Operational Research considered 1 of 6 dsciplines in Social Sciences

Okay, so OR is grouped with Statistics as one of the six disciplines of social sciences, but still, I'm pleasantly surprised that OR is mentioned!

According to QS World University Rankings, the six disciplines considered as part of social sciences are:

• Finance
• Economics and Econometrics
• Law
• Politics and International Relations
• Sociology
• Statistics and Operational Research

Here you can download the full table (yeah, Google Doc!), and see the top 10 universities at a glance for each of the above subjects. For Stats and OR, here are your top 10:

Rank	Institution	Country
SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds 2011 - www.topuniversities.com
1	Stanford University	United States
2	Harvard University	United States
3	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States
4	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
7	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore
8	University of Toronto	Canada
9	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
10	Princeton University	United States

P.S. If you haven't discovered it already, the Guardian's Data Blog is great!