The 2012-2013 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Social Sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 50 universities for social sciences employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

Top 50 social sciences universities

Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	93.0
2	University of Chicago	United States	92.7
3	Stanford University	United States	92.2
4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	91.2
4	Harvard University	United States	91.2
6	Princeton University	United States	90.3
6	Yale University	United States	90.3
8	University of Pennsylvania	United States	90.0
9	Columbia University	United States	88.8
10	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	88.5
11	University College London	United Kingdom	87.2
12	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	86.7
12	University of Michigan	United States	86.7
14	University of California, Berkeley	United States	86.4
15	Northwestern University	United States	85.9
16	Duke University	United States	85.1
17	New York University	United States	84.1
18	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	82.9
19	University of British Columbia	Canada	82.4
20	Australian National University	Australia	81.3
21	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	81.1
22	University of Toronto	Canada	80.3
23	University of Melbourne	Australia	77.8
24	Cornell University	United States	77.2
25	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	76.7
25	McGill University	Canada	76.7
27	University of Washington	United States	75.3
28	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.7
29	University of Minnesota	United States	74.5
30	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	73.4
31	University of California, San Diego	United States	72.9
32	University of Tokyo	Japan	71.3
33	University of New South Wales	Australia	71.2
34	Ohio State University	United States	70.9
34	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	70.9
36	University of Sydney	Australia	70.4
37	Pennsylvania State University	United States	69.8
38	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	69.7
39	National University of Singapore	Singapore	69.0
40	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	68.4
41	Peking University	China	66.9
42	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	66.3
43	Washington University in St Louis	United States	66.2
44	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	65.9
45	King's College London	United Kingdom	65.8
45	Brown University	United States	65.8
47	Michigan State University	United States	65.6
48	University of Warwick	United Kingdom	65.2
49	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	64.5
50	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	64.2
50	Utrecht University	Netherlands

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