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The 2020 Times Higher Education World 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings table for social sciences subjects uses the same trusted and rigorous performance indicators as our overall World 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings, but the weightings have been recalibrated to suit the individual fields.

The ranking assesses universities by their performance in communication and media studies, politics and international studies, sociology and geography subjects.

This year¡¯s table includes 720 universities, up from 666 last year.

View the World 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings 2020 by subject: social sciences methodology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology tops the table for the first time since 2016 after rising two places. Last year¡¯s frontrunner, the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Oxford, drops one place to second, while Harvard 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ rises one place to third.

China¡¯s Peking 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ is the only 51¹ú²úÊÓƵn university in the top 20, ranking at 18th, up from 23rd?last year. Overall, 11 51¹ú²úÊÓƵn institutions appear in the top 100, the same number as last year, although South Korea¡¯s Seoul National 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ is replaced by the Hebrew 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Jerusalem, which enters in joint 99th?place.

View the full results of the overall World 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ Rankings 2020

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