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TOP-100 best Social Policy universities in the world 2025 QS Rankings

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TOP-100 best Social Policy universities in the world 2025 QS Rankings

Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Social Policy

If you are looking for a suitable university to study sociology abroad, we recommend starting your search with a ranking of the best sociological universities in the world. Our list includes prestigious educational institutions for foreign schoolchildren, students and foreigners, offering excellent conditions for studying social sciences.

In the presented universities you can study social policy on bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs + there are short-term courses for specialists who want to improve their skills. The best universities in the world in the field of sociology offer to adopt the experience of professionals and practicing experts in the field, to study the latest theories in the field of social policy.

In the first years of study at the faculties of sociology, students study a wide range of disciplines and receive a fundamental education. Undergraduate students have more choice in studying priority areas: you will find comprehensive preparation in the field of human rights, globalization, migration, equality, the future of states.

Rank	University	Overall Score
1	Harvard University	99,6
2	University of Oxford	96,5
3	Stanford University	94,3
=4	LSE London School of Economics and Political Science	94,1
=4	Berkeley University of California	94,1
6	Cambridge University	92,7
7	Princeton University	89,9
8	Yale University	89,6
9	University of Chicago	89,3
10	University of Wisconsin - Madison	88,2
11	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	88,1
=12	Columbia University	87,9
=12	University of California Los Angeles	87,9
14	National University of Singapore	87,5
15	University of Amsterdam	87,4
=16	New York University (NYU)	86,4
=16	The University of Manchester	86,4
18	University of Toronto	86,2
19	The Australian National University	85,4
20	UCL	84,0
21	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	83,8
22	University of British Columbia	82,9
23	University of Edinburgh	82,7
=24	University of Hong Kong	82,1
=24	The University of Tokyo	82,1
26	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	81,6
27	Sciences Po	81,4
28	The University of Melbourne	81,0
=29	Freie Universitaet Berlin	80,4
=29	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	80,4
=29	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	80,4
=29	Sydney University	80,4
33	Cornell University	80,3
34	Duke University	80,0
35	Peking University	79,9
36	University of Pennsylvania	79,6
37	Yonsei University	79,2
38	Stockholm University	79,1
39	University of Copenhagen	79,0
40	Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)	78,4
41	King's College London	77,7
42	University of Sussex	77,6
43	Universidade de São Paulo	77,4
=44	The University of Queensland	77,3
=44	University of Bristol	77,3
46	Utrecht University	77,2
=47	McGill University	77,0
=47	University of Oslo	77,0
=49	National Taiwan University	76,8
=49	Northwestern University	76,8
51	Seoul National University	76,4
52	Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)	76,3
53	Kyoto University	76,1
54	University of Texas at Austin	76,0
=55	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	75,7
=55	University of Vienna	75,7
57	Universidad de Chile	75,3
58	European University Institute	75,0
59	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	74,8
60	University of Southern California	74,7
=61	Lund University Sweden	74,5
=61	University of Warwick	74,5
=63	SOAS University of London	74,4
=63	Tsinghua University	74,4
65	KU Leuven	74,3
=66	Johns Hopkins University	74,2
=66	Nanyang Technological University	74,2
=66	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	74,2
=66	University of Helsinki	74,2
70	University of Leeds	74,0
71	Monash University	73,8
72	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	73,6
73	Essex, University of	73,5
=74	Central European University	73,4
=74	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	73,4
=74	University of Maryland, College Park	73,4
=77	Brown University	72,7
=77	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	72,7
=79	Renmin (People's) University of China	72,6
=79	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	72,6
=79	University of Washington	72,6
82	University of California, Irvine	72,5
83	Lancaster University	72,3
84	Leiden University	72,1
85	University of Glasgow	72,0
86	University of Milan	71,7
=87	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	71,6
=87	Goldsmiths, University of London	71,6
=87	The University of Sheffield	71,6
90	Universitat de Barcelona	71,5
91	Jawaharlal Nehru University	71,4
92	Pennsylvania State University	71,3
=93	Complutense University of Madrid	71,2
=93	Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main	71,2
=95	Copenhagen Business School	71,1
=95	The University of Auckland	71,1
=95	University of Trento	71,1
=98	Université de Montréal	71,0
=98	Uppsala University	71,0
100	University of Birmingham	70,9

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