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1 Who Stacks Up? QS World University Rankings: by Subject

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3 Welcome to the QS World University Rankings by Subject Report The American journalist arry Allen Smith once wrote, The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. In few contexts does this statement seem more pertinent than when referring to university rankings, and in no other context is a set of university ranking lists to be found with greater scale and scope than the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Ben Sowter, head of QS Intelligence Unit Behind these 30 tables are 90,000 survey responses, 27m paper attributions and almost 11,000 manually verified programs. But the greatest thing about the subject tables is that for almost every university involved there is positive news to reinforce any setbacks, and the results prove that strength by subject is not only concentrated among the top universities in our overall tables. UC Davis takes the crown for agriculture for a second year running, NYU leads in philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison in communication and London s Institute of Education tops out the education field in. A total of 65 universities make the top 10 in at least one of these subjects, 248 the top 50, 419 the top 100 and fully 689 fall with the collective top 200. This is a serious undertaking and involves a great deal of time, effort and personnel, but the results are fascinating and we hope of genuine assistance to students around the world hoping to make more informed choices. After all, for most, before considering where in the world they might study, they start with figuring out what subject they plan to pursue. In many ways then, these subject tables make sense as the start of the search. Choosing a university remains one of the single most influential decisions in a young person s life, and getting it right can make the difference between four years of inspiration and fun or four years of frustration and loneliness; the difference between a career that is fulfilling and challenging to one which is soul-destroying, or worse, no career at all. Down the right path lies fortune, fulfilment, rich memories, lifelong friends and for the many who may have been as fortunate as me, love and family. QS believes there is no substitute for first-hand experience, for campus visits or for face-to-face meeting with people from a university, but you can t visit every university in the world. These subject tables should form a key part of a suite of tools used to shortlist suitable options, and for institutions they ought to provide a way to highlight their key strengths and give a much larger number of institutions a key piece of independent evidence to pass on to students to stake their claim to being the right choice. IREG-7 Conference: Employability & Rankings Reflections & Impacts 14-16th May London QS World University Rankings 3

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5 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Methodology By Danny Byrne Since 2011 the QS World University Rankings have been extended to encompass a range of popular individual subjects. The majority of prospective international students begin their search knowing what they want to study before considering where, so understanding the comparative quality of institution by subject is fundamental to the QS mission to support students in their decisionmaking. QS aims to add more depth, more detail and more subjects to this work year by year and anticipates that these tables will, in time, become more important than the overall rankings. QS has access to three extensive datasets that enable us to drill down by subject area: our academic and employer reputation surveys, and the Scopus data we use for our citations per faculty indicator in the overall rankings. These three components have been combined to produce our subject results, with weightings adapted by discipline. 1. Reputation reputation has been the centrepiece of the QS World University Rankings since their inception in In we drew on over 62,000 respondents to compile our results. aving provided their name, contact details, job title and the institution where they are based, respondents identify the countries, regions and faculty areas that they have most familiarity with, and up to two narrower subject disciplines in which they consider themselves expert. For each of the (up to five) faculty areas they identify, respondents are asked to list up to ten domestic and thirty international institutions that they consider excellent for research in the given area. They are not able to select their own institution. The results of the academic reputation component of the new subject rankings have been produced by filtering responses according to the narrow area of expertise identified by respondents. While academics can select up to two narrow areas of expertise, greater emphasis is placed on respondents who have identified with only one. 2. reputation QS World University Rankings are unique in incorporating employability as a key factor in the evaluation of international universities, and in we drew on over 27,000 responses to compile the results for the overall rankings. The employer survey works on a similar basis to the academic one, only without the channelling for different faculty areas. s are asked to identify up to ten domestic and thirty international institutions they consider excellent for the recruitment of graduates. They are also asked to identify from which disciplines they prefer to recruit. From examining where these two questions intersect we can infer a measure of excellence in a given discipline. 3. per paper Due to the impracticality of reliably gathering faculty numbers broken down by discipline, for the purposes of this exercise we have measured citations per paper rather than per faculty member. A minimum publication threshold has been set for each subject to avoid potential anomalies stemming from small numbers of highly cited papers. Both the minimum publications threshold and the weighting applied to the citations indicator are adapted in order to best reflect prevalent publication and citation patterns in a given discipline. All citations data is sourced from Scopus, the world s most comprehensive research citations database. As of, a score based on h-index has been added to the QS World University Rankings by Subject. The h-index is a way of measuring both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The index is based on the set of the scientist s most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications. The index can also be applied to the productivity and impact of a group of scientists, such as a department or university or country, as well as a scholarly journal. The index was suggested by Jorge E. irsch, a physicist at UCSD, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists relative quality and is sometimes called the irsch index or irsch number. Further details can be found at QS World University Rankings 5

