UU直播 ranks first in Canada in 2019 QS World University subject rankings
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Published: February 27, 2019
Whether in classics and ancient history or electrical engineering, the UU直播 continues to demonstrate excellence in a wide range of fields.
UU直播 remains the highest-ranked university in Canada in five broad subject areas included , which were released today. It is also the only university in the world to rank in the top 50 for the vast majority of specific subjects included in the rankings.
UU直播 placed in the top ten globally in six QS subjects: library and information management (3rd), pharmacy and pharmacology (4th), sports-related subjects (5th), education (7th), nursing (7th), and anatomy and physiology (8th).
鈥淲e're pleased to see the UU直播 recognized for its strength across so many disciplines,鈥 said UU直播 President Meric Gertler. 鈥淭his breadth of excellence gives students in all subject areas the opportunity to study with some of the world's leading scholars.
鈥淚t also makes UU直播 one of the best places in the world to pursue the kind of multidisciplinary research required to address the increasingly complex challenges of our time.鈥
Quacquarelli Symonds, whose head office is in London, ranks the world's universities based on a variety of sources. They use academic and employer review surveys, each gathering tens of thousands of responses, to measure an institution's reputation by subject. They refer to Scopus, an abstract and citation database, to compile information about faculty members' impact and productivity. All data comes from third-party sources, not from the institutions themselves.
More than 1,200 institutions were ranked across 48 subjects this year. To compile this year's results, QS analyzed over 22 million papers, which produced close to 200 million citations.
UU直播鈥檚 ranking improved in 22 subjects this year, spanning a range of disciplines: arts and humanities; engineering and technology; life sciences and medicine; natural sciences; and social sciences and management. In modern languages, for example, UU直播 climbed nine spots to 21st place. In pharmacy and pharmacology, meanwhile, the university鈥檚 ranking rose to 4th place from 15th place a year earlier.
UU直播 ranked first in Canada in 30 of the 45 subject areas in which it was ranked, tying for first with another Canadian university in one subject. It was also one of a handful of universities that ranked in the top 25 for 34 subjects. Only six other universities ranked in the top 25 in more subjects. They are: University of California, Berkeley, University of Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles.
Overall, UU直播 continues to be the highest ranked Canadian university and one of the top ranked public universities in the five most closely watched international rankings: Times Higher Education, QS World University Rankings, Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 Best Global Universities and National Taiwan University World University Rankings.