Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released its World University Rankings by Subject for 2023. The world’s leading ranking provider, QS, has analyzed a total of 54 disciplines, grouped into six subject categories, for its 13th edition. History of Art, Data Science and Marketing are the new subjects ranked this year.
As per the 2023 rankings, Harvard tops the chart across four broad categories, namely, Arts & Humanities, Social Studies , Life Sciences & Medicine , and Natural Sciences . The university has claimed the lead in 14 disciplines, including History, Biological Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmacology , Psychology , Chemistry , Environmental Sciences, Accounting and Finance , Business and Management Studies, Economics and Econometrics, Law and Legal Studies , Politics, Sociology , Social Policy and Medicine.
MIT continues to maintain its dominance in Engineering & Technology, as per the QS subject rankings 2023. The institute has bagged #1 rank across 11 disciplines: Chemical Engineering ; Civil and Structural Engineering ; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence ; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Linguistics ; Materials Science; Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering; Mathematics ; Physics and Astronomy ; and Statistics and Operational Research.
The rankings, this time, feature 15,700 academic programs from 1,594 institutions in 93 countries and territories.
Here is an overview of the 2023 rankings across the six broad subject categories:
Arts & Humanities
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023 University QS World Rankings by Subject 2022 University
1
Harvard University, US
1
University of Oxford , UK
2
University of Cambridge , UK2
University of Cambridge, UK
3
University of Oxford, UK
3
Harvard University, US
4
Stanford University , US4
University of California , US
5
University of California, US
5
Stanford University, US
Social Studies & Management
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023 University QS World Rankings by Subject 2022 University
1
Harvard University, US
1
Harvard University, US
2
University of Oxford, UK
2
University of Oxford, UK
3
Stanford University, US
3
The London Schoolof Economics & Political Science (LSE)
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
4
University of Cambridge, UK
5
The London School Of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
5
Stanford University, US
Engineering & Technology
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023 University QS World Rankings by Subject 2022 University
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
2
Stanford University, US
2
University of Cambridge, UK
3
University of Cambridge, UK
3
University of Oxford, UK
4
University of Oxford, UK
4
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
5
University of California, US
5
Stanford University, US
Life Sciences & Medicine
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023 University QS World Rankings by Subject 2022 University
1
Harvard University, US
1
Harvard University, US
2
University of Oxford, UK
2
University of Oxford, UK
3
Johns Hopkins University , US3
Johns Hopkins University, US
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
4
University of Cambridge, UK
5
Stanford University, US
5
Stanford University, US
Natural Sciences
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023 University QS World Rankings by Subject 2022 University
1
Harvard University, US
1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US
2
Harvard University, US
3
University of Cambridge, UK
3
University of Cambridge, UK
4
Stanford University, US
4
University of Oxford, UK
5
University of Oxford, UK
5
Stanford University, US
Art History
QS World Rankings by Subject 2023 University
1
Royal College of Art, UK
Columbia University , US
2
3
The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
4
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
5
Tsinghua University, China
Source: Topuniversities.com
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Research Citations per paper
Employer Reputation
H-Index (way of measuring productivity & impact of a university department)
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