6 QS World University Rankings by Subject - Overview By Danny Byrne This year s QS World University Rankings by Subject underline the status of Cambridge, Massachusetts as the nerve center of global academic research. Yet they also point to world-leading departments at a surprisingly diverse range of institutions, extending far beyond the big names that tend to dominate overall university rankings. ome to arvard and MIT, Cambridge was originally named in honor of the UK s University of Cambridge, but this year s results suggest that it has long-since overtaken its namesake when it comes to hosting world-class faculties at individual subject level. Between them, arvard and MIT account for 20 of the 30 number one spots. arvard maintains a slender lead over its neighbor, with 11 top spots to MIT s nine. arvard s dominance is particularly pronounced in the life sciences, in which it tops four of the five subjects: medicine, psychology, pharmacy, and biological sciences. arvard is also the pre-eminent institution in the field of social sciences and management, ranking first in five of the eight subjects: sociology, politics, law, economics and accounting. In the natural sciences, arvard tops the rankings for mathematics and earth and marine sciences. Perhaps surprisingly, the only discipline area in which it fails to take a single number one ranking is the arts and humanities, though it does make the top five in all but one of the six disciplines. While arvard rules the life and social sciences, local rival MIT is the undisputed global powerhouse in engineering and technology, recording a clean sweep of the top spots in four areas of engineering (civil, mechanical, chemical and electrical) plus computer sciences. Other subjects in which MIT emerges as the world leader include statistics, three of the core science disciplines (physics, materials science and chemistry), plus linguistics a discipline in which MIT has led the way, most famously through the work of Noam Chomsky, one of the most frequently cited humanities scholars of all time. The dominance of the Cambridge, Massachusetts institutions is almost total in the STEM disciplines, in which between them they take a remarkable 14 of the 16 top spots. Yet elsewhere the field is surprisingly diverse. Indeed, University of Oxford is the only other institution to top the table in more than one discipline, ranking number one globally in English language and literature, geography and modern languages, all areas of traditional strength. Big names under threat? Since their introduction in 2011, QS World University Rankings by Subject have been honed to more accurately discriminate between strength in a particular discipline area and the inflating effect of overall institutional prestige. This is reflected in the disciplines that fall outside of the sphere of arvard-mit dominance, in which eight different institutions feature at the top of ten different tables. Of these eight institutions, three are placed in the top ten in the overall QS World University Rankings. Oxford takes three top spots, Cambridge is number one in history, and Stanford University tops the table for statistics. s from outside of the global top 20 take the number one spots in all five of the remaining tables. Berkeley maintains its top spot for environmental sciences, while its fellow University of California branch UC Davis ranks number one in agriculture. Another of the big US public institutions, University of Wisconsin-Madison leads the way on communications and media studies. The dominance of the Cambridge, Massachusetts institutions is almost total in the STEM disciplines, in which between them they take a remarkable 14 of the 16 top spots. New York University s reputation as a world leader in philosophy is well established within the field, and it tops this year s table ahead of Oxford, the University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers. And the UK s Institute of Education takes its place at the top of the ranking for education, ahead of Australia s University of Melbourne. The rankings also point to numerous worldclass faculties in Asia-Pacific and Continental Europe, regions that have traditionally been eclipsed by the US and UK in overall rankings. 6 QS World University Rankings

7 The most successful universities outside of the US and UK in terms of number top-ten rankings are: National University of Singapore (8) ET Zurich (4) University of Melbourne (4) University of Tokyo (4) Nanyang Technological University (3) Kyoto University (2) Wageningen University (2) Other universities to make the global top ten in a single discipline include China s Tsinghua University (materials science), ong Kong University (civil engineering) and Sweden s Karolinska Institute (pharmacy). A further five Australian institutions make the top ten in one subject (ANU, Monash, University of Sydney, University of Queensland and University of New South Wales), as do two from the Netherlands (University of Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology). Latin America s top-ranking institution is Mexico s UNAM (25th in history), while Africa s top institution University of Cape Town, makes the top 50 in education (32nd), geography (34th), law (40th) and English language and literature (50th). This geographical diversity shows that worldleading work is taking place at an individual discipline level at a far greater range of institutions than overall rankings would have us believe.

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9 QS World University Rankings by Subject Accounting & Finance Agriculture & Forestry 1 1 arvard University US University of Oxford GB London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB University of Cambridge GB Stanford University US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US London Business School GB = 7 The University of Melbourne AU = 9= University of Chicago US The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = University of Pennsylvania US National University of S (NUS) SG = The University of Sydney AU University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = New York University (NYU) US Yale University US The University of Manchester GB = University of K (KU) K = The K University of Science and Technology (KUST) K Monash University AU = Columbia University US = AUn National University (ANU) AU The University of Tokyo JP = 27 Princeton University US = 20 The University of Auckland NZ The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = The Chinese University of K (CUK) K = 29 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = 40 The University of Warwick GB = Peking University CN Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi IT Imperial College London GB University of Michigan US = 41 Copenhagen Business School DK = 38 Duke University US = University of Texas at Austin US = Erasmus University Rotterdam NL University of Toronto CA Cornell University US = Seoul National University (SNU) KR Northwestern University US University of British Columbia CA ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C Tsinghua University CN The University of Nottingham GB = Lancaster University GB = The University of Adelaide AU = National Taiwan University (NTU) TW = 47= University of Edinburgh GB Stockholm School of Economics SE University of California, Davis (UCD) US Wageningen University NL Cornell University US University of Wisconsin-Madison US Iowa State University US = University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US Oregon State University US Purdue University US Texas A&M University US = Ohio State University US = 44 University of Massachusetts, Amherst US = 11= University of Reading GB = The University of Tokyo JP = North Carolina State University US = 14= ET Zurich (Ciss Federal Institute of Technology) C = 9 Pennsylvania State University US University of Minnesota US The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = Massey University NZ AUn National University (ANU) AU Michigan State University US = Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) BR University of Florida US University of Guelph CA = Kyoto University JP = Colorado State University US = Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US The University of Adelaide AU Agro, ParisTech FR = University of Copenhagen DK McGill University CA Universität für Bodenkultur Wien AT = The University of Nottingham GB = Yale University US The University of Melbourne AU = University of British Columbia CA University of Missouri, Columbia US okkaido University JP = University of Maryland, College Park US = 48 Nagoya University JP = 40 Cedish University of Agricultural Sciences SE China Agricultural University CN University of Ghent BE Washington State University US Tohoku University JP University of California, Riverside (UCR) US Kasetsart University T The University of Georgia US Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" BR QS World University Rankings 9

