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QS Yearbook 2021

QS World University Rankings 2021 Yearbook

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2nd edition, May 2021

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Acknowledgements

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and the many other QS and external colleagues who have contributed, particularly
including the QS Intelligence Unit team behind the QS World University Rankings®:

Ben Sowter, Jason Newman, Leigh Kamolins, Monica Hornung Cattan, Anton John
Crace, Sarah Ain Arbain, Samuel Ang, Madalina Ardeleanu, Amity Bacon, Om Bajpai,
Effie Chen, Alloysius Ching, E Way Chong, Gabriel da Costa, Dmytro Filchenko, Raluca
Grigorescu, Ludovic Highman, Elena Ilie, Roxana Ionica, Omkar Joshi, Daniel Kahn,
Andrew MacFarlane, Henna Mansuri, Juan Carlos Mejia Cuartas, Niamh Ollerton,
Kuldeep Reddy, Jesus Rosario, Shiloh Rose, Saif Shaikh, Rashmi Sharma, Khushboo
Singh, Padmashree Sorate, Violeta Surugiu, Vineet Thakur, Ken Trinh, Simran Uklekar,
Samuel Wong, Jia Ying Wong, Yuh Ming Yap

Thanks also to Martin Ince, and John O’Leary.

Cover design: David Myers

Notes on data and tables

Every effort has been made to ensure that information contained in this book is
accurate. However, with the volume of data, the authors cannot give a total guarantee.
The publisher sincerely regrets any inaccuracies and is most grateful for them to be
brought to its attention. Further, limited page space, translation, and the need for
stylistic editing means that some university names have had to be abbreviated (e.g.
University = Uni, Technology = Tech etc). Please always refer to universities directly to
confirm full and correct names. In addition, where universities are ranked in bands - e.g.
151 – 200 - a broad alphabetical approach has been taken based on a selected key word
in a name; the banded list does not therefore imply at all that the institution in 200th
spot is of any lower ranking than that in 151st. The publisher realises that sometimes
that selected key word may differ from that the university or business school might,
itself, have selected and which could potentially have given it a different position in the
presented band list.

For the most complete and up to date data for all QS Rankings, please see
topuniversities.com and topmba.com

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Contents
Foreword 9
Introduction 10
World University
Rankings 2021 13
Hindsight is... 14
Student Recruitment Events
Go Virtual 32
Methodology 50
A World of Reimagination 54
Regional Rankings 59
Asia 60
Japan 61
Emerging Europe & Central Asia 80
Looking Outward 81
Latin America 96
Mexican Higher Education
at a Crossroads 97
The Arab Region 112
Innovative Arab Region 113
USA Ranking 124
USA Overview 125
Subject Rankings 135
Subject Overview 136
Arts & Humanities 138
Engineering & Technology 148
QS Yearbook 2021
Life Sciences & Medicine 156
Stepping into Tomorrow:
The direction of medical
education 158
Natural Sciences 168
Space Science 171
Social Sciences & Management 180
MBA and Business Masters 195
Faraway Home 196
Global MBA 200
Masters in Business Analytics 206
Masters in Finance 207
Masters in Management 208
Masters in Marketing 209
Masters in Supply Chain
Management 210
Entrepreneurship during
COVID-19 212
QS Stars Ratings 217
Advertisers 240
Contributors IBC
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Foreword
by Monica Hornung Cattan

Welcome to the QS 2021 Yearbook.

My QS colleagues and I are proud to present the second edition of this annual
publication. You will notice since the last edition, there have been several
changes within this volume of Rankings that we are pleased to present to you.

In the first edition, we sought to make the Yearbook an almanac of all QS

Rankings from the preceding cycle. During the 2021 cycle of Rankings, QS’
conferences went entirely online, allowing us to reach and hear from new and
unique voices from around the world on their views of education. In total, we had
almost 7,000 delegates from across the globe, and hundreds more speakers
contribute, to our conferences. In the second edition, we have transformed the
Yearbook again, and have included a handful of those voices to complement
the Rankings data and paint a picture of the time of their release.

Outside the Yearbook, there have been many changes underway at QS. We
recently launched the new brand which will further transform the way we
provide you with the data and insights you need for your educational decision-
making. Importantly, for me, we have also transformed the scope of content and
its purpose to make the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals a central pillar
driving our conversations with the higher education and international education
sectors. Sustainability has been a key theme of our conferences and publications,
and we are dedicated to keeping those discussions moving forwards for the
betterment of all. In this way, I am excited for upcoming announcements around
QS’ rankings and how they relate to SDGs.

Finally, in the first edition, we noted the Yearbook was being released in a period
of uncertainty, but equally a time of opportunity. The message QS received
from students through its International Student Survey during that time was
that they are ‘deferred not deterred’. This is still the case, and with the many
vaccines becoming more and more available, the latest survey sees growing
hope for settling on a new normal sooner rather than later.

I hope the second edition finds you in a period of increased certainty and drive,
as we work toward building a more equitable and sustainable future.

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 Introduction
by Anton John Crace
Those who have attended QS’ conferences since the 2020 Yearbook, when
they went virtual for obvious travel restriction reasons, or have been regular
readers of both the Higher Education Reports covering the Rankings and QS
Global Education News (QS-GEN), may have noticed they have gone to great
lengths to avoid making the unavoidable, COVID-19, the central focus of their
themes and content.
The reasons behind this decision are both simple and complex. The intention
of the annual conferences, such as APPLE, MAPLE, the EduData Summit, and
Reimagine Education, has been focussed on the future: where does higher
education want to go and how does it get there. Likewise, QS-GEN and the
Higher Education reports provide a background on the circumstances of current
trends, with a view to inform future decisions.
As many of the speakers and contributors of the conferences and publications
have observed, as well as delegates and readers, COVID-19 hasn’t set the
agenda of higher education as much as it has added further complexity to it.
Moves towards online and digital education, for example, were well underway
prior to the pandemic, but were accelerated by its onset.
It was perhaps put best by former Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova,
who told APPLE delegates: “I think now with COVID-19, we are bound to make
an even bigger push, an important commitment once again to sustainable
development.”
The aim of the 2020 conferences, and the 2020/2021 publications, likewise, has
been to inform higher education stakeholders within the context of the times to
help them work towards a shared future. The pandemic is the context, not the
theme.
At the intersection of what has happened, what is happening, and what may
happen in the future sits the 2021 QS Yearbook.
Marking the end of the Rankings cycle for 2021, included here are the many
Rankings undertaken throughout this period. They include the World University
Rankings, the regional and subject focussed Rankings, and the MBA and
Business Masters. Stars Ratings are also included.
The figures alone, however, only tell one very broad, quantitative story.
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To provide some qualitative understanding of the sector, interspersed
throughout this book are articles published alongside the Rankings and within
QS-GEN. They include country and region trends, expert opinion on the past,
present, and future of higher education, and overviews of the discussion points
of QS’ conference which, often, marked the launch of a Ranking.
By including qualitative data alongside the more rigid quantitative, the Yearbook
not only considers the 2021 Rankings and Stars, but also provides some colour
to the period in which they were released.
In both cases, it should be said, this publication provides an incomplete picture.
The Rankings within the Yearbook are limited only to overall scores and do
not provide information on the metrics of each institution. It’s important to
understand this point, as while one university may have a higher overall rank,
another may outperform it in an area such as internationalisation, employer
reputation, or research. Depending on what an individual may be looking for,
their best university may be more associated with an individual metric score, or
collection of scores.
At the same, by virtue of the Yearbook’s length, the articles within are excerpts
or abridged versions of the original pieces that appeared in earlier publications.
The ten or so Higher Education Reports and QS-GENs released since the 2020
Yearbook include many more articles, op-eds, case studies, and interviews than
could be included here. For the voices that were included in this volume, there
were equally thousands more speakers and delegates, across the conferences
and In Conversation LIVE sessions and podcasts that were not.
I encourage you to visit topuniversities.com and topmba.com for more
information on the metric scores of the Rankings, and visit qs.com to access the
Higher Education Reports and QS-GEN. QS’ content is also not limited to these
publications, and I also recommend visiting all three sites for further articles on
topics such as teaching, research, and learning.
Like the rest of the higher education sector, the Rankings do not and have
not ever existed in a vacuum. We hope the 2021 QS Yearbook will be a quick
reference document for you to not only look back on the overall positions of
the world’s universities, but also to reflect on the context in which they were
released.
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Hindsight is... 14
Student Recruitment Events Go Virtual 32

Methodology 50
A World of Reimagination 54
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Hindsight is...
By Anton John Crace

The swiftness of change in 2020 caught almost

everyone by surprise and created upheaval with the
education space.

Not only were educators and students required to

continuously rethink and remake plans for the future,
but they also found themselves having to make quick
adaptations and find fast solutions for the past. For
the first time on a global scale, 2020 became a year
of reactionary thinking.

While a time of reflection, it was also, for some, a new

“[We] need period of teaching and learning. For others, it was a
to bring more time to reconsider partnerships and connections, and
resilience to recontextualise the education ecosystem to benefit
the education all stakeholders. A monumental time in history, 2020
system.” may also turn out to be a watershed moment for
education.

For Irina Bokova, former Director-General of

UNESCO, 2020 and COVID-19 were accelerants in
addressing pre-existing challenges.

“I think now with COVID-19, we are bound to make

an even bigger push, an important commitment once
again to sustainable development,” she tells QS.

At the heart of this push, Bokova says, is a

reinforced effort to implement the UN Sustainable
Development Goal Four, on inclusive and equitable
quality education and lifelong learning opportunities
for all.

Looking forward, she believes education will be a

cornerstone of the recovery post-pandemic. Bokova
adds educators should reflect and learn from the
work undertaken in order to improve for the future.

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“A lot of innovation has been brought into [education because of the pandemic],
and we have to look at the good examples; what works and how we can leverage
and scale some of these important innovation forms,” she says.
“One of the lessons learnt is the need to bring more resilience to the education
system. We need to support the teachers and educators, and to create all the
necessary learning content.”
Hearteningly, Bokova tells QS, as well as serving as a testing ground for future
pedagogies, 2020 also saw improved unity among stakeholders, at both a
national and international level, a development she hopes will continue.
“COVID is bringing [us together], although while physically we may not be with
each other very often, but there is a lot of sense of solidarity, of empathy, and a
need to solve problems among civil society, among different groups,” she says.
“We need to cherish this and to build on that.”
The immediate rush in the first half of 2020 to go online was not without its
drawbacks, however.
Research Fellow at The Open University’s Knowledge Media Institute, Dr Giota
Alevizou, coined the term “COVID-gogy”.
She tells QS the period saw a “sheer accumulation of lots of online resources
and the sheer aspirational urgency from many educational institutional... to just
offer what they could through social media and digital media to educate the
masses during the pandemic at the drop of a hat”.
The side effects of a rapid move towards COVID-gogy, Dr Alevizou continues,
saw students, teachers, and other stakeholders experiencing mental fatigue
and burn-out.
Likewise, Professor David Maguire, Interim Principal and Vice-Chancellor at
the University of Dundee in the UK and chair of education and research digital
solutions provider Jisc, notes both students and educators are at times without
the requisite skills for online teaching.
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He says the belief that students, products of a “post-social media world”, are
automatically capable of utilizing online education tools is a myth, and instead,
“whilst they’ve got some digital skills, it’s not necessarily those that they need
to be successful in their modern university experience”.
Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University
of Catania in Italy, Douglas Ponton, however, says 2020 led to an uptake
of traditional teaching methods which may be undoing progress in other
pedagogical methods.
In particular, the limitations around online education, such as connectivity,
unfamiliarity with online tools, and the use of platforms unsuited or not
specifically designed for teaching, on top of the stress of COVID-gogy, has
encouraged some educators to revert back to more traditional methods of
teaching.
“Much of the time I’m sitting looking at my computer, not at human faces,
because if all the students had their cameras on, there would be connection
issues. I find myself doing most of the talking,” he says.
“Thanks to COVID, we have all returned to the “jug and mug” days, with the
teacher at the centre and students in mainly passive learning roles.”
According to Associate Professor Ponton, this older method is particularly
problematic in specialist areas, such as language learning, as they benefit more
from creating an environment that allows a student to flourish rather than direct,
“brick-by-brick” instruction.
His views, however, do not preclude the use of technology or other advancements
within the delivery of education, but instead point to the need to advance
teaching through whatever means are available.
While an experiment in virtual education, 2020 should also be viewed as a
period in which subjects and methods are identified as unsuitable for wholly
online delivery, and a time upon which to reflect and further broaden teaching
for the benefit of educators and students.
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 “What I’m trying to get at,” he says, “is the necessity
at this particular time to rediscover perhaps what is
central to our understanding of the word education
“Much of the in order that it should not be lost in the organisations
time I’m sitting and the adaptations that the new realities are likely
looking at my to impose.”
computer, not at
Sarah Toms, Executive Director of technology
human faces.”
focussed Wharton Interactive out of the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania in the US,
seconds Associate Professor Ponton’s position,
saying there should be a focus on delivering quality
and value to students.

“I don’t think we should be immediately reaching for

the solution, and saying technology is going to be
the hammer for every nail,” she says.

“We have a lot of opportunity coming out of this

pandemic where we can really think about what a
degree means.”

Rather than overhauling the campus, Toms says

the future is “rooted in ideas”. 2020 marks a period
in time that should encourage educators to take a
step back and be smarter about the entire education
ecosystem, she says.

In doing so, however, Toms challenges all stakeholders

to keep central the most important aspect of
education.

“Can we get more personal for the students and can

we provide more value?”

The full version of this abridged article first appeared

in QS-GEN 3, February 2021.

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
1 1 n Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 100.0 51 48 i Carnegie Mellon University US 73.4
2 2 n Stanford University US 98.4 52 53 h Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres) FR 73.3
3 3 n Harvard University US 97.9 53 54 h Zhejiang University CN 71.9
4 5 h California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 97.0 54 45 i University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US 71.2
5 4 i University of Oxford UK 96.7 55 58= h Monash University AU 70.9
6 6 n ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) CH 95.0 56 58= h Tokyo Institute of Technology JP 70.8
7 7 n University of Cambridge UK 94.3 57 50 i Delft University of Technology NL 70.7
8 9 h Imperial College London UK 93.6 58 49 i University of Bristol UK 70.6
9 10 h University of Chicago US 93.1 59 70 h Universiti Malaya (UM) MY 70.1
10 8 i UCL (University College London) UK 92.9 60 57 i Brown University US 70.0
11 11= n National University of Singapore (NUS) SG 91.5 61= 60= i Ecole Polytechnique FR 69.9
12 13 h Princeton University US 91.0 61 64 h University of Amsterdam NL 69.9
13 11= i Nanyang Technological University (NTU) SG 89.9 62 62 n The University of Warwick UK 69.0
14 18= h Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) CH 89.6 63 63 n Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE 68.9
15 16 h Tsinghua University CN 89.2 64 66 h Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg DE 68.6
16 15 i University of Pennsylvania US 88.6 65 56 i University of Wisconsin-Madison US 68.2
18 14 i Cornell University US 87.6 66= 69 h National Taiwan University (NTU) TW 67.5
17 17 n Yale University US 88.0 66= 74 h Universidad de Buenos Aires AR 67.5
19 18= i Columbia University US 86.5 69= 83 h Korea University KR 67.1
20 20 n University of Edinburgh UK 85.8 69= 76 h University of Zurich CH 67.1
21 21 n University of Michigan-Ann Arbor US 84.6 71 65 i University of Texas at Austin US 66.7
22 25= h University of Hong Kong (HKU) HK 83.7 72= 71 i Osaka University JP 66.1
23 22= i Peking University CN 83.5 72= 68 i University of Washington US 66.1
24 22= i The University of Tokyo JP 83.2 74 84 h Lomonosov Moscow State University RU 65.9
25= 24 i Johns Hopkins University US 82.7 75 91 h The Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK 65.8
25= 29= h University of Toronto CA 82.7 76 81 h University of Copenhagen DK 65.5
27= 32 h The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) HK 82.1 77= 87 h Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) KR 64.6
27= 27 n The University of Manchester UK 82.1 77= 67 i University of Glasgow UK 64.6
29 31 h Northwestern University US 81.5 79 82 h Tohoku University JP 64.3
30 28 i University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US 80.8 80 72= i Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) US 64.1
31= 29= i Australian National University (ANU) AU 80.0 81 83= h The University of Auckland NZ 64.0
31= 33= h King's College London (KCL) UK 80.0 82 75 i University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US 63.4
31= 35= h McGill University CA 80.0 83 77 i Sorbonne University FR 63.3
34 40 h Fudan University CN 79.9 84 80 i Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE 63.0
35 39 h New York University (NYU) US 79.4 85 104= h Yonsei University KR 62.5
36 35= i University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US 79.2 86 78= i Durham University UK 62.2
37 37 n Seoul National University (SNU) KR 79.0 87 81 i University of Birmingham UK 62.0
38 33= i Kyoto University JP 78.9 88 95 h Sungkyunkwan University KR 61.5
39 41 h KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR 78.6 89 85 i Rice University US 61.4
40 42 h The University of Sydney AU 77.1 90 97 h University of Southampton UK 61.3
41 38 i The University of Melbourne AU 76.5 91 93= h University of Leeds UK 61.2
42 25= i Duke University US 76.4 92 86 i The University of Western Australia (UWA) AU 61.0
43 46 h The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) HK 75.8 93= 78= i The University of Sheffield UK 60.8
44 43 i The University of New South Wales (UNSW) AU 75.4 93= 89 i University of Science and Technology of China CN 60.8
45 51 h University of British Columbia CA 74.8 95 90 i University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US 60.6
46 47 h The University of Queensland (UQ) AU 74.5 96 100 h University of St Andrews UK 60.3
47 60= h Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN 74.4 97 92 i Lund University SE 60.2
48 52 h City University of Hong Kong HK 74.3 98 98= n KTH, Royal Institute of Technology SE 59.5
49 44 i London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) UK 73.9 99 96 i The University of Nottingham UK 59.0
50 55 h Technische Universität München DE 73.6 100 103 h Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX 58.8

