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Author: QS Quacquarelli Symonds / 2023-07-23 14:50 / Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020

MIT world leader,US universities regress

LONDON,March 3,2020 -- QS Quacquarelli Symonds – global higher education think-tank – today released the tenth edition of theQS World University Rankings by Subject:an extensive guide to the performance of13,138 individual university programs,taken by students at1368 universitieswhich can be found in83 locations across the world,across48 academic disciplinesandfive broad Faculty Areas.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is world-leader in 12 subject tables-- more than any other institution. Harvard University leads in 11 subjects,while the University of Oxford leads 8 tables.

Key trends include:

The US higher education systemremains in regression. The number of top-50 programs – those ranking in the top 50 for their subject - offered by American universities has decreased from 806 in 2018 to 769 in 2020;

There are also decreases in the number of top-10,top-100,and top-200 programs offered by American institutions;

The United Kingdom's university programs have recorded overallyear-on-yearimprovement,with more rises (306) than drops (238);

Mainland Chinarecords100 top-50 programs for the first time,though its universities' rate of improvement is slowing;

The National University of Singapore is Asia's best-performing institution: 8 of its programs rank among the global top-10;

India's universitiesbeginrecordingmoderate improvements,with 53 programs improving and only 29 declining: thereis alsoan increase in the number of top-50 and top-100 programs provided by Indian higher education;

Russia's higher education system has continued to improve,with an increase in top-50 and top-100 programs;

Latin America's best-performing overall system is Colombia,whilethe continent'sleading individual institutions areUniversidad NacionalAutónomade México(12 top-50 programs) and Brazil'sUniversidadede São Paulo(11 top-50 programs).

The chart below shows which universities feature most frequently among the Top-10 globally across the 48 subjects ranked in 2020.

Best-Performing Institutions


Top-10rank

University of Cambridge

UK

38

Harvard University

US

35

University of Oxford

UK

34

University of California,Berkeley

US

32

Stanford University

US

30

MIT

US

21

ETH Zurich

Switzerland

13

LSE

UK

13

University of California,Los Angeles

US

11

Yale University

US

11

https://www.TopUniversities.com/subject-rankings/2020.

BenSowter,QS Director of Research,said: "After five years of relentless improvement,our dataset has illuminated a slowdown in Chinese progress. However,their trajectory is still superior tothatof American universities. We also find that Brexit does not yet appear to have jeopardized the research performance of British universities."

Methodology:https://www.TopUniversities.com/subject-rankings/methodology

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