10 Biological Sciences Chemistry 1 1 arvard University US University of Cambridge GB Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of Oxford GB Stanford University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = 11 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US = 7 Yale University US University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C = University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) US = 9 Imperial College London GB = 17= Kyoto University JP Columbia University US Princeton University US = National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = The University of Tokyo JP Cornell University US UCL (University College London) GB The University of Queensland (UQ) AU University of Edinburgh GB The University of Melbourne AU = University of Washington US University of Pennsylvania US University of Chicago US Duke University US University of Toronto CA Osaka University JP Australian National University (ANU) AU = 32= Rockefeller University US = 26 University of British Columbia CA Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE University of Wisconsin-Madison US University of Michigan US Peking University CN University of California, Davis (UCD) US = 32= Johns opkins University US = Washington University in St. Louis US Uppsala University SE University of ong Kong (KU) K KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR = New York University (NYU) US University of Bristol GB = 47= McGill University CA = 43= The University of Auckland NZ = 47= The University of Manchester GB = University of Copenhagen DK = The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = The University of Sydney AU Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of Cambridge GB arvard University US Stanford University US University of Oxford GB ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US The University of Tokyo JP University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = Imperial College London GB National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = Kyoto University JP Northwestern University US Peking University CN Seoul National University (SNU) KR = 31 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR = 16 Yale University US = The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K Tokyo Institute of Technology JP University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US = Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C Tsinghua University CN = University of Texas at Austin US = Technische Universität München DE The University of Melbourne AU = Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE = 20= Osaka University JP = 26 University of Toronto CA = University of North Carolina, Chapel ill US = 36= Columbia University US = 33= Monash University AU = Université de Strasbourg FR Tohoku University JP = 32 Princeton University US = 20= University of ong Kong (KU) K National Taiwan University (NTU) TW Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTEC) KR University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US = The University of Manchester GB = University of Michigan US The University of Sydney AU = University of Bristol GB Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = University of British Columbia CA = KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US = Cornell University US = 36= Nagoya University JP = 50= University of Pennsylvania US QS World University Rankings

11 Communication & Media Studies Computer Science & Information Systems 1 5 University of Wisconsin-Madison US London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of Southern California US University of Texas at Austin US Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US = Stanford University US National University of Singapore (NUS) SG University of Amsterdam NL = Michigan State University US University of Pennsylvania US Columbia University US Northwestern University US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Cornell University US New York University (NYU) US = 21 Monash University AU = 29 The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K = 18 University of Michigan US The University of Melbourne AU City University London GB University of North Carolina, Chapel ill US = 45 Korea University KR = 20 The University of Queensland (UQ) AU Queensland University of Technology (QUT) AU Seoul National University (SNU) KR The University of Tokyo JP City University of ong Kong K Ohio State University US Indiana University Bloomington US University of Florida US University of Missouri, Columbia US Yonsei University KR Pennsylvania State University US Purdue University US Yale University US The University of Sydney AU University of Westminster GB University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US University of Oslo NO University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US Aarhus University DK Peking University CN Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR University of Maryland, College Park US = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE = 47 Loughborough University GB = University of ong Kong (KU) K = University of Iowa US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Stanford University US Carnegie Mellon University US University of Cambridge GB arvard University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of Oxford GB ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C National University of Singapore (NUS) SG Princeton University US The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K University of Edinburgh GB Imperial College London GB University of ong Kong (KU) K The University of Melbourne AU University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Australian National University (ANU) AU The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K University of Toronto CA The University of Tokyo JP Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = 26 Cornell University US = 17 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C = University of Waterloo CA UCL (University College London) GB = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US = University of Washington US = 29 The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = 34 Yale University US Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US University of Texas at Austin US = Technische Universität München DE = Tsinghua University CN = Peking University CN = KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR The University of Manchester GB The University of Sydney AU The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE = University of British Columbia CA = Seoul National University (SNU) KR = 48 University of Pennsylvania US Columbia University US National Taiwan University (NTU) TW = 49= New York University (NYU) US = 40= University of Chicago US Politecnico di Milano IT Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE = The ong Kong Polytechnic University K QS World University Rankings 11

12 Earth & Marine Sciences Economics & Econometrics 1 1= arvard University US University of Cambridge GB = University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Columbia University US University of Oxford GB Stanford University US ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US Australian National University (ANU) AU The University of Tokyo JP Princeton University US University of Edinburgh GB University of Colorado at Boulder US Imperial College London GB University of Chicago US = 11 University of Arizona US = 27 University of Michigan US = 29 University of Bristol GB = 22 University of Washington US University of Texas at Austin US Yale University US = 23 Durham University GB = 25 Pennsylvania State University US = 49= National Taiwan University (NTU) TW = 32 UCL (University College London) GB = 19 University of British Columbia CA University of Southampton GB Cornell University US University of Toronto CA Utrecht University NL = 36= Kyoto University JP = University of ong Kong (KU) K University of Leeds GB = The University of Melbourne AU University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US = The University of Western Australia (UWA) AU = Curtin University AU = 40= Tokyo Institute of Technology JP = 35 University of California, Irvine (UCI) US Colorado School of Mines US Peking University CN = 34 Tohoku University JP = 39 University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) US The University of Manchester GB = Macquarie University AU = 40= Nagoya University JP Universität Bremen DE arvard University US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB Stanford University US = 5 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = 4 University of Chicago US Princeton University US Yale University US University of Pennsylvania US University of Cambridge GB Columbia University US University of Oxford GB New York University (NYU) US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Northwestern University US National University of Singapore (NUS) SG UCL (University College London) GB Australian National University (ANU) AU The University of Tokyo JP Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi IT The University of Warwick GB Cornell University US The University of Melbourne AU Monash University AU = Duke University US = 25 University of Michigan US = 23 University of Toronto CA = University of ong Kong (KU) K University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K = London Business School GB Stockholm School of Economics SE = Peking University CN = The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K Seoul National University (SNU) KR University of British Columbia CA Tsinghua University CN Erasmus University Rotterdam NL Brown University US Universitat Pompeu Fabra ES ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C = 49 Kyoto University JP = 35= The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ES = Boston University US The University of Sydney AU Korea University KR = Tilburg University NL QS World University Rankings