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
101= 93= i Pennsylvania State University US 58.4 150= 148 i University of York UK 50.3
101= 108= h Trinity College Dublin (TCD) IE 58.4 152= 146 i Newcastle University UK 50.2
103 112 h Technical University of Denmark DK 57.9 152= 135 i University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US 50.2
104 107 h University of Helsinki FI 57.6 152= 136 i University of Maryland, College Park US 50.2
105 108= h Washington University in St. Louis US 56.9 155 158 h Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) MX 49.9
106= 106 n The University of Adelaide AU 56.8 156 140= i University of Pittsburgh US 49.7
106= 110 h University of Geneva CH 56.8 157 144 i Michigan State University US 49.6
108 101 i Ohio State University US 56.4 158 156= i Emory University US 49.1
109 111 h Purdue University US 55.9 159 154= i Cardiff University UK 48.5
110= 98= i Boston University US 55.8 160 177= h Università di Bologna (UNIBO) IT 48.2
110= 115 h Nagoya University JP 55.8 161 160= i Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon FR 48.1
112 104= i University of California, Davis (UCD) US 55.3 162= 167 h Case Western Reserve University US 47.4
113 119 h University of Oslo NO 55.2 162= 167= h University of Florida US 47.4
114 126 h Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) UK 55.1 164 163= i University of Exeter UK 47.2
114 123 h University of Bern CH 54.9 165 207= h Al-Farabi Kazakh National University KZ 46.9
115= 116= h Universidade de São Paulo (USP) BR 54.8 166= 170= h University of Rochester US 46.8
115= 125 h Wageningen University NL 54.8 166= 173= h University of Waterloo CA 46.8
117 120= h Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE 54.5 168 173= h National Tsing Hua University TW 46.4
118 137 h Université de Montréal CA 54.3 169= 189= h Texas A&M University US 46.2
119 113 i University of Alberta CA 54.0 169= 153 i University of Lausanne CH 46.2
120 102 i Eindhoven University of Technology NL 53.9 171 203 h Sapienza - Università di Roma IT 46.1
121= 127 h Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile CL 53.8 172 152 i Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) IN 46.0
121= 129 h University of Southern California US 53.8 173= 179= h Technische Universität Dresden DE 45.9
121= 120= i Utrecht University NL 53.8 173= 172 i University of Bath UK 45.9
124= 132= h Kyushu University JP 53.7 175= 169= i Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen DE 45.8
124= 120= i Nanjing University CN 53.7 175= 169= i Universität Freiburg DE 45.8
124= 116= i Uppsala University SE 53.7 177= 162 i Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL 45.7
127 134 h Aalto University FI 53.6 177= 185 h University College Dublin (UCD) IE 45.7
128= 118 i Leiden University NL 53.4 177= 156= i University of Minnesota Twin Cities US 45.7
128= 114 i University of Groningen NL 53.4 180 189= h Universidad de Chile CL 45.6
130 130= n Freie Universität Berlin DE 53.2 181= 191 h Stockholm University SE 45.5
131 124 i KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie DE 52.9 181= 181 n University of Liverpool UK 45.5
132 159 h Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) MY 52.7 183 165= i Universitat de Barcelona (UB) ES 45.4
133= 140= h University of Technology Sydney (UTS) AU 52.6 184 176 i University of Otago NZ 45.3
135= 128 i Lancaster University UK 52.5 185 184 i Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore IN 44.9
135= 130= i University of Ghent BE 52.5 186 200= h King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) SA 44.7
137 149 h Politecnico di Milano IT 52.4 187= 217= h Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) MY 44.2
138 139 h CentraleSupélec FR 52.3 187= 200= h Vanderbilt University US 44.2
139= 125= i Chalmers University of Technology SE 52.2 189= 167= i Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) BE 44.1
139= 132= i Hokkaido University JP 52.2 189= 202 h Waseda University JP 44.1
141 160= h Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) MY 52.0 191= 200= h Keio University JP 44.0
142 165= h Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) MY 51.9 191= 192= h Technische Universität Wien AT 44.0
143 186= h King Abdul Aziz University (KAU) SA 51.7 193 182 i Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) IN 43.9
144 140= i McMaster University CA 51.5 194 163= i University of Bergen NO 43.4
145 138 i Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen DE 51.4 195 197 h Georg-August-Universität Göttingen DE 43.3
146 150 h Hanyang University KR 51.3 196 212= h University of Wollongong AU 43.2
147 145 i Aarhus University DK 51.0 197= 183 i Erasmus University Rotterdam NL 43.1
148 147 i Technische Universität Berlin DE 50.8 197= 207= h University of Newcastle AU 43.1
149 151 h University of Basel CH 50.6 197= 186= i University of Twente NL 43.1
150= 154= h Universität Wien AT 50.3 200= 192= i Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ES 42.8

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall

200= 195 i Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) BE 42.8
202 256 h University of Gothenburg SE 42.7
203= 207= h Dartmouth College US 42.6
203= 211 h Western University CA 42.6
205 205 n University of Reading UK 42.3
206 212= h Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) ES 41.9
207 194 i University of Aberdeen UK 41.8
208 247= h Chulalongkorn University TH 41.6
209 173= i Queen's University of Belfast UK 41.5
210 219= h University of California, Irvine (UCI) US 41.4
211= 268= h Khalifa University AE 41.2
211= 210 i University of Notre Dame US 41.2
213 188 i Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona ES 40.9
214= 237 h Macquarie University AU 40.8
214= 217= h Radboud University Nijmegen NL 40.8
216 234= h Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) IT 40.6
217= 230 h Curtin University AU 40.5
217= 224 h Queensland University of Technology (QUT) AU 40.5
217= 198= i University of Virginia US 40.5
220= 244 h American University of Beirut (AUB) LB 40.4
220= 215= i Arizona State University US 40.4
220= 198= i University of Cape Town ZA 40.4
223= 238 h RMIT University AU 40.0
223= 215= i Victoria University of Wellington NZ 40.0
225 234= h Saint-Petersburg State University RU 39.9
226 222 i Loughborough University UK 39.7
227 234= h Universidad de Los Andes Colombia CO 39.6
228= 231= h Novosibirsk State University RU 39.4
228= 227= i Universität Hamburg DE 39.4
230= 226 i Georgetown University US 39.3
230= 219= i Tel Aviv University IL 39.3
230= 206 i University of Colorado at Boulder US 39.3
233 214 i Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) BR 39.2
234= 239= h Maastricht University NL 38.9
234= 225 i National Cheng Kung University TW 38.9
236= 247= h Kyung Hee University KR 38.8
236= 219= i Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam NL 38.8
238= 259 h National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) IE 38.3
238= 223 i University of Antwerp BE 38.3
240= 227= i National Chiao Tung University TW 38.2
240= 243 h Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn DE 38.2
242= 250 h Ecole des Ponts ParisTech FR 38.1
242= 242 n Sciences Po Paris FR 38.1
242= 239= i University of Leicester UK 38.1
245 276 h Qatar University QA 37.9
246= 239= i Queen's University CA 37.8
246= 233 i University of Calgary CA 37.8
246= 246 n University of Sussex UK 37.8
246= 257= h Wuhan University CN 37.8
250= 268= h Tomsk State University RU 37.7

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250= 251= h Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) BE 37.7 301= 314= h Heriot-Watt University UK 34.2
252= 314= h Mahidol University TH 37.5 301= 302= h Università degli Studi di Milano IT 34.2
252= 245 i Universidad de Navarra ES 37.5 303= 320= h Griffith University AU 34.1
254= 320= h Universitas Gadjah Mada ID 37.4 303= 307 h Xi'an Jiaotong University CN 34.1
254= 298= h Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) BN 37.4 305= 324= h Aalborg University DK 34.0
256= 265 h Tongji University CN 37.2 305= 262= i Paris-Saclay University FR 34.0
256= 231= i University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) US 37.2 305= 296= i University of Indonesia ID 34.0
258 262= h Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick US 37.0 307 314= h Universität Mannheim DE 33.7
259 253= i Universidad Nacional de Colombia CO 36.9 308= 348 h Politecnico di Torino IT 33.5
260= 291= h Charles University CZ 36.7 308= 291= i Royal Holloway University of London UK 33.5
260= 277= h Harbin Institute of Technology CN 36.7 308= 291= i University of Tasmania AU 33.5
260= 253= i Tufts University US 36.7 311= 298= i Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ES 33.4
263 287= h Sun Yat-sen University CN 36.4 311= 291= i Universität Frankfurt am Main DE 33.4
264 261 i Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) HK 36.3 313 331= h Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) ID 33.3
265= 266= h Universität Innsbruck AT 36.2 314= 281= i Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) IN 33.2
265= 270 h University of Tsukuba JP 36.2 314= 329= h National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" RU 33.2
267= 251= i National Taiwan University of Science and Technology TW 36.0 314= 300 i Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ES 33.2
267= 260 i Technische Universität Darmstadt DE 36.0 317= 351= h Belarus State University BY 33.0
267= 274= h University of Surrey UK 36.0 317= 319 h Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg DE 33.0
270= 227= i University of Canterbury NZ 35.9 319 302= i University of Dundee UK 32.9
270= 305= h University of Massachusetts, Amherst US 35.9 320 312= i Indiana University Bloomington US 32.6
272 287= h Massey University NZ 35.8 321= 334 h Hiroshima University JP 32.3
273= new Universitö della Svizzera italiana CH 35.6 321= 349= h University of Warsaw PL 32.3
273= 262= i University of Arizona US 35.6 323= 314= i Simon Fraser University CA 32.1
275= 271= i Deakin University AU 35.5 323= new Southern University of Science and Technology CN 32.1
275= 271= i Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) IN 35.5 323= 340= h Universität Jena DE 32.1
275= 311 h Technische Universität Graz AT 35.5 326= 338= h Jagiellonian University PL 31.9
275= 253= i Université de Paris FR 35.5 326= 344= h Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires AR 31.9
279= 277= i Beijing Normal University CN 35.4 326= 392= h RUDN University RU 31.9
279= 281= h University of Ottawa CA 35.4 326= 336= h Universidad Politecnica de Valencia ES 31.9
281 302= h Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University RU 35.3 326= 327 h Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) US 31.9
282= 284 h Bauman Moscow State Technical University RU 35.2 327 335 h IE University ES 32.0
282= 308 h Universität Köln DE 35.2 331= 331= n National Taiwan Normal University TW 31.8
284 329= h United Arab Emirates University AE 35.1 331= 364= h Ural Federal University RU 31.8
285 301 h University of Tartu EE 35.0 333= 331= i Ewha Womans University KR 31.7
286 310 h University College Cork (UCC) IE 34.9 333= 340= h Umeå University SE 31.7
287= 281= i King Saud University (KSU) SA 34.8 333= 279 i Universität Stuttgart DE 31.7
287= 285= i Universitat Pompeu Fabra ES 34.8 333= 314= i University of East Anglia (UEA) UK 31.7
287= 305= h Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR 34.8 333= 326 i University of Hawaii at Mānoa US 31.7
287= 287= n University of Turku FI 34.8 333= 346 h University of Jyväskylä FI 31.7
291= 280 i Dalhousie University CA 34.6 333= 353= h University of Utah US 31.7
291= 312= h ENS Paris-Saclay FR 34.6 341 359= h Yeshiva University US 31.6
291= 257= i Technion - Israel Institute of Technology IL 34.6 342= 351= h Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA) FR 31.5
291= 271= i University of Miami US 34.6 342= 355 h University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague CZ 31.5
295= 322= h Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) KR 34.5 344= 328 i Birkbeck College, University of London UK 31.4
295= 285= i North Carolina State University US 34.5 344= 340= i Universität Ulm DE 31.4
295= 274= i University of South Australia (UniSA) AU 34.5 346= 309 i SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London UK 31.1
298= 322= h National Research University - Higher School of Economics (HSE) RU 34.4 346= 340= i University at Buffalo SUNY US 31.1
298= 287= i National Yang Ming University TW 34.4 348= 371 h American University of Sharjah AE 31.0
300 296= i University of Strathclyde UK 34.3 348= 366 h Moscow State Institute of International Relations – MGIMO University RU 31.0

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350= 349= i City, University of London UK 30.9 401= 439= h Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University RU 28.0
350= 291= i Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) IN 30.9 401= 387= i Tomsk Polytechnic University RU 28.0
350= 379= h Universiti Teknologi Brunei BN 30.9 403= 412= h Chung-Ang University KR 27.9
353= 336= i George Washington University US 30.8 403= 410= h Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz DE 27.9
353= 372= h University of Southern Denmark DK 30.8 403= 395= i Kobe University JP 27.9
355 400= h National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Islamabad PK 30.5 403= 389= i Università degli Studi di Trento IT 27.9
356 347 i Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster DE 30.3 403= 400= i University of The Witwatersrand ZA 27.9
357= 418 h L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University KZ 30.2 408 374 i University of Oulu FI 27.7
357= 338= i University of Lisbon PT 30.2 409= 407= i Sharif University of Technology IR 27.6
357= 353= i University of Porto PT 30.2 409= 395= i Tampere University FI 27.6
360= 436= h ITMO University RU 30.1 411= 395= i The American University in Cairo EG 27.5
360= 359= i Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO 30.1 411= 370 i University of Essex UK 27.5
362= 412= h Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU) AT 30.0 411= 400= i Washington State University US 27.5
362= 324= i Linköping University SE 30.0 414= 442= h Bond University AU 27.4
362= 344= i Northeastern University US 30.0 414= 419= h Tulane University US 27.4
362= 359= i Tokyo Medical and Dental University JP 30.0 416= 417 h Goldsmiths, University of London UK 27.2
367 387= h University of Macau MO 29.9 416= 410= i National Sun Yat-sen University TW 27.2
368= 359= i Brunel University UK 29.7 416= 367 i University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) US 27.2
368= 371= h Tilburg University NL 29.7 416= 389= i University of Tromso NO 27.2
370= 392= h Kazan Federal University RU 29.5 420= 416 i Laval University CA 27.1
370= 364= i University of Victoria CA 29.5 420= 439= h Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) BR 27.1
372 383= h Swinburne University of Technology AU 29.4 420= 421= h University of Iowa US 27.1
373= 375 h Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) PK 29.2 423= 424= h Flinders University AU 27.0
373= 359= i Stony Brook University US 29.2 423= 458= h Vilnius University LT 27.0
375= 379= h Sultan Qaboos University OM 29.1 425 458= h Université de Bordeaux FR 26.9
375= 266= i University of Waikato NZ 29.1 426= 421= i Illinois Institute of Technology US 26.8
377= 368= i Nankai University CN 29.0 426= 468= h Pontificia Universidad Javeriana CO 26.8
377= 383= h Universidad de Palermo AR 29.0 428= 451= h National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" RU 26.6
379 511-520 h Taylor's University MY 28.9 428= 421= i Universidade Nova de Lisboa PT 26.6
380= 358 i Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro BR 28.8 428= 398= i University of St Gallen (HSG) CH 26.6
380= 368= i University of Kent UK 28.8 431 406 i University of Coimbra PT 26.5
380= 398= h Wake Forest University US 28.8 432= 498= h Czech Technical University In Prague CZ 26.4
383= 383= n Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) IN 28.7 432= 474= h Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PE 26.4
383= 376 i Oxford Brookes University UK 28.7 432= 448= h Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI) IT 26.4
383= 389= h Università di Pisa IT 28.7 432= 407= i University of Tennessee US 26.4
383= 372= i University of Kansas US 28.7 432= 451= h Xiamen University CN 26.4
387= 356= i Lincoln University NZ 28.6 437= 442= h Auckland University of Technology NZ 26.2
387= 412= h Shanghai University CN 28.6 437= 462= h Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg DE 26.2
387= 379= i Taipei Medical University TW 28.6 439= 429= i Dublin City University (DCU) IE 26.0
387= 429= h Tianjin University CN 28.6 439= 432= i Ruhr-Universität Bochum DE 26.0
391 442= h UCSI University MY 28.5 439= 482= h Universiti Teknologi Petronas (Petronas) MY 26.0
392= 436= h Beijing Institute of Technology CN 28.4 439= 501-510 h University of Johannesburg ZA 26.0
392= 407= h HUFS – Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies KR 28.4 443= 442= i Colorado State University US 25.9
392= 424= h Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II IT 28.4 443= 400= i Universidad Austral AR 25.9
392= new Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele IT 28.4 443= 424= i Universität Konstanz DE 25.9
396= 400= h Huazhong University of Science and Technology CN 28.2 446= 419= i Ben Gurion University of The Negev IL 25.8
396= 356= i University of the Philippines PH 28.2 446= 468= h Brandeis University US 25.8
398= 400= h La Trobe University AU 28.1 446= 462= h University of Science and Technology Beijing CN 25.8
398= 379= i Université de Strasbourg FR 28.1 449= 462= h Beihang University CN 25.7
398= 392= i University of Colorado at Denver US 28.1 449= 454= h University of California, Riverside (UCR) US 25.7

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451= 435 i Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ES 25.6
451= 468= h Universität des Saarlandes DE 25.6
451= 429= i University of Liege BE 25.6
454= 432= i Boston College US 25.5
454= 511-520 h Quaid-i-azam University PK 25.5
456= 454= i Dongguk University KR 25.4
456= 448= i Florida State University US 25.4
456= new Hasselt University BE 25.4
456= 427= i Stellenbosch University ZA 25.4
456= 462= h The Catholic University of Korea KR 25.4
456= 484= h University of Canberra AU 25.4
462= 377= i James Cook University (JCU) AU 25.3
462= 480= h South China University of Technology CN 25.3
462= new Universidad ORT Uruguay UY 25.3
465= 451= i Koç University TR 25.2
465= 427= i National Central University TW 25.2
465= 438 i Universidad de Belgrano AR 25.2
465= 439= i University of Saskatchewan CA 25.2
465= 468= h Yokohama City University JP 25.2
470= 491= h Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) IN 25.1
470= 491= h Lappeenranta University of Technology FI 25.1
470= 511-520 h Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg DE 25.1
470= 383= i Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute US 25.1
474= 462= i Swansea University UK 25.0
474= 501-510 h Umm Al-Qura University (UQU) SA 25.0
474= 468= i Western Sydney University AU 25.0
477= 489= h Amirkabir University of Technology IR 24.8
477= 462= i Concordia University CA 24.8
477= 454= i National Technical University of Athens GR 24.8
477= new University of Cyprus CY 24.8
477= 491= h V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University UA 24.8
477= 484= h Wayne State University US 24.8
483= 531-540 h Universität Leipzig DE 24.7
483= 551-560 h University of Missouri, Columbia US 24.7
485= 484= i Aberystwyth University UK 24.6
485= 468= i Shandong University CN 24.6
485= 478= i University of Stirling UK 24.6
488= 442= i Chiba University JP 24.5
488= 511-520 h National Taipei University of Technology TW 24.5
490= 491= h M.O.Auezov South Kazakhstan State University KZ 24.4
490= 454= i Sogang University KR 24.4
492 491= i Universidad de Montevideo UY 24.3
493= 484= i Chang Gung University TW 24.2
493= 531-540 h Far Eastern Federal University RU 24.2
493= 484= i Jilin University CN 24.2
493= 501-510 h Southeast University CN 24.2
493= 482= i Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" BR 24.2
498 501-510 h Universidad de la Habana CU 24.1
499= 461 i Oregon State University US 23.9
499= 501-510 h Universidad de Alcalá ES 23.9

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Student Recruitment Events Go Virtual

How recruitment events are a part of strong recruitment strategy
By Amity Bacon

Prior to the coronavirus sweeping through every

region of the world, student recruitment was a more
physical endeavour —it involved in-person interviews,
on-campus meetings and tours, and several events
throughout the year where representatives could
guide students towards the right program or course
for their needs. Students were able to access a wide
range of physical touchpoints when researching and
connecting with institutions.

Face-to-face interactions offered prospective

Virtual
students a chance to “see” in very immediate terms
recruitment
what they could expect from the student experience,
events needed
from accommodations to campus events and more.
to evolve
alongside a Before the pandemic, a typical student recruitment
new virtual fair with QS was an immersive experience, with panel
landscape that discussions and speaking events, representatives
had emerged. showcasing their brand at booths, as well as
professional resumé consultants, application
workshops, and QS staff guiding students towards
institutions of interest.

For QS Connect events, students arrived for pre-

arranged, one-on-one meetings with college or
university representatives after a QS counsellor had
matched them with institutions that met their unique
background and interests.

As higher education remains a major and oftentimes

emotional investment, prospective students continue
to seek out personalised experiences to come to a
decision—with personal interactions holding the key.
The potential to make lasting in-person connections
with institutional representatives is therefore a strong
component to any student’s research journey.

