In order to qualify for inclusion in the QS World University Rankings® -Sociology 2016, universities must offer a course or the option to specialize in these disciplines, and meet the discipline specific threshold for papers published.

2016	2015	Institution	Country	Academic	Employer	Citations	H	Score
1	1	Harvard University	United States	100.0	98.6	97.7	100.0	99.7
2	2	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	98.6	87.3	95.2	92.5	96.4
3	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	95.5	100.0	92.9	93.8	95.6
4	5	London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	96.7	91.6	90.7	85.9	94.3
5	3	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	96.7	77.4	93.2	88.6	93.4
6	7	Stanford University	United States	91.9	90.4	96.8	94.3	92.4
7	8	University of Chicago	United States	94.8	80.4	93.8	87.0	92.1
8	9	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	94.0	99.1	84.5	78.6	91.7
9	6	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	91.4	86.2	93.1	89.1	90.6
10	10	Princeton University	United States	90.1	84.2	97.1	92.1	90.2
11	11	Columbia University	United States	89.4	84.9	92.8	93.0	89.7
12	12=	Yale University	United States	87.4	82.9	98.2	95.9	88.8
13	12=	University of Michigan	United States	86.6	75.6	93.6	93.4	86.9
14	14=	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	86.8	80.8	90.8	85.9	86.3
15	17	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	88.8	82.6	83.6	74.6	85.8
16	16	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia	87.2	84.9	84.7	78.6	85.6
17	19	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	86.3	73.3	85.0	74.6	83.2
18	14=	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	83.1	72.5	92.8	85.9	82.9
19	18	University of Toronto	Canada	83.4	76.1	86.6	80.8	82.4
20=	22	New York University (NYU)	United States	79.9	82.6	91.2	88.1	82.0
20=	20	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	82.6	61.0	93.4	89.1	82.0
22	30=	Freie Universität Berlin	Germany	83.7	67.9	86.2	69.8	80.2
23	24	The University of Tokyo	Japan	85.4	87.2	69.2	52.9	79.9
24	33=	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	75.1	90.5	100.0	85.9	79.5
25	30=	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	84.2	72.7	77.6	58.2	78.8
26	28	Cornell University	United States	77.0	74.0	93.2	84.7	78.7
27	36	University of Essex	United Kingdom	77.4	62.0	97.5	87.0	78.3
28	37	University of Hong Kong (HKU)	Hong Kong	79.5	88.8	80.9	62.6	78.0
29	44	The University of Melbourne	Australia	77.7	79.4	83.2	72.7	77.4
30	29	The University of Sydney	Australia	77.5	77.2	83.4	73.7	77.2
31	33=	Peking University	China	79.5	87.2	78.8	58.2	77.0
32	25	The University of Queensland (UQ)	Australia	78.1	66.7	84.7	74.6	76.8
33	23	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	76.9	74.8	83.4	74.6	76.7
34	21	Monash University	Australia	76.8	78.0	80.5	70.8	76.2
35	45	Goldsmiths, University of London	United Kingdom	80.3	61.7	77.6	62.6	75.7
36	39	University of British Columbia	Canada	72.9	79.3	89.9	80.8	75.6
37	41	Duke University	United States	72.1	78.3	92.6	82.2	75.3
38	27	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	74.7	63.6	92.8	79.4	75.2
39	26	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	75.9	79.0	83.6	64.0	74.8
40	32	Seoul National University (SNU)	South Korea	77.1	88.2	73.6	52.9	74.4
41=	50	Northwestern University	United States	70.4	64.0	98.6	90.6	74.2
41=	40	Utrecht University	Netherlands	72.8	65.6	89.4	81.5	74.2
43=	51-100	McGill University	Canada	73.0	74.2	85.7	73.7	73.9
43=	43	University of Pennsylvania	United States	70.1	79.8	90.4	82.2	73.9
45=	51-100	City University of New York	United States	72.4	66.3	86.0	80.1	73.6
45=	48	University of Texas at Austin	United States	68.3	79.5	93.1	87.6	73.6
47=	46	Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)	France	79.5	71.7	65.2	48.7	73.4
47=	38	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	71.9	85.5	85.2	68.7	73.4
49	35	Stockholm University	Sweden	75.4	43.9	87.7	74.6	72.7
50	51-100	Sciences Po Paris	France	75.1	64.9	80.8	62.6	72.5