In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Geography 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	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	97.6	99.7	88.8	97.9	96.5
2	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	98.0	100.0	85.3	88.8	94.9
3	5	Durham University	United Kingdom	92.6	80.8	100.0	100.0	93.6
4	2	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	100.0	90.0	82.7	77.4	93.0
5	6	University of British Columbia	Canada	97.7	68.1	90.5	92.4	92.9
6	4	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	96.5	75.7	91.7	90.7	92.8
7=	8	UCL (University College London)	United Kingdom	93.8	83.8	86.7	90.7	91.3
7=	7	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	93.8	80.5	91.7	87.8	91.3
9	9	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	92.4	84.5	83.8	80.0	88.5
10	11	University of Toronto	Canada	88.7	77.7	85.7	86.8	86.9
11	10	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	82.8	81.0	91.7	96.4	86.0
12	15=	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	85.4	80.3	87.7	87.8	85.6
13	19	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	88.7	77.2	82.5	80.0	85.3
14	13	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	85.9	71.1	88.5	87.8	85.1
15	21=	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	83.1	80.1	89.1	89.7	84.7
16	20	Lund University	Sweden	87.4	68.8	84.6	81.2	84.2
17	15=	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	85.4	79.5	81.2	81.2	83.6
18=	24	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	84.1	75.1	86.3	83.6	83.5
18=	14	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	88.0	78.4	81.4	71.3	83.5
18=	28=	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	84.1	68.3	90.8	83.6	83.5
18=	18	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	84.3	59.8	89.2	90.7	83.5
22	28=	The University of Sydney	Australia	83.3	88.8	84.9	78.7	83.4
23=	17	University of Washington	United States	81.5	65.9	91.7	90.7	82.9
23=	12	Utrecht University	Netherlands	82.5	75.1	88.1	84.7	82.9
25=	32	Pennsylvania State University	United States	84.7	50.9	89.2	89.7	82.7
25=	23	Stockholm University	Sweden	81.1	76.2	91.3	84.7	82.7
27	21=	The University of Melbourne	Australia	83.1	83.5	83.6	77.4	82.4
28	26	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	79.8	75.1	90.2	88.8	82.2
29	25	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	87.1	77.8	77.2	69.6	82.1
30	28=	Ohio State University	United States	83.7	56.1	86.8	87.8	82.0
31	27	University of Minnesota	United States	84.4	46.4	90.1	85.8	81.7
32	35=	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	79.8	83.5	83.3	81.2	80.9
33	34	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	79.2	76.5	85.1	81.2	80.1
34	33	The University of Tokyo	Japan	87.4	77.8	70.2	59.3	79.6
35	46=	Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne	France	88.4	73.3	64.8	61.6	79.3
36	28=	Monash University	Australia	76.2	79.2	85.5	83.6	79.0
37	42=	McGill University	Canada	77.1	75.7	86.4	80.0	78.8
38	44	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	77.9	70.5	84.5	81.2	78.6
39	39=	The University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	73.7	73.2	90.2	89.7	78.5
40	35=	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	77.4	66.0	86.8	82.4	78.4
41	51-100	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	73.7	72.4	88.6	84.7	77.5
42	42=	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	73.4	69.5	89.8	85.8	77.3
43	51-100	Arizona State University	United States	75.1	50.4	91.5	88.8	77.1
44	38	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	70.9	73.3	91.8	87.8	76.8
45	48=	University of Waterloo	Canada	75.3	72.0	83.6	78.7	76.7
46=	37	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	73.8	66.7	88.6	80.0	76.2
46=	51-100	The University of New South Wales (UNSW)	Australia	75.0	82.5	78.2	74.5	76.2
46=	39=	University of Cape Town	South Africa	76.3	75.2	80.0	72.9	76.2
49=	46=	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	76.3	80.4	76.9	69.6	75.8
49=	48=	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	73.1	74.6	84.6	78.7	75.8
49=	51-100	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	74.6	40.7	95.1	84.7	75.8