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Even as digital marketing and online community building through social media
became an important facet of recruitment strategy before the pandemic,
recruitment fairs have maintained their relevance as a highly influential
marketing tool.
The Challenge
As colleges and universities closed campuses due to the pandemic, virtual
recruitment events needed to evolve alongside a new virtual landscape that
had emerged. Through 2021, deferments and delays to study plans became
more commonplace, with students increasingly expecting to begin their studies
in 2022 or later.
QS ran a series of pulse surveys for international students to understand their
study planning during the pandemic. Analysing data from February to November
2020, the number of students that planned to defer or delay their studies rose
by 18 percent with over half (55 percent) choosing this option. At the same time,
just six percent said they no longer wished to study overseas.
When looking at QS client surveys, a similar picture emerged. It became clear
overseas study was primarily impeded by travel restrictions, and that the desire
to study internationally had not waned.
According to over 400 QS partners that were asked why they recruited fewer
international students, 58 percent said it was because students were unable to
travel to the institution’s country, 43 percent of institutions said it was because
these students were deferring their studies to the next academic year, and 43
percent said international students did not want to study online.
Additionally, 22 percent of QS partners listed international student recruitment
as one of their top three priorities. 26 percent said geographic diversification
was their key recruitment priority and 15 percent said building reputation
globally was their key recruitment priority.
“Over 2020, the need for us to facilitate connections between prospective
international students and higher education institutions has been critical,” says
Claire Whittingham, Managing Director of QS Digital & Events.
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“Potential students we spoke to were desperate for advice, while international
student recruitment remained one of the top priorities for many of our higher
education partners.”
Evolution and iteration
After the Digital & Events team had run an entire season of virtual events, the
next phase was to develop an events innovation program focused on evolving
the product offerings to ensure QS was delivering to the needs of both student
and higher education stakeholders.
Evolutions of event were made by leaning into the value-add of the virtual
space. Online platforms enabled the organisation to focus on regions over
cities, tapping into surprising hotpots of high potential candidates.
As a result, QS events gained a larger audience, and became more flexible in
offering different timeframes. In North America, the Digital & Events team
introduced two-minute video pitches at the start of fairs so students would
have even further guidance in finding their right-fit institution.
Further product features were tested to increase engagement levels, and
themed discussion rooms at fairs were introduced to enable small group,
roundtable-style discussions. In addition, the QS team offered breakout booth
presentations and network lounge spaces, which had proven to further casual
conversation in trials by 290 percent.
QS also began better utilising its own qualified admissions consultants from
QS Enrollment Solutions, helping prepare candidates for more meaningful
conversations with partner institutions.
Results
The QS Digital & Events team was assured through the feedback-driven
iterative process that it was better meeting institutional partner needs through
a disruptive time to the sector. The steady flow of student interest in QS events
also gave the organisation all the information it needed to continually improve
its event offerings.
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In 2020, QS virtual fairs gained an average of 650

students per event with over 99,000 registrations in
total.

The QS team also held 201 Connect events in 2020,

with an average of 381 student registrations per
event. The team again went to their survey data to
gauge how students responded to the Connect
experience, and found:
It became clear • 85 percent planned to apply to at least two
overseas study schools they met
was primarily • 81 percent said that the event helped them to
impeded make a study decision
by travel • 62 percent intended to apply to a university six
restrictions, months after meeting at a QS Connect event
and that the
desire to study When reviewing client feedback, the QS Digital
internationally & Events team found a great deal of insight and
had not waned. information that continues to help iterate through
2021 and beyond.

“I think this was one of the best graduate fairs I’ve

worked this year. Once I began meeting with the
students, I found that many of them had already
had information on our programs,” says Marco Lean,
Senior Associate Director at the University of San
Francisco and QS fair client.

This excerpt first appeared the full in the 2021 Subject

Rankings Higher Education Report.

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499= 498= i University of Eastern Finland FI 23.9 541-550 561-570 h Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth LB 21.8 - 22
501-510 478= i Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel DE 23.3 - 23.8 541-550 491= i University of Delaware US 21.8 - 22
501-510 531-540 h East China Normal University CN 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 601-650 h Ajou University KR 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 448= i Hitotsubashi University JP 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 551-560 n Bar-Ilan University IL 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 474= i The University of Georgia US 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 501-510 i Bilkent University TR 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 511-520 h Universidad de Granada ES 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 551-560 n Hallym University KR 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 489= i Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) CL 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 571-580 h Konkuk University KR 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 432= i Universidad de Zaragoza ES 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 581-590 h Lebanese American University LB 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 581-590 h University of Balamand LB 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 551-560 n Lehigh University US 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 377= i University of Connecticut US 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 541-550 i Management and Science University MY 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 474= i University of Delhi IN 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 521-530 i Technische Universität Braunschweig DE 21.3 - 21.7
501-510 501-510 n University of Szeged HU 23.3 - 23.8 551-560 511-520 i Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III FR 21.3 - 21.7
511-520 442= i Aston University UK 22.9 - 23.2 551-560 601-650 h Victoria University AU 21.3 - 21.7
511-520 477 i Singapore Management University SG 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 521-530 i Cairo University EG 21.1 - 21.2
511-520 501-510 i Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore IT 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 531-540 i Kumamoto University JP 21.1 - 21.2
511-520 511-520 n Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Tor Vergata IT 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 601-650 h Kyungpook National University KR 21.1 - 21.2
511-520 491= i Université Aix-Marseille FR 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 561-570 n New School University US 21.1 - 21.2
511-520 498= i Université de Montpellier FR 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 601-650 h Thammasat University TH 21.1 - 21.2
511-520 601-650 h University of Klagenfurt AT 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 480= i Universidad Externado de Colombia CO 21.1 - 21.2
511-520 521-530 h University of Limerick (UL) IE 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 561-570 n University of Nebraska - Lincoln US 21.1 - 21.2
511-520 521-530 h Warsaw University of Technology PL 22.9 - 23.2 561-570 551-560 i University of Pretoria ZA 21.1 - 21.2
521-530 651-700 h Airlangga University ID 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 541-550 i Abo Akademi University FI 20.8 - 21
521-530 541-550 h Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (formerly University of Dammam) SA 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 new Altai State University RU 20.8 - 21
521-530 521-530 n National Research Saratov State University RU 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 561-570 i Aristotle University of Thessaloniki GR 20.8 - 21
521-530 521-530 n Sabanci University TR 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 new China University of Geosciences CN 20.8 - 21
521-530 541-550 h Università degli Studi di Torino (UNITO) IT 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 591-600 h Lingnan University (Hong Kong) HK 20.8 - 21
521-530 541-550 h Universität Bayreuth DE 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 571-580 n Murdoch University AU 20.8 - 21
521-530 601-650 h University of Debrecen HU 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 561-570 i Okayama University JP 20.8 - 21
521-530 591-600 h University of Milano-Bicocca IT 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 511-520 i Universidad de Costa Rica CR 20.8 - 21
521-530 511-520 i University of Ulsan KR 22.5 - 22.8 571-580 601-650 h Universidad Panamericana (UP) MX 20.8 - 21
531-540 601-650 h Bogor Agricultural University ID 22.2 - 22.4 571-580 571-580 n University of Guelph CA 20.8 - 21
531-540 521-530 i Inha University KR 22.2 - 22.4 571-580 561-570 i University of South Carolina at Columbia US 20.8 - 21
531-540 521-530 i Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen DE 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 531-540 i Clark University US 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 551-560 h Masaryk University CZ 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 541-550 i Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz AT 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 531-540 n Nagasaki University JP 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 591-600 h Kingston University, London UK 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 new Northwestern Polytechnical University CN 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 551-560 i National Chengchi University TW 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 601-650 h Sichuan University CN 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 521-530 i Pusan National University KR 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 new Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas CU 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 531-540 i Renmin (People’s) University of China CN 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 591-600 h Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) MY 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 601-650 h Universidad de Sevilla ES 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 501-510 i University of Texas Dallas US 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 551-560 i University of Aveiro PT 20.5 - 20.7
531-540 511-520 i York University CA 22.2 - 22.4 581-590 601-650 h University of South Florida US 20.5 - 20.7
541-550 531-540 i Coventry University UK 21.8 - 22 591-600 601-650 h Central Queensland University AU 20.2 - 20.4
541-550 501-510 i Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA) FR 21.8 - 22 591-600 571-580 i Dalian University of Technology CN 20.2 - 20.4
541-550 511-520 i Iowa State University US 21.8 - 22 591-600 571-580 i Jeonbuk National University KR 20.2 - 20.4
541-550 601-650 h Niigata University JP 21.8 - 22 591-600 581-590 i Kanazawa University JP 20.2 - 20.4
541-550 551-560 h Osaka City University JP 21.8 - 22 591-600 651-700 h Kazakh National Agrarian University KZ 20.2 - 20.4
Satbayev University (previously Kazakh Technical University named after K.I. 591-600 601-650 h Palacký University in Olomouc CZ 20.2 - 20.4
541-550 561-570 h KZ 21.8 - 22
Satpaev) h
591-600 651-700 Samara National Research University (Samara University) RU 20.2 - 20.4
541-550 521-530 i Universität Bremen DE 21.8 - 22
591-600 541-550 i Southern Federal University RU 20.2 - 20.4
541-550 531-540 i Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2) FR 21.8 - 22
591-600 581-590 i Universitat de Valencia ES 20.2 - 20.4

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591-600 651-700 h University of Minho PT 20.2 - 20.4 601-650 601-650 n University of New Mexico US 18.5 - 20
591-600 601-650 h University of Tehran IR 20.2 - 20.4 601-650 601-650 n University of Oregon US 18.5 - 20
601-650 601-650 n American University in Dubai AE 18.5 - 20 601-650 601-650 n University of Portsmouth UK 18.5 - 20
601-650 601-650 n Ateneo de Manila University PH 18.5 - 20 601-650 651-700 h University of Sharjah AE 18.5 - 20
601-650 521-530 i Bangor University UK 18.5 - 20 601-650 571-580 i University of Vermont US 18.5 - 20
601-650 651-700 h Carleton University CA 18.5 - 20 651-700 601-650 i American University US 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Chiang Mai University TH 18.5 - 20 651-700 new Applied Science University of Bahrain BH 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 561-570 i Drexel University US 18.5 - 20 651-700 701-750 h Beijing University of Technology CN 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 551-560 i East China University of Science and Technology CN 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Bogaziçi Üniversitesi TR 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 651-700 h Eotvos Lorand University HU 18.5 - 20 651-700 701-750 h Central South University CN 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Gifu University JP 18.5 - 20 651-700 601-650 i City University of New York US 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Holy Spirit University of Kaslik LB 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Edith Cowan University (ECU) AU 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 701-750 h Hunan University CN 18.5 - 20 651-700 581-590 i Howard University US 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 new Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad IN 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Jadavpur University IN 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) AR 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Jordan University of Science and Technology JO 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 651-700 h International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) MY 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Kagoshima University JP 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Iran University of Science and Technology IR 18.5 - 20 651-700 701-750 h Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) PK 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 new Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University GE 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Leibniz Universität Hannover DE 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 new Jinan University (China) CN 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n National and Kapodistrian University of Athens GR 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 561-570 i Kazakh National Pedagogical University Abai KZ 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" UA 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 501-510 i King Khalid University SA 18.5 - 20 651-700 701-750 h Northumbria University at Newcastle UK 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 new Libera Universita' di Bolzano IT 18.5 - 20 651-700 751-800 h O. P. Jindal Global University IN 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod RU 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Osaka Prefecture University JP 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Michigan Technological University US 18.5 - 20 651-700 new Pavol Josef Safarik University SK 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 591-600 i Middle East Technical University TR 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Philipps-Universität Marburg DE 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 651-700 h Missouri University of Science and Technology US 18.5 - 20 651-700 601-650 i Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC - Rio BR 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 651-700 h National Chung Hsing University TW 18.5 - 20 651-700 801-1000 h Savitribai Phule Pune University IN 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 701-750 h Shenzhen University CN 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Sejong University KR 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Smith College US 18.5 - 20 651-700 new Soochow University CN 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 751-800 h Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" BG 18.5 - 20 651-700 601-650 i Tallinn University of Technology EE 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 581-590 i Syracuse University US 18.5 - 20 651-700 601-650 i Tokyo Metropolitan University JP 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 541-550 i Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv UA 18.5 - 20 651-700 561-570 i Universidad Anahuac MX 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 new The University of Tokushima JP 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Universidad de Antioquia CO 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology JP 18.5 - 20 651-700 701-750 h Universidad ICESI CO 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Ulster University UK 18.5 - 20 651-700 591-600 i Universidad Nacional de La Plata AR 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Universidad de Concepción CL 18.5 - 20 651-700 551-560 i Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana CO 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Universidad de Salamanca ES 18.5 - 20 651-700 new Universidad Pontificia Comillas ES 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 581-590 i Università degli Studi di Pavia (UNIPV) IT 18.5 - 20 651-700 601-650 i Universidad Torcuato Di Tella AR 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 591-600 i Universitat Ramon Llull ES 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais BR 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n Universität Regensburg DE 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Università degli Studi di Genova IT 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 581-590 i Université de Fribourg CH 18.5 - 20 651-700 701-750 h Università degli Studi di Siena (UNISI) IT 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 561-570 i Université du Québec CA 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Universität Hohenheim DE 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 591-600 i University Côte d'Azur FR 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) MY 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n University of Bradford UK 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n University of Denver US 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 561-570 i University of Cincinnati US 18.5 - 20 651-700 601-650 i University of Hyderabad IN 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n University of Hull UK 18.5 - 20 651-700 571-580 i University of Massachusetts, Boston US 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n University of Jordan JO 18.5 - 20 651-700 591-600 i University of Mons BE 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n University of Kentucky US 18.5 - 20 651-700 571-580 i University of Oklahoma US 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 591-600 i University of Ljubljana SI 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n University of Pécs HU 17.4 - 18.4
601-650 601-650 n University of Manitoba CA 18.5 - 20 651-700 651-700 n University of Plymouth UK 17.4 - 18.4

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651-700 651-700 n University of Westminster UK 17.4 - 18.4
651-700 591-600 i Vilnius Gediminas Technical University LT 17.4 - 18.4
651-700 601-650 i Virginia Commonwealth University US 17.4 - 18.4
651-700 601-650 i William & Mary US 17.4 - 18.4
701-750 701-750 n Abu Dhabi University AE 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 751-800 h Ajman University AE 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Brno University of Technology CZ 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Charles Darwin University AU 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i China Agricultural University CN 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Chonnam National University KR 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 751-800 h Comenius University in Bratislava SK 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 751-800 h Gunma University JP 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) MX 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Instituto Tecnológico Autonomo de México (ITAM) MX 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Kansas State University US 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Kaohsiung Medical University TW 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 601-650 i Keele University UK 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 new Lebanese University LB 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Louisiana State University US 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 new Macau University of Science and Technology MO 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Maynooth University IE 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Memorial University of Newfoundland CA 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 new Mendel University in Brno CZ 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 801-1000 h Middlesex University UK 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 new Nanjing University of Science and Technology CN 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" UA 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 801-1000 h Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) LB 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Riga Technical University LV 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 new Saint-Petersburg Electrotechnical University RU 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Southern Methodist University US 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Stevens Institute of Technology US 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Sumy State University UA 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 751-800 h Sunway University MY 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Temple University US 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez CL 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 601-650 i Universidad de San Andrés AR 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) MX 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 801-1000 h Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia PE 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ES 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul BR 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n Università degli Studi di Trieste (UNITS) IT 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 751-800 h Universität Rostock DE 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 FR 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i Université de Sherbrooke CA 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 801-1000 h Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) MY 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n University of Central Florida US 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 new University of Electronic Science and Technology of China CN 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 701-750 n University of Greenwich UK 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i University of Haifa IL 15.8 - 17.3
701-750 651-700 i University of Houston US 15.8 - 17.3

