In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Economics & Econometrics 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	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	100.0	92.9	98.8	95.1	97.4
2	2	Harvard University	United States	93.6	98.6	98.0	100.0	96.8
3	3	Stanford University	United States	88.6	91.3	95.7	93.0	91.4
4=	6	Princeton University	United States	92.0	81.0	98.1	89.8	90.6
4=	7	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	88.2	84.1	97.9	94.4	90.6
4=	5	University of Chicago	United States	88.5	80.1	100.0	95.9	90.6
7	4	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	89.1	93.7	91.1	88.0	90.2
8	8	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	86.7	100.0	87.9	86.7	89.6
9	10	Yale University	United States	86.3	86.1	95.7	90.6	89.0
10	9	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	85.3	99.7	88.2	84.2	88.5
11	11	Columbia University	United States	82.7	84.2	93.5	92.7	87.2
12=	14	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	81.5	82.7	94.0	87.3	85.4
12=	12	University of Pennsylvania	United States	81.1	82.0	93.5	89.2	85.4
14	13	New York University (NYU)	United States	80.7	78.3	94.2	91.7	85.1
15	15	Northwestern University	United States	81.8	70.0	94.5	88.3	83.3
16	16	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	78.0	81.3	90.1	83.5	82.2
17	17	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi	Italy	74.6	88.3	90.6	81.0	81.8
18	21	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	80.8	88.4	82.4	71.9	80.9
19	19	University of Michigan	United States	75.2	73.7	91.2	86.7	80.4
20	23	Universitat Pompeu Fabra	Spain	80.1	63.5	94.0	82.7	80.1
21=	20	Duke University	United States	72.6	71.5	94.3	87.0	79.6
21=	18	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	77.3	63.1	95.4	85.0	79.6
23	25	University of Toronto	Canada	74.6	76.8	88.4	83.1	79.5
24	22	Cornell University	United States	73.8	78.0	86.6	83.1	79.1
25	30	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)	Hong Kong	77.3	81.2	86.9	71.9	78.9
26	29	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	77.4	80.4	83.1	75.6	78.8
27	26=	London Business School	United Kingdom	68.3	91.3	89.7	76.1	78.7
28	26=	University of British Columbia	Canada	73.2	76.5	89.6	80.1	78.5
29	33=	Brown University	United States	72.6	68.9	94.1	82.3	78.1
30	26=	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	77.2	78.6	81.6	75.6	78.0
31	35	The University of Tokyo	Japan	78.4	86.0	77.3	69.0	77.8
32	24	The University of Melbourne	Australia	74.4	86.1	79.7	73.2	77.6
33	33=	Peking University	China	75.3	85.7	80.1	69.7	77.2
34	31	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden	73.9	75.0	85.6	75.0	76.7
35	32	Boston University	United States	70.8	71.3	90.0	79.2	76.4
36	44	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland	69.4	81.5	85.0	75.6	76.2
37	36	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	71.2	83.0	83.7	71.2	76.1
38=	43	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	73.9	82.3	79.8	69.0	75.8
38=	45=	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	71.1	84.1	79.3	73.2	75.8
40	40	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	70.9	77.7	83.5	75.6	75.7
41	41=	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	70.8	71.6	84.5	78.7	75.3
42=	45=	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	72.4	71.6	86.7	72.5	75.1
42=	41=	University of Minnesota	United States	74.3	56.0	88.8	81.9	75.1
44	51-100	Tsinghua University	China	71.4	83.3	80.5	68.2	75.0
45	38=	Monash University	Australia	69.5	80.8	80.3	73.8	74.8
46	49	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	69.3	77.6	85.2	71.2	74.5
47	37	Tilburg University	Netherlands	73.1	58.4	86.1	80.1	74.2
48=	51-100	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	67.7	63.0	89.1	82.7	74.0
48=	51-100	University of Zurich	Switzerland	66.9	68.3	88.0	79.7	74.0
50=	38=	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Spain	72.9	69.1	82.1	71.9	73.8
50=	51-100	Universität Mannheim	Germany	67.2	67.6	89.6	77.2	73.8