In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Social Policy 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

 

2016	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	Score
1	Harvard University	United States	100.0	100.0	89.7	99.0
2	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	96.8	92.2	84.0	94.6
3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.6	96.8	72.4	92.1
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	88.1	97.4	84.4	89.6
5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	90.5	79.4	86.2	87.9
6	Stanford University	United States	83.4	94.0	87.4	85.9
7	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	84.6	92.9	60.3	83.8
8	Princeton University	United States	78.4	86.5	97.2	81.9
9	University of Chicago	United States	81.7	78.1	83.1	81.1
10=	Columbia University	United States	78.8	86.0	83.6	80.7
10=	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	79.3	84.0	84.3	80.7
12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	78.6	80.4	86.9	79.8
13	New York University (NYU)	United States	75.9	84.2	83.1	78.3
14	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	76.6	84.5	75.9	78.1
15	University of Toronto	Canada	73.3	82.6	86.2	76.5
16	The University of Tokyo	Japan	81.6	93.7		75.9
17	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	71.7	92.4	67.1	75.4
18	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	73.1	87.6	63.9	75.1
19	The University of Melbourne	Australia	73.4	78.7	75.1	74.6
20	Peking University	China	72.4	91.1	54.0	74.3
21	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	70.4	83.3	80.5	74.0
22	University of Michigan	United States	73.3	71.4	83.3	73.9
23=	University of British Columbia	Canada	71.9	71.8	89.0	73.6
23=	Yonsei University	South Korea	68.0	90.2	79.1	73.6
25	University of York	United Kingdom	76.7	59.5	71.7	72.8
26	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	74.7	64.7	72.6	72.5
27	University of Pennsylvania	United States	67.2	84.7	84.2	72.4
28	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	76.0	62.1	65.9	72.2
29	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	69.6	71.6	84.0	71.4
30	American University	United States	71.2	69.5	75.3	71.3
31	Korea University	South Korea	66.8	92.1	58.2	71.0
32	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	67.0	71.8	88.5	70.1
33	Syracuse University	United States	77.3	35.2	87.3	69.9
34	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	66.8	72.5	85.1	69.8
35=	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Chile	70.5	79.1	41.7	69.3
35=	The University of Sydney	Australia	64.8	85.2	69.4	69.3
37	Tsinghua University	China	63.5	88.5	70.0	69.2
38=	Cornell University	United States	65.8	73.9	79.4	68.8
38=	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	67.4	78.0	60.1	68.8
40	Sciences Po Paris	France	67.1	76.3	63.9	68.6
41=	Duke University	United States	64.7	75.6	81.3	68.5
41=	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	67.7	69.5	71.8	68.5
43	Stockholm University	Sweden	70.1	56.3	80.6	68.4
44	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea	63.6	90.5	55.9	68.2
45=	Johns Hopkins University	United States	66.9	66.0	80.2	68.1
45=	University of Texas at Austin	United States	63.5	73.5	89.1	68.1
47	Georgetown University	United States	63.8	70.1	92.2	67.9
48	The University of Georgia	United States	70.6	48.5	82.4	67.4
49	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	60.8	90.6	66.4	67.3
50=	University of Southern California	United States	66.6	63.3	76.0	66.9
50=	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	60.5	87.6	70.1	66.9