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701-750 701-750 n University of Huddersfield UK 15.8 - 17.3 751-800 701-750 i University of Tulsa US 14.8 - 15.7
701-750 460 i University of Maryland, Baltimore County US 15.8 - 17.3 751-800 651-700 i University of Windsor CA 14.8 - 15.7
701-750 751-800 h University of Southern Queensland AU 15.8 - 17.3 801-1000 801-1000 n Adam Mickiewicz University PL 10.3 - 14.7
701-750 601-650 i Worcester Polytechnic Institute US 15.8 - 17.3 801-1000 801-1000 n AGH University of Science and Technology PL 10.3 - 14.7
701-750 651-700 i Zayed University AE 15.8 - 17.3 801-1000 801-1000 n Ain Shams University EG 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Beijing Jiaotong University CN 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Alexandria University EG 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Bournemouth University UK 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh IN 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Chongqing University CN 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 new American University of the Middle East (AUM) KW 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Chungnam National University KR 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham IN 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 601-650 i Clarkson University US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Ankara Üniversitesi TR 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Dankook University KR 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 751-800 i Anna University IN 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Florida International University US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Athens University of Economics and Business GR 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Georgia State University US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Auburn University US 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 651-700 i Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Australian Catholic University AU 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 651-700 i Istanbul Technical University TR 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Babes-Bolyai University RO 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi IN 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Banaras Hindu University IN 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Kazakh-British Technical University KZ 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology BD 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 new KIMEP KZ 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Baylor University US 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i London South Bank University UK 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Beijing Foreign Studies University CN 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Manipal Academy of Higher Education IN 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Beirut Arab University LB 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Belarusian National Technical University BY 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 new Northwest University (China) CN 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Bina Nusantara University (BINUS) ID 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Nottingham Trent University UK 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Binghamton University SUNY US 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Oklahoma State University US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Birmingham City University (BCU) UK 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg AT 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Budapest University of Technology and Economics HU 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Plekhanov Russian University of Economics RU 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 1001+ h Charles Sturt University AU 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 801-1000 h Politecnico di Bari IT 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 701-750 i Clemson University US 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 new Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University SA 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n COMSATS University Islamabad PK 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Rovira i Virgili University ES 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Corvinus University of Budapest HU 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 651-700 i Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, Newark US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Cracow University of Technology PL 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 801-1000 h Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology ID 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague CZ 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Southern Cross University AU 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n De La Salle University PH 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Technical University of Liberec CZ 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n De Montfort University UK 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 801-1000 h Tokyo University of Science JP 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Edinburgh Napier University UK 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) VE 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Escuela Politécnica Nacional EC 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) MX 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Fordham University US 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Universidad de La Sabana CO 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Gdansk University of Technology PL 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Universidad de San Francisco de Quito EC 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n George Mason University US 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 651-700 i Universidad del Pais Vasco ES 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n German Jordanian University JO 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Universidad del Rosario CO 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Glasgow Caledonian University UK 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Università Ca' Foscari Venezia IT 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 new Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) KW 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia IT 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Hacettepe University TR 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Università degli Studi di Perugia IT 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 new Harbin Engineering University CN 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 601-650 i Universität Duisburg-Essen DE 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 new Islamic University in Madinah SA 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Universität Düsseldorf DE 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Istanbul University TR 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i Université de Lille FR 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Karaganda State Technical University KZ 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) MY 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Kasetsart University TH 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i University at Albany SUNY US 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 751-800 i Kaunas University of Technology LT 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 751-800 n University of Brescia IT 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Kazakh Ablai khan University of International Relations and World Languages KZ 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 701-750 i University of Patras GR 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Kent State University US 10.3 - 14.7
751-800 651-700 i University of Seoul KR 14.8 - 15.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Khon Kaen University TH 10.3 - 14.7
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801-1000 801-1000 n King Faisal University SA 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Tokai University JP 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi TH 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Austral de Chile CL 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Kuwait University KW 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 new Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo MX 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Kyoto Institute of Technology JP 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México MX 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Kyushu Institute of Technology JP 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) MX 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Lanzhou University CN 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Católica Andrés Bello - UCAB VE 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Liverpool John Moores University UK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 new Universidad Católica del Uruguay UY 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Lodz University of Technology PL 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 701-750 i Universidad de Alicante ES 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i London Metropolitan University UK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad de la República (UdelaR) UY 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Loyola University Chicago US 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 751-800 i Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) MX 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Manchester Metropolitan University UK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad de los Andes Chile CL 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Multimedia University (MMU) MY 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad de los Andes Mérida VE 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Nagoya Institute of Technology (NIT) JP 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad de Murcia ES 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n National Chung Cheng University TW 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad de Oviedo ES 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i National University Lviv Polytechnic UA 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad del Valle CO 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Nicolaus Copernicus University PL 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Diego Portales CL 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Novosibirsk State Technical University RU 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad EAFIT CO 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Ohio University US 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Nacional Costa Rica CR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Padjadjaran University ID 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Nacional de Córdoba AR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 new Perm State University RU 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Nacional de Rosario AR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 701-750 i Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso CL 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 new Universidad Nacional de San Luis AR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador EC 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 new Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos PE 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 651-700 i Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) BR 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Simón Bolívar Venezuela VE 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Poznan University of Technology PL 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María CL 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Prince of Songkla University TH 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (UTP) PA 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 1001+ h Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University SA 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) AR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Princess Sumaya University for Technology JO 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisboa PT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 new Queen Margaret University , Edinburgh UK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidade da Coruña ES 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Rhodes University ZA 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidade de Brasilia BR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Riga Stradins University LV 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 701-750 i Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina BR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Ritsumeikan University JP 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidade Federal de São Carlos BR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Ryerson University CA 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) BR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Saitama University JP 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universidade Federal do Pernambuco BR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n San Diego State University US 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Università degli Studi di Catania (UniCT) IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Shanghai International Studies University CN 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Università degli Studi di Ferrara IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Sheffield Hallam University UK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Università degli Studi di Salerno IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Shinshu University JP 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universita degli Studi di Udine IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Shiraz University IR 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Università degli Studi Roma Tre IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 new Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice PL 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 new Università della Calabria IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 new Universita' Politecnica delle Marche IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Sophia University JP 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Università  degli Studi di Palermo IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n South Ural State University RU 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 751-800 i Universität Bielefeld DE 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 new Szent István University Gödöllő HU 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 701-750 i Universität Potsdam DE 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Tallinn University EE 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 751-800 i Université de Lorraine FR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Technical University of Kosice SK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Université de Nantes FR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Technische Universität Dortmund DE 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Université de Rennes 1 FR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Technological University of Dublin IE 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 new Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) FR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC) CR 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 FR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Texas Tech University US 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Université Toulouse 1, Capitole FR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n The Robert Gordon University UK 10.3 - 14.7 801-1000 801-1000 n Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) MY 10.3 - 14.7
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Admin- 801-1000 801-1000 n Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) MY 10.3 - 14.7
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801-1000 701-750 i University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) MY 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 701-750 i University of Alabama US 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 701-750 i University of Baghdad IQ 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Bahrain BH 10.3 - 14.7 LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION AND
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Bari IT 10.3 - 14.7 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TO ACHIEVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WITH
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Brighton UK 10.3 - 14.7 INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Bucharest RO 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Calcutta IN 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Central Lancashire UK 10.3 - 14.7
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The Northern Border Al-Uwaygilah knowledge community
801-1000 751-800 University of Crete GR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Dhaka BD 10.3 - 14.7
University (NBU) in the Governorates were through well-educated
801-1000 751-800 i University of East London UK 10.3 - 14.7 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also amalgamated into and experienced faculty
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Engineering & Technology (UET) Lahore PK 10.3 - 14.7 was established by The the University; these members; preparing
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Gdansk PL 10.3 - 14.7 Custodian of the Two colleges together qualified administrative
801-1000 751-800 i University of Hertfordshire UK 10.3 - 14.7 Holy Mosques, King formed the Northern and technical staff;
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Kufa IQ 10.3 - 14.7
Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Border University. developing academically
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Kwazulu-Natal ZA 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Latvia LV 10.3 - 14.7
during his visit to the Several Colleges were accredited programs,
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Lincoln UK 10.3 - 14.7 Northern Border Region inaugurated after the building a holistic
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Lodz PL 10.3 - 14.7 in 2007 (1428 H). establishment of the infrastructure
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Malaysia Sabah (UMS) MY 10.3 - 14.7 University including the (laboratories,
801-1000 new University of Malta (L-Università ta' Malta) MT 10.3 - 14.7 The College of Sciences Colleges of Medicine, classrooms, library
801-1000 751-800 i University of Maribor SI 10.3 - 14.7 in Arar, which had been Engineering, Computer halls, digital resources);
801-1000 new University of Miskolc HU 10.3 - 14.7 affiliated with King Science, Pharmacy, and creating a
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Mississippi US 10.3 - 14.7
Abdulaziz University, Nursing, Administration motivating research
801-1000 801-1000 n University of New England AU 10.3 - 14.7
n
was amalgamated into and Medical Sciences, environment that
801-1000 801-1000 University of New Hampshire US 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 new University of Pardubice CZ 10.3 - 14.7
the newly established and Social Sciences meets the researchers’
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Parma IT 10.3 - 14.7 University and later the competence.
801-1000 new University of Rijeka HR 10.3 - 14.7 Teachers’ College. Qualifying distinguished
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Salford UK 10.3 - 14.7 scientific personnel Discover more at
801-1000 801-1000 n University of San Diego US 10.3 - 14.7 A number of colleges in to contribute to the nbu.edu.sa
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Santo Tomas PH 10.3 - 14.7 Rafha, Turaif and development of the
801-1000 801-1000 n University of the Pacific US 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n University of the Punjab PK 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i University of the West of England UK 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n University of Wroclaw PL 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 701-750 i University of Wyoming US 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i University of Zagreb HR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Utah State University US 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Verona University IT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 701-750 i Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) VN 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Vietnam National University, Hanoi VN 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Vytautas Magnus University LT 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Wrocław University of Science and Technology PL 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Wuhan University of Technology CN 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University CN 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 701-750 i Yamaguchi University JP 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 801-1000 n Yeungnam University KR 10.3 - 14.7
801-1000 751-800 i Yokohama National University JP 10.3 - 14.7

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Methodology
The QS World University Rankings continue to enjoy a remarkably consistent
methodological framework, compiled using six simple metrics that we believe
effectively capture university performance. Since faculty area normalisation was
introduced in 2015 to ensure that institutions specialising in Life Sciences and
Natural Sciences were not unduly advantaged, we have avoided fundamental
changes. In doing so, we aim to ensure that year-on-year comparisons remain
valid, and that unnecessary volatility is minimised.
Thus, universities continue to be evaluated according to the following six
metrics: Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Faculty/Student Ratio,
Citations per faculty, International Faculty Ratio, International Student Ratio.
Academic reputation (40%)
The highest weighting of any metric is allotted to an institution’s Academic
Reputation score. Based on our Academic Survey, it collates the expert opinions
of over 100,000 individuals in the higher education space regarding teaching
and research quality at the world’s universities. In doing so, it has grown to
become the world’s largest survey of academic opinion, and, in terms of size
and scope, is an unparalleled means of measuring sentiment in the academic
community.
Employer reputation (10%)
Students will continue to perceive a university education as a means by which
they can receive valuable preparation for the employment market. It follows
that assessing how successful institutions are at providing that preparation is
essential for a ranking whose primary audience is the global student community.
Our Employer Reputation metric is based on almost 50,000 responses to our
QS Employer Survey, and asks employers to identify those institutions from
which they source the most competent, innovative, effective graduates. The
QS Employer Survey is also the world’s largest of its kind.
Faculty/Student Ratio (20%)
Teaching quality is typically cited by students as the metric of highest importance
to them when comparing institutions using a ranking. It is notoriously difficult to
measure, but we have determined that measuring teacher/student ratios is the
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most effective proxy metric for teaching quality. It assesses the extent to which
institutions are able to provide students with meaningful access to lecturers
and tutors, and recognises that a high number of faculty members per student
will reduce the teaching burden on each individual academic.
Citations per faculty (20%)
Teaching is one key pillar of an institution’s mission. Another is research output.
We measure institutional research quality using our Citations per Faculty metric.
To calculate it, we take the total number of citations received by all papers
produced by an institution across a five-year period by the number of faculty
members at that institution.
To account for the fact that different fields have very different publishing
cultures – papers concerning the Life Sciences are responsible nearly half of all
research citations as of 2015 – we normalise citations. This means that a citation
received for a paper in Philosophy is measured differently to one received for a
paper on Anatomy and Physiology, ensuring that, in evaluating an institution’s
true research impact, both citations are given equal weight.
We use a five-year publication window for papers, so for this edition we looked
at papers published from 2014 to 2018. We then take a look at a six-year citation
window; reflecting the fact that it takes time for research to be effectively
disseminated. In this edition we look for citations from 2014-2019.
All citations data is sourced using Elsevier’s Scopus database, the world’s largest
repository of academic journal data. This year, QS assessed 81 million citations
from 13.9 million papers once self-citations were excluded.
International faculty ratio/International student ratio (5% each)
A highly international university acquires and confers a number of advantages.
It demonstrates an ability to attract faculty and students from across the world,
which in turn suggests that it possesses a strong international brand. It implies a
highly global outlook: essentially for institutions operating in an internationalised
higher education sector. It also provides both students and staff alike with a
multinational environment, facilitating exchange of best practices and beliefs.
In doing so, it provides students with international sympathies and global
awareness: soft skills increasingly valuable to employers.
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AL-AHLIYYA AMMAN UNIVERSITY
The first private university in Jordan

METHODOLOGY:
INDICATORS & WEIGHTINGS

The QS World University Rankings® have been published since 2004. Whilst the
headline measures have not changed since 2005, we introduce refinements to provide even stronger
results year after year.

Taken from the annual survey conducted by QS designed to evaluate the

Academic perceptions of academics from around the world regarding the best institutions
40%
Reputation in terms of research. In this edition, over 102,500 responses were recorded
globally.

Taken from the annual QS survey aimed at gathering the views of employers
Employer
around the world on the institutions providing the best professionals. For the 10%
Reputation 2021 edition, around 52,000 responses were analysed.

Faculty
Student
This is the ratio between the number of academic staff and number of students.
A higher number of teachers per student is an indirect indicator of the
commitment of the institutions to high-quality teaching.
20% RANKED

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14 56% 32 27K+
This ratio measures the average number of citations obtained per faculty
member, and is an estimate of the impact and quality of the scientific work
BACHELOR MASTER INTERNATIONAL NATIONALITIES GRADUATED
Citations per
produced by universities. This indicator is calculated using data from Scopus. To
avoid anomalous results, an affiliation cap is applied discarding papers with an 20%
PROGRAMS PROGRAMS STUDENTS STUDENTS STUDENTS
Faculty unusually high number of affiliations. Self-citations are excluded and citation
counts are normalized, ensuring that citations achieved in each of the five broad
faculty areas are weighted equally (more information: bit.ly/1RbERtx). Al-Ahliyya Amman University (AAU) is the First private university in FACULTY OF PHARMACY
Jordan and the First Arab private university in the Middle East. Established FACULTY OF ALLIED MEDICAL SCIENCES
in 1989 to be a leading institute in higher education, it is recognized and ac- FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
The International Faculty Index is simply based on the proportion of faculty
members that are international. It is a proxy measure for how internationally credited locally and internationally, it is also a member of Arab, Islamic and BUSINESS SCHOOL
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attractive the university is to academic staff. Universities based in locations 5% international university unions. FACULTY OF NURSING
Faculty known for attracting high proportions of expatriates perform well here such as
those in Hong Kong, Switzerland and UAE.
Al-Ahliyya Amman University make every effort to maintain its prestigious FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
reputation gained over the past thirty-one years by achieving a number of FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
goals that it has set within its plan to strengthen its leadership position as FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Similar in nature to the International Faculty Index, the International Students
the First private University in Jordan and as one of the most prominent uni- FACULTY OF LAW
Index is based on the proportion of students that are international. It is a proxy versities of high quality in higher education in the Arab world. FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY
International
measure for how internationally attractive the university is to students. 5%
Students Attracting international faculty and students can be challenging for institutions
that are more nationally or regionally focussed.
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A World of Reimagination
Education Reimagined after 2020
By Anton John Crace

The uniqueness that was 2020 is difficult to unpack,

and in many ways, it was a year that seemed to
compress a decade of history.

Wildfires, elections, and unrest; moments that by

themselves would typically mark a year, instead
occurred at times simultaneously. This is in addition to
a global pandemic.

“The element The uniqueness of 2020, however, created for many

at the core educators a dual sense of reflection and urgency.
is what the While many were forced to quickly adapt, the periods
professor does of isolation through quarantine and lockdowns were
throughout also full of creativity, a time to reimagine what was
the different possible.
formats and Going online for the first time, the 2020 Reimagine
methods that Education Conference, held in early December,
we may use.” brought together global education leaders to discuss
how things have changed and how they will continue
to do so in the future.

The shape of things to come

“What we’ve learnt is that over the last 20 years we

know that there’s been a major digital revolution that
has had a really profound impact on many sectors,”
says Professor David Maguire, Interim Principal and
Vice-Chancellor at the University of Dundee in the
UK.

“We only have to look at the way we do our banking

today, the way we do retail, and our entertainment.

“They’ve all changed forever, but I would submit, as

of today, universities have not been transformed to
anything like the same extent.”

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According to Professor Maguire, who also serves as chair of education and
research digital solutions provider, Jisc, 2020 was a year of reformation for
higher education.
“What’s happened in the last eight months as a consequence of the pandemic
has really had a major impact on universities, and it’s made this change, I think,
much more urgent.”
Based on the findings of Jisc’s Learning and teaching reimagined report,
released in November 2020 in partnership with Universities UK, Advance HE,
and Emerge Education, Professor Maguire adds the ongoing pandemic had an
immediate impact on perceptions of online education.
Approximately 90 percent of those surveyed said they expected lectures to
go online, if they had not already done so in the 2020/2021 academic year. By
comparison, previous surveys found only 10 percent thought the same.
Additionally, roughly 50 percent of respondents, made up of students, lecturers,
and leaders, said smaller activities such as seminars and tutorials would or had
already gone virtual.
Importantly, Professor Maguire tells QS, as well as impacting the way institutions
have had to operate, COVID-19 has changed their thinking, and the perceived
latency or reluctance in implementing a digital revolution in education may soon
be over.
“When we spoke to university leaders, few of them really feel those changes
will be rolled back and almost everybody is seeing blended learning will be the
future,” he says, noting an increase in shorter “lecturettes”, more use of voting
and quizzes to encourage interaction, flipped classrooms, and now, flipped-
flipped classrooms.
The people
Executive President of IE University, Santiago Iñiguez, says those institutions
that had already been delivering online education had a head start when doors
were closed.
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Based in Spain, IE University was an early adopter of
digital and online learning, having now accumulated
two decades of experience in the area. As a
consequence, Iñiguez says staff and faculty are
now more prepared to be early adopters of further
innovations and embrace change.
Importantly, IE University’s experience has led to
a mindset that is focussed on both student and
lecturer, seeing the setting of education solely as the [The pandemic has]
mode of delivery or format, not the end goal. made this change,
I think, much more
“The element lying at the core is what the professor urgent.”
does throughout the different formats and methods
that we may use,” he says.
To this end, Iñiguez says it is important to recognise
the stress involved in teaching a class and that going
online adds additional elements to the process which
can increase risk, exposure, and the potential to fail.
“The objective is to actually make professors
orchestrate all these elements in the best possible
way and make them feel as comfortable as traditional
environments because that will bring the best
possible experience to students in class,” he says.
“By combining live and asynchronous you can exploit
all the synergies.”
The article from which this was excerpted originally
appeared in the 2021 Subject Rankings Higher
Education Report.
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Japan
The shape of things to come
By John O’Leary

It’s an exciting time for Japanese higher educators.

Japan’s new administration appears determined to

build the country up as an education powerhouse
of the future with plans for new measures to make
the public universities more international and boost
the country’s representation at the top of the world
rankings.

The plans couldn’t be more timely and the 2021 QS

Asia Region Ranking underlines the scale of the
“Japan has a challenge. None of the universities best placed to
proud tradition in meet the government’s target has improved their
research but it is position this year.
slipping further
behind.” Japan has a total of 93 universities out of the 650 in
the Asia ranking, with 14 in the top 100. Tokyo, Kyoto
and Tokyo Institute of Technology remain in Asia’s
top 20, although all in lower positions than last year,
Osaka and Tohoku are only just outside the top 20,
having maintained their 2020 placings.

Pluses and minuses

Where Japanese universities are succeeding is with

employers, who remained impressed in the 2021
ranking. All but two of the top 20 moved up on this
measure, filling four of the top five places.

Research measures, however, provide a different

story. The top 30 Japanese universities all declined
when measured on the number of citations for each
research paper, nearly all by more than 100 places.

There have also been declines in the proportions

of international staff and students, and in student
Asia exchanges – particularly outbound.

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“Japan has a proud tradition in research but it is slipping further behind China
in both the output of papers and the citations that they attract,” says Andrew
MacFarlane, Rankings Manager for QS.

“The reputation of Japanese universities among academics and employers is

suffering, which suggests that they need to communicate their strengths more
effectively, as well as increasing their global research partnerships.”

Tokyo University of Science (TUS) is one institution that has taken this route and
bucked the trend in the new ranking, becoming the highest-placed Japanese
institution to improve its position.

Dr Soichiro Okamura, Vice President of TUS, says the university redoubled its
efforts to make research successes such as its Space Colony project and the
Center of Fire Science and Technology better known both domestically and
internationally.

“More and focused research branding, defining of specific research fields to

be granted additional funding and hiring of additional staff has contributed to
improve research quality,” he says.

Citations needed

Overall, Japan has fallen further behind China in all the research and reputational
measures. It averages 4.2 citations per paper – compared with 4.5 last year –
while China averages 6.9 citations per paper, compared with 6.0 in the 2020
ranking. Singapore averages 8.15 citations per paper, up from 7.7 last year.

The trend is repeated in other indicators. The top 10 institutions in Japan have an
average ratio of 9.6 research papers per faculty member, for example, whereas
the top 10 in China average 11.1. China saw over 20 percent growth in citations
from institutions in the top 500 in the Asian rankings for 2020 and 2021. This
figure is six percent for Japan.

While there are individual success stories – Tokyo’s international research

network is the fifth most extensive in Asia, for example - there are still significant
opportunities for improvement for the country’s institutions.

