In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Development Studies 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	2	Harvard University	United States	91.8	100.0	93.6	84.1	91.7
2	1	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	100.0	63.7	84.8	82.3	91.4
3	5	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	88.3	92.0	93.6	100.0	91.2
4	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	89.1	99.4	87.7	96.8	91.1
5	6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	88.8	84.7	100.0	91.8	90.5
6	8	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	87.5	96.6	91.8	93.1	89.9
7	3	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	87.0	83.0	90.7	96.8	88.6
8	10	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	86.7	92.9	86.4	90.4	87.8
9=	9	Stanford University	United States	84.5	90.9	97.4	84.1	87.0
9=	7	University of Cape Town	South Africa	86.6	86.3	90.1	85.8	87.0
11	13=	SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	United Kingdom	85.5	78.1	88.7	80.4	84.5
12	11	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	86.1	41.3	86.8	80.4	80.9
13	26=	Wageningen University	Netherlands	79.9	54.9	87.2	94.4	80.7
14=	15	University of The Witwatersrand	South Africa	81.5	90.6	74.7	73.8	80.2
14=	20	University of Toronto	Canada	76.9	61.5	94.1	91.8	80.2
16	12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	79.6	84.1	80.9	73.8	79.4
17	18	Princeton University	United States	80.9	83.7	74.0	71.2	78.7
18	17	University of Delhi	India	77.4	88.6	78.3	73.8	78.1
19	13=	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	74.1	83.9	83.3	80.4	77.4
20	16	The University of Tokyo	Japan	79.3	87.2	67.8	71.2	77.2
21	19	The University of Melbourne	Australia	77.1	75.8	79.3	73.8	76.8
22	25	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	72.3	80.2	88.2	80.4	76.7
23=	21	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	71.2	69.4	91.2	87.4	76.5
23=	22	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	76.0	79.3	81.6	71.2	76.5
25	24	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	72.4	70.2	90.1	82.3	76.3
26	23	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	74.5	85.6	77.5	73.8	76.0
27	30	The University of Sydney	Australia	73.6	74.0	85.1	76.2	75.8
28	36	Brown University	United States	73.5	64.5	85.3	76.2	74.8
29	28=	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	83.3	82.6	48.4	53.2	73.5
30=	33	Makerere University	Uganda	75.0	82.3	65.2	68.4	73.3
30=	32	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	76.9	79.4	62.9	65.3	73.3
32	31	Uppsala University	Sweden	74.9	50.7	78.8	71.2	72.5
33	26=	Johns Hopkins University	United States	69.3	72.6	85.2	71.2	72.3
34	51-100	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	63.7	72.4	91.5	85.8	72.1
35	42	McGill University	Canada	73.1	58.5	77.3	71.2	72.0
36	50=	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	66.5	70.9	87.4	78.4	71.9
37	28=	King's College London (KCL)	United Kingdom	69.4	76.1	79.0	71.2	71.8
38	51-100	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	65.7	81.9	81.8	78.4	71.6
39	34=	University of Chicago	United States	71.5	79.1	76.8	57.8	71.0
40		Arizona State University	United States	63.9	63.6	89.3	82.3	70.4
41	47=	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	64.7	53.3	91.5	82.3	70.2
42	37	University of Reading	United Kingdom	61.8	54.0	94.2	89.0	70.0
43	50=	Lund University	Sweden	65.0	65.5	85.8	76.2	69.9
44	47=	University of Bath	United Kingdom	64.6	54.7	86.2	82.3	69.5
45	39	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	64.4	58.4	84.8	80.4	69.3
46	51-100	The Open University	United Kingdom	64.5	52.8	85.8	82.3	69.2
47	38	Monash University	Australia	60.3	71.7	85.8	85.8	69.1
48	51-100	Duke University	United States	57.6	80.8	90.9	84.1	68.9
49	40	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	68.5	89.3	67.6	57.8	68.8
50		University of Ghent	Belgium	61.1	57.8	87.7	87.4	68.7