Leiden Rankings - Top Global Universities for Social Sciences & Humanities (use link to see other subjects)
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Anonymous
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The Leiden Rankings are out for all disciplines. Since my DC is interested in social sciences, I thought it would be interesting to post their rankings specifically for social sciences & humanities, since it's hard to find rankings that aren't generalized across all subjects:
Top 20 Global Unis - Social Sciences & Humanities: 1. Harvard 2. University of Toronto 3. University College London 4. Oxford 5. University of Michigan 6. University of Melbourne 7. NYU 8. Penn State 9. Cambridge 10. Monash Univ 11. U Penn 12. Amsterdam 13. Columbia 14. Univ of Sydney 15. Stanford 16. UT Austin 17. Ohio State 18. UCLA 19. Arizona State 20. University Hong Kong 21. University Queensland 22. University of Minnesota 23. University of British Columbia (UBC) 24. Beijing 25. Michigan State 26. King's College London 27. Univ Utrecht 28. UW (Seattle) 29. Univ N. South Wales 30. Yale If you want to see rankings by sciences or other disciplines, you can filter them on this link below: https://traditional.leidenranking.com/ranking/2025/list |
Anonymous
| This list started okay and then went off the rails quickly. |
Anonymous
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And this is the Top 25 filtering just for North American universities (Social Sciences & Humanities):
1 Harvard Univ United States 2 Univ Toronto Canada 3 Univ Michigan United States 4 NYU United States 5 Penn State Univ United States 6 Univ Penn United States 7 Columbia Univ United States 8 Stanford Univ United States 9 Univ Texas - Austin United States 10 Ohio State Univ United States 11 Univ California - Los Angeles United States 12 Arizona State Univ United States 13 Univ Minnesota - Twin Cities United States 14 Univ British Columbia Canada 15 Michigan State Univ United States 16 Univ Washington - Seattle United States 17 Yale Univ United States 18 Univ Wisconsin - Madison United States 19 Rutgers - State Univ New Jersey United States 20 Univ N Carolina - Chapel Hill United States 21 Univ California - Berkeley United States 22 Johns Hopkins Univ United States 23 Univ South California United States 24 Northwestern Univ United States 25 McGill Univ Canada |
Anonymous
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It just goes to show that there are many different ways you can rank universities and "perceived prestige" based on USNWR alone or parents' and friend group popularity are all super subjective.
I never see universities like WUSTL on these global lists (but I do see UW Seattle). U of Toronto smokes most ivies. Vanderbilt and Brown are nowhere. |
Anonymous
Yeah, but there are other things that aren’t just perceived prestige. Any social science list that doesn’t have Princeton, Berkeley, LSE, Chicago somewhere near the top has missed the mark. They have some of the best faculty in the world and resources for these subjects. |
Anonymous
| Really funny that Yale is at the bottom, when their entire existence is predicated on being good at the humanities. |
Anonymous
| And strange that Stanford is so high on the list, when everything I’ve heard from humanities professors there is that they feel like second class citizens. |
Anonymous
Stanford is a leader in many social science and humanities fields. Should be surprising to absolutely no one. |
Anonymous
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hey OP, you ranked these by "scientific impact" (per publication in journals) and then defined journal as basically any journal instead of top 1% journal or top 10% journal.
Was that your intention? Because it's a bit odd lens for humanities undergrad. But much better lens if considering joining the faculty and want to publish a lot - to anywhere at all |