Which institution is best at Decision Sciences research?

Top Decision Sciences Research Institutions

Erasmus University Rotterdam ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 703 ranked institutions.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 40 fractional works in this field.

Ranked by research quality, 2022–2025

#	Institution	Score	Top-10% rate	Works	Citations	All time
1	Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands · Rotterdam	100.0	28.9%	140	1k	#28
2	Princeton University United States · Princeton	89.4	24.5%	109	694	#6
3	University of Toronto Canada · Toronto	83.2	19.4%	336	2k	#18
4	Harvard University United States · Cambridge	78.9	27.4%	151	1.3k	#7
5	Northwestern University United States · Evanston	75.4	26.5%	134	1.3k	#15
6	University of Oxford United Kingdom · Oxford	72.7	23.6%	279	2.2k	#17
7	Columbia University United States · New York	70.3	21.5%	269	1.6k	#11
8	University of Warwick United Kingdom · Coventry	68.3	21.9%	159	1.1k	#53
9	University of Zurich Switzerland · Zurich	66.5	32.2%	126	922	#23
10	Stanford University United States · Stanford	64.9	26.1%	249	2.2k	#1
11	UNSW Sydney Australia · Sydney	63.4	26.4%	235	2.1k	#44
12	Duke University United States · Durham	62.1	22.4%	153	909	#12
13	University of Chicago United States · Chicago	60.9	19.0%	208	1.3k	#3
14	University of California, Berkeley United States · Berkeley	59.7	20.9%	229	1.2k	#2
15	New York University United States · New York	58.7	19.8%	213	1.2k	#8
16	Cornell University United States · Ithaca	57.7	20.5%	269	1.5k	#10
17	University College London United Kingdom · London	56.8	28.5%	329	2.2k	#21
18	University of Michigan United States · Ann Arbor	55.9	23.9%	296	1.8k	#9
19	University of Cambridge United Kingdom · Cambridge	55.1	23.4%	202	1.4k	#41
20	University of Pennsylvania United States · Philadelphia	54.3	24.1%	144	1.4k	#5
21	Tsinghua University China · Beijing	53.6	27.4%	430	3.5k	—
22	University of Amsterdam Netherlands · Amsterdam	52.8	30.8%	188	1.6k	#19
23	University of Southern California United States · Los Angeles	52.2	21.7%	195	1.1k	#29
24	National University of Singapore Singapore · Singapore	51.5	29.4%	247	1.9k	#88
25	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands · Amsterdam	50.9	29.7%	141	973	#92
26	The University of Sydney Australia · Sydney	50.3	27.3%	226	1.3k	#34
27	Carnegie Mellon University United States · Pittsburgh	49.7	22.8%	204	1.3k	#4
28	Yale University United States · New Haven	49.2	20.2%	148	835	#14
29	Texas A&M University United States · College Station	48.6	27.7%	195	1.3k	#55
30	The University of Melbourne Australia · Melbourne	48.1	22.5%	245	1.4k	#76
31	Monash University Australia · Melbourne	47.6	32.9%	194	2.2k	#73
32	University of Cologne Germany · Cologne	47.1	24.2%	67	367	#87
33	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany · Munich	46.7	28.8%	118	991	—
34	Washington University in St. Louis United States · St Louis	46.2	21.6%	98	581	#38
35	North Carolina State University United States · Raleigh	45.8	32.2%	180	2.9k	—
36	Utrecht University Netherlands · Utrecht	45.3	29.2%	157	1.1k	#85
37	The Ohio State University United States · Columbus	44.9	17.6%	190	1.1k	#25
38	KU Leuven Belgium · Leuven	44.5	24.8%	191	1.2k	#74
39	University of Iowa United States · Iowa City	44.1	23.2%	92	427	#46
40	University of California, Los Angeles United States · Los Angeles	43.7	18.3%	139	1.4k	#22
41	Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong · Hong Kong	43.4	38.7%	277	2.5k	—
42	Ghent University Belgium · Ghent	43.0	28.0%	122	818	—
43	University of Bristol United Kingdom · Bristol	42.6	26.4%	143	1.3k	#77
44	University of California, Santa Barbara United States · Santa Barbara	42.3	17.1%	95	465	#47
45	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States · Urbana	41.9	21.0%	323	1.8k	#26
46	California Institute of Technology United States · Pasadena	41.6	18.8%	61	372	#16
47	Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong · Hong Kong	41.3	25.1%	155	1.1k	—
48	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France · Paris	40.9	18.4%	261	1.1k	#83
49	Johns Hopkins University United States · Baltimore	40.6	22.5%	147	861	#65
50	City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong · Hong Kong	40.3	30.0%	172	1.4k	—
51	University of Bologna Italy · Bologna	40.0	22.7%	176	1.2k	—
52	Delft University of Technology Netherlands · Delft	39.7	28.2%	260	2k	#58
53	London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom · London	39.4	19.5%	106	523	#30
