World's Best Universities
Environmental Sciences
Students earning an environmental sciences degree can focus on nuclear waste disposal, global warming, and many other subjects. Environmental scientists can work in fields such as urban planning and water management. These are the world's top universities for environmental sciences. See the methodology.
| Rank | School | Overall Score | Academic Reputation Score | Employer Reputation Score | Citations per Paper Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #26 |
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
United States |
74.9 | 78.0 | 86.1 | 68.3 |
| #23 |
Lancaster University
United Kingdom |
75.2 | 66.2 | 62.5 | 89.6 |
| #23 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States |
75.2 | 73.2 | 69.5 | 79.2 |
| #23 |
Wageningen University
Netherlands |
75.2 | 75.2 | 56.0 | 80.1 |
| #22 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
United States |
75.6 | 72.2 | 74.3 | 80.2 |
| #21 |
Seoul National University (SNU)
South Korea |
75.9 | 88.0 | 81.2 | 59.4 |
| #20 |
Duke University
United States |
76.4 | 61.5 | 85.0 | 92.9 |
| #19 |
University of Michigan
United States |
76.7 | 74.9 | 79.1 | 78.3 |
| #18 |
University of Queensland (UQ)
Australia |
77.1 | 72.3 | 86.2 | 80.9 |
| #17 |
Peking University
China |
77.4 | 76.5 | 95.0 | 74.1 |
| #16 |
The University of Tokyo
Japan |
77.8 | 89.8 | 96.9 | 58.1 |
| #15 |
Princeton University
United States |
78.0 | 73.5 | 85.3 | 81.9 |
| #14 |
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
United States |
79.1 | 67.4 | 66.4 | 96.9 |
| #13 |
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom |
79.5 | 81.9 | 98.9 | 71.7 |
| #11 |
Imperial College London
United Kingdom |
79.8 | 81.4 | 82.4 | 77.2 |
| #11 |
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Singapore |
79.8 | 87.2 | 96.3 | 66.5 |
| #10 |
University of Toronto
Canada |
80.6 | 73.8 | 80.8 | 89.0 |
| #9 |
Australian National University (ANU)
Australia |
80.9 | 81.3 | 88.8 | 78.5 |
| #8 | 81.0 | 77.4 | 84.6 | 84.6 | |
| #7 |
University of Oxford
United Kingdom |
81.4 | 84.5 | 96.5 | 73.7 |
| #6 |
Yale University
United States |
81.6 | 77.8 | 86.0 | 85.2 |
| #5 |
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
United States |
82.3 | 79.6 | 63.8 | 90.3 |
| #4 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States |
87.5 | 100.0 | 90.3 | 71.1 |
| #3 |
Harvard University
United States |
88.3 | 87.7 | 100.0 | 86.0 |
| #2 |
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
United States |
88.5 | 91.8 | 83.1 | 85.8 |













