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World's Best Universities: Physics and Astronomy

Physics students can specialize in fields such as quantum physics and relativity, and astronomy students can focus on studies such as observational astrophysics. Both of these fields involve laboratory work and research. These are the world's top universities for physics and astronomy. See the methodology.

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Rank	School	Overall Score	Academic Reputation Score	Employer Reputation Score	Citations per Paper Score
#1	University of Cambridge United Kingdom	82.4	100.0	100.0	41.3
#2	Harvard University United States	77.5	91.6	78.0	53.8
#3	University of Oxford United Kingdom	72.9	91.6	75.7	39.9
#4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	72.8	97.4	61.2	39.5
#5	University of California, Berkeley (UCB) United States	68.7	90.8	48.5	45.2
#6	Stanford University United States	64.4	81.7	38.4	53.0
#7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States	60.7	81.5	40.7	39.2
#8	Imperial College London United Kingdom	57.8	70.2	63.8	33.2
#9	Princeton University United States	57.5	76.4	30.3	44.1
#10	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland	57.3	69.6	42.2	46.9
#11	The University of Tokyo Japan	53.6	79.7	34.6	22.7
#12	University of Chicago United States	51.4	57.1	34.4	53.3
#13	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) United States	51.1	55.9	51.3	43.0
#14	University of Melbourne Australia	50.9	46.6	41.5	64.4
#15	Columbia University United States	50.5	46.2	44.0	61.9
#16	Cornell University United States	48.3	55.0	28.0	50.8
#16	École Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS Paris) France	48.3	59.5	41.2	34.5
#18	University of British Columbia (UBC) Canada	47.4	51.1	47.6	41.0
#19	Yale University United States	46.7	54.0	46.0	34.9
#20	National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore	45.6	57.3	35.9	32.7
#21	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) Germany	44.6	45.4	15.7	62.5
#22	Kyoto University Japan	44.5	63.7	38.9	16.2
#22	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) United States	44.5	53.6	20.9	45.2
#24	University of Toronto Canada	44.1	57.6	30.3	30.8
#25	University of Basel Switzerland	43.6	19.3	19.6	100.0

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