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall

1 1 n National University of Singapore SG 100
2 4 h Tsinghua University CN 98.5
3 2 i Nanyang Technological University SG 98.2
4 3 i University of Hong Kong HK 98
5 6 h Zhejiang University CN 97.2
6 7 h Fudan University CN 96.7
7 5 i Peking University CN 96.6
8 8 n The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HK 95.2
9 13= h Universiti Malaya MY 94.6
Back to the future 10 17= h Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN 94.1
11 12 h Korea University KR 94
A decade ago, Japan was the clear leader in the Asia 12 9 i Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KR 93.2
Rankings, with five unis in the top 10 and eight in the 13 10 i The Chinese University of Hong Kong HK 92.8
top 20. The country provided a quarter of the top 100. 14 11 i Seoul National University KR 92.5

Within five years, however, there were no Japanese 15 13= i The University of Tokyo JP 91.7
n
unis in the top 10 and 10 fewer in the top 100. 16 16 Sungkyunkwan University KR 91.6
17 15 i Kyoto University JP 90.6
h
The declines are curious, as they came in spite of 18 19 City University of Hong Kong HK 90.1
19 20 h National Taiwan University TW 89.8
government initiatives from as far back as 2008 20 17= i Tokyo Institute of Technology JP 89.7
“More and to internationalise the country’s universities and 21 21 n Yonsei University KR 89.3
focused research improve global competitive. 22 22 n Osaka University JP 86.7
branding, defining 23 23 n Tohoku University JP 86.1

of specific The Global 30 program eventually focused on 13 24 24 n Hanyang University KR 84.8

research fields universities, offering incentives to teach degrees 25 25 n The Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK 83.7

to be granted in English in order to increase the number of 26 26 n Pohang University of Science and Technology KR 82.6

additional funding international students and recruit academics who 27 27 n University of Science and Technology of China CN 80.7
28 33 h Universiti Putra Malaysia MY 79.8
and hiring of would also publish in English. n
29 29 Hokkaido University JP 79
additional staff A long-term target was set for Japanese universities 30 31 h Nanjing University CN 78.8
has contributed to to enroll 300,000 international students by 2020
31 30 i Kyushu University JP 78.8

improve research and, before the pandemic hit recruitment, it was close
32 28 i Nagoya University JP 78.2
33 32 i National Tsing Hua University TW 78.2
quality.” to meeting it. There were 228,000 overseas higher 34 37 h Universiti Sains Malaysia MY 75
education students in 2019, with another 83,000 on 35 39 h Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia MY 74.4

language colleges. 36 40 h Kyung Hee University KR 72.5

37 34 i Indian Institute of Technology Bombay IN 72.4

But a subsequent government target to have at least 38 36 i Wuhan University CN 72.4

10 universities in the top 100 of the world rankings by 39 46 h Universiti Teknologi Malaysia MY 71.3
40 38 i Waseda University JP 71.2
2023 remains a challenge. h
41 42 Sun Yat-Sen University CN 71
42 35 i National Cheng Kung University TW 70.1
To do so requires doubling the number in the latest h
43 45 Chulalongkorn University TH 69.6
QS World University Ranking (WUR), where only 44 48 h Mahidol University TH 69
Tokyo, Kyoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka 45 41 i Keio University JP 68.2
and Tohoku featured at this level. 46 44 i National Chiao Tung University TW 65.9
47 43 i Indian Institute of Technology Delhi IN 65.7
The full version of this abridged article first appeared 48 47 i National Taiwan University of Science and Technology TW 64.8
in the 2021 Asia Rankings Higher Education Report. 49 49 n University of Tsukuba JP 63.3
50 50 n Indian Institute of Technology Madras IN 61.9

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
51 53 h Beijing Normal University CN 61.1 101 93= i Konkuk University KR 44.2
52 55 h Xi'an Jiaotong University CN 60.9 102 100 i Chiang Mai University TH 44.2
53 54 h Tongji University CN 60.2 103 90 i Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee IN 43.8
54 52 i Ewha Womans University KR 59.6 104 102 i Kyungpook National University KR 43.5
55 62 h Huazhong University of Science and Technology CN 57.9 105 122 h Ucsi University MY 43.3
56 51 i Indian Institute of Science Bangalore IN 57.7 106 111 h Quaid-I-Azam University PK 43.2
57 70 h Universitas Gadjah Mada ID 56.6 107 116= h Universiti Utara Malaysia MY 42.8
58 56 i Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur IN 56.2 108 119 h Universiti Teknologi Mara MY 42.7
59 59= n University of Indonesia ID 56 109 106 i Southeast University CN 42.1
60 57 i Renmin (People’s) University of China CN 55.1 110 103 i Jeonbuk National University KR 41.7
61 61 n National Taiwan Normal University TW 54 111 107 i Thammasat University TH 41.5
62 66 h Bandung Institute of Technology ID 53.8 112 101 i National Chung Hsing University TW 40.2
63 71 h Harbin Institute of Technology CN 53.6 113 98 i National Yang Ming University TW 40.1
64 58 i Hong Kong Baptist University HK 52.8 114 104 i Beihang University CN 39.5
65 68= h Chung-Ang University KR 52.7 115 114= i University of Science and Technology Beijing CN 39.2
66 64 i Kobe University JP 52.4 116 137= h Southern University of Science and Technology CN 39.1
67 59= i National Central University TW 52.3 117 112 i Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati IN 38.7
68 78= h Xiamen University CN 51.6 118 132 h Ipb University ID 38.6
69 72 h University of the Philippines PH 51.2 119 120 h South China University of Technology CN 38.4
70 82 h Universiti Teknologi Petronas MY 51 120 113 i Lingnan University (Hong Kong) HK 38.3
71 67 i University of Delhi IN 50.7 121 110 i Lahore University of Management Sciences PK 37.5
72 65 i Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur IN 50.7 122 105 i Tokyo Medical and Dental University JP 37.4
73 63 i National Sun Yat-Sen University TW 50.6 123 140 h International Islamic University Malaysia MY 37.4
74 73 i Nankai University CN 50.4 124 171= h Airlangga University ID 37.2
75 86 h Universiti Brunei Darussalam BN 50.2 125 176 h Shenzhen University CN 36.5
76 83= h National University of Sciences and Technology Islamabad PK 50.1 126 121 i Inha University KR 36.2
77 74= i Hiroshima University JP 50 127 131 h Northwestern Polytechnical University CN 36.1
78 68= i Sogang University KR 49.8 128 137= h Universiti Teknologi Brunei BN 36.1
79 85 h Tianjin University CN 49.4 129 118 i University of Seoul KR 36
80 78= i Shanghai University CN 49.3 130 116= i Chiba University JP 35.8
81 N/A new Jawaharlal Nehru University IN 49.2 131 125 i Chonnam National University KR 35.7
82 87 h East China Normal University CN 48.4 132 159 h Hunan University CN 35.6
83 91= h Sejong University KR 48.3 133 134 h Universiti Malaysia Pahang MY 35.5
84 95= h Jilin University CN 48.1 134 135 h University of Dhaka BD 35.4
85 new University of Chinese Academy of Sciences CN 48.1 135 124 i Ateneo de Manila University PH 35.2
86 83= i Shandong University CN 48 136 123 i Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology JP 35.1
87 91= h Sichuan University CN 47.8 137 142 h Tokyo University of Science JP 35
88 95= h National Taipei University of Technology TW 47.8 138 148= h Jinan University CN 34.7
89 109 h Taylor's University MY 46.7 139 179= h Management and Science University MY 34.6
90 74= i Taipei Medical University TW 46.6 140 128 i University of Ulsan KR 34.4
91 81 i Hitotsubashi University JP 46.5 141 141 n Ritsumeikan University JP 34.2
92 89 i Hufs – Hankuk (Korea) University of Foreign Studies KR 46.3 142 114= i University of Hyderabad IN 33.8
93 93= n University of Macau MO 46.1 143 130 i Dalian University of Technology CN 33.7
94 99 h Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology KR 45.8 144 126 i East China University of Science and Technology CN 33.3
95 77 i National Chengchi University TW 45.5 145 108 i Tokyo Metropolitan University JP 33.1
96 97 h Dongguk University KR 45.3 146 151 h Comsats University Islamabad PK 33.1
97 80 i Pusan National University KR 44.9 147 136 i Jadavpur University IN 33.1
98 88 i Beijing Institute of Technology CN 44.6 148 148= n Soochow University CN 33
99 76 i Singapore Management University SG 44.6 149 127 i Kasetsart University TH 32.7
100 new Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology SK 44.3 150 129 i Kanazawa University JP 32.6

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
151 160= h Khon Kaen University TH 32.5 201 new Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal IN 25.4
152 152= n Ajou University KR 32.4 202 N/A new University of Madras IN 25.4
153 133 i Beijing Jiaotong University CN 31.7 203 192= i Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi IN 25.3
154 139 i University of Calcutta IN 31.6 204 224 h Jiangsu University CN 25.2
155 152= i Institute of Chemical Technology , Mumbai IN 31.3 205 213= h Nanjing Normal University CN 24.8
156 143= i Osaka City University JP 31.2 206 198= i Niigata University JP 24.5
157 181= h Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar) MY 31.2 207 211= h University Malaysia Perlis MY 24.5
158 143= i Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City VN 30.4 208= 201= i The University of Tokushima JP 24.3
159 156= i Yeungnam University KR 30.4 208= 174 i University of Electronic Science and Technology of China CN 24.3
160 147 i Vietnam National University, Hanoi VN 30.3 210= 215= h Shinshu University JP 24.3
161 166 h National Chung Cheng University TW 30.2 210= 211= h University of Malaysia Sabah MY 24.3
162 154 i Chungnam National University KR 30.1 212 207= i Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics CN 24.2
163 207= h Ton Duc Thang University VN 30.1 213 218= h Shimane University JP 24.2
164 198= h Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology ID 30 214 231 h Central China Normal University (F.K.A. Huazhong Normal University) CN 24.2
165 148= i Prince of Songkla University TH 30 215 228= h Vellore Institute of Technology IN 24.1
166 156= i De La Salle University PH 29.9 216 261-270 h Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology CN 24.1
167 185 h Lanzhou University CN 29.8 217 new University of Peshawar PK 24.1
168 195= h Universiti Tenaga Nasional MY 29.8 218 233 h Macau University of Science and Technology MO 24
169 143= i Nagasaki University JP 29.8 219 177= i University of Mumbai IN 23.8
170 155 i Yokohama National University JP 29.7 220 201= i Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad IN 23.7
171 181= h Chongqing University CN 29.7 221= 271-280 h Southwest University CN 23.6
172 194 h Sunway University MY 29.7 221= 198= i University of Peradeniya LK 23.6
173 164 i China University of Geosciences CN 29.5 223 218= i International Christian University JP 23.6
174 171= i Nanjing University of Science and Technology CN 29.5 224 207= i Kyushu Institute of Technology JP 23.5
175 171= i University of Engineering & Technology Lahore PK 29.1 225 205 i Indian Institute of Technology Ropar IN 23.4
176 168 i Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences PK 29 226 192= i Feng Chia University TW 23.4
177 165 i Chang Gung University TW 29 227 234= h Bina Nusantara University ID 23.4
178= 181= h Sophia University JP 28.9 228 291-300 h North South University BD 23.3
178= 195= h University of the Punjab PK 28.9 229 218= i Jiangnan University CN 23.1
180 177= i Banaras Hindu University IN 28.8 230 239= h Manipal Academy of Higher Education IN 23.1
181 156= i Okayama University JP 28.7 231 201= i Aga Khan University PK 23.1
182 188= h Central South University CN 28.6 232 215= i Kangwon National University KR 23
183 167 i The Catholic University of Korea KR 28.4 233 227 i Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswa IN 22.9
184 162 i Kumamoto University JP 28.4 234 215= i Tezpur University, Tezpur IN 22.9
185 160= i China Agricultural University CN 28.4 235 223 i Yokohama City University JP 22.9
186 179= i University of Santo Tomas PH 28.3 236 243= h Harbin Engineering University CN 22.8
187 163 i Kaohsiung Medical University TW 28.1 237 187 i National Taiwan Ocean University TW 22.6
188 188= n Indian Institute of Technology Indore IN 27.7 238 236= i Padjadjaran University ID 22.6
189 146 i King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi TH 27.3 239 251-260 h Kyoto Institute of Technology JP 22.6
190 170 i Multimedia University MY 27 240 271-280 h Soongsil University KR 22.5
191 181= i Osaka Prefecture University JP 26.9 241 281-290 h Diponegoro University ID 22.4
192 204 h Wuhan University of Technology CN 26.9 242 213= i Gyeongsang National University KR 22.3
193 191 i Savitribai Phule Pune University IN 26.7 243 248= h China University of Petroleum CN 22.3
194 175 i Birla Institute of Technology and Science IN 26.3 244 271-280 h University of Agriculture, Faisalabad PK 22.2
195 243= h Universiti Malaysia Terengganu MY 26.3 245 242 i Nagaoka University of Technology JP 22
196 169 i Anna University IN 26.3 246= 281-290 h Beijing Foreign Studies University CN 22
197 186 i Beijing University of Chemical Technology CN 26 246= 239= i Donghua University CN 22
198 188= i Beijing University of Technology CN 25.9 246= 281-290 h Sookmyung Women's University KR 22
199= 222 h Alagappa University, Karaikudi IN 25.4 249 206 i Chungbuk National University KR 22
199= 207= h Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology BD 25.4 250 225= i National Institute of Technology Rourkela IN 21.8

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251-260 251-260 n Fu Jen Catholic University TW -
251-260 281-290 h Fuzhou University CN -
251-260 243= i Gifu University JP -
251-260 234= i Kagoshima University JP -
251-260 291-300 h Nanjing Tech University CN -
251-260 218= i National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli IN -
251-260 261-270 h Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology IN -
251-260 243= i Tokai University JP -
251-260 243= i Universiti Malaysia Sarawak MY -
251-260 228= i Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University CN -
261-270 251-260 i Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh IN -
261-270 301-350 h Amity University IN -
261-270 271-280 h Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham IN -
261-270 197 i Chung Yuan Christian University TW -
261-270 230 i Doshisha University JP -
261-270 232 i Kookmin University KR -
261-270 251-260 i National University of Defense Technology CN -
261-270 291-300 h Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University CN -
261-270 225= i Northwest University (China) CN -
261-270 301-350 h Shanghai International Studies University CN -
261-270 251-260 i Shanghai Normal University CN -
271-280 301-350 h Brac University BD -
271-280 261-270 i China University of Mining and Technology CN -
271-280 251-260 i Dankook University KR -
271-280 261-270 i Huazhong Agricultural University CN -
271-280 236= i Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad IN -
271-280 271-280 n King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang TH -
271-280 251-260 i Tamkang University TW -
271-280 301-350 h University of Brawijaya ID -
271-280 new University of Electro-Communications JP -
281-290 301-350 h Gunma University JP -
281-290 261-270 i Hallym University KR -
281-290 271-280 i Meiji University JP -
281-290 261-270 i Ocean University of China CN -
281-290 281-290 n Pukyong National University KR -
281-290 251-260 i Seoul National University of Science and Technology KR -
281-290 291-300 h Soochow University (Taiwan) TW -
281-290 351-400 h Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris MY -
281-290 239= i University of Karachi PK -
281-290 301-350 h Zhengzhou University CN -
291-300 301-350 h China University of Political Science and Law CN -
291-300 351-400 h Jss Academy of Higher Education and Research (Deemed To Be University) IN -
291-300 291-300 n Nanjing Medical University CN -
291-300 261-270 i National Dong Hwa University TW -
291-300 250 i Rikkyo University JP -
291-300 351-400 h Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University JP -
291-300 new Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences IN -
291-300 281-290 i South China Normal University CN -
291-300 301-350 h Universiti Kuala Lumpur MY -
291-300 301-350 h Universiti Tun Hussein Onn University of Malaysia MY -

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
291-300 271-280 i University of Colombo LK - 351-400 new Air University, Pakistan PK -
301-350 351-400 h Akita Prefectural University JP - 351-400 401-450 h Akita International University JP -
301-350 301-350 n Akita University JP - 351-400 351-400 n Andhra University IN -
301-350 291-300 i Annamalai University IN - 351-400 301-350 i Aoyama Gakuin University JP -
301-350 new Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation MY - 351-400 new Arid Agriculture University PK -
301-350 291-300 i Asia University Taiwan TW - 351-400 301-350 i Bahauddin Zakariya University PK -
301-350 301-350 n Beijing Forestry University CN - 351-400 351-400 n Bangalore University, Bangalore IN -
301-350 301-350 n Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications CN - 351-400 351-400 n Beijing University of Chinese Medicine CN -
301-350 301-350 n China Pharmaceutical University CN - 351-400 351-400 n Burdwan University, Bardhaman IN -
301-350 351-400 h Gb Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar IN - 351-400 351-400 n Chosun University KR -
301-350 261-270 i Hanoi University of Science & Technology VN - 351-400 351-400 n Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (Sagar University), Sagar IN -
301-350 301-350 n Hohai University CN - 351-400 451-500 h Duy Tan University VN -
301-350 401-450 h Hong Kong Shue Yan University HK - 351-400 301-350 i Ehime University JP -
301-350 281-290 i Incheon National University KR - 351-400 401-450 h Gachon University KR -
301-350 new Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur IN - 351-400 401-450 h Hasanuddin University ID -
301-350 new Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi IN - 351-400 351-400 n Hefei University of Technology CN -
301-350 301-350 n Indian Institute of Technology Patna IN - 351-400 351-400 n Hongik University KR -
301-350 301-350 n Inje University KR - 351-400 401-450 h Independent University Bangladesh BD -
301-350 281-290 i Jeju National University KR - 351-400 301-350 i Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi IN -
301-350 301-350 n King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok TH - 351-400 351-400 n Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad PK -
301-350 271-280 i Kochi University JP - 351-400 351-400 n International Islamic University Islamabad PK -
301-350 301-350 n Minzu University of China CN - 351-400 301-350 i Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi IN -
301-350 281-290 i Nagoya City University JP - 351-400 351-400 n Kansai University JP -
301-350 301-350 n Nagoya Institute of Technology JP - 351-400 301-350 i Kindai University JP -
301-350 301-350 n Nanjing Agricultural University CN - 351-400 301-350 i Kwangwoon University KR -
301-350 281-290 i National Taipei University TW - 351-400 301-350 i Kwansei Gakuin University JP -
301-350 301-350 n Northeast Normal University CN - 351-400 401-450 h Limkokwing University of Creative Technology MY -
301-350 238 i Northeastern University (China) CN - 351-400 new Lincoln University College, Malaysia MY -
301-350 401-450 h O. P. Jindal Global University IN - 351-400 351-400 n Mehran University of Engineering & Technology PK -
301-350 291-300 i Panjab University IN - 351-400 351-400 n Nanchang University CN -
301-350 301-350 n Pondicherry University IN - 351-400 301-350 i National Changhua University of Education TW -
301-350 251-260 i Saitama University JP - 351-400 451-500 h National Chi Nan University TW -
301-350 401-450 h Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed To Be University) IN - 351-400 501-550 h National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad PK -
301-350 301-350 n Segi University MY - 351-400 301-350 i National University of Kaohsiung TW -
301-350 301-350 n Shaanxi Normal University CN - 351-400 301-350 i National Yunlin University of Science and Technology TW -
301-350 301-350 n Shanghai University of Finance and Economics CN - 351-400 351-400 n Ned University of Engineering and Technology PK -
301-350 new Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine CN - 351-400 301-350 i Nihon University JP -
301-350 281-290 i Shantou University CN - 351-400 301-350 i North China Electric Power University CN -
301-350 301-350 n Shizuoka University JP - 351-400 301-350 i Osmania University, Hyderabad IN -
301-350 261-270 i Suranaree University of Technology TH - 351-400 401-450 h Shibaura Institute of Technology JP -
301-350 291-300 i Symbiosis International (Deemed University) IN - 351-400 351-400 n Shivaji University, Kolhapur IN -
301-350 301-350 n Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore IN - 351-400 401-450 h Siksha €˜o’ Anusandhan IN -
301-350 271-280 i Tunghai University TW - 351-400 301-350 i Soonchunhyang University KR -
301-350 271-280 i University of International Business and Economics CN - 351-400 351-400 n Southwest Jiaotong University CN -
301-350 351-400 h University of Lahore PK - 351-400 301-350 i Southwestern University of Finance and Economics CN -
301-350 new University of the Ryukyus JP - 351-400 248= i Sri Venkateswara University IN -
301-350 301-350 n Xidian University CN - 351-400 301-350 i Srm Institute of Science and Technology (F.K.A Srm University) IN -
301-350 251-260 i Yamaguchi University JP - 351-400 351-400 n University of Kerala IN -
301-350 301-350 n Yangzhou University CN - 351-400 301-350 i University of Miyazaki JP -
301-350 251-260 i Yuan Ze University TW - 351-400 301-350 i University of Mysore, Mysore IN -

