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LONDON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

QS Quacquarelli Symonds – international higher education think-tank – have

today released the eleventh edition of the QS World University Rankings by

Subject [https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2021]: an extensive

independent comparative analysis on the performance of 13,883 individual

university programs, taken by students at 1440 universities in 85 locations

across the world, across 51 academic disciplines. They are part of the annual

QS World University Rankings portfolio, which was consulted over 147 million

times in 2020, and covered 98,000 times by media and institutions.

Global Highlights

- Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the

strongest-performing institutions across the exercise, ranking number-one in

twelve subjects.

- The United Kingdom's higher education sector remains resilient. 13 of the 51

subject tables are topped by a British university, with the University of

Oxford leading five of those 13.

- Chinese higher education continues to reach new heights, with the sector

attaining a record number of programs now achieving a top-50 rank.

- No university has a larger number of top-50 departments than Canada's

University of Toronto (46).

- Switzerland's ETH Zurich is continental Europe's top university, achieving

number-one spots for Geology, Geophysics, and Earth & Marine Sciences. Based on

its share of top-10 ranks, Switzerland is the world's third-best higher

education sector.

- Australia now possesses its lowest number of programs ranking among the top

10 in the world in the last three years. Its total of 13 top-10 departments is

fewer than in 2020 (17), and 2019 (18). - Two-thirds of Australian National

University's programs have fallen year-on-year.

- Backed by strong endowments, two Singaporean universities hold number-one

positions: Nanyang Technological University is #1 for Materials Science, while

the National University of Singapore – - Asia's best-performing university – is

#1 for Petroleum Engineering.

- Conversely, Japanese higher education is in relative decline after decades of

underfunding for research and PhD students.

- India's Institutes of Eminence program is struggling to yield results, with

no increase in top-100 representation for India's public Institutes of

Eminence.

- Russian higher education continues to move from strength to strength, with a

record number of departments achieving top-20 places.

- Driven by world-class performances in Dentistry, Petroleum Engineering, and

Mining Engineering, Universidade de São Paulo (USP) has retained its status as

Latin America's best-performing university in this exercise.

- The University of Cape Town remains Africa's most competitive institution,

with 24 of its programs placing among the top-200.

Jack Moran, QS Spokesperson, said: "Observing performance trends across nearly

14,000 university departments enables us to draw some conclusions about the

commonalities between nations that are improving and nations that are not.

Three factors stand out. First, an international outlook – both in terms of

faculty body and research relationships – correlates strongly with improved

performance. Second, rising universities have received strong targeted

investment from governments over a decade or more – particularly in China,

Russia, and Singapore. Third, improving relationships with industry is

correlated with better employment, research, and innovation outcomes."

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

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