54	Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States · Cambridge	39.1	20.6%	208	1.5k	#13
55	University of Bath United Kingdom · Bath	38.9	33.3%	70	533	—
56	Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel · Jerusalem	38.6	21.4%	61	271	#36
57	ETH Zurich Switzerland · Zurich	38.3	33.4%	162	1.4k	#98
58	University of Waterloo Canada · Waterloo	38.1	17.0%	198	953	#78
59	Tilburg University Netherlands · Tilburg	37.8	24.8%	111	572	#57
60	The University of Queensland Australia · Brisbane	37.5	25.2%	171	1.2k	—
61	Beijing Normal University China · Beijing	37.3	27.3%	156	1k	—
62	Zhejiang University China · Hangzhou	37.0	26.4%	278	2k	—
63	Universität Hamburg Germany · Hamburg	36.8	23.6%	94	687	—
64	University of Massachusetts Amherst United States · Amherst Center	36.6	17.1%	96	378	#96
65	Aarhus University Denmark · Aarhus	36.3	20.6%	188	987	—
66	University of Leeds United Kingdom · Leeds	36.1	23.9%	110	702	#81
67	Bocconi University Italy · Milan	35.9	22.1%	66	400	—
68	University of British Columbia Canada · Vancouver	35.6	24.2%	163	802	#35
69	Seoul National University South Korea · Seoul	35.4	26.7%	122	998	—
70	University of California San Diego United States · San Diego	35.2	22.2%	169	1.1k	#20
71	Pennsylvania State University United States · State College	35.0	20.8%	260	1.3k	#51
72	Yonsei University South Korea · Seoul	34.8	32.2%	108	825	—
73	Georgia State University United States · Atlanta	34.6	17.1%	92	441	#66
74	University of Groningen Netherlands · Groningen	34.3	29.8%	124	973	#89
75	Radboud University Nijmegen Netherlands · Nijmegen	34.1	27.1%	89	515	—
76	University of Hong Kong Hong Kong · Pok Fu Lam	33.9	29.2%	213	1.9k	—
77	University of Pittsburgh United States · Pittsburgh	33.7	19.9%	127	742	#49
78	Leiden University Netherlands · Leiden	33.5	30.2%	120	863	—
79	King's College London United Kingdom · London	33.3	20.1%	160	750	—
80	Technical University of Munich Germany · Munich	33.2	27.5%	214	1.4k	—
81	Sapienza University of Rome Italy · Rome	33.0	14.7%	308	890	—
82	University of Washington United States · Seattle	32.8	23.2%	222	1.4k	#42
83	University of Kansas United States · Lawrence	32.6	16.4%	77	335	—
84	Beihang University China · Beijing	32.4	28.9%	345	3k	—
85	University of Bonn Germany · Bonn	32.2	19.1%	67	278	—
86	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom · Edinburgh	32.1	21.7%	167	1k	—
87	Arizona State University United States · Tempe	31.9	21.2%	228	1.2k	#50
88	Lancaster University United Kingdom · Lancaster	31.7	25.2%	110	676	—
89	University of Mannheim Germany · Mannheim	31.5	25.9%	76	429	#90
90	RWTH Aachen University Germany · Aachen	31.4	17.1%	231	966	—
91	Deakin University Australia · Burwood	31.2	32.2%	142	1.2k	—
92	Nanyang Technological University Singapore · Singapore	31.0	38.1%	200	1.9k	—
93	Shanghai Jiao Tong University China · Shanghai	30.9	27.8%	339	2.5k	—
94	Southwestern University of Finance and Economics China · Chengdu	30.7	25.9%	154	1.2k	—
95	University of Turin Italy · Turin	30.5	29.2%	76	421	—
96	Bielefeld University Germany · Bielefeld	30.4	21.5%	72	381	—
97	Universiti Sains Malaysia Malaysia · George Town	30.2	30.9%	245	2.2k	—
98	University of Helsinki Finland · Helsinki	30.1	27.5%	91	411	—
99	Peking University China · Beijing	29.9	23.2%	233	1.4k	—
100	Virginia Tech United States · Blacksburg	29.7	23.7%	209	1.2k	#82

institutions ranked worldwide in Decision Sciences (703). rank on the composite score within the stated pool. The score track runs 0 to 100; the rate track carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field.

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Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

1 Binus University Indonesia 743 works
2 Universidade de São Paulo Brazil 444 works
3 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Brazil 440 works
4 Tsinghua University China 430 works
5 Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia 426 works
6 Universidade Federal Fluminense Brazil 366 works
7 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Brazil 350 works
8 Beihang University China 345 works
9 Northwestern Polytechnical University China 340 works
10 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 339 works
11 University of Toronto Canada 336 works
12 University College London United Kingdom 329 works
13 Telkom University Indonesia 327 works
14 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States 323 works
15 University of Johannesburg South Africa 320 works

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