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Best Universities for International Economics in the World

Updated: February 29, 2024

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Below is a list of best universities in the World ranked based on their research performance in International Economics. A graph of 6.51M citations received by 386K academic papers made by 1,424 universities in the World was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

We don't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs nor do we adjust for current majors offered. You can find information about granted degrees on a university page but always double-check with the university website.

1. London School of Economics and Political Science

For International Economics

2. University of Oxford

3. Catholic University of Leuven

4. University of California - Berkeley

5. Harvard University

6. Columbia University

7. University of Cambridge

8. University of Amsterdam

9. University of Nottingham

10. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

11. Yale University

12. University of Warwick

13. Stanford University

14. University College London

15. Erasmus University Rotterdam

16. University of Chicago

17. New York University

18. Australian National University

19. University of Bologna

20. Princeton University

21. University of Copenhagen

22. University of Sussex

23. University of California - Davis

24. University of Manchester

25. University of Groningen

26. Utrecht University

27. University College Dublin

28. University of Birmingham

29. Maastricht University

30. University of Pennsylvania

31. Pierre and Marie Curie University

32. University of Maryland - College Park

33. Tilburg University

34. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

35. Wageningen University

36. University of British Columbia

37. Georgetown University

38. University of Toronto

39. University of Leeds

40. Cornell University

41. University of Oslo

42. University of Sheffield

43. Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin

44. Tel Aviv University

45. Pennsylvania State University

46. King's College London

47. Ghent University

48. University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

49. Bocconi University

50. Cardiff University

51. University of Wisconsin - Madison

52. University of Kent

53. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

54. George Washington University

55. National University of Singapore

56. Dartmouth College

57. Free University Amsterdam

58. University of Lisbon

59. University of Milan

60. Free University of Brussels

61. University of California - Los Angeles

62. Leiden University

63. University of Edinburgh

64. Free University of Berlin

65. University of Glasgow

66. University of Geneva

67. University of Valencia

68. University of Melbourne

69. University of East Anglia

70. Queen Mary University of London

71. University of Hong Kong

72. Paris Institute of Political Studies

73. University of California-San Diego

74. Lund University

75. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

76. Boston College

77. Johns Hopkins University

78. Pompeu Fabra University

79. Newcastle University

80. University of New South Wales

81. University of Strathclyde

82. University of Bristol

83. Imperial College London

84. Stockholm University

85. University of Antwerp

86. University of Zurich

87. Boston University

88. Sapienza University of Rome

89. Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main

90. Radboud University

91. Aarhus University

92. University of Barcelona

93. Complutense University of Madrid

94. Vienna University of Economics and Business

95. Monash University

96. University of Sydney

97. Catholic University of Louvain

98. University of Mannheim

99. University of Essex

100. University of Munich

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