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LONDON, April 6, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Top universities in 51 disciplines revealed

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

released the twelfth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject [

https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2022 ]: an independent

comparative analysis of the performance of 15,200 individual university

programs taken by students at 1543 universities in 88 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 2021 on TopUniversities.com and covered

96,000 times by media and institutions.

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022

                 Number of top-10 programs

United States                 239

United Kingdom              131

Switzerland                  　31

Singapore                  　  23

Canada                            19

The Netherlands              15

Australia                           13

Hong Kong S.A.R.               7

France                                6

Italy                                    6

China (Mainland)               4

Global Highlights

·  US institutions lead in 28 of the 51 subjects ranked. Harvard University and

MIT remain the strongest-performing institutions, ranking number one in twelve

subjects.  

·  Fifteeen subject tables are topped by a British university, with the

University of Oxford leading in six.

·  ETH Zurich is continental Europe's top university, achieving number-one

spots in three subjects. Moreover, based on its share of top-10 ranks,

Switzerland is the world's third-best higher education sector.  

·  Australia is the fourth most represented country for the number of entries

·  China (Mainland) ranks fifth globally for the number of programs (100),

achieving a top-50 rank.  

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

Toronto (46).  

·  The National University of Singapore – Asia's best-performing university –

is the world's best for Petroleum Engineering. NUS ranks among the top-10 in

sixteen disciplines.

·  Japanese higher education is still in relative decline after decades of

underfunding for research and PhD students.

·  Universidad de Chile achieves Latin America's highest rank, 8th globally in

Engineering - Mineral & Mining, followed by UNAM (Mexico) 13th in Modern

Languages and Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP) 15th in Dentistry.

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

placing 9th globally in Development Studies.

·   King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, 6th globally for Petroleum

Engineering, achieves the Arab region's highest rank.

Ben Sowter, QS Research Director, said: "Observing performance trends across

over 15,000 university departments enables us to see which factors influence

success. First, an international outlook – both in terms of faculty body and

research relationships – correlates strongly with improved performance. Second,

rising universities received targeted investment from governments for over a

decade. Third, strengthening relationships with industry correlates with better

employment, research, and innovation outcomes."

Methodology [ https://www.topuuniversities.com/subject-rankings/methodology ]

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Source: QS Quacquarelli Symonds