QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020

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LONDON, Mar. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

MIT world leader, US universities regress

QS Quacquarelli Symonds – global higher education think-tank – today released

the tenth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject: an extensive

guide to the performance of 13,138 individual university programs, taken by

students at 1368 universities which can be found in 83 locations across the

world, across 48 academic disciplines and five 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 system remains 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 overall year-on-year

improvement, with more rises (306) than drops (238);  

- Mainland China records 100 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 universities begin recording moderate improvements, with 53 programs

improving and only 29 declining: there is also an 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, while the

continent's leading individual institutions are Universidad Nacional Autónoma

de México (12 top-50 programs) and Brazil's Universidade de 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-10 rank

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.

Ben Sowter, 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 to that of 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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SOURCE: QS Quacquarelli Symonds