Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021
Library & Information Science

areppim chart and statistics showing the number of top social sciences/library & information science universities in 2021.

Academic Ranking of World Universities : By Country | All |

Library & Information Science
Top 50 by Country
Country	Number	Percent	Percent Cumulative
United States	28	56%	56%
China	6	12%	68%
Canada	3	6%	74%
Netherlands	3	6%	80%
Singapore	2	4%	84%
United Kingdom	2	4%	88%
Australia	1	2%	90%
Belgium	1	2%	92%
China-Hong Kong	1	2%	94%
Denmark	1	2%	96%
South Korea	1	2%	98%
Spain	1	2%	100%
Total	50	100%

Library & Information Science
World Rank	Institution¹	Country	Score
World Rank	Institution¹	Country	Total score	Research Output
1	Harvard University	United States	292.7	100
2	City University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong	227.1	80.4
3	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	225.5	84.1
4	Vanderbilt University	United States	218.7	67.5
5	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	210.5	73.4
6	University of Washington	United States	193.8	65.8
7	Wuhan University	China	192.8	84.1
8	National University of Singapore	Singapore	188.6	66.6
9	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	187	61.8
10	University of Pennsylvania	United States	185.9	61.4
11	The University of New South Wales	Australia	185.6	65.3
12	Columbia University	United States	184.1	60.4
13	Georgia State University	United States	180.9	66.6
14	University of Montreal	Canada	179.9	64.9
15	Tsinghua University	China	178.6	61.4
16	University of Utah	United States	177.9	55.1
17	University of Arizona	United States	177.8	63.6
18	University of Pittsburgh	United States	177.3	55.6
19	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	United States	176.7	51.4
20	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States	175.9	57.1
21	Stanford University	United States	175.2	55.1
22	Northwestern University	United States	172	54.6
23	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark	171.8	54
24	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	171.6	54.6
25	University of Science and Technology of China	China	171.4	54
26	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	170.4	62.3
27	KU Leuven	Belgium	170.1	70.7
28	Yonsei University	South Korea	169.8	61.8
29	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	169	57.1
30	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	168.8	65.3
31	Leiden University	Netherlands	168.3	62.7
32	Cornell University	United States	167.2	52.5
33	McGill University	Canada	165.8	56.6
34	Nanjing University	China	161.9	63.6
35	University of Wolverhampton	United Kingdom	161.6	66.6
36	University of Granada	Spain	161.4	59.5
37	Johns Hopkins University	United States	160.4	51.4
38	Drexel University	United States	159.5	58.1
39	University of Arkansas at Fayetteville	United States	159.2	48
40	Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis	United States	159.1	48.6
41	University at Albany (State University of New York)	United States	158.1	48
42	Arizona State University	United States	157.2	55.6
43	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	156.8	58.5
44	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	156.3	45.6
45	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	156	45.6
46	Temple University	United States	155.8	48
47	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	154.7	53
48	Sun Yat-sen University	China	154.4	51.9
49	Fudan University	China	153.4	48.6
50	New York University	Canada	152.1	48.6
51-75	Aalto University	Finland		46.8
51-75	Harbin Institute of Technology	China		46.8
51-75	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea		54.6
51-75	Kyung Hee University	South Korea		45.6
51-75	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	United States		46.8
51-75	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	China-Hong Kong		46.2
51-75	The University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong		51.9
51-75	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom		45.6
51-75	The University of Texas at Dallas	United States		50.8
51-75	University at Buffalo, the State University of New York	United States		51.4
51-75	University of Antwerp	Belgium		58.5
51-75	University of British Columbia	Canada		54.6
51-75	University of California, Los Angeles	United States		39.7
51-75	University of California, San Diego	United States		43.7
51-75	University of California, San Francisco	United States		45.6
51-75	University of Copenhagen	Denmark		44.3
51-75	University of South Florida	United States		52.5
51-75	University of Sydney	Australia		53
51-75	University of Toronto	Canada		53.5
51-75	University of Virginia	United States		43.7
51-75	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States		49.2
51-75	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	United States		46.8
51-75	Utrecht University	Netherlands		46.2
51-75	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands		44.3
51-75	Zhejiang University	China		53
76-100	Carnegie Mellon University	United States		43.1
76-100	Dalian University of Technology	China		48
76-100	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China		42.4
76-100	National Taiwan University	China-Taiwan		49.7
76-100	Peking University	China		46.8
76-100	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	United States		47.4
76-100	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain		51.4
76-100	Seoul National University	South Korea		44.3
76-100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China		43.7
76-100	Syracuse University	United States		42.4
76-100	Tampere University	Finland		40.4
76-100	The Ohio State University - Columbus	United States		49.2
76-100	The University of Georgia	United States		46.2
76-100	The University of Melbourne	Australia		48.6
76-100	The University of Queensland	Australia		43.7
76-100	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom		37.5
76-100	University of Connecticut	United States		44.3
76-100	University of Florida	United States		46.8
76-100	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States		41.1
76-100	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States		52.5
76-100	University of Malaya	Malaysia		49.7
76-100	University of Oxford	United Kingdom		45
76-100	University of Southern California	United States		43.7
76-100	University of Warwick	United Kingdom		46.2
76-100	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States		42.4
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

Source: ARWU (Academic Ranking of World Universities), Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021Library & Information Science

Library & Information ScienceTop 50 by Country

Library & Information Science

Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021
Library & Information Science

Library & Information Science
Top 50 by Country