13 Education Engineering - Chemical 1 7 Institute of Education, University of London GB The University of Melbourne AU arvard University US University of Cambridge GB Stanford University US Monash University AU University of Oxford GB The University of Sydney AU University of Toronto CA The University of Queensland (UQ) AU Columbia University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG University of Wisconsin-Madison US University of ong Kong (KU) K University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US University of Edinburgh GB King's College London (KCL) GB University of Michigan US = Michigan State University US = Boston College US Deakin University AU University of British Columbia CA The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU University of Bristol GB = 49 Ohio State University US = 26 The University of Nottingham GB = 40 University of Texas at Austin US = Pennsylvania State University US University of Cape Town ZA The University of Western Australia (UWA) AU The University of Auckland NZ = 37 Australian National University (ANU) AU = 25 The University of Tokyo JP Curtin University AU Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX = University of Washington US = 35 McGill University CA = 27= University of Leeds GB National Taiwan Normal University TW = Beijing Normal University CN = 36 The University of Manchester GB = Indiana University Bloomington US = The University of Georgia US = University of Waikato NZ The Open University GB Vanderbilt University US University of Pennsylvania US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US Stanford University US University of Cambridge GB National University of Singapore (NUS) SG Imperial College London GB The University of Tokyo JP = 10 Delft University of Technology NL = 7 Kyoto University JP California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C Tsinghua University CN = 4 University of Oxford GB = 23= University of Texas at Austin US Princeton University US = The University of Melbourne AU Seoul National University (SNU) KR University of Minnesota US University of Wisconsin-Madison US = The University of Queensland (UQ) AU KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR = 25 Monash University AU = 18 The University of Manchester GB = Northwestern University US Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K National Taiwan University (NTU) TW = Tohoku University JP = Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US = 37 University of Pennsylvania US = 32 Osaka University JP = 46= Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTEC) KR = 27 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = 26 Yale University US University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische ochschule Aachen DE = UCL (University College London) GB Purdue University US = 33 Cornell University US = 49 National Tsing ua University TW = 29= Technical University of Denmark DK = 43 Tokyo Institute of Technology JP University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US University of Michigan US Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C = 31 The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = 28 University of Toronto CA = 42 KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE = 39 Technische Universität München DE Korea University KR QS World University Rankings 13

14 Engineering - Civil & Structural Engineering - Electrical & Electronic 1 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = 3 The University of Tokyo JP = 22 University of Cambridge GB University of Texas at Austin US National University of Singapore (NUS) SG Kyoto University JP Imperial College London GB = University of ong Kong (KU) K Stanford University US The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C Delft University of Technology NL = 16 The ong Kong Polytechnic University K = 12 The University of Sydney AU = Politecnico di Milano IT The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU University of Canterbury NZ Tsinghua University CN = 8= Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = 18= Tongji University CN Purdue University US = 20 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C = 35 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US = Texas A&M University US University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US National Technical University of Athens GR Tokyo Institute of Technology JP Monash University AU City University of ong Kong K KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR University of Toronto CA University of California, Davis (UCD) US National Taiwan University (NTU) TW Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ES Cornell University US Seoul National University (SNU) KR University of Oxford GB = KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE Politecnico di Torino IT = California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US = 27 The University of Queensland (UQ) AU The University of Melbourne AU University of Newcastle AU KT, Royal Institute of Technology SE Queensland University of Technology (QUT) AU = Technical University of Denmark DK Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) IN = 39 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) IN = University of British Columbia CA Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Stanford University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of Cambridge GB ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C National University of Singapore (NUS) SG University of Oxford GB Imperial College London GB arvard University US = Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K = 21 Tsinghua University CN = 7 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = The University of Tokyo JP California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US = Princeton University US = Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C Seoul National University (SNU) KR = National Taiwan University (NTU) TW University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US = University of Texas at Austin US = University of Toronto CA KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR Tokyo Institute of Technology JP University of Michigan US = University of ong Kong (KU) K The University of Melbourne AU Australian National University (ANU) AU = Technische Universität München DE = KT, Royal Institute of Technology SE Carnegie Mellon University US = The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = 42= Kyoto University JP = 31 Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN Peking University CN = Delft University of Technology NL = 30 Politecnico di Torino IT = 22= The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K = 24= The University of Manchester GB Politecnico di Milano IT Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) IN = 38 Cornell University US = 40 The University of Sydney AU = 48= Purdue University US = Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische ochschule Aachen DE = University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US = Technical University of Denmark DK = Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) IN = University of Southern California US QS World University Rankings

15 Engineering - Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing English Language & Literature 1 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Stanford University US University of Cambridge GB = University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of Michigan US = 4= Imperial College London GB = 6= National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = arvard University US University of Oxford GB The University of Tokyo JP Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US Purdue University US Tsinghua University CN = Northwestern University US The University of Melbourne AU Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische ochschule Aachen DE Delft University of Technology NL The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K = KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR = KT, Royal Institute of Technology SE Princeton University US University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US Seoul National University (SNU) KR = 14 ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C = 26 The University of Sydney AU = 39 Cornell University US = 23= University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = 33= Kyoto University JP = 31 Politecnico di Milano IT = 23= Technische Universität München DE Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN = 37= National Taiwan University (NTU) TW = 35 University of ong Kong (KU) K Tokyo Institute of Technology JP = 33= Pennsylvania State University US = 37= The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU Cranfield University GB Peking University CN Monash University AU The ong Kong Polytechnic University K Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTEC) KR The University of Manchester GB = Tohoku University JP = University of Pennsylvania US Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C = McGill University CA = 47 Universität Stuttgart DE = University of Texas at Austin US University of Oxford GB University of Cambridge GB arvard University US Yale University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of Chicago US Stanford University US = 10= Columbia University US = 7 Princeton University US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of Pennsylvania US Cornell University US University of Toronto CA = University of Edinburgh GB UCL (University College London) GB The University of Warwick GB = 19= Duke University US = 14 National University of Singapore (NUS) SG The University of Sydney AU The University of Queensland (UQ) AU The University of Melbourne AU University of Alberta CA University of Michigan US The University of Manchester GB Trinity College Dublin (TCD) IE = University of York GB Monash University AU University of Otago NZ University of Texas at Austin US University of Glasgow GB Victoria University of Wellington NZ = University of Virginia US = University of British Columbia CA McGill University CA University of California, Irvine (UCI) US University of Leeds GB The University of Auckland NZ Pennsylvania State University US University of Birmingham GB University of Bristol GB = 25 New York University (NYU) US = 47= The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU University of Exeter GB The University of Nottingham GB Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) GB Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG Ohio State University US King's College London (KCL) GB Indiana University Bloomington US University of Cape Town ZA QS World University Rankings 15

