In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Education 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	UCL Institute of Education | University College London	United Kingdom	100.0	91.2	95.7	96.7	97.6
2	2	Harvard University	United States	89.0	100.0	99.3	100.0	94.4
3	3	Stanford University	United States	85.6	91.2	100.0	97.3	91.4
4	4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	86.8	99.0	93.8	87.9	89.6
5	7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	85.9	98.9	93.3	85.4	88.6
6	6	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	86.0	87.2	92.3	89.4	88.1
7=	5	The University of Melbourne	Australia	85.9	88.0	91.9	89.4	88.0
7=	11	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	83.7	82.9	96.3	92.9	88.0
9=	18	University of British Columbia	Canada	81.4	81.4	95.7	89.4	85.9
9=	8	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	79.0	86.6	95.8	92.9	85.9
11	17	University of Toronto	Canada	81.9	79.3	92.0	90.9	85.5
12	15	The Hong Kong Institute of Education	Hong Kong	84.1	72.9	91.1	86.3	84.8
13	12=	Columbia University	United States	80.7	80.4	92.5	88.7	84.6
14=	10	Nanyang Technological University (NTU)	Singapore	78.0	85.6	92.9	90.9	84.3
14=	12=	University of Michigan	United States	75.3	75.4	97.8	97.8	84.3
16	9	The University of Sydney	Australia	80.8	91.0	89.7	83.7	84.2
17	16	Monash University	Australia	79.4	85.1	90.9	87.9	84.0
18	21	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	78.1	80.9	91.6	89.4	83.3
19	14	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	79.8	67.4	92.5	87.9	82.7
20	29	University of Texas at Austin	United States	69.0	72.0	97.3	96.1	80.4
21=	31	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	78.5	75.1	87.9	79.8	80.3
21=	22=	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	75.4	67.4	91.2	87.9	80.3
23=	36	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	72.0	78.7	95.5	86.3	80.2
23=	26	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	73.7	87.3	89.6	83.7	80.2
25	19	Michigan State University	United States	73.5	62.8	93.5	90.9	79.9
26	20	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	76.8	76.3	89.2	79.8	79.8
27	40	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	73.9	69.9	94.6	81.8	79.2
28=	48	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	71.8	75.8	92.4	85.4	79.0
28=	27=	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	72.4	76.0	92.4	83.7	79.0
30	32=	Pennsylvania State University	United States	70.8	62.1	92.4	92.3	78.6
31	32=	Deakin University	Australia	74.8	71.0	90.3	79.8	78.5
32	24=	Vanderbilt University	United States	75.8	34.3	95.8	89.4	78.4
33=	38=	Johns Hopkins University	United States	71.4	66.9	94.1	84.6	78.1
33=	47	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	78.9	84.1	82.4	68.7	78.1
35=	27=	McGill University	Canada	71.2	78.0	93.4	79.8	78.0
35=	51-100	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	67.7	77.3	96.0	86.3	78.0
37=	24=	Boston College	United States	70.3	68.0	95.8	82.8	77.7
37=	51-100	University of Chicago	United States	69.0	75.7	98.5	79.8	77.7
37=	30	University of Washington	United States	66.3	67.1	97.1	92.3	77.7
40	49	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	72.8	92.9	86.2	72.9	77.5
41=	51-100	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	86.2	83.8	71.3	58.1	77.4
41=	42=	University of Alberta	Canada	69.3	73.2	93.2	83.7	77.4
43	51-100	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	66.9	80.9	92.4	86.3	77.3
44	22=	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	72.0	72.5	89.2	79.8	77.1
45=	51-100	New York University (NYU)	United States	63.9	78.2	96.2	87.1	76.4
45=	45	University of Pennsylvania	United States	65.2	71.9	94.4	88.7	76.4
45=	50=	University of Twente	Netherlands	71.9	45.3	96.6	82.8	76.4
48=	41	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	71.3	77.7	88.0	76.6	76.3
48=	34	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	67.4	71.8	93.4	83.7	76.3
50	44	University of Helsinki	Finland	68.7	75.2	90.6	80.8	76.2