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Top Developmental and Educational Psychology Research Institutions

Education University of Hong Kong ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 261 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

#InstitutionScoreTop-10% rateWorksCitationsAll time
1 Education University of Hong KongHong Kong · Tai Po 100.0 49.9% 174 1.9k#36
2 University of Hong KongHong Kong · Pok Fu Lam 87.5 41.1% 187 1.8k#25
3 Chinese University of Hong KongHong Kong · Hong Kong 80.3 40.3% 152 1.3k#53
4 Beijing Normal UniversityChina · Beijing 75.1 32.8% 225 1.5k—
5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 71.1 34.8% 196 1.5k#10
6 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore · Singapore 67.8 37.6% 152 1k#43
7 Central China Normal UniversityChina · Wuhan 65.0 35.9% 137 1k—
8 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 62.6 42.9% 110 943#83
9 University of AucklandNew Zealand · Auckland 60.5 34.5% 119 773#28
10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 58.6 35.1% 122 948#18
11 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 56.9 35.0% 112 934#1
12 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHong Kong · Hong Kong 55.3 36.2% 113 678—
13 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 53.9 38.5% 117 927#27
14 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 52.6 23.4% 206 907#13
15 Michigan State UniversityUnited States · East Lansing 51.3 29.4% 144 870#7
16 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 50.2 35.1% 115 767#6
17 Arizona State UniversityUnited States · Tempe 49.1 30.4% 127 679#17
18 University of OsloNorway · Oslo 48.1 39.6% 124 763#48
19 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands · Nijmegen 47.1 33.3% 127 914#46
20 The University of QueenslandAustralia · Brisbane 46.2 30.2% 122 773#55
21 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States · State College 45.3 27.7% 170 802#8
22 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 44.5 29.7% 140 922#22
23 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 43.7 32.1% 111 588#54
24 University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine 42.9 42.1% 94 774#72
25 Florida State UniversityUnited States · Tallahassee 42.2 30.8% 128 768#14
26 Zhejiang UniversityChina · Hangzhou 41.4 35.4% 96 734—
27 University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki 40.8 35.5% 94 729#80
28 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States · Madison 40.1 27.2% 166 822#15
29 State University of MalangIndonesia · Malang 39.5 11.6% 390 591—
30 University of MacauMacau · Macao 38.9 39.1% 79 631—
31 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin 38.3 32.4% 148 869#21
32 University of GeorgiaUnited States · Athens 37.7 31.7% 90 772#41
33 University of FloridaUnited States · Gainesville 37.2 26.4% 150 742#51
34 East China Normal UniversityChina · Shanghai 36.6 29.1% 104 567—
35 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht 36.1 39.0% 105 723#34
36 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States · Nashville 35.6 29.9% 116 681#19
37 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States · Urbana 35.1 21.5% 150 618#4
38 National Taiwan Normal UniversityTaiwan · Taipei 34.6 37.1% 94 772#93
39 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 34.2 20.1% 138 761#50
40 University of WashingtonUnited States · Seattle 33.7 32.4% 92 647#3
41 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 33.3 32.8% 82 609#5
42 University of MalayaMalaysia · Kuala Lumpur 32.8 26.3% 110 515—
43 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 32.4 37.7% 92 786#16
44 Nanjing Normal UniversityChina · Nanjing 32.0 29.0% 71 528—
45 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States · Columbus 31.6 24.5% 149 743#39
46 Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina · Jinhua 31.2 35.5% 63 532—
47 University of JyväskyläFinland · Jyväskylä 30.8 33.7% 109 615#95
48 University of TübingenGermany · Tübingen 30.4 38.0% 75 516—
49 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia · Bandung 30.1 8.7% 484 458—
50 South China Normal UniversityChina · Guangzhou 29.7 29.7% 88 652—
51 Georgia State UniversityUnited States · Atlanta 29.3 22.9% 135 818#64
52 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia · Yogyakarta 29.0 11.3% 407 484—
53 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 28.6 25.5% 124 679#23
54 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway · Trondheim 28.3 34.5% 101 623—
55 Deakin UniversityAustralia · Burwood 28.0 41.3% 81 577#79
56 University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States · College Park 27.7 29.3% 127 795#11
57 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa · Johannesburg 27.3 34.9% 89 407—
58 University of PittsburghUnited States · Pittsburgh 27.0 31.1% 96 684#9
59 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 26.7 30.0% 115 600#2
60 Universidad de GranadaSpain · Granada 26.4 28.5% 119 676—
61 Curtin UniversityAustralia · Perth 26.1 38.5% 62 447—
62 State University of PadangIndonesia · Padang 25.8 9.2% 405 423—
63 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States · Pittsburgh 25.5 31.9% 76 479#12
64 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia · Seri Kembangan 25.3 24.0% 93 349—
65 UNSW SydneyAustralia · Sydney 25.0 34.8% 64 443#77
66 Macquarie UniversityAustralia · Sydney 24.7 30.5% 98 614#74
67 Texas A&M UniversityUnited States · College Station 24.4 28.3% 98 591#97
68 University of HaifaIsrael · Haifa 24.2 31.4% 117 594—
69 University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen 23.9 32.7% 80 451—
70 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 23.7 23.7% 120 552#90
71 University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 23.4 34.4% 84 557#62
72 Google (United States)United States · Mountain View 23.1 32.7% 119 904—
73 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 22.9 24.1% 108 512#24
74 University of AlbertaCanada · Edmonton 22.7 21.4% 109 615#58
75 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 22.4 26.4% 119 580#70
76 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 22.2 22.8% 116 676#60
77 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 21.9 29.8% 108 593#66
78 University of MinnesotaUnited States · Minneapolis 21.7 32.3% 83 513#38
79 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 21.5 26.9% 95 662#30
80 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States · Baltimore 21.3 27.3% 85 490#32
81 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia · Bangi 21.0 16.0% 181 482—
82 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 20.8 35.1% 77 473—
83 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona 20.6 27.7% 100 442—
84 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States · Philadelphia 20.4 32.8% 73 517#35
85 State University of MakassarIndonesia · Makassar 20.2 8.8% 387 302—
86 University of VirginiaUnited States · Charlottesville 20.0 30.9% 74 425#57
87 State University of SemarangIndonesia · Semarang 19.7 9.0% 317 308—
88 Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm 19.5 29.5% 78 316—
89 Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus 19.3 23.9% 99 538—
90 University of the Basque CountrySpain · Leioa 19.1 27.0% 86 383—
91 University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 18.9 36.4% 61 454—
92 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 18.7 25.7% 94 526#31
93 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia · Surabaya 18.5 8.4% 335 286—
94 Indiana University BloomingtonUnited States · Bloomington 18.4 33.7% 76 427#33
95 University of South FloridaUnited States · Tampa 18.2 24.5% 96 387#99
96 Linköping UniversitySweden · Linköping 18.0 25.8% 75 391—
97 Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain · Badajoz 17.8 31.2% 82 493—
98 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 17.6 32.7% 60 408—
99 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia · Bengkulu 17.4 8.0% 294 280—
100 University of LisbonPortugal · Lisbon 17.2 31.0% 79 428—