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401-450 451-500 h Bangkok University TH - 451-500 351-400 i Anhui University CN -
401-450 451-500 h Busan University of Foreign Studies KR - 451-500 451-500 n Atma Jaya Catholic University Jakarta ID -
401-450 new Chang Jung Christian University TW - 451-500 401-450 i Bahria University PK -
401-450 401-450 n Chuo University JP - 451-500 451-500 n Banasthali Vidyapith IN -
401-450 351-400 i Cochin University of Science & Technology IN - 451-500 401-450 i Can Tho University VN -
401-450 new Daffodil International University BD - 451-500 451-500 n Changwon National University KR -
401-450 451-500 h Dow University of Health Sciences PK - 451-500 401-450 i Chung Hua University TW -
401-450 new East West University BD - 451-500 401-450 i Dong-A University KR -
401-450 301-350 i Fujian Normal University CN - 451-500 501-550 h Dongseo University KR -
401-450 new Future University Hakodate JP - 451-500 351-400 i Gakushuin University JP -
401-450 new Gangneung-Wonju National University KR - 451-500 401-450 i Gc University Lahore PK -
401-450 351-400 i Guangxi University CN - 451-500 451-500 n Guangdong University of Foreign Studies CN -
401-450 new Help University MY - 451-500 401-450 i Guru Nanak Dev University, Amristar IN -
401-450 451-500 h Hue University VN - 451-500 501-550 h Handong Global University KR -
401-450 401-450 n Hunan Normal University CN - 451-500 401-450 i Hosei University JP -
401-450 new Inti International University MY - 451-500 351-400 i Indian Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad IN -
401-450 new I-Shou University TW - 451-500 401-450 i Inner Mongolia University CN -
401-450 401-450 n Korea Maritime and Ocean University KR - 451-500 new Iwate Prefectural University JP -
401-450 501-550 h Kunsan National University KR - 451-500 401-450 i Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology IN -
401-450 351-400 i Ming Chuan University TW - 451-500 401-450 i Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon IN -
401-450 351-400 i Myongji University KR - 451-500 401-450 i Keimyung University KR -
401-450 401-450 n Naresuan University TH - 451-500 451-500 n Khulna University of Engineering and Technology BD -
401-450 351-400 i National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal IN - 451-500 351-400 i Kitasato University JP -
401-450 451-500 h Nitte (Deemed To Be University) IN - 451-500 451-500 n Kle Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belagavi IN -
401-450 351-400 i Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar IN - 451-500 401-450 i Liaoning University CN -
401-450 451-500 h Sebelas Maret University ID - 451-500 401-450 i Mae Fah Luang University TH -
401-450 new Shandong University of Science and Technology CN - 451-500 new Malaysia University of Science and Technology MY -
401-450 401-450 n Shanghai University of International Business and Economics CN - 451-500 401-450 i Mie University JP -
401-450 501-550 h Siam University TH - 451-500 351-400 i National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology TW -
401-450 351-400 i Silpakorn University TH - 451-500 new National Taipei University of Education TW -
401-450 401-450 n Soka University JP - 451-500 401-450 i Ochanomizu University JP -
401-450 351-400 i South China Agricultural University CN - 451-500 451-500 n Riphah International University PK -
401-450 351-400 i Srinakharinwirot University TH - 451-500 501-550 h Sangmyung University KR -
401-450 351-400 i Taiyuan University of Technology CN - 451-500 451-500 n Sastra Deemed University IN -
401-450 new Tata Institute Od Social Sciences IN - 451-500 new Shih Chien University TW -
401-450 451-500 h Telkom University ID - 451-500 401-450 i Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantpur IN -
401-450 401-450 n Toyo University JP - 451-500 351-400 i Tottori University JP -
401-450 301-350 i Toyota Technological Institute JP - 451-500 new Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta ID -
401-450 351-400 i United International University BD - 451-500 451-500 n Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin MY -
401-450 451-500 h Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka MY - 451-500 501-550 h University of Central Punjab PK -
401-450 401-450 n University of Calicut IN - 451-500 new University of Fukui JP -
401-450 401-450 n University of Da Nang VN - 451-500 401-450 i University of Kashmir, Srinagar IN -
401-450 401-450 n University of Jaffna LK - 451-500 351-400 i University of Malakand,Chakdara PK -
401-450 351-400 i University of Moratuwa LK - 451-500 351-400 i University of San Carlos PH -
401-450 351-400 i University of Shanghai For Science and Technology CN - 451-500 401-450 i University of Sri Jayewardenepura LK -
401-450 351-400 i University of Taipei TW - 451-500 401-450 i University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore PK -
401-450 451-500 h University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce TH - 451-500 401-450 i Wonkwang University KR -
401-450 301-350 i Yamagata University JP - 451-500 351-400 i Xinjiang University CN -
401-450 351-400 i Yunnan University CN - 451-500 401-450 i Yanshan University CN -
401-450 451-500 h Zhongnan University of Economics and Law CN - 451-500 501-550 h Youngsan University KR -

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501-550 new Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan PK - 551-600 new Acharya Nagarjuna University IN -
501-550 new Ateneo de Davao University PH - 551-600 new Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology BD -
501-550 401-450 i Central University of Finance and Economics CN - 551-600 new American International University, Bangladesh BD -
501-550 451-500 i Changan University CN - B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology (Deemed
551-600 451-500 i IN -
To Be University)
501-550 new Chaoyang University of Technology TW -
i Balochistan University of Information Technology Engineering and Manage-
501-550 451-500 Communication University of China CN - 551-600 new PK -
ment Sciences (Buitems)
501-550 451-500 i Daegu University KR -
551-600 501-550 i Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune IN -
501-550 451-500 i Dalian Maritime University CN -
551-600 501-550 i Burapha University TH -
501-550 new Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts JP -
551-600 501-550 i Christ (Deemed To Be University), Bengaluru IN -
501-550 451-500 i Gauhati University, Guwahati IN -
551-600 new Delhi Technological University IN -
501-550 new Gitam University IN -
551-600 501-550 i Dong-Eui University KR -
501-550 401-450 i Goa University IN -
551-600 new Government College University, Faisalabad PK -
501-550 451-500 i Hebei University of Technology CN -
551-600 451-500 i Guizhou University CN -
501-550 451-500 i Hirosaki University JP -
551-600 501-550 i Gulbarga University, Gulbarga IN -
501-550 new Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Mfg Kancheepuram IN -
551-600 501-550 i Hannam University KR -
501-550 501-550 n Iqra University Iu Karachi PK -
551-600 new Hanoi National University of Education VN -
501-550 451-500 i Jain (Deemed To Be University) IN -
551-600 new Hansung University Seoul KR -
501-550 501-550 n Japan Women's University JP -
551-600 501-550 i Iwate University JP -
501-550 451-500 i Josai International University JP -
551-600 501-550 i Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University IN -
501-550 new Kansai Gaidai University JP -
551-600 501-550 i Kanagawa University JP -
501-550 451-500 i Kyonggi University KR -
551-600 501-550 i Karnatak University, Dharwad IN -
501-550 401-450 i Kyoto Sangyo University JP -
551-600 451-500 i Kogakuin University JP -
501-550 401-450 i Mahasarakham University TH -
551-600 501-550 i Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation IN -
501-550 451-500 i Mapua University PH -
551-600 451-500 i Korea National University of Education KR -
501-550 401-450 i Mokpo National University KR -
551-600 501-550 i Kumaun University, Nainital IN -
501-550 401-450 i Nara Women's University JP -
551-600 451-500 i Kumoh National Institute of Technology KR -
501-550 new National Chin-Yi University of Technology TW -
551-600 451-500 i Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta IN -
501-550 351-400 i Saga University JP -
551-600 401-450 i Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara IN -
501-550 451-500 i Saurashtra University, Rajkot IN -
551-600 new Maharishi Markandeshwar University IN -
501-550 new Seoul National University of Education KR -
551-600 451-500 i Mangalore University, Mangalore IN -
501-550 501-550 n Seoul Women's University KR -
551-600 new Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of Technology PH -
501-550 new Shangdong Agricultural University CN -
551-600 501-550 i Mongolia University of Science and Technology MN -
501-550 new Sichuan Agricultural University CN -
551-600 new National Textile University PK -
501-550 451-500 i Silliman University PH -
551-600 451-500 i Northeast Forestry University CN -
501-550 501-550 n Sun Moon University KR -
551-600 501-550 i Paichai University KR -
501-550 new The Islamia University of Bahawalpur,Pakistan PK -
551-600 451-500 i Parahyangan Catholic University ID -
501-550 501-550 n Tokyo City University JP -
551-600 new Silla University KR -
501-550 501-550 n Tokyo University of Foreign Studies JP -
551-600 401-450 i Sojo University JP -
501-550 451-500 i Udayana University ID -
551-600 new State University of Malang ID -
501-550 451-500 i Universitas Islam Indonesia ID -
551-600 401-450 i Sunchon National University KR -
501-550 501-550 n Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia ID -
551-600 451-500 i Syiah Kuala University ID -
501-550 new Universitas Sumatera Utara ID -
551-600 451-500 i Tokyo Denki University JP -
501-550 501-550 n Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia MY -
551-600 new Universitas Andalas ID -
501-550 501-550 n University of Management and Technology PK -
551-600 501-550 i Universitas Pelita Harapan ID -
501-550 401-450 i University of Sargodha PK -
551-600 new Universiti Malaysia Kelantan MY -
501-550 451-500 i University of Sindh PK -
551-600 501-550 i University of Jammu, Jammu IN -
501-550 new University of Suwon KR -
551-600 new University of Surabaya ID -
501-550 new Utsunomiya University JP -
551-600 new Vel Tech University IN -
501-550 501-550 n Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology CN -
551-600 501-550 i Yanbian University CN -
501-550 new Yogyakarta State University ID -

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551-600 new Yong in University KR -
551-600 new Ziauddin University PK -
601+ new Adamson University PH -

made in UiTM
601+ new Ahmad Dahlan University ID -
601+ new Aichi Gakuin University JP -
601+ new Aichi University JP -

made for the world

601+ 501-550 i Andong National University KR -
601+ new Anyang University KR -
601+ new Bunkyo University JP -
601+ new Central Luzon State University PH - Opening doors of opportunities, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) provides access to education
601+ new Central Mindanao University PH - for Bumiputeras. UiTM’s inclusivity covers the underprivileged to the disabled as well as
601+ new Central Philippine University PH - international candidates. Thus, making it the largest university in Malaysia accommodating over
601+ new Cheongju University KR -
160,000 learners and counting.
601+ new Chitkara University IN -
Following the success of the Food Bank Malaysia programme launched in 2019, which benefited
601+ new Daejeon University KR - 45,850 households from the Bottom 40 income group, UiTM has taken concerted steps to set-up
601+ new Daejin University KR - its Food Bank Centre for the needy around the campuses. Apart from reducing poverty and
601+ new Da-Yeh University TW - achieving zero hunger, the programme is also aimed at controlling food surplus and educating
the university community about responsible consumption and production. In addition to food
601+ new Foundation University Islamabad PK -
banks, the university is providing affordable accommodation to its students through the
601+ 451-500 i Fukushima University JP - resident-ship within and around the campuses.
601+ new Guangdong University of Technology CN -
601+ 501-550 i Hanseo University KR - these are the.global.goals rewrite the possibilities,
601+ 501-550 i Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science IN -
repurpose our creations.
601+ 501-550 i Icfai Foundation For Higher Education, Hyderabad IN -
601+ new Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City VN -
601+ 451-500 i Islamia College University Peshawar PK -
601+ 501-550 i Jiwaji University, Gwalior IN -
601+ new Josai University JP -
601+ new Kanagawa Institute of Technology JP -
601+ new Kanazawa Institute of Technology JP -
601+ new Kangnam University KR -
601+ new Kobe College JP -
601+ 451-500 i Kongju National University KR -
601+ new Konyang University KR -
601+ new Korea Nazarene University KR -
601+ new Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra IN -
601+ new Kyoto Women's University JP -
601+ new Kyungsung University KR -
601+ new Lahore College For Women University PK -
601+ 501-550 i Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur IN -
601+ 501-550 i National Kaohsiung Normal University TW -
601+ new Nmims University IN -
601+ 501-550 i Northeast Agricultural University CN -
601+ new Ryukoku University JP -
601+ new Sahmyook University KR -
601+ new Seokyeong University KR -
601+ new State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta ID -
601+ new Tsuda College JP -
601+ new Ubon Ratchathani University TH -
601+ new Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta ID -
601+ new Universitas Tarumanagara ID -
601+ new University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City VN -
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 EECA Rankings 2021

Looking Outward
The Changing Dynamics of Internationalisation in the Baltic
By Leigh Kamolins

Since the first QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia

(EECA) Rankings in 2014, universities across the
region have etched out strengthened positions in the
global higher education landscape.

While true across the region, there have been

pronounced changes in the Baltic countries of
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in recent years. In
each, there has been greater engagement in the
international student space, and increasingly outward
In recent years
looking approaches to research.
there have been
also numerous Global internationalisation growth trends in the
narratives that have sector have been well documented over recent
emerged framing years, and the Baltic nations have been no different.
Estonia, Latvia Between 2014 and the 2021 Rankings, the average
and Lithuania as proportion of international students has more
emerging tech hubs than doubled in Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian
of Europe. institutions. In Lithuania’s case, the figure almost
grew five-fold, up from 3 percent to 14.

Growth aside, in all three countries, there are now

greater proportions of international students on
average compared with the average across the EECA
region as a whole. Latvian numbers are almost twice
the regional average.

So, what may be behind this growth? While a greater

diversity of countries getting actively involved in
international student markets may well be a global
trend, there also seems to be some interesting local
drivers which may have contributed to this dynamic.

All three Baltic countries have seen acute

Emerging Europe and demographic changes in recent years.

Central Asia
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Since 2000, Latvia’s population shrunk by around 17 percent, Lithuania’s by 23

percent, and Estonia’s by 7 percent, most acutely felt among youth populations.
Within the 20–24-year-old age bracket, the population is 41 percent smaller in
Estonia, 42 percent smaller in Lithuania, and 56 percent smaller in Latvia than
it was in 20 years ago.

The impact of these changes on those countries has been profound. In each
of the three, significant government attention has been given to reinvigorating
education and employment markets to stem the tide. Education policy has also
specifically tilt towards “the international” in the higher education sector to
respond to these challenges.

But it is not only the dynamics of the international student space where we have
seen strong examples of internationalisation. Institutions across the Baltic have
also been building strong research partners from around the world.

In the 2021 Rankings there was, on average, a 10 percent increase in partnerships,

and Baltic universities had the most productive partnerships with countries such
as Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Russia.

In recent years there have been also numerous narratives that have emerged
framing Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as emerging tech hubs of Europe.

This emergence is perhaps most visible in Estonia, where Tallinn has at times
been referred to as the emerging Silicon Valley of Europe. A recent ranking by
online publication eu-startups.com placed Tallinn at 12th position among the
leading cities in Europe for start-up activity, a significant achievement given
the relative size compared with cities such as London, Berlin and Amsterdam.

Many of these narratives talk about the strength of the higher education sector
in each country supporting this type of ecosystem.

When we look deeper within the QS ranking, there are some hints to support the
tech hub paradigm. In the Employer Reputation component of the Rankings,
employers nominate the universities they feel produce the best graduates.
By overseas employers only, Estonia and Lithuania lead the EECA region in
reputation nominations.

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall

1 1 n Lomonosov Moscow State University RU 100.00
2 4 h University of Tartu EE 94.99
3 2 i Saint Petersburg State University RU 94.86
4 5 h Charles University CZ 94.30
5 3 i Novosibirsk State University RU 92.43
6 6 n Jagiellonian University PL 89.74
The high opinion of international employers suggests 7 7 n University of Warsaw PL 89.35
graduates are seen as leaving their higher education 8 10 h Masaryk University CZ 88.87

well prepared for the workforce, hinting at them being 9 11= h Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University RU 88.53
10 8 i Tomsk State University RU 88.39
strong countries in which to establish a business.
11 11= n Koç University TR 86.16
12= 9 i Czech Technical University in Prague CZ 86.00
The relative strength of the higher education system
12= 14 h Warsaw University of Technology PL 86.00
in each is also pointed to when we look at the number 14 13 i Middle East Technical University TR 85.71
of institutions ranked. 15 15 n Bogaziçi Üniversitesi TR 83.75
16 17 h National Research University - Higher School of Economics RU 81.66
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have the third, fourth 17 20 h Istanbul Technical University TR 80.37
and fifth highest number of ranked institutions per 18 16 i Bilkent University TR 80.05
one million of population in the EECA region, showing 19 18= i Al-Farabi Kazakh National University KZ 78.76

perhaps a disproportionate strength relative to each 20 18= i Vilnius University LT 78.56

Between 2014 country’s size. 21 21 n Sabanci University TR 77.12
and the 2021 22 26= h Istanbul University TR 74.92

Rankings, It has been interesting to watch how the performance 23 23 n Brno University of Technology CZ 74.72
h
the average of institutions has developed across the region since 24 28 Eotvos Lorand University HU 74.17
25 25 n Belarus State University BY 74.12
proportion of the first edition of the QS EECA Ranking back in 26 33 h University of Szeged HU 73.10
international 2014. 27 35 h Ural Federal University RU 72.96
students has i National Research Nuclear University (Moscow Engineering Physics
28 24 RU 72.65
more than The international dynamics of universities in Estonia, Institute)

doubled in Latvia and Lithuania look very different than they did 29 30 h Tomsk Polytechnic University RU 72.32
i
Estonian, back then. 30 26= University of Ljubljana SI 72.30
31 22 i Tallinn University of Technology EE 72.07
Latvian, and
Institutions from all three countries have been on a 32 36 h Kazan Federal University RU 71.40
Lithuanian 33 29 i Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv UA 71.36
rapid internationalisation trajectory which appears to
institutions. 34 31 i Bauman Moscow State Technical University RU 71.35
be fuelled by a unique mix of challenges posed by 35 34 i Budapest University of Technology and Economics HU 70.99
demographic shift, dynamic employment markets as 36 46 h Itmo University RU 70.07
well as a more general international outlook by policy 37 44 h Palacký University in Olomouc CZ 69.14
makers within each of the countries. 38 32 i Vilnius Gediminas Technical University LT 67.20
39 37 i University of Debrecen HU 66.37
With the impending challenges faced by the sector 40 40 n Babes-Bolyai University RO 66.36

as we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, it will be 41 39 i University of Latvia LV 66.17

42 45 h National University of Science and Technology "Misis" RU 65.73
interesting to see to what extent this drive towards
43= 41 i Hacettepe University TR 65.20
internationalisation continues and whether it 43= 58 h Rudn University RU 65.20
remains aligned with the local needs of each of these 45 47 h Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University RU 64.97
countries. 46 43 i Wrocław University of Science and Technology PL 64.87
47 38 i University of Zagreb HR 64.72
The full version of this abridged article first appeared 48 49 h Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" BG 64.00
in the 2021 EECA Rankings Higher Education Report. 49 52 h Agh University of Science and Technology PL 61.73

