Top Universities in Mathematics of 2016
By a score of 98.9%, University of Cambridge tops the 2016 QS World University Rankings in the field of Mathematics, closely followed by Harvard University (97.9%) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (97.3%)
Top Universities in Mathematics of 2016 (Source: MIT)
Top Universities in Mathematics of 2016 (Source: Harvard)
Top Universities in Mathematics of 2016 (Source: Stanford)
The rankings were developed together with Elsevier to aid freshmen and transferees in identifying the leading universities in their chosen field.
The list below summarizes the rankings for the top 50 Schools for Mathematics.
| Rank | Over-All Score | University | Country |
| 1 | 98.9 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 2 | 97.9 | Harvard University | United States |
| 3 | 97.3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 4 | 97 | Stanford University | United States |
| 5 | 97 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 6 | 94.9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 7 | 92.3 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
| 8 | 92.2 | Princeton University | United States |
| 9 | 90.5 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 10 | 89.9 | New York University (NYU) | United States |
| 11 | 89.1 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
| 12 | 89.1 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 13 | 89 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 14 | 88.1 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 15 | 86.9 | Columbia University | United States |
| 16 | 86.7 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 17 | 86.5 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 18 | 85.8 | Ecole Polytechnique | France |
| 19 | 85.3 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 20 | 85 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| 21 | 84.8 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 22 | 84.8 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 23 | 84.8 | Yale University | United States |
| 24 | 84.6 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 25 | 84.5 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
| 26 | 84 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 27 | 83.7 | Ecole normale supérieure, Paris | France |
| 28 | 83.7 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | Hong Kong |
| 29 | 83.4 | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| 30 | 83.2 | Peking University | China |
| 31 | 83.1 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 32 | 82.4 | The University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
| 33 | 82.3 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russia |
| 34 | 82.2 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 35 | 82.2 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 36 | 81.9 | Cornell University | United States |
| 37 | 81.9 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 38 | 81.8 | The University of Sydney | Australia |
| 39 | 81.6 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 40 | 81.6 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 41 | 81.5 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt Bonn | Germany |
| 42 | 81.4 | Brown University | United States |
| 43 | 81.3 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 44 | 81.1 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| 45 | 80.7 | Technische Universität Berlin | Germany |
| 46 | 80.7 | Technische Universität München | Germany |
| 47 | 80.5 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) | France |
| 48 | 80.5 | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) | United States |
| 49 | 80.5 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 50 | 80.4 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
