Garnering an over-all score of 97% based on Academic and Employer Reputation, Research Citations on Paper and H-Index, University of California, Berkeley was ranked as the top performing school in environmental science by QS World University Rankings. 1.4% away from UCB is the Stanford University followed by the third placer Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Top 50 Universities in Environmental Science (Source: UC Berkeley)
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Top 50 Universities in Environmental Science (Source: UC Berkeley)
You may find the 2016 Top 50 Universities for Environmental Studies in the list below.
| Rank | Over-All Score | University | Country |
| 1 | 97 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | United States |
| 2 | 95.6 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | 94 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | United States |
| 4 | 93.7 | Wageningen University | Netherlands |
| 5 | 93.6 | Harvard University | United States |
| 6 | 93.3 | ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology | Switzerland |
| 7 | 93.3 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 8 | 92.9 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
| 9 | 91.6 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 10 | 90.9 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | Singapore |
| 11 | 90.6 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 12 | 89 | The University of Queensland | Australia |
| 13 | 88.9 | University of California, Davis | United States |
| 14 | 88.5 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
| 15 | 88.2 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 16 | 88.1 | Yale University | United States |
| 17 | 87.8 | Cornell University | United States |
| 18 | 87.1 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | United States |
| 19 | 86.3 | University of Washington | United States |
| 20 | 86.2 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 21 | 85.9 | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | United States |
| 22 | 85.8 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
| 23 | 85.7 | Princeton University | United States |
| 24 | 85.5 | The Australian National University | Australia |
| 25 | 85.5 | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) | Australia |
| 26 | 85.4 | University of Michigan | United States |
| 27 | 85.2 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | Singapore |
| 28 | 84.8 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
| 29 | 84.6 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 30 | 84.5 | McGill University | Canada |
| 31 | 84.5 | Technical University of DenmarkTechnical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| 32 | 84.4 | Duke University | United States |
| 33 | 84.3 | University of East Anglia (UEA) | United Kingdom |
| 34 | 83.8 | Arizona State University | United States |
| 35 | 83.6 | Peking University | China |
| 36 | 83.3 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 37 | 83 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 38 | 82.7 | University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) | United States |
| 39 | 82.2 | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
| 40 | 82.1 | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| 41 | 82 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 42 | 81.9 | Texas A&M University | United States |
| 43 | 81.5 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
| 44 | 81.4 | Columbia University | United States |
| 45 | 81.4 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 46 | 81.4 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 47 | 81.3 | University of Minnesota | United States |
| 48 | 81.1 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
| 49 | 81.1 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 50 | 80.8 | Oregon State University | United States |
