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Top Philosophy Research Institutions

University of Oxford ranks first in 2022–2025, out of 290 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 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom · Oxford 100.0 22.3% 424 933#1
2 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye · Ankara 87.8 30.4% 534 711#39
3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom · Cambridge 80.6 16.7% 311 543#3
4 University of California, IrvineUnited States · Irvine 75.5 40.7% 73 279#40
5 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom · Edinburgh 71.6 27.0% 174 329#2
6 University of ZurichSwitzerland · Zurich 68.4 24.2% 133 255#67
7 University of ViennaAustria · Vienna 65.7 24.9% 223 320#75
8 Uppsala UniversitySweden · Uppsala 63.3 28.1% 97 243#68
9 University of TorontoCanada · Toronto 61.2 17.5% 276 275#5
10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 59.4 25.1% 155 467#9
11 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom · London 57.7 22.7% 189 506#7
12 Gazi HastanesiTürkiye · Ankara 56.2 30.3% 187 212—
13 University of HelsinkiFinland · Helsinki 54.8 22.8% 166 209#24
14 University of ChicagoUnited States · Chicago 53.5 22.8% 175 164#10
15 Princeton UniversityUnited States · Princeton 52.2 26.4% 131 288#17
16 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain · Madrid 51.1 17.6% 346 161—
17 KU LeuvenBelgium · Leuven 50.0 22.1% 200 210#23
18 University of St AndrewsUnited Kingdom · St Andrews 49.0 23.3% 147 169#13
19 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States · Austin 48.1 17.9% 143 241#15
20 University of GroningenNetherlands · Groningen 47.2 31.7% 101 269#45
21 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom · Birmingham 46.3 27.5% 106 267#36
22 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom · Glasgow 45.5 20.3% 138 351#38
23 New York UniversityUnited States · New York 44.7 19.7% 126 249#6
24 Aarhus UniversityDenmark · Aarhus 43.9 23.4% 118 201#61
25 University of CopenhagenDenmark · Copenhagen 43.2 22.6% 131 277#21
26 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 42.5 26.1% 108 216#97
27 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom · Coventry 41.9 20.7% 124 229#27
28 Ondokuz Mayıs UniversityTürkiye · Samsun 41.2 24.5% 129 151—
29 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Sivas 40.6 29.4% 122 155—
30 University of OsloNorway · Oslo 40.0 24.7% 124 241#49
31 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye · Ankara 39.4 27.5% 139 178—
32 University of Notre DameUnited States · Notre Dame 38.9 21.2% 150 143#28
33 Ruhr University BochumGermany · Bochum 38.3 20.7% 120 202—
34 Anadolu UniversityTürkiye · Eskişehir 37.8 29.4% 103 153—
35 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Çanakkale 37.3 22.5% 114 132—
36 Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye · Konya 36.8 27.9% 128 162—
37 Stanford UniversityUnited States · Stanford 36.3 27.9% 93 194#8
38 University of BristolUnited Kingdom · Bristol 35.8 19.6% 94 212#59
39 Universidade de São PauloBrazil · São Paulo 35.4 8.4% 453 121—
40 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland · Krakow 34.9 11.8% 306 133—
41 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States · Chapel Hill 34.5 23.8% 108 140#32
42 Columbia UniversityUnited States · New York 34.1 24.3% 98 159#12
43 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States · West Lafayette 33.7 24.0% 77 146#86
44 University of British ColumbiaCanada · Vancouver 33.3 21.3% 82 167#41
45 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany · Munich 32.9 13.9% 184 179#93
46 University of AmsterdamNetherlands · Amsterdam 32.5 25.2% 98 204#52
47 The University of MelbourneAustralia · Melbourne 32.1 22.6% 92 222#48
48 Georgetown UniversityUnited States · Washington 31.7 23.6% 77 184#58
49 Marmara UniversityTürkiye · Istanbul 31.4 27.2% 126 137—
50 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance · Paris 31.0 15.2% 186 127#76
51 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye · Erzurum 30.7 22.9% 136 212—
52 Gazi UniversityTürkiye · Ankara 30.3 28.5% 82 106—
53 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain · Barcelona 30.0 17.8% 172 144—
54 University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom · Nottingham 29.6 27.4% 88 193#44
55 Inonu UniversityTürkiye · Malatya 29.3 27.3% 103 132—
56 Yale UniversityUnited States · New Haven 29.0 15.6% 132 207#4
