World best social sciences universities by nation in 2009

Column chart showing the top 100 world-class universities in social sciences in 2009. The United States have 70 universities. The United Kingdom 11. Canada 8. Netherlands 4. Israel 2. Australia, Belgium, China, Denmark, and Norway have 1 each.

With 70% of the 100 top ranking, and the 15 absolute best social sciences universities in the world, the US clearly dominate the field. The weight of this academic presence provides a cue to the global influence of the American social and economic theories and practices. It may also provide a lead to try and understand the worldwide reach of the 2009 financial and economic crisis.

Top 100 World-class Universities Social Sciences
Ranking in the Field ¹		Institution	Country
2009	2008	Institution	Country
1	1	Harvard University	USA
2	2	University of Chicago	USA
3	4	Stanford University	USA
4	3	Columbia University	USA
5	6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
6	7	Princeton University	USA
7	5	University of California, Berkeley	USA
8	9	Yale University	USA
9	8	University of Pennsylvania	USA
10	11	New York University	USA
11	10	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	USA
12	12	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	USA
13	14	University of California, Los Angeles	USA
14	13	Northwestern University	USA
15	15	Carnegie Mellon University	USA
16	18	University of Cambridge	UK
17	17	Duke University	USA
17	16	University of Maryland, College Park	USA
17	23	University of Oxford	UK
20	19	The University of Texas at Austin	USA
21	21	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	USA
22	20	University of Wisconsin - Madison	USA
23	22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	USA
24	26	University of California, San Diego	USA
25	26	London School of Economics and Political Science	UK
25	24	The Ohio State University - Columbus	USA
27	28	Arizona State University - Tempe	USA
28	32	University of Washington	USA
29	34	University of British Columbia	Canada
30	25	Cornell University	USA
31	33	Washington University in St. Louis	USA
32	38	Michigan State University	USA
33	30	Indiana University Bloomington	USA
34	31	The Johns Hopkins University	USA
35	29	Vanderbilt University	USA
36	35	University of Southern California	USA
37	37	University of Rochester	USA
38	51-76	McMaster University	Canada
39	47	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	USA
40	41	Boston University	USA
41	39	University of California, Davis	USA
42	51-76	George Mason University	USA
43	49	Brown University	USA
44	43	Emory University	USA
44	42	Georgetown University	USA
44	40	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	USA
47	36	University of Pittsburgh	USA
48	46	Dartmouth College	USA
49	51-76	University of Arizona	USA
49	51-76	University of Colorado at Boulder	USA
49	51-76	University of Iowa	USA
52-75		California Institute of Technology	USA
52-75	51-76	Florida State University	USA
52-75	51-76	McGill University	Canada
52-75	51-76	Purdue University - West Lafayette	USA
52-75	51-76	Rice University	USA
52-75	51-76	State University of New York at Albany	USA
52-75	77-107	Tel Aviv University	Israel
52-75	45	Texas A&M University - College Station	USA
52-75	51-76	The George Washington University	USA
52-75	43	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
52-75	51-76	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China
52-75	50	The University of Georgia	USA
52-75		The University of Texas at Dallas	USA
52-75		University College London	UK
52-75	51-76	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
52-75	51-76	University of California, Irvine	USA
52-75	51-76	University of California, Santa Barbara	USA
52-75	77-107	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
52-75	51-76	University of Florida	USA
52-75	51-76	University of Illinois at Chicago	USA
52-75	51-76	University of Toronto	Canada
52-75	51-76	University of Utah	USA
52-75	48	University of Virginia	USA
52-75	51-76	University of Warwick	UK
76-100	77-107	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
76-100	77-107	Erasmus University	Netherlands
76-100	77-107	London Business School	UK
76-100	77-107	North Carolina State University - Raleigh	USA
76-100		Queen's University	Canada
76-100	77-107	Simon Fraser University	Canada
76-100	77-107	State University of New York at Stony Brook	USA
76-100	51-76	The Australian National University	Australia
76-100	77-107	The University of Edinburgh	UK
76-100	51-76	The University of Manchester	UK
76-100		The University of Western Ontario	Canada
76-100		Tilburg University	Netherlands
76-100	77-107	University of Bristol	UK
76-100	77-107	University of East Anglia	UK
76-100	77-107	University of Massachusetts Amherst	USA
76-100	51-76	University of Miami	USA
76-100	77-107	University of Missouri - Columbia	USA
76-100	77-107	University of Montreal	Canada
76-100	77-107	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	USA
76-100	77-107	University of Notre Dame	USA
76-100	77-107	University of Nottingham	UK
76-100	77-107	University of Oklahoma - Norman	USA
76-100	77-107	University of Oslo	Norway
76-100	51-76	University of South Carolina - Columbia	USA
76-100	77-107	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
¹ Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Sources: see Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai.

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