London (ots/PRNewswire) – QS Quacquarelli Symonds – an international think tank in the field of higher education – today has the eleventh edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject released: a comprehensive, independent comparative analysis of the performance of 13,883 individual university programs,those of students 1440 universities an 85 locations worldwide, across 51 academic disciplines. They are part of the annual QS World University Rankings , which was consulted over 147 million times in 2020 and covered 98,000 times by the media and institutions.
Global highlights
- Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the top performing institutions in the study, taking first places in twelve subjects.
- The UK higher education sector remains resilient. 13 of the 51 subject tables are cited by a UK university, with the University of Oxford citing five of these 13.
- Chinese higher education continues to reach new heights, with the sector hitting a record number of programs that now rank in the top 50.
- No university has a greater number of top 50 departments than the Canadian University of Toronto (46).
- The ETH Zurich is the top university in continental Europe and occupies in the areas geology, geophysics and Earth and marine sciences first place in each case. Measured by its share of the top 10 placements, Switzerland is the third best higher education sector in the world.
- Australia now has the lowest number of programs that have ranked in the top 10 in the world for the past three years. With a total of 13 top 10 departments, there are fewer than in 2020 (17) and 2019 (18). Two-thirds of the Australian National University’s programs have declined year over year.
- Backed by strong foundations, two Singaporean universities hold the first places: Nanyang Technological University is number 1 for Materials science, while the National University of Singapore – Asia’s top performing university – is number 1 for Petroleum Engineering is.
- Conversely, Japanese higher education is in relative decline after decades of underfunding of research and PhD students.
- India’s Institutes of Eminence program is struggling to deliver results without increasing the representation of India’s public Institutes of Eminence in the top 100.
- The Russian higher education system is still on the rise: a record number of departments achieved top 20 positions.
- Driven by world-class performance in Dentistry, Petroleum Engineering and Mining Engineering has the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) will retain its status as Latin America’s top performing university in this exercise.
- The University of Cape Town remains the most competitive institution in Africa, with 24 of its courses in the top 200.
Jack Moran, QA spokesperson, said, “Observing performance trends in nearly 14,000 university departments allows us to draw some conclusions about the similarities between nations that are improving and nations that are not. Three factors stand out. First strongly correlates an international outlook – both in terms of faculty and research relationships – with improved performance. Second, emerging universities have received strong targeted investments from governments for a decade or more – particularly in China, Russia and Singapore. Third, there is a correlation between improvement relations with industry with better results in employment, research and innovation. “
Methodology: https://www.TopUniversities.com/subject-rankings/methodology.
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