57 Yıldız Technical UniversityTürkiye · Istanbul 28.7 29.8% 80 148—
58 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands · Utrecht 28.4 24.4% 89 165#74
59 University of LeedsUnited Kingdom · Leeds 28.1 24.3% 108 145#30
60 University of WarsawPoland · Warsaw 27.8 12.6% 304 144—
61 University of FribourgSwitzerland · Fribourg 27.5 23.3% 88 137—
62 University of ExeterUnited Kingdom · Exeter 27.2 24.7% 86 311#56
63 University of HaifaIsrael · Haifa 26.9 25.0% 72 170—
64 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom · Durham 26.6 16.0% 150 145#26
65 Heidelberg UniversityGermany · Heidelberg 26.4 21.5% 100 136#100
66 Australian National UniversityAustralia · Canberra 26.1 29.0% 66 137#34
67 Fırat UniversityTürkiye · Elâzığ 25.8 26.9% 94 127—
68 Universidad de SevillaSpain · Seville 25.6 23.5% 130 63—
69 University of YorkUnited Kingdom · York 25.3 30.4% 71 135#51
70 Lund UniversitySweden · Lund 25.1 34.6% 73 143#88
71 Weatherford CollegeUnited States · Weatherford 24.8 2.6% 793 36—
72 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael · Jerusalem 24.6 23.6% 89 117#70
73 Yozgat Bozok ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Yozgat 24.3 25.4% 92 125—
74 Düzce ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Düzce 24.1 36.5% 67 112—
75 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom · Manchester 23.9 18.8% 101 151#22
76 University of CologneGermany · Cologne 23.6 14.7% 113 110—
77 Harvard UniversityUnited States · Cambridge 23.4 25.9% 67 215#14
78 Stockholm UniversitySweden · Stockholm 23.2 28.4% 77 132—
79 University of California San DiegoUnited States · San Diego 22.9 30.8% 66 207#35
80 Arizona State UniversityUnited States · Tempe 22.7 26.8% 72 125#65
81 University of MichiganUnited States · Ann Arbor 22.5 21.2% 82 167#18
82 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany · Frankfurt am Main 22.3 16.7% 122 93—
83 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany · Berlin 22.1 18.4% 124 126#81
84 University of BolognaItaly · Bologna 21.9 17.1% 100 94—
85 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands · Tilburg 21.6 28.9% 68 117—
86 The University of SydneyAustralia · Sydney 21.4 19.2% 112 177#33
87 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael · Tel Aviv 21.2 24.2% 87 109#90
88 Universität HamburgGermany · Hamburg 21.0 15.2% 122 150—
89 Tokat Gaziosmanpaşa ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Tokat Province 20.8 30.0% 72 103—
90 University of LausanneSwitzerland · Lausanne 20.6 15.6% 116 119—
91 Amasya ÜniversitesiTürkiye · Amasya 20.4 32.7% 69 105—
92 Monash UniversityAustralia · Melbourne 20.2 25.5% 63 115—
93 Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇Türkiye · Bursa 20.1 25.6% 107 124—
94 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil · Porto Alegre 19.9 8.9% 272 72—
95 McGill UniversityCanada · Montreal 19.7 25.6% 94 174#29
96 Sakarya UniversityTürkiye · Adapazarı 19.5 24.4% 107 109—
97 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland · Poznan 19.3 9.3% 280 88—
98 University of BergenNorway · Bergen 19.1 22.4% 66 115—
99 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States · Berkeley 19.0 22.0% 74 124#16
100 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece · Athens 18.8 24.0% 66 65—

institutions ranked worldwide in Philosophy (290). 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.

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

Ranked by volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 793 works
  2. 2 Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency FoundationUnited States 763 works
  3. 3 Herbalife (Australia)Australia 535 works
  4. 4 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 534 works
  5. 5 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 453 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 424 works
  7. 7 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 346 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 336 works
  9. 9 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 311 works
  10. 10 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 305 works
  11. 11 University of WarsawPoland 304 works
  12. 12 Tea Research InstituteChina 284 works
  13. 13 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 280 works
  14. 14 University of TorontoCanada 276 works
  15. 15 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 272 works

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