In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Statistics&Operational Research 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	7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0	95.1	92.9	95.2	97.1
2	1	Stanford University	United States	93.1	93.7	96.8	94.0	94.1
3	2	Harvard University	United States	91.6	100.0	94.1	94.0	93.4
4	3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	90.8	88.6	93.6	96.5	92.3
5	5=	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	88.4	97.8	92.8	94.0	91.3
6	9	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	87.7	98.3	91.3	89.9	89.9
7	4	Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)	United States	89.0	77.5	86.1	87.0	86.9
8	11	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	82.0	90.6	86.4	92.7	85.9
9	8	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	84.2	74.9	89.6	91.3	85.8
10=	10	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	82.7	77.4	90.3	91.3	85.4
10=	5=	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	84.7	83.7	89.5	83.9	85.4
12	12	University of Michigan	United States	78.1	77.5	91.3	####	85.1
13	16	Princeton University	United States	84.0	84.6	91.9	80.5	84.9
14	15	University of Washington	United States	79.7	75.8	90.3	92.7	84.0
15	17	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	79.1	84.9	90.0	88.5	83.7
16	19	University of Toronto	Canada	73.3	86.2	97.2	92.7	83.3
17	18	Columbia University	United States	78.7	80.4	84.9	89.9	82.4
18	13	Cornell University	United States	81.2	75.3	85.5	83.9	82.0
19	14	The University of Tokyo	Japan	81.8	90.9	79.8	76.8	81.3
20	27=	University of Pennsylvania	United States	71.4	78.5	91.9	88.5	79.6
21	21	University of Chicago	United States	78.4	82.0	83.6	74.9	79.1
22	25	Duke University	United States	73.0	73.9	84.3	87.0	78.2
23	22	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	72.5	96.9	83.9	76.8	78.1
24=	20	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	73.1	88.1	84.9	74.9	77.3
24=	24	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	74.4	77.8	84.6	76.8	77.3
26	27=	Tsinghua University	China	72.2	84.6	84.6	78.7	77.2
27	43=	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	70.2	68.9	90.8	83.9	76.9
28	39	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	70.8	66.6	85.4	87.0	76.5
29	34	Johns Hopkins University	United States	69.0	68.4	90.7	83.9	76.3
30	48=	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	73.3	83.2	85.5	70.7	76.2
31=	38	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	66.6	72.4	90.5	87.0	76.0
31=	26	Purdue University	United States	71.0	78.0	84.6	78.7	76.0
33	23	The University of Melbourne	Australia	69.1	87.4	84.5	78.7	75.9
34	35=	University of British Columbia	Canada	66.6	83.3	91.4	78.7	75.7
35	51-100	Yale University	United States	70.1	88.4	85.4	72.8	75.5
36=	51-100	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	78.8	92.1	70.5	63.5	75.4
36=	31	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	66.1	89.6	86.2	80.5	75.4
36=	30	Texas A&M University	United States	70.4	63.2	84.1	85.4	75.4
39=	51-100	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	67.9	83.5	85.2	78.7	75.1
39=	43=	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	74.0	75.2	80.0	72.8	75.1
41	35=	McGill University	Canada	66.4	81.4	87.1	80.5	74.9
42	33	Université de Montréal	Canada	65.9	73.6	88.3	83.9	74.8
43	32	University of Texas at Austin	United States	67.0	82.3	85.6	76.8	74.2
44	51-100	New York University (NYU)	United States	62.5	78.9	91.6	82.2	73.9
45	51-100	Northwestern University	United States	63.5	76.5	89.3	80.5	73.4
46	45	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	58.7	73.8	91.1	91.3	73.2
47=	47	Pennsylvania State University	United States	64.5	68.9	84.1	85.4	73.0
47=	29	Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)	Belgium	67.9	66.2	83.5	78.7	73.0
49=	35=	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands	69.5	57.5	83.5	78.7	72.9
49=	40	University of Minnesota	United States	65.1	58.8	86.8	85.4	72.9