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