QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022

Top universities in 51 disciplines revealed

LONDON, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QS Quacquarelli Symonds – the international higher education think-tank – released the twelfth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject: an independent comparative analysis of the performance of 15,200 individual university programs taken by students at 1543 universities in 88 locations across the world, across 51 academic disciplines.

Global Highlights 

·  US institutions lead in 28 of the 51 subjects ranked. Harvard University and MIT remain the strongest-performing institutions, ranking number one in twelve subjects. 

·  Fifteen subject tables are topped by a British university, with the University of Oxford leading in six.

·  ETH Zurich is continental Europe's top university, achieving number-one spots in three subjects. Moreover, based on its share of top-10 ranks, Switzerland is the world's third-best higher education sector.  

·  Australia is the fourth most represented country for the number of entries

·  China (Mainland) ranks fifth globally for the number of programs (100), achieving a top-50 rank.  

·  No university has a larger number of top-50 than Canada's University of Toronto (46).  

·  The National University of Singapore – Asia's best-performing university – is the world's best for Petroleum Engineering. NUS ranks among the top-10 in sixteen disciplines.

·  Japanese higher education is still in relative decline after decades of underfunding for research and PhD students. 

·  Universidad de Chile achieves Latin America's highest rank, 8^th globally in Engineering - Mineral & Mining, followed by UNAM (Mexico) 13^th in Modern Languages and Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 15^th in Dentistry.

·  The University of Cape Town remains Africa's most competitive institution, placing 9^th globally in Development Studies.

·   King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, 6^th globally for Petroleum Engineering, achieves the Arab region's highest rank.

Ben Sowter, QS Research Director, said: "Observing performance trends across over 15,000 university departments enables us to see which factors influence success. First, an international outlook – both in terms of faculty body and research relationships – correlates strongly with improved performance. Second, rising universities received targeted investment from governments for over a decade. Third, strengthening relationships with industry correlates with better employment, research, and innovation outcomes." 

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