La classifica accademica delle milgiori università mondiali per le scienze sociali compilata dai ricercatori dell'Università Jiao Tong di Shanghai e include i maggiori istituti di educazione superiore in Nord America, Europa, Asia, Oceania, e America Latina, comparati e classificati secondo indicatori multipli, fra cui le pubblicazioni su riviste scientifiche e Nobel attribuiti a ex allievi e personale corrente.
 

Classifica delle migliori università del mondo per le scienze sociali - edizione 2011

Rank	University	Country	Score
1	Harvard University		100.0
2	University of Chicago		94.8
3	Stanford University		81.5
4	Columbia University		80.2
5	University of California, Berkeley		78.3
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		78.0
7	Princeton University		77.7
8	Yale University		74.0
9	University of Pennsylvania		71.6
10	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor		65.3
11	New York University		64.4
12	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities		62.6
13	University of California, Los Angeles		61.0
14	Northwestern University		60.0
15	University of Cambridge		57.3
16	University of Oxford		57.2
17	University of Maryland, College Park		57.0
18	Duke University		56.7
19	Carnegie Mellon University		56.4
20	The University of Texas at Austin		55.4
21	Arizona State University - Tempe		54.0
22	Pennsylvania State University - University Park		53.7
23	University of Wisconsin - Madison		53.6
24	London School of Economics and Political Science		53.0
25	University of California, San Diego		52.7
26	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		52.6
27	The Ohio State University - Columbus		52.3
28	University of Washington		50.9
29	Indiana University Bloomington		50.5
30	University of British Columbia		50.3
31	Michigan State University		49.8
32	Cornell University		49.6
33	Washington University in St. Louis		48.9
34	Boston University		47.3
35	The Johns Hopkins University		46.9
36	Vanderbilt University		46.5
37	University of Rochester		46.4
38	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		46.3
39	University of Southern California		45.9
40	McMaster University		45.3
41	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick		44.6
42	University of Warwick		44.0
43	University of California, Santa Barbara		43.9
44	University of California, Davis		43.6
45	George Mason University		43.5
46	Dartmouth College		43.2
46	Emory University		43.2
46	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem		43.2
46	University of Virginia		43.2
50	University of Arizona		42.9
50	University of Pittsburgh		42.9