16 Environmental Sciences Geography 1 1 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US arvard University US = 5 ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C = 7 University of Cambridge GB Stanford University US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of Oxford GB Wageningen University NL Imperial College London GB University of Michigan US The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = 23 Australian National University (ANU) AU = 18 The University of Melbourne AU = National University of Singapore (NUS) SG University of California, Davis (UCD) US Yale University US = Tsinghua University CN Seoul National University (SNU) KR Delft University of Technology NL = 15= Cornell University US = 39= Technical University of Denmark DK University of Colorado at Boulder US = 33= University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = 28 University of East Anglia (UEA) GB = 49 The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K = 25 The University of Tokyo JP = University of British Columbia CA = 30= Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) MY = 21 University of Toronto CA Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US Lund University SE = 26= Columbia University US = 14 University of Wisconsin-Madison US = Peking University CN The University of Sheffield GB = Duke University US = University of Birmingham GB Stockholm University SE = Arizona State University US The University of Manchester GB Kyoto University JP University of Washington US = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US University of Texas at Austin US = California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US = Princeton University US = University of Edinburgh GB = 42= Carnegie Mellon University US = Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU University of Oxford GB London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB University of Cambridge GB Durham University GB University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US UCL (University College London) GB = The University of Manchester GB = National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = University of British Columbia CA = Australian National University (ANU) AU University of Toronto CA University of Leeds GB University of Edinburgh GB University of Bristol GB The University of Melbourne AU University of Amsterdam NL = 15 University of Wisconsin-Madison US = 21 Utrecht University NL Stockholm University SE = 26 Lund University SE = 48= University of Exeter GB Monash University AU The University of Sheffield GB University of ong Kong (KU) K The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = University of East Anglia (UEA) GB = University of Minnesota US = 17 University of Washington US Pennsylvania State University US Newcastle University GB University of Glasgow GB King's College London (KCL) GB University of Cape Town ZA The University of Sydney AU University of Birmingham GB Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE University of Sussex GB = 50= The University of Nottingham GB = University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US Ohio State University US Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR = Arizona State University US = Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR University of North Carolina, Chapel ill US = umboldt-universität zu Berlin DE = University of Colorado at Boulder US The University of Tokyo JP Lancaster University GB = University of elsinki FI QS World University Rankings

17 istory Law 1 1 University of Cambridge GB University of Oxford GB arvard University US Yale University US Princeton University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB University of Chicago US Stanford University US = University of Michigan US Columbia University US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR Freie Universität Berlin DE Australian National University (ANU) AU umboldt-universität zu Berlin DE University of Wisconsin-Madison US Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE University of Toronto CA Cornell University US Johns opkins University US = The University of Melbourne AU = Duke University US The University of Warwick GB = Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX King's College London (KCL) GB Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE Leiden University NL Kyoto University JP University of Otago NZ Universität Freiburg DE = 11 UCL (University College London) GB = 46 University of Pennsylvania US = Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) BR = 25= University of British Columbia CA Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) FR The University of Tokyo JP = La Trobe University AU = University of ong Kong (KU) K National University of Singapore (NUS) SG Utrecht University NL Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro BR = 43 Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) ES = 44= University of Texas at Austin US = The University of Sydney AU = 29= Durham University GB = 35 New York University (NYU) US = Trinity College Dublin (TCD) IE = Peking University CN = 29= The University of Manchester GB = Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR arvard University US University of Oxford GB University of Cambridge GB Yale University US New York University (NYU) US Stanford University US London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB The University of Melbourne AU University of Chicago US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US Columbia University US UCL (University College London) GB The University of Sydney AU The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU Australian National University (ANU) AU Monash University AU Georgetown University US University of ong Kong (KU) K National University of Singapore (NUS) SG King's College London (KCL) GB University of Toronto CA = The University of Tokyo JP Leiden University NL = 41= Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE = 29 University of Pennsylvania US Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR = 37= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE = 24 The University of Auckland NZ Cornell University US University of Michigan US University of Edinburgh GB McGill University CA The University of Nottingham GB University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of British Columbia CA University of Otago NZ The University of Warwick GB University of Virginia US University of Cape Town ZA = Universität amburg DE Duke University US = Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile CL = Tsinghua University CN = Northwestern University US The University of Adelaide AU = University of Bristol GB Utrecht University NL Victoria University of Wellington NZ = University of Amsterdam NL

18 Linguistics Mathematics 1 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of Edinburgh GB University of Oxford GB Stanford University US University of Cambridge GB arvard University US University of Massachusetts, Amherst US Lancaster University GB University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US Australian National University (ANU) AU The University of Melbourne AU University of Pennsylvania US UCL (University College London) GB Ohio State University US National University of Singapore (NUS) SG Monash University AU University of ong Kong (KU) K = University of Chicago US The University of Tokyo JP The University of Sydney AU Peking University CN = The ong Kong Polytechnic University K City University of ong Kong K University of Amsterdam NL = 23 Leiden University NL = University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US = McGill University CA University of Birmingham GB University of Texas at Austin US University of Arizona US University of Toronto CA The University of Manchester GB = 42 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US = 32 University of Maryland, College Park US The University of Auckland NZ = The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US University of British Columbia CA Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE Radboud University Nijmegen NL Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG Macquarie University AU = 37= New York University (NYU) US = The University of Nottingham GB Fudan University CN Tsinghua University CN = The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K Universität amburg DE = Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE = Seoul National University (SNU) KR arvard University US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of Oxford GB = 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = 1 University of Cambridge GB = 6 Princeton University US = 8 Stanford University US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C New York University (NYU) US = Imperial College London GB University of Chicago US = National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US = University of Toronto CA Carnegie Mellon University US University of Texas at Austin US Columbia University US University of Michigan US Australian National University (ANU) AU Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech FR = Yale University US The University of Tokyo JP University of Waterloo CA The University of Warwick GB The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US University of British Columbia CA Kyoto University JP Peking University CN = 27= The University of Sydney AU = University of Edinburgh GB University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US University of Bristol GB Tsinghua University CN = 32= Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C = UCL (University College London) GB Cornell University US Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR = Brown University US = 32= City University of ong Kong K = Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn DE = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US Technische Universität München DE = 50= Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) FR = 40 The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K = 44 University of ong Kong (KU) K = Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG Lomonosov Moscow State University RU = The University of Manchester GB QS World University Rankings