institutions ranked worldwide in Developmental and Educational Psychology (261). 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.

How spread out this pool is

Every row above on one axis — one tick each, right is a higher score. A field where the top few are far clear of everyone and one that runs down evenly look identical as a table.

17 – 21: 21 places21 – 26: 16 places26 – 30: 13 places30 – 34: 11 places34 – 38: 8 places38 – 42: 6 places42 – 46: 6 places46 – 50: 4 places50 – 54: 3 places54 – 59: 2 places59 – 63: 3 places63 – 67: 1 places67 – 71: 1 places71 – 75: 2 places75 – 79: 0 places79 – 83: 1 places83 – 88: 1 places88 – 92: 0 places92 – 96: 0 places96 – 100: 1 places17100

One bar per band of score, counting the rows on this page.

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 484 works
  2. 2 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 407 works
  3. 3 State University of PadangIndonesia 405 works
  4. 4 State University of MalangIndonesia 391 works
  5. 5 State University of MakassarIndonesia 387 works
  6. 6 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 335 works
  7. 7 State University of SemarangIndonesia 317 works
  8. 8 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 294 works
  9. 9 State University of MedanIndonesia 252 works
  10. 10 Universitas PGRI SemarangIndonesia 242 works
  11. 11 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 225 works
  12. 12 Universitas Muhammadiyah Tapanuli SelatanIndonesia 224 works
  13. 13 State University of JakartaIndonesia 223 works
  14. 14 Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 217 works
  15. 15 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 211 works

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