ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute hails the top spot as the world’s best university for earth and marine sciences as ranked by QS Rankings in their website. It got a score of 95.4%, followed by a close second score of 95.3% garnered by Harvard University in the United States. University of California, Berkeley placed third with a 94.9% score.
Top Universities in Earth and Marine Sciences (Source: ETH Zurich)
The top university rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact.
See the full list of the 50 top universities in the world in the fields of earth and marine sciences below:
Rank Score University, Country
1 95.4 ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
2 95.3 Harvard University, United States
3 94.9 University of California, Berkeley (UCB), United States
4 94.5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
5 94.0 University of Oxford, United Kingdom
6 93.3 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
7 91.8 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States
8 91.5 Stanford University, United States
9 91.0 Columbia University, United States
10 90.3 University of Washington, United States
11 89.8 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
12 89.3 The Australian National University, Australia
13 88.7 Princeton University, United States
14 88.3 University of California, San Diego (UCSD), United States
14 88.3 University of Toronto, Canada
16 88.1 University of Colorado Boulder, United States
16 88.1 Utrecht University, Netherlands
18 87.9 The University of Tokyo, Japan
19 87.7 University of Bristol, United Kingdom
20 87.4 Imperial College London, United Kingdom
21 87.2 University of Leeds, United Kingdom
22 87.1 The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
22 87.1 Yale University, United States
24 86.7 Durham University, United Kingdom
25 86.2 University of British Columbia, Canada
25 86.2 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
27 86.1 University of Texas at Austin, United States
28 84.6 University of Southampton, United Kingdom
29 84.5 The University of Melbourne, Australia
30 83.9 The University of Western Australia, Australia
31 83.6 Pennsylvania State University, United States
31 83.6 UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
33 83.5 Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
34 83.4 McGill University, Canada
34 83.4 University of California, Davis, United States
36 83.1 The University of Arizona, United States
36 83.1 University of Michigan, United States
38 82.6 Texas A&M University, United States
38 82.6 University of Copenhagen, Denmark
40 82.3 Curtin University, Australia
41 82.2 The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
41 82.2 University of Chicago, United States
43 82.1 National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan
44 82.0 Macquarie University, Australia
45 81.9 University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
46 81.6 Peking University, China
46 81.6 Université Joseph Fourier – Grenoble, France
46 81.6 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), United States
49 81.2 University of Miami, United States
50 81.1 Cornell University, United States
Top Universities in Earth and Marine Sciences (Source: ETH Zurich)