19 Medicine Materials Science 1 1 arvard University US University of Oxford GB University of Cambridge GB Stanford University US University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Johns opkins University US Yale University US UCL (University College London) GB University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) US Imperial College London GB University of Pennsylvania US The University of Melbourne AU Columbia University US University of Toronto CA Duke University US Karolinska Institute SE The University of Sydney AU Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US King's College London (KCL) GB The University of Tokyo JP = 20 National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = 22 University of Michigan US University of Washington US = 24 University of ong Kong (KU) K = 49 Washington University in St. Louis US McGill University CA Erasmus University Rotterdam NL = University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US = 37 The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = 27 University of Edinburgh GB Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE = New York University (NYU) US Monash University AU = University of Copenhagen DK Kyoto University JP = 32 Cornell University US = 47= Leiden University NL Mayo Medical School US University of British Columbia CA = The University of Manchester GB University of Zurich C = The University of Queensland (UQ) AU National Taiwan University (NTU) TW = 43= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE = 43= University of Amsterdam NL = 30= University of Chicago US = 41 University of Pittsburgh US Boston University US The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K McMaster University CA Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US = 3 Stanford University US = 4 University of Cambridge GB Imperial College London GB University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = 6 National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = 7 Northwestern University US Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG University of Oxford GB Tsinghua University CN = Tohoku University JP arvard University US ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C Carnegie Mellon University US = Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR = 25= The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = 16 The University of Tokyo JP The University of Manchester GB Tokyo Institute of Technology JP = 12= Pennsylvania State University US = 12= University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = 22 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US = 15 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische ochschule Aachen DE = Kyoto University JP = University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US Peking University CN = The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K = University of Michigan US = 23= Seoul National University (SNU) KR = 29 Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN University of Pennsylvania US University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US = 31 Cornell University US = 36 Osaka University JP = 42 Monash University AU = 49 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTEC) KR The University of Sheffield GB Delft University of Technology NL The University of Queensland (UQ) AU Princeton University US Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE National Taiwan University (NTU) TW University of Toronto CA = 50 Indian Institute of Science IN = 39 KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE = KT, Royal Institute of Technology SE = 45= Purdue University US Zhejiang University CN

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21 Modern Languages Pharmacy & Pharmacology 1 1 University of Oxford GB University of Cambridge GB arvard University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = 7 Stanford University US = 5 Yale University US Princeton University US = UCL (University College London) GB = University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K University of Edinburgh GB The University of Tokyo JP = 16 Australian National University (ANU) AU = 12 University of Toronto CA = Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) FR = University of ong Kong (KU) K Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Columbia University US umboldt-universität zu Berlin DE Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE Peking University CN = The University of Melbourne AU The University of Warwick GB Cornell University US = Universidad de Buenos Aires AR University of Chicago US Duke University US ankuk University of Foreign Studies KR = Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE Freie Universität Berlin DE SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London GB = The University of Manchester GB Kyoto University JP McGill University CA Waseda University JP Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX University of Michigan US Brown University US Yonsei University KR The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K = Trinity College Dublin (TCD) IE University of Amsterdam NL Indiana University Bloomington US = The University of Auckland NZ = The University of Sydney AU = Seoul National University (SNU) KR University of York GB = 37 King's College London (KCL) GB = 22 New York University (NYU) US arvard University US University of Oxford GB King's College London (KCL) GB UCL (University College London) GB The University of Manchester GB University of Cambridge GB Karolinska Institute SE = Monash University AU The University of Nottingham GB Yale University US = The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU = 6 Imperial College London GB = 7= National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = 14 The University of Tokyo JP = University of Michigan US = 9 University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) US = 18 University of Toronto CA University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US University of Arizona US = Leiden University NL Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE University of British Columbia CA University of Pennsylvania US Kyoto University JP Duke University US = University of Wisconsin-Madison US University of Geneva C Johns opkins University US = 22= Seoul National University (SNU) KR = 42 University of Copenhagen DK The University of Sydney AU = The University of Melbourne AU = 25= The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = 28 Uppsala University SE = Columbia University US = ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C University of ong Kong (KU) K Peking University CN The University of Auckland NZ McGill University CA University of Strathclyde GB = 34 University of Alberta CA = 36 University of Washington US University of Glasgow GB = 45 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE = 49 University of North Carolina, Chapel ill US Sungkyunkwan University KR Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR = Mahidol University T = University of Birmingham GB = University of Southern California US QS World University Rankings 21

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23 Philosophy Physics & Astronomy 1 4 New York University (NYU) US University of Oxford GB University of Pittsburgh US Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick US University of Cambridge GB arvard University US Princeton University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US Stanford University US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Yale University US University of Michigan US Australian National University (ANU) AU London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB University of Toronto CA University of Notre Dame US = 15 Columbia University US = 31 Fudan University CN = 20 University of Chicago US Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR University of St Andrews GB Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE = Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (ENS Paris) FR Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) FR umboldt-universität zu Berlin DE King's College London (KCL) GB The University of Tokyo JP Peking University CN = 40 Boston University US = University of Arizona US University of North Carolina, Chapel ill US Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX McGill University CA Tsinghua University CN Freie Universität Berlin DE University of Edinburgh GB Cornell University US = Universität Frankfurt am Main DE University of ong Kong (KU) K Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) BR Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE = Duke University US = Ohio State University US = Renmin (People s) University of China CN Universidad de Buenos Aires AR Brown University US City University of New York US Universität Wien AT Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US arvard University US University of Cambridge GB Stanford University US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US University of Oxford GB Princeton University US California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US The University of Tokyo JP Imperial College London GB ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C University of Chicago US Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE Columbia University US = 14= Cornell University US = 17 Technische Universität München DE Yale University US University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US = Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) C University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US Kyoto University JP University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US = Sapienza - Università di Roma IT = 23 KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE = 42 Università di Pisa IT = University of Michigan US Ruprecht-Karls-Universität eidelberg DE The University of Manchester GB University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US = 30= Osaka University JP = 25= Tohoku University JP Peking University CN The University of Melbourne AU Tokyo Institute of Technology JP = UCL (University College London) GB = University of Texas at Austin US = 30= Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische ochschule Aachen DE = 38 Seoul National University (SNU) KR = 39= University of Edinburgh GB University of Pennsylvania US Boston University US = 33= Durham University GB = 32 National University of Singapore (NUS) SG Université Paris-Sud 11 FR = University of British Columbia CA Ecole Polytechnique ParisTech FR University of Wisconsin-Madison US Tsinghua University CN Lomonosov Moscow State University RU Universität amburg DE

