50.0	93.5	91.4	83.1
36=	31	University of Michigan	United States	77.8	77.7	90.0	86.8	83.1
38=	37=	Texas A&M University	United States	80.6	80.5	85.3	84.0	82.6
38=	51-100	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	78.3	73.7	91.8	83.7	82.6
40	51-100	Curtin University	Australia	78.5	83.8	88.7	81.3	82.3
41=	51-100	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	74.5	88.0	91.9	82.4	82.2
41=	30	University of Chicago	United States	75.0	68.3	99.7	81.7	82.2
43	49=	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	83.3	80.2	85.7	77.5	82.1
44	51-100	Macquarie University	Australia	80.9	67.2	92.2	79.5	82.0
45	44=	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	73.3	74.8	93.6	86.8	81.9
46=	43	Peking University	China	75.0	90.1	86.5	84.0	81.6
46=	37=	Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1	France	81.2	56.6	91.2	82.7	81.6
46=	51-100	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	75.2	50.0	97.2	88.8	81.6
49	51-100	University of Miami	United States	74.8	61.6	95.5	85.0	81.2
50	40	Cornell University	United States	73.8	85.0	92.4	79.8	81.1