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World's Best Universities: Geography and Area Studies

The field of geography and area studies is based on national, cultural, and geographic regions, as well as the environment and human activity within those regions. These are the world's top universities for geography and area studies. See the methodology.

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Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Citations per Paper Score
#1	University of Oxford United Kingdom	87.2	96.6	84.1	55.9
#2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States	85.4	100.0	68.4	42.7
#3	Harvard University United States	83.7	94.7	100.0	37.2
#4	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	83.5	98.1	87.9	30.2
#5	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	71.2	78.7	51.3	54.9
#6	Australian National University (ANU) Australia	69.8	83.3	52.6	31.3
#7	Stanford University United States	68.3	77.7	48.4	45.3
#8	Yale University United States	67.6	79.9	61.5	27.5
#9	University of Chicago United States	65.1	76.5	37.0	39.1
#10	National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	65.0	79.9	33.8	28.4
#11	Princeton University United States	64.5	75.5	32.5	41.9
#12	The University of Tokyo Japan	64.4	81.2	27.6	23.9
#13	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) United Kingdom	63.8	74.0	50.7	34.5
#14	University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada	62.5	73.0	40.7	36.8
#15	Columbia University United States	61.8	70.5	42.6	41.1
#16	University of Toronto Canada	60.4	70.2	50.5	30.9
#17	McGill University Canada	59.0	70.8	49.6	22.4
#18	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	58.6	64.7	76.0	28.6
#19	Peking University China	57.6	71.6	34.4	20.0
#20	University of Hong Kong (HKU) Hong Kong	57.4	66.3	42.4	33.6
#21	University of Sydney Australia	56.7	65.9	51.8	26.8
#22	University of Melbourne Australia	56.0	63.0	58.3	30.2
#23	Cornell University United States	55.5	62.7	23.4	46.4
#24	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	54.5	53.5	60.0	55.1
#25	Kyoto University Japan	53.7	68.8	23.1	15.9

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