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25 Politics & International Studies Psychology 1 1 arvard University US University of Oxford GB London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB Princeton University US Yale University US University of Cambridge GB Australian National University (ANU) AU Stanford University US = National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US Columbia University US The University of Tokyo JP Sciences Po Paris FR = 15 Georgetown University US = 31= University of Chicago US University of ong Kong (KU) K Johns opkins University US Cornell University US Fudan University CN New York University (NYU) US Peking University CN Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Kyoto University JP = The University of Sydney AU The University of Melbourne AU The University of Auckland NZ University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US = King's College London (KCL) GB University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US = Seoul National University (SNU) KR = Yonsei University KR University of Pennsylvania US University of Toronto CA Leiden University NL = Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = 33 University of Edinburgh GB University of Michigan US City University of ong Kong K The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = Tsinghua University CN Korea University KR The University of Manchester GB = 23= The University of Warwick GB = University of Amsterdam NL = Trinity College Dublin (TCD) IE UCL (University College London) GB McGill University CA Monash University AU Duke University US arvard University US University of Cambridge GB University of Oxford GB = Stanford University US Yale University US = University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of Michigan US New York University (NYU) US UCL (University College London) GB = 7 The University of Melbourne AU = 11 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US Princeton University US University of Pennsylvania US The University of Queensland (UQ) AU The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU University of Amsterdam NL Columbia University US = University of Toronto CA University of Otago NZ McGill University CA University of Chicago US London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US The University of Sydney AU = 28 National University of Singapore (NUS) SG = 18 University of ong Kong (KU) K University of British Columbia CA = King's College London (KCL) GB University of Edinburgh GB Australian National University (ANU) AU = The University of Western Australia (UWA) AU = 36 Duke University US = 44 University of Ghent BE = The University of Auckland NZ Maastricht University NL = The University of Manchester GB = Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE = 48 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE = 27 Monash University AU Cardiff University GB The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K University of York GB University of Wisconsin-Madison US University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG University of Minnesota US = University of Texas at Austin US = 45 Macquarie University AU = 47 Peking University CN = Vanderbilt University US QS World University Rankings 25

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27 Sociology Statistics & Operational Research 1 2 arvard University US = 1 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US = 3 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of Wisconsin-Madison US London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) GB University of Oxford GB = Stanford University US University of Chicago US Columbia University US Princeton University US University of Michigan US University of Cambridge GB = Yale University US = 17 Australian National University (ANU) AU = 13 The University of Manchester GB = University of Edinburgh GB = National University of Singapore (NUS) SG University of Amsterdam NL New York University (NYU) US University of North Carolina, Chapel ill US University of Toronto CA The University of Queensland (UQ) AU = The University of Warwick GB = University of Essex GB = Cornell University US Lancaster University GB Utrecht University NL = The University of Melbourne AU = Duke University US = 31= Monash University AU = Seoul National University (SNU) KR = umboldt-universität zu Berlin DE = Universität Bielefeld DE = Freie Universität Berlin DE Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US Sciences Po Paris FR = University of Pennsylvania US University of Surrey GB The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K Northwestern University US = University of Bristol GB = 40= University of ong Kong (KU) K = Johns opkins University US = 50 University of California, Irvine (UCI) US = 36= University of Texas at Austin US University of British Columbia CA = City University of New York US = Yonsei University KR = Peking University CN = 28 Stockholm University SE Stanford University US Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US arvard University US Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US University of Cambridge GB National University of Singapore (NUS) SG University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US University of Oxford GB Imperial College London GB ET Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) C University of Michigan US Carnegie Mellon University US The University of Tokyo JP The ong Kong University of Science and Technology (KUST) K Columbia University US Cornell University US = Duke University US University of ong Kong (KU) K Tsinghua University CN Princeton University US University of Pennsylvania US University of Washington US The University of Melbourne AU Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE University of British Columbia CA University of Toronto CA = The University of Warwick GB University of Wisconsin-Madison US Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG = Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN = Purdue University US Texas A&M University US Australian National University (ANU) AU University of North Carolina, Chapel ill US Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) FR Northwestern University US University of Chicago US The ong Kong Polytechnic University K Université de Montréal CA University of Texas at Austin US = Peking University CN The Chinese University of ong Kong (CUK) K Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) BE Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR Seoul National University (SNU) KR UCL (University College London) GB = University of Southampton GB University of Minnesota US University of Maryland, College Park US QS World University Rankings 27

