QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020

London (ots/PRNewswire) - 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:
(https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2020) 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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