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
50 53 h Kaunas University of Technology LT 60.85 100 91 i University of Pannonia HU 38.33
51 48 i Comenius University in Bratislava SK 60.07 101 92 i Novosibirsk State Technical University RU 37.97
52 51 i L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University KZ 59.94 102 104 h Technical University of Kosice SK 37.69
53 56 h Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Mgimo University) RU 59.85 103 90 i Far Eastern Federal University RU 37.23
54 60 h Adam Mickiewicz University PL 59.72 104 124 h M.O.Auezov South Kazakhstan State University KZ 36.78
55 96 h University of Cyprus CY 59.71 105 98= i Samara National Research University (Samara University) RU 36.38
56 42 i University of Bucharest RO 59.48 106 100 i Ege Üniversitesi TR 36.30
57 54 i Riga Technical University LV 59.10 107 98= i New Economic School, Russia RU 36.29
58 57 i University of Wroclaw PL 58.76 108 86 i Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University GE 36.10
59 55 i Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava SK 58.48 109 110 h Szent István University Gödöllő HU 35.31
60 63 h University of Belgrade RS 58.26 110 new Cyprus University of Technology CY 35.09
61 50 i Corvinus University of Budapest HU 58.03 111 112 h Technical University of Liberec CZ 34.84
62 59 i University of Pécs HU 56.62 112 116 h Klaipeda University LT 34.63
63 65 h Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague CZ 55.90 113 115 h Lithuanian University of Health Sciences LT 34.57
64 62 i University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague CZ 54.85 114 117= h University of West Bohemia CZ 33.68
65 61 i Vytautas Magnus University LT 53.43 115 128= h National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" UA 33.19
66 67 h National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" UA 53.17 116 128= h South Ural State University RU 32.92
67 68= h V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University UA 52.28 117 142= h Altai State University RU 32.91
68 66 i Ankara Üniversitesi TR 51.54 118 117= i Sumy State University UA 32.50
69 73 h Satbayev University KZ 50.23 119 133= h University of Novi Sad RS 32.47
70 64 i Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod RU 49.23 120 119 i Technical University of Cluj-Napoca RO 32.29
71 71 n Tallinn University EE 48.43 121 141 h Riga Stradins University LV 32.22
72 70 i University of Maribor SI 48.29 122 123 h University of South Bohemia CZ 32.21
73 72 i University Politehnica of Bucharest RO 48.22 123 121 i University of Miskolc HU 32.10
74 77= h Technical University of Ostrava CZ 46.61 124 111 i Poznan University of Life Sciences PL 31.91
75 84 h Plekhanov Russian University of Economics RU 46.41 125 106= i University of Split HR 31.54
76 75 i Mendel University in Brno CZ 45.95 126 106= i University of Nicosia CY 31.41
77 80= h Poznan University of Technology PL 45.39 127 122 i Siberian Federal University RU 31.35
78 83 h University of Lodz PL 45.30 128 113= i University of Rijeka HR 31.15
79 79 n Cracow University of Technology PL 44.47 129 130 h University of Pardubice CZ 30.49
80 76 i University of Nova Gorica SI 44.34 130 109 i Polytechnic University of Timișoara RO 30.27
81 68= i Alexandru Ioan Cuza University RO 43.42 131 185 h Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University AM 29.85
82 105 h Kazakh National Pedagogical University Abai KZ 43.03 132 142= h Mykolas Romeris University LT 29.37
83 97 h Kazakh National Agrarian University KZ 42.98 133 133= n University of Primorska SI 29.17
84 82 i University of Gdansk PL 42.86 134 126 i Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje MK 28.99
85 88= h Nicolaus Copernicus University PL 42.60 135 152 h Kazakh National Medical University (Kaznmu) KZ 28.68
86 77= i University of Silesia PL 42.33 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public
136 140 h RU 28.60
i Administration
87 85 Tomas Bata University in Zlin CZ 42.25
137 149 h Njsc Kimep University KZ 28.59
88 103 h Belarusian National Technical University BY 41.24
138 163 h American University of Central Asia KG 28.57
89 108 h Gdansk University of Technology PL 41.02
139 154 h Sechenov University RU 28.40
90 88= i Southern Federal University RU 40.73
140 158= h Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics BY 28.18
91 101= h Lodz University of Technology PL 40.33
141 131 i National Research Saratov State University RU 28.15
92 94 h Kazakh-British Technical University KZ 40.09
142 147 h University of Niš RS 28.07
93 80= i The "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi RO 39.79
143 145= h Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University Etu-Leti RU 27.80
94 101= h Warsaw University of Life Sciences PL 39.73
144 120 i University of Sarajevo BA 27.72
95 74 i West University of Timisoara RO 39.52
145 161 h University of Ostrava CZ 27.61
96 87 i Yildiz Technical University TR 39.31
146 150 h Pavol Josef Safarik University SK 27.42
97 95 i Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice PL 38.50
147 132 i Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi TR 27.26
98 113= h National University Lviv Polytechnic UA 38.44
148 137= i Erciyes Üniversitesi TR 27.17
99 93 i Gazi Üniversitesi TR 38.41

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
149 151 h E.A.Buketov Karaganda State University KZ 27.15 198 211-220 h Moscow State University of Civil Engineering RU 20.08
150 133= i Izmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü (Iyte) TR 27.06 199 201-210 h Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia RU 19.93
151 158= h Medical University Sofia BG 26.92 200 201-210 h Perm State University RU 19.89
152 153 h Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) RU 26.88 201-210 new European University Cyprus (Euc) CY 18.7 - 19.82
153 136 i Gebze Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü (Gyte) TR 26.33 201-210 157 i Marmara University TR 18.7 - 19.82
154 new Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra SK 26.24 201-210 211-220 h National Bohdan Khmelnytsky University of Cherkasy UA 18.7 - 19.82
131 125 i National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Naukma) UA 30.04 201-210 194 i Pázmány Péter Catholic University HU 18.7 - 19.82
156 148 i Anadolu University TR 25.71 201-210 new South East European University MK 18.7 - 19.82
157 174= h Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation RU 25.30 201-210 180 i Tobb University of Economics and Technology TR 18.7 - 19.82
158 137= i University Dunarea De Jos of Galati RO 25.13 201-210 211-220 h Tyumen State University RU 18.7 - 19.82
159 188 h Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University RU 24.82 201-210 162 i University of Opole PL 18.7 - 19.82
160 145= i Voronezh State University RU 24.74 201-210 221-230 h University of Rzeszów PL 18.7 - 19.82
161 165 h University of Žilina SK 24.65 201-210 176 i University of Sibiu RO 18.7 - 19.82
162 190= h D. Serikbayev East Kazakhstan State Technical University KZ 24.62 211-220 new Bahcesehir University TR 18.17 - 18.65
163 166 h Sarajevo School of Science and Technology BA 24.17 211-220 201-210 i Baku State University AZ 18.17 - 18.65
164 144 i University of Suceava RO 24.13 211-220 197= i Galatasaray Üniversitesi TR 18.17 - 18.65
165 173 h Saint-Petersburg Mining University RU 24.10 211-220 174= i Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies LV 18.17 - 18.65
166 127 i Istanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi TR 23.89 211-220 201-210 i Ogarev Mordovia State University RU 18.17 - 18.65
167 155= i Bucharest University of Economic Studies RO 23.73 211-220 221-230 h Omsk State Technical University RU 18.17 - 18.65
168 167 i Belgorod State University RU 23.61 211-220 221-230 h Russian State University For the Humanities RU 18.17 - 18.65
Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research 211-220 155= i Technical University of Lublin PL 18.17 - 18.65
169 182 h RU 23.60
University) i
211-220 195= University of Bialystok PL 18.17 - 18.65
170 164 i National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute" RU 23.59
211-220 190= i University of Craiova RO 18.17 - 18.65
171 177= h Ataturk University TR 23.46
221-230 251-300 h Azerbaijan State University of Economics AZ 16.86 - 18.08
172 160 i Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia RU 23.31
221-230 new Belarusian State Technological University BY 16.86 - 18.08
173 201-210 h Széchenyi István University HU 23.18
221-230 221-230 n Cankaya Üniversitesi TR 16.86 - 18.08
174 168= i Eastern Mediterranean University NCY 23.10
221-230 211-220 i Izmir Ekonomi Universitesi TR 16.86 - 18.08
175 211-220 h Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University KZ 22.87
h Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World
i 221-230 241-250 KZ 16.86 - 18.08
176 168= University of Hradec Kralove CZ 22.82 Languages
177 170 i American University in Bulgaria BG 22.68 221-230 201-210 i Saint-Petersburg State Institute of Technology RU 16.86 - 18.08
178 301-350 h University of Kragujevac RS 22.66 221-230 241-250 h St.Petersburg State University of Economics RU 16.86 - 18.08
179 171 i Yerevan State University AM 22.63 221-230 new Tajik National University TJ 16.86 - 18.08
180 197= h Karaganda State Technical University KZ 22.50 221-230 211-220 i University of Oradea RO 16.86 - 18.08
181 201-210 h National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine UA 22.44 221-230 201-210 i University of Sopron HU 16.86 - 18.08
182 181 i Perm National Research Polytechnic University RU 22.28 221-230 221-230 n Varna University of Management (Vum) BG 16.86 - 18.08
183 190= h Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University KG 22.24 231-240 201-210 i Firat Üniversitesi TR 16.19 - 16.84
184 172 i University of Zielona Góra (Uniwersytet Zielonogórski) PL 22.20 231-240 new Ivan Franko National University of Lviv UA 16.19 - 16.84
185 193 h Kazan National Research Technical University RU 22.17 231-240 201-210 i J.J. Strossmayer University, in Osijek HR 16.19 - 16.84
186 177= i Constantine the Philosopher University SK 22.00 231-240 241-250 h Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (Mtuci) RU 16.19 - 16.84
187 187 n Akdeniz Üniversitesi TR 21.31 231-240 199= i Óbuda University HU 16.19 - 16.84
188 177= i Cukurova University TR 21.29 231-240 251-300 h Russian State Social University RU 16.19 - 16.84
189 184 i National Research University of Electronic Technology - Miet RU 21.23 231-240 251-300 h Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics UA 16.19 - 16.84
190 137= i Transilvania University of Brasov RO 21.12 231-240 211-220 i Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics RU 16.19 - 16.84
191 195= h Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno BY 20.90 231-240 251-300 h Volgograd State University RU 16.19 - 16.84
192 189 i Ozyegin University TR 20.85 241-250 241-250 n Atilim Universitesi TR 15.22 - 16.11
193 183 i Abdullah Gul University TR 20.71 241-250 211-220 i Donetsk National Technical University UA 15.22 - 16.11
194 201-210 h Kazan National Research Technological University RU 20.68 241-250 231-240 i Gdynia Maritime University PL 15.22 - 16.11
195 199= h Moscow State University of Food Production RU 20.54 241-250 251-300 h I.Zhansugurov Zhetysu State University KZ 15.22 - 16.11
196 186 i Tomsk State Pedagogical University RU 20.48 241-250 221-230 i Irkutsk State University RU 15.22 - 16.11
197 221-230 h Almaty Technological University KZ 20.33 241-250 221-230 i Khazar University AZ 15.22 - 16.11

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
241-250 221-230 i Moscow State Linguistic University RU 15.22 - 16.11 251-300 251-300 n University of Mostar BA 11.66 - 15.21
241-250 211-220 i Moscow State University of Technology Stankin RU 15.22 - 16.11 251-300 221-230 i University of Nyíregyháza HU 11.66 - 15.21
241-250 231-240 i Northern (Arctic) Federal University Named After M.V. Lomonosov RU 15.22 - 16.11 251-300 231-240 i Uzhgorod National University UA 11.66 - 15.21
Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy Named 251-300 301-350 h Yaroslavl State University RU 11.66 - 15.21
241-250 251-300 h RU 15.22 - 16.11
After K.A.Timiryazev (Rsau-Mtaa)
251-300 new Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction AM 11.66 - 15.21
251-300 251-300 n Abant Izzet Baysal Üniversitesi TR 11.66 - 15.21
251-300 251-300 n Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov RU 11.66 - 15.21
251-300 241-250 i American University of Armenia AM 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n ”Vasile Goldiș” Western University of Arad RO 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 new Armenian State University of Economics AM 11.66 - 15.21 i
301-350 251-300 Adnan Menderes Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 241-250 i Baskent University TR 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 231-240 i Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi TR 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy AZ 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 231-240 i Daugavpils University LV 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Balikesir Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Don State Technical University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Bashkir State University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 241-250 i Donetsk National University UA 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Celal Bayar Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 301-350 h Dostoevsky Omsk State University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Gaziosmanpasa Üniversitesi TR 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Dumlupinar Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 301-350 h Georgian Technical University GE 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Eszterházy Károly University, Eger HU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 new Goce Delchev University MK 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 new Gaziantep University TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 221-230 i Harran Üniversitesi TR 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i I. I. Polzunov Altai State Technical University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Istanbul Aydin University TR 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Inönü Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 new Istanbul Gelisim University TR 11.66 - 15.21 i
301-350 251-300 Irkutsk National Research Technical University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Jan Evangelista Purkyně University CZ 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Isik Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 241-250 i Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics UA 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Istanbul Ticaret Universitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 301-350 h Moldova Technical University MD 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 new Ivano Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas UA 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Moscow Pedagogical State University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Ivanovo State Power Engineering University Named After V.I. Lenin RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 231-240 i Moscow Technological University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Kadir Has Üniversitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Narxoz University KZ 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church Budapest HU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 241-250 i National Aviation University UA 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Kazakh State Women's Teacher Training University KZ 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n North-Caucasus Federal University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Kiev National Linguistics University UA 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 231-240 i North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi National University UA 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Nosov Magnitogorsk State Technical University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 new Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design UA 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Pavlodar State University Named After Toraighyrov KZ 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Moldova State University MD 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 231-240 i Penza State University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Moscow Polytechnic University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 241-250 i Petrozavodsk State University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Namik Kemal University TR 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n S.Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University KZ 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i National Mining University UA 9.05 - 11.59
Saint-Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Econom- n
251-300 251-300 n RU 11.66 - 15.21 301-350 301-350 North-Kazakhstan State University Named After M. Kozybayev KZ 9.05 - 11.59
ics (Umte)
301-350 new Orel State University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 241-250 i Sakarya University TR 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Petersburg State Transport University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Samara Polytech (Samara State Technical University) RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 new Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Silesian University in Opava CZ 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 new Russian State Hydrometeorological University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Southwest State University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (Suai) RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 new Suleyman Demirel University TR 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Samara State University of Economics RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Tambov State Technical University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Semey State University Named After Shakarim KZ 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 301-350 h Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Melioration UZ 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i Siberian State Aerospace University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n The National University of Ostroh Academy UA 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 new State University of Management RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n Ufa State Aviation Technical University (Usatu) RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n The Ural State University of Economics RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 301-350 h Ufa State Petroleum Technological University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n Tver State Technical University (Tstu) RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 new Ukrainian National Forestry University UA 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 new Udmurt State University RU 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 231-240 i Ulyanovsk State University RU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy BG 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 251-300 n University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest RO 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 301-350 n University of Banja Luka BA 9.05 - 11.59
251-300 231-240 i University of Kaposvár HU 11.66 - 15.21
301-350 251-300 i University of Dubrovnik HR 9.05 - 11.59

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
CS- 351-400 301-350 i Vistula University PL -
301-350 251-300 i University of Prishtina 9.05 - 11.59
KM
351-400 new Vladimir State University RU -
301-350 301-350 n University of Zadar HR 9.05 - 11.59
351-400 301-350 i Voronezh Institute of High Technologies RU -
301-350 301-350 n Vinnytsia National Technical University UA 9.05 - 11.59
351-400 new Voronezh State Technical University RU -
301-350 251-300 i Volgograd State Technical University RU 9.05 - 11.59
351-400 301-350 i Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies RU -
301-350 new Western Ukrainian National University UA 9.05 - 11.59
351-400 new Vyatka State University RU -
301-350 251-300 i Yildirim Beyazit Universitesi TR 9.05 - 11.59
351-400 301-350 i Yaroslav-The-Wise Novgorod State University RU -
351-400 new Agricultural University of Tirana AL -
351-400 new Zhangir Khan West Kazakhstan Agrarian-Technical University KZ -
351-400 new Aleksandë Moisiu University of Durrës AL -
351-400 new Astrakhan State University RU -
351-400 301-350 i Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University AZ -
351-400 new Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University AZ -
351-400 new Baku Engineering University AZ -
351-400 301-350 i Belgorod State Technological University Named After V.G.Shoukhov RU -
351-400 new Dagestan State University RU -
351-400 new Epoka University AL -
351-400 301-350 i European University, North Macedonia MK -
351-400 301-350 i Istanbul Kültür Universitesi TR -
351-400 new K.Zhubanov Aktobe Regional State University KZ -
351-400 301-350 i Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University RU -
351-400 new Kaliningrad State Technical University RU -
351-400 new Kemerovo State University RU -
351-400 301-350 i Kuban State University RU -
351-400 301-350 i Moscow City University RU -
351-400 new Moscow Financial and Industrial University "Synergy" RU -
351-400 301-350 i Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (Miit) RU -
351-400 new National University of Uzbekistan UZ -
351-400 new Orenburg State University RU -
351-400 251-300 i Ovidius University of Constanta RO -
351-400 new Polytechnic University of Tirana AL -
351-400 new Pyatigorsk State University RU -
351-400 301-350 i Rostov State University of Economics RU -
351-400 new Russian New University RU -

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Mexican higher education at a crossroads

By Amity Bacon

Like most nations, the Mexico of just a few years ago

is not the Mexico of today, with economic trends
reversing course and higher education just one facet
of the country’s COVID-19 related collateral damage.

Since president Andrés Manuel López Obrador

(AMLO) took office in December 2018, there has
been much to be optimistic about. Mexico’s colleges
and universities accounted for a substantial portion
of Latin America’s top institutions in the 2021 QS
“We have LATAM Rankings, and last year, PWC predicted
seen inequity Mexico would earn a spot in the ‘top 10 of the world
in terms of economies’ by 2050.
access to higher
education There is still time for the culturally rich and ethnically
among the diverse neighbor to the US to steer itself back on
general track. But for now, the nation is facing its biggest
population.” recession since 1932, with AMLO hard-pressed to
develop an ambitious financial plan,

With no clear model of economic growth, the IMF

says Mexico’s economy may not recover to pre-
pandemic levels for as long as five years.

Roadblocks ahead for equity in higher education

For Mexican universities, COVID-19 induced

economic concerns are a major setback for equity.
Only 21 of 100 elementary school children graduate
from college.

“Higher education in Mexico had its own

problems before the pandemic,” says Dr Javier
Cuesta, Divisional Director of Humanities and
Communications at Universidad Iberoamericana
(IBERO) in Mexico City.
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“We have seen inequity in terms of access to higher education among the
general population, inequity between those from cities and those from the
countryside, and inequity among people with the lowest incomes. We were
asking, ‘How can education have the same results for people with no internet,
no cellphones?’”

During his 2018 presidential election campaign, AMLO promised to introduce

the ‘Cuarta Transformacion’ or ‘Fourth Transformation (4T)’ to reform Mexican
society. His 4T strategy would eradicate poverty, corruption, and give the
nation hope. Speaking to the strong desire for Mexican society to experience
monumental change, AMLO won over the electorate by a landslide.

Three years after AMLO’s promise of a transformation, however, plans have

been stymied. Prior to the global pandemic’s arrival, many leading Mexican
institutions were prioritizing internationalisation at a rapid clip.

A pivot towards a new future

Mexican institutions have continued to face challenges both divorced from and
exacerbated by COVID-19. Safety and security on campus is still a weak spot
in cities and regions where violent crime, often drug cartel-related, still looms.

“Student mobility has been weakened by insecurity on campus and lack of

transportation, particularly in places where drug cartels and drug consumption
are present,” says Dr Comas Rodriguez, Coordinator of Institutional Information
at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City.

In addition, changing economic circumstances for students in other Latin

American nations have stifled the inflow of students from Central and South
America. According to Dr Rodriguez, the staggering drop in currency levels,
especially in places like Argentina and Brazil, have contributed to the disruption
of student mobility.

