In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® - Mathematics 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	98.7	100.0	97.0	100.0	98.9
2	1	Harvard University	United States	97.4	98.3	98.0	98.2	97.9
3	4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0	94.8	94.3	97.6	97.3
4=	5	Stanford University	United States	95.9	93.7	100.0	99.4	97.0
4=	3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	97.2	99.4	95.0	96.4	97.0
6	6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	97.8	87.6	94.9	96.4	94.9
7	9	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	91.4	91.1	93.3	94.4	92.3
8	7	Princeton University	United States	96.8	79.5	94.8	93.0	92.2
9	8	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	90.5	81.3	95.0	95.1	90.5
10	13	New York University (NYU)	United States	92.9	83.5	93.4	87.0	89.9
11=	12	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	86.6	89.2	91.3	91.6	89.1
11=	10	University of Chicago	United States	87.3	84.5	98.6	87.8	89.1
13	11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.0	88.4	89.4	87.0	89.0
14	16	University of Toronto	Canada	84.2	83.7	95.4	93.0	88.1
15	19	Columbia University	United States	81.4	87.4	91.2	93.0	86.9
16	15	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	90.8	75.4	91.1	85.3	86.7
17	14	University of Michigan	United States	85.3	78.2	89.9	93.7	86.5
18	17	Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech	France	87.8	84.0	87.7	81.7	85.8
19	18	The University of Tokyo	Japan	89.9	86.5	80.3	79.7	85.3
20	26=	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)	Switzerland	82.9	84.5	90.2	84.4	85.0
21=	31	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	81.0	85.4	91.1	85.3	84.8
21=	22	University of Texas at Austin	United States	81.8	73.1	92.9	94.4	84.8
21=	23	Yale University	United States	85.9	81.3	92.2	78.7	84.8
24	26=	University of British Columbia	Canada	80.3	79.7	92.7	90.1	84.6
25	24	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	83.1	77.0	90.9	88.6	84.5
26	25	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	82.0	73.4	90.9	91.6	84.0
27=	44=	Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris)	France	86.8	69.6	96.4	78.7	83.7
27=	42=	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	80.0	81.3	91.1	86.1	83.7
29	20=	University of Waterloo	Canada	81.2	82.1	85.4	87.0	83.4
30	46=	Peking University	China	80.3	84.9	84.4	86.1	83.2
31	36	Kyoto University	Japan	85.6	76.9	83.9	83.5	83.1
32	44=	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	86.4	75.3	85.4	78.7	82.4
33	42=	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia	90.8	93.1	64.7	71.9	82.3
34=	37=	The University of Melbourne	Australia	79.3	89.8	86.1	76.5	82.2
34=	41	University of Pennsylvania	United States	74.8	85.5	92.4	83.5	82.2
36=	34=	Cornell University	United States	82.2	76.0	87.4	81.7	81.9
36=	29=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	76.9	76.7	93.9	85.3	81.9
38	34=	The University of Sydney	Australia	79.3	85.2	85.5	79.7	81.8
39=	29=	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	74.2	80.5	93.2	86.1	81.6
39=	32	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	73.1	87.2	87.8	87.0	81.6
41	40	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn	Germany	85.5	65.5	90.3	80.7	81.5
42	48	Brown University	United States	80.2	71.7	92.2	82.6	81.4
43	51-100	Tsinghua University	China	79.0	79.9	79.2	89.4	81.3
44	20=	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	77.8	91.1	86.9	71.9	81.1
45=	49=	Technische Universität Berlin	Germany	82.4	80.2	83.0	75.4	80.7
45=	51-100	Technische Universität München	Germany	80.2	79.1	83.3	80.7	80.7
47=	51-100	Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)	France	80.8	63.4	89.0	88.6	80.5
47=	28	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	71.3	67.6	98.1	94.4	80.5
47=	46=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	74.8	72.9	88.4	91.6	80.5
50=	49=	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	80.0	81.8	82.7	77.6	80.4
50=	33	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	74.8	85.6	89.4	77.6	80.4