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29 Top Universities by Discipline Area By Danny Byrne Arts and humanities This year s rankings cover six subjects within the arts and humanities: English language and literature, geography, history, linguistics, modern languages, and philosophy. UK universities are particularly strong across this area of study, and University of Oxford is the world s top-performing arts and humanities institution, coming top in three of the six rankings: English language and literature, geography and modern languages. It also ranks second for both philosophy and history, and fourth for linguistics. ome to the Oxford English Dictionary and one of the world s largest English faculties, Oxford s place at the summit of the rankings for English Language and Literature will come as little surprise. Cambridge follows Oxford in second, with both repeating their performance. Edinburgh, UCL and Warwick all make the top 20, while Ireland s Trinity College Dublin ranks 25th. Despite the UK stranglehold on the top two spots, US institutions otherwise dominate the top 10, led by arvard, Yale and Berkeley. US institutions that rank well in English compared to their position in the overall QS World University Rankings include UCLA (10th), Duke (17th) and UT Austin (29th), though in general the rankings confirm that the traditional elite schools remain at the head of the field in this area of study. If Oxbridge and the Ivies continue to dominate English, the picture is very different in philosophy. New York University is the global number one, while University of Pittsburgh and Rutgers both make the top five. The success of all three is driven by academic reputation, reflecting a recognition by specialists within the field of their outstanding research faculty. s in the field of geography rate London School of Economics as the global number one, but Oxford s superior employer reputation and citation rates push it into the top spot. Cambridge, Durham, UCL and the University of Manchester all make the top ten, showing that this is a field in which the UK is currently the world leader. Geography degree programs are far less common in the US, where the subject is often incorporated into other areas of the humanities and social sciences. The two US institutions that currently offer world-leading programs in geography are California institutions Berkeley (5th) and UCLA (6th). MIT s reputation in linguistics is closely linked to the ground-breaking work of Noam Chomsky, one of the most cited humanities scholars of all time, and it takes the number one spot with a perfect score for academic reputation. Engineering and Technology MIT is the clear world-leader in engineering and technology, completing a clean sweep of number one spots across the four areas of engineering (chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical) plus computer science. Interestingly, MIT performs significantly more strongly across this area of study than its rival and fellow specialist California Institute of Technology. Asian government investment in higher education has centered on the high-impact STEM disciplines in recent years, and the rankings

30 reveal several world-class departments across the region. National University of Singapore makes the global top ten in all five of the engineering and technology disciplines, with its highest position coming in chemical engineering (5th). Fellow Singapore institution Nanyang Technological University ranks 10th for electrical and 12th for mechanical engineering. Asia accounts for ten of the top 30 institutions in chemical, civil and electrical engineering, and eight in mechanical engineering, showing that several institutions throughout the region can now be considered serious global players. While there is still no Asian university in the top 20 of the overall QS World University Rankings, ong Kong alone has three institutions in the top 20 of this year s ranking for computer science: KUST (11th), KU (14th), and Chinese University of ong Kong (18th). Elsewhere, ET Zurich underlines its position as a world-leader in the STEM disciplines, with high positions in this year s rankings for electrical engineering (5th) and computer science (8th). Life Sciences and Medicine If MIT dominates the field of engineering and technology, arvard is the undisputed number one in life sciences and medicine, topping the tables for biological sciences, medicine, psychology, and pharmacy and pharmacology. The only ranking in this field of study with a different name at the top of the table is agriculture, which is topped for the second year running by University of California, Davis. The relatively specialized nature of agricultural studies means this is one of the most distinctive-looking tables in this year s rankings, with a collection of big US public universities dominating the top ten. UC Davis is joined in the top ten by University of Wisconsin- Madison, Iowa State University, Oregon State University, Purdue University, Texas A&M University and Ohio State University. Cornell and Berkeley are the only institutions in the top 10 that rank near the top of the overall QS World University Rankings, while the only non-us institution is Netherlands Wageningen University (2nd). Pharmacy and psychology are both relatively strong areas for Australian universities. Monash University (8th) and University of New South Wales (11th) both place well for pharmacy, and University of Melbourne ranks 10th for psychology. If MIT dominates the field of engineering and technology, arvard is the undisputed number one in life sciences and medicine... One specialist institution that ranks particularly well in this discipline range is Sweden s Karolinska Institute, ranking 7th for pharmacy and 16th for medicine. Pharmacy also sees strong performances from several UK institutions, with King s College London (3rd), UCL (4th), University of Manchester (5th), Cambridge (6th) and University of Nottingham (9th) all making the top ten. Natural Sciences The massive research budgets of the leading US private institutions ensure that they continue to dominate this area of study. MIT takes the top spots in physics, chemistry and materials science and arvard is number one in mathematics and earth & marine sciences, though public institution Berkeley tops the table in environmental sciences. Environmental science is also the strongest subject for Switzerland s ET Zurich (3rd). Fellow continental European institution Wageningen University (8th) joins it in the top ten, while the Netherlands Delft University of Technology (19th) and Technical University of Denmark (20) make the top 20. The subject also features strong performances from three Australian institutions: The University of Queensland (11th), The University of Melbourne (12th) and Australian National University (13th). Materials science is a very strong subject for Singapore, with NUS (6th) and NTU (8th) both making the top ten. China s Tsinghua University (10th) and Japan s Tohuku University (11th) join them near the top of the table, while fellow Asian institutions KAIST (16th), University of Tokyo (17th) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (20) all make the top 20. Physics sees several strong performances from continental European institutions, with Switzerland s ET Zurich (11th) and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (19th) joined in the top 20 by German institutions Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München (13th) and Technische Universität München (16th). Social sciences and management arvard is again the dominant institution in the social sciences, topping the tables for accounting and finance, law, economics, politics and sociology. owever, there are also some less familiar names at the top of the tables in this subject grouping, with University of Wisconsin-Madison topping the table for communication and media studies, and the UK s Institute of Education ranking number one in its specialist subject, education. Communication and media studies covers a diverse range of interconnected areas of study, and features a top ten made up largely of institutions stronger in this area of study than they are overall. University of Wisconsin-Madison is joined in the top ten by University of Southern California (4th), UT Austin (5th) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne (6th=), as well as two of the more familiar big names, Berkeley (3rd) and Stanford (8th). The UK s London School of Economics ranks second, while Singapore s NUS (6th=) and NTU (9th) both make the top ten, as does Netherlands institution, University of Amsterdam (10th). London School of Economics also ranks well for accounting and finance (3rd), where it is joined in the top ten by neighbouring institution London Business School (7th). Australia s University of Melbourne (8th=) and University of New South Wales (10th) make the top ten, ahead of University of Sydney in 13th. Another area of comparative strength for Australia is politics, in which ANU ranks 7th. Politics is also the strongest area for French institution Sciences Po (13th). 30 QS World University Rankings

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