“We are living in a difficult situation, but as we try to move forward, we need to
think of higher education with more of a digital component that can overcome
physical barriers, even after coming back from COVID-19,” says Dr Rodriguez.

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall

1 1 n Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile CL 100.00
2 2 n Universidade de São Paulo BR 99.66
3 3 n Tecnológico de Monterrey MX 99.53
4 7 h Universidad de Chile CL 97.42
5 5 n Universidade Estadual de Campinas BR 95.68
6 4 i Universidad de los Andes Colombia CO 95.09
7 6 i Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México MX 94.13
8 8 n Universidad de Buenos Aires AR 92.93
9 9 n Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro BR 89.24
A continued trajectory of growth 10 10 n Universidad Nacional de Colombia CO 86.23
11 12 h Universidad de Concepción CL 83.01
While higher education around the globe continues 12 11 i Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" BR 82.79
to re-invent itself and student mobility wanes, Dr 13 14 h Universidad de Antioquia CO 80.83
Cuesta of IBERO has a few predictions for Mexico’s 14 13 i Universidad de Santiago de Chile CL 79.84

sector. He believes there will be fewer students and 15 17 h Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais BR 77.83
h
institutions domestically. 16 18 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PE 77.73
17 15 i Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - Puc - Rio BR 76.37
i
“We have been seeing such a huge growth in recent 18 16 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana CO 75.14
19 19= new Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul BR 75.00
years with new institutions—many of them not of 20 19= new Universidad de Costa Rica CR 72.10
good quality. Due to the fact that public universities 21 26 h Universidad Nacional de La Plata AR 71.14
“As we try to were not able to reach all students, more private 22 21 i Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso CL 71.00
move forward, universities opened up to fill that gap. In 2021-2023, 23 22= new Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina BR 70.06
we need to there will be many shut-downs; the market is going 24 24 n Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez CL 69.69
think of higher to contract.” 25 25 n Instituto Politécnico Nacional MX 69.07

education with 26 30 h Universidade Federal de São Paulo BR 67.41

more of a digital However, this contraction in the number of 27 28 h Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana MX 67.19
28 22= new Universidad de La Habana CU 67.17
component.” institutions, believes Dr Cuesta, will be a net positive. n
29 29 Universidade de Brasilia BR 67.00
30 33 h Universidad Austral AR 66.25
“We are going to see a trend in the concentration of
31 31 n Universidad Nacional de Córdoba AR 65.58
businesses, with huge joint ventures between private 32 35 h Universidade Federal de São Carlos BR 65.38
and public institutions,” he says. 33 27 i Universidad Torcuato Di Tella AR 65.26
34 36 h Universidad Diego Portales CL 65.06
“At the same time, face-to-face instruction will 35 32 i Universidade Federal do Paraná BR 64.77
become the gold standard and a strong system for 36 37 h Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María CL 64.70
professional skills,” 37 40 h Universidad de Puerto Rico PR 64.65
38 34 i Universidad Austral de Chile CL 63.74
In terms of the state of Mexican higher education 39 42 h Universidad Iberoamericana MX 62.04

today, he is cautiously optimistic. 40 47 h Universidad del Rosario CO 61.94

41 43 h Universidad Central de Venezuela VE 59.60
“With online mobility, we can offer almost every 42 39 i Instituto Tecnológico Autonomo de México MX 59.44

subject to everyone in the world. We are trying to 43 46 h Universidad de Guadalajara MX 58.95

44 48 h Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León MX 58.90
create a new model that we’ve never had before. It is i
45 44 Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina Santa María de los Buenos Aires AR 58.68
too soon to say if we are successful.” 46 45 i Universidade Federal do Pernambuco BR 58.37
47 49 h Universidad de La República UY 57.92
The full version of this abridged article first appeared 48 62 h Universidad de La Sabana CO 54.60
in QS-GEN 3, February 2021. 49 38 i Universidad Simón Bolívar Venezuela VE 54.59
50 58 h Universidad del Valle CO 53.78

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
51 53 h Universidad de Talca CL 53.59 100 93= new Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora BR 40.37
52 50 i Universidad de Las Américas Puebla MX 53.52 101 105 h Universidad Católica del Uruguay UY 39.75
53 41 i Universidad de San Andrés AR 51.85 102 100 i Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Utn) AR 39.57
54 60 h Universidade Federal do Ceará BR 51.63 103 101= new Universidad Icesi CO 39.19
55 55= new Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul BR 51.45 104 97 i Universidade Federal de Goiás BR 38.90
56 73= new Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia PE 51.33 105 110= new Universidad del Bio-Bio CL 38.83
57 63 h Universidad Eafit CO 51.25 106 98= new Escuela Politécnica Nacional EC 38.71
58 65 h Universidad del Norte CO 51.14 107 107= new Universidade Federal da Paraíba BR 38.57
59 51= new Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo BR 50.70 108 116 h Universidade Federal de Lavras BR 38.55
60 54 i Universidade Federal Fluminense BR 50.61 109 75= new Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador EC 38.53
61 51= new Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro BR 50.57 110 88 i Universidad Autónoma de San Luis de Potosí MX 38.51
62 73= new Universidad de La Frontera CL 50.24 111= 95= new Universidad Nacional del Sur AR 38.32
63 59 i Universidad Nacional de Rosario AR 49.99 111= 107= new Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto BR 38.32
64 69 h Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana CO 49.47 113 114 h Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo BR 38.22
65 55= new Universidad de San Francisco de Quito EC 49.37 114 118 h Universidade Federal do Abc (Ufabc) BR 37.97
66 67 h Universidad de los Andes Chile CL 49.31 115 120 h Universidad de Tarapaca CL 37.73
67 70= new Universidad Industrial de Santander CO 48.62 116 112 i Universidade Federal de Uberlândia BR 37.43
68 70= new Universidad Andrés Bello - Unab CL 48.55 117 115 i Universidad de Belgrano AR 37.12
69 70= new Tecnológico de Costa Rica CR 48.54 118 129 h Universidade Federal do Rio Grande BR 36.69
70 66 i Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México MX 48.16 120 136= new Universidad Iberoamericana (Unibe) DO 36.20
71 61 i Universidad Nacional Costa Rica CR 47.89 121 110= new Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata AR 35.97
72 78 h Universidade Federal da Bahia BR 47.41 122 122 n Universidade Federal de Campina Grande BR 35.78
73 79 h Universidade Federal de Pelotas BR 46.70 123 130 h Universidad de Las Ciencias Informã¡Ticas (Cuba) CU 35.42
74 64 i Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral - Espol EC 46.47 124 126 h Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá (Utp) PA 35.39
75 82= new Universidad de los Andes Mérida VE 46.36 125 127 h Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná -Pucpr BR 35.04
76 84 h Universidad Católica Andrés Bello - Ucab VE 46.33 126 113 i Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie BR 34.92
77 68 i Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos PE 45.88 127 144= new Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina PE 34.91
78 57 i Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires AR 45.77 128 146= new Universidad Mayor de San Andrés BO 34.77
79 107= new Universidad de Palermo AR 45.27 129 142= new Universidad de Antofagasta CL 34.44
80 103 h Universidad del Desarrollo CL 45.19 130 121 i Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná BR 34.16
81 81 n Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte BR 44.96 131 124= new Universidade Federal do Parà - Ufpa BR 34.11
82 82= new Colegio de México MX 44.93 132 new Federal University Of Health Sciences Of Porto Alegre (Ufcspa) BR 33.91
83 98= new Universidad Panamericana MX 44.59 133 171-180 h Universidad de Lima PE 33.39
84 75= new Universidad Anahuac MX 44.58 134 151-160 h Universidad de La Serena CL 33.06
85 85 n Universidad de Montevideo UY 44.40 135 128 i Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Unsam) AR 33.03
86 104 h Universidad Externado de Colombia CO 44.17 136 150= new Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro BR 33.02
87 91 h Universidad de Oriente Santiago de Cuba CU 44.09 137 131 i Universidad Nacional de Asunción PY 32.96
88 77 i Universidade Federal de Viçosa BR 44.03 138 136= new Universidad Veracruzana MX 32.53
89 93= new Universidad Nacional del Litoral AR 43.39 139 133= new Universidade do Vale do Rio Dos Sinos BR 32.37
90 80 i Universidad de Valparaíso CL 43.14 140 150= new Universidad Nacional de San Luis AR 32.22
91 101= new Universidad Ort Uruguay UY 42.96 141 148 h Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro MX 32.15
92 89= new Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla MX 42.66 142 140= new Universidade Federal de Alagoas BR 31.88
93 95= new Universidad Católica del Norte CL 42.55 143 133= new Universidad Católica de Córdoba AR 31.62
94 106 h Universidad de Monterrey MX 41.50 144 123 i Universidade Federal de Itajubá BR 31.60
95 135 h Universidad del Pacifico PE 41.43 145 151-160 h Universidad Alberto Hurtado CL 31.52
96= 117 new Universidad Nacional de Cuyo AR 41.38 146 151-160 h Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas PE 31.37
96= 86 new Universidade Estadual de Londrina BR 41.38 147 151-160 h Universidad Autónoma de Baja California MX 31.21
96= 92 new Universidade Estadual de Maringá BR 41.38 148 151-160 h Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (Uvg) GT 31.00
99 87 i Universidade Federal de Santa Maria BR 40.97 149 151-160 h Universidad Central Marta Abreu de Las Villas CU 30.74
99 89= new Universidad de Guanajuato MX 41.34 150 124= new Universidad Nacional de Quilmes AR 30.69

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
151-160 191-200 h Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala - Usac GT - 191-200 201-250 h Universidade Federal Dos Vales do Jequitinhonha E Mucuri BR -
151-160 161-170 h Universidad del Zulia VE - 201-250 301-350 h Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz CO -
151-160 171-180 h Universidad El Bosque CO - 201-250 251-300 h Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência E Tecnologia do Paraná - Ifpr BR -
151-160 181-190 h Universidade do Estado da Bahia BR - 201-250 201-250 n Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (Intec) DO -
151-160 132 i Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa BR - 201-250 201-250 n Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (Itson) MX -
151-160 161-170 h Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná BR - 201-250 201-250 n Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre Y Maestra DO -
151-160 161-170 h Universidade Federal de Alfenas BR - 201-250 201-250 n Pontificia Universidade Católica do Minas Gerais - Puc Minas BR -
151-160 138 i Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso BR - 201-250 251-300 h The University Of Fortaleza-Unifor BR -
151-160 142= new Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Ufs) BR - 201-250 181-190 i Universidad Antonio Nariño (Uan) CO -
151-160 144= new Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul BR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes MX -
161-170 191-200 h Fundación Universidad de Bogotá-Jorge Tadeo Lozano CO - 201-250 251-300 h Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga CO -
161-170 191-200 h Universidad Autónoma de Chile CL - 201-250 191-200 i Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo MX -
161-170 151-160 i Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán MX - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas MX -
161-170 139 i Universidad Central del Ecuador EC - 201-250 171-180 i Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad de Juárez MX -
161-170 171-180 h Universidad de Medellin CO - 201-250 251-300 h Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila MX -
161-170 171-180 h Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia Y Tecnología Costa Rica (Ulacit) CR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (Uag) MX -
161-170 181-190 h Universidad Metropolitana VE - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas MX -
161-170 140= new Universidad Nacional de Tucumán AR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Católica de La Santísima Concepción - Ucsc CL -
161-170 161-170 n Universidade Federal do Amazonas BR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Católica de Temuco CL -
161-170 171-180 h Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro BR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de La Asunción PY -
171-180 191-200 h Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo MX - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad de Caldas CO -
171-180 151-160 i Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos MX - 201-250 191-200 i Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo EC -
171-180 181-190 h Universidad de Carabobo VE - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad de La Salle CO -
171-180 201-250 h Universidad de Córdoba CO - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad de Las Américas (Udla) Ecuador EC -
171-180 191-200 h Universidad de Magallanes (Umag) CL - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad de Quintana Roo MX -
171-180 181-190 h Universidad de Piura PE - 201-250 251-300 h Universidad de San Buenaventura CO -
171-180 161-170 i Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo MX - 201-250 new Universidad del Norte (Uninorte) PY -
171-180 171-180 n Universidad Nacional del Centro de La Provincia de Buenos Aires AR - 201-250 161-170 i Universidad del Salvador AR -
171-180 161-170 i Universidade Federal do Maranhão BR - 201-250 251-300 h Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla MX -
171-180 161-170 i Universidade Federal do Pampa BR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico PR -
181-190 181-190 n Pontificia Universidade Católica do Campinas - Puc Campinas BR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara - Iteso MX -
181-190 201-250 h Universidad Argentina de La Empresa -Uade AR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Latina de Costa Rica CR -
181-190 181-190 n Universidad de Colima MX - 201-250 301-350 h Universidad Mayor de San Simón Cochabamba BO -
181-190 161-170 i Universidad de Cuenca EC - 201-250 251-300 h Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos AR -
181-190 149 i Universidad de Panamá (Up) PA - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto AR -
181-190 201-250 h Universidad del Valle de Mexico (Uvm) MX - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco PE -
181-190 201-250 h Universidad La Salle (Ulsa) MX - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Privada Boliviana BO -
181-190 146= new Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina BR - 201-250 251-300 h Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola PE -
181-190 181-190 n Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense BR - 201-250 251-300 h Universidad San Sebastián - Chile CL -
181-190 151-160 i Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei Ufsj BR - 201-250 181-190 i Universidad Santa María La Antigua-Usma PA -
191-200 201-250 h Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia - Eia CO - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Santo Tomás CO -
191-200 201-250 h Fundação Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco BR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Sergio Arboleda CO -
191-200 191-200 n Universidad de Cartagena CO - 201-250 171-180 i Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (Uptl) EC -
191-200 171-180 i Universidad de Las Fuerzas Armadas (Espe) EC - 201-250 new Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar CO -
191-200 201-250 h Universidad de Santander - Udes CO - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae CU -
191-200 171-180 i Universidad de Sonora MX - 201-250 201-250 n Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira CO -
191-200 201-250 h Universidad del Cauca CO - 201-250 201-250 n Universidade Estadual da Paraíba BR -
191-200 201-250 h Universidad del Tolima CO - 201-250 201-250 n Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste BR -
191-200 191-200 n Universidad Nacional del Comahue AR - 201-250 251-300 h Universidade Federal de Roraima BR -
191-200 191-200 n Universidade de Caxias do Sul BR - 201-250 201-250 n Universidade Federal do Acre BR -

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
201-250 201-250 n Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Unirio BR - 251-300 251-300 n Universidade Potiguar (Unp) BR -
251-300 251-300 n Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito CO - 301-350 301-350 n Cetys Universidad MX -
251-300 201-250 i National University Of The Patagonia San Juan Bosco AR - 301-350 351-400 h Universidad Abierta Interamericana - Uai AR -
251-300 351-400 h Universidad Autónoma  Benito Juàrez de Oaxaca (Uabjo) MX - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Arturo Prat CL -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Autónoma de Asunción PY - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero MX -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Autónoma de Campeche MX - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas MX -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua MX - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Autónoma del Carmen MX -
251-300 301-350 h Universidad Autónoma de Manizales CO - 301-350 251-300 i Universidad Autónoma Nacional de Nicaragua- Managua - Unan NI -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo DO - 301-350 new Universidad Bernardo O'higgins CL -
251-300 301-350 h Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa MX - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Centroamericana (Uca) NI -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Autónoma del Caribe (Uac) CO - 301-350 351-400 h Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia CO -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Católica Boliviana BO - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad de Atacama CL -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Católica de Colombia CO - 301-350 new Universidad de Ciencias Y Artes de Chiapas MX -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil EC - 301-350 251-300 i Universidad de El Salvador SV -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Católica del Maule CL - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad de La Costa CO -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Central de Chile CL - 301-350 251-300 i Universidad de Pamplona CO -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" - Uca SV - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad de Playa Ancha CL -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Ces CO - 301-350 351-400 h Universidad del Azuay EC -
251-300 301-350 h Universidad Cientifica del Sur PE - 301-350 351-400 h Universidad del Caribe MX -
251-300 301-350 h Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales Y Sociales (Uces) AR - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad del Istmo (Udi) PA -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad de Cienfuegos Carlos Rafael Rodríguez CU - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Esan PE -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad de Holguín CU - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Finis Terrae CL -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad de Los Lagos CL - 301-350 new Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo MX -
251-300 301-350 h Universidad de Nariño CO - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco MX -
251-300 201-250 i Universidad de San Martín de Porres -Usmp PE - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Libre CO -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad del Atlántico CO - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Militar Nueva Granada CO -
251-300 301-350 h Universidad del Magdalena CO - 301-350 new Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo EC -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad del Valle de Atemajac MX - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Nacional de Lujan AR -
251-300 351-400 h Universidad del Viña del Mar CL - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa PE -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas CO - 301-350 251-300 i Universidad Nacional de San Juan AR -
251-300 301-350 h Universidad Ean CO - 301-350 351-400 h Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero AR -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Interamericana de Panamá PA - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Nacional de Trujillo PE -
251-300 201-250 i Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango MX - 301-350 new Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de La Provincia de Buenos Aires AR -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Mayor CL - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal - Unfv PE -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (Unah) HN - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Politecnica Salesiana EC -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Nacional de Itapúa (Uni) PY - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Politénica de Puerto Rico PR -
251-300 201-250 i Universidad Nacional de Salta AR - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Ricardo Palma PE -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña DO - 301-350 351-400 h Universidad Santiago de Cali CO -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (Upaep) MX - 301-350 201-250 i Universidad Santo Tomás - Chile CL -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana (Unitec) - Honduras HN - 301-350 new Universidad Simón Bolívar Colombia CO -
251-300 251-300 n Universidad Tecnológica de México (Unitec) MX - 301-350 251-300 i Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador (Utec) SV -
251-300 201-250 i Universidade de Ribeirão Preto BR - 301-350 301-350 n Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana CL -
251-300 161-170 i Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (Univap) BR - 301-350 351-400 h Universidad Ute EC -
251-300 201-250 i Universidade do Vale Itajaí (Univali) BR - 301-350 new Universidad Vasco de Quiroga MX -
251-300 181-190 i Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana BR - 301-350 301-350 n Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (Uam) BR -
251-300 251-300 n Universidade Estadual de Goiás BR - 301-350 251-300 i Universidade de Passo Fundo BR -
251-300 201-250 i Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros BR - 301-350 251-300 i Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul BR -
251-300 201-250 i Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul BR - 301-350 301-350 n Universidade Estadual do Maranhão BR -
251-300 201-250 i Universidade Luterana do Brasil BR - 301-350 251-300 i Universidade Paulista - Unip BR -
251-300 251-300 n Universidade Nove de Julho (Uninove) BR - 301-350 201-250 i Universidade Regional de Blumenau BR -

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
301-350 301-350 n Universidade Salvador BR - 351-400 new Universidade Vila Velha BR -
351-400 351-400 n Colegio Mayor de Antioquia CO - 401+ new Centro Universitário Ritter Dos Reis (Uniritter) BR -
351-400 new Dom Bosco Catholic University BR - 401+ new Fundación Universitaria del Area Andina CO -
351-400 351-400 n Escuela Colombiana de Carreras Industriales - Ecci CO - 401+ new Universidad Católica de Cuenca EC -
351-400 351-400 n Escuela Superior de Administracion Publica (Esap) CO - 401+ new Universidad Cuauhtémoc MX -
351-400 301-350 i Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano - Itm CO - 401+ new Universidad del Distrito Federal MX -
351-400 351-400 n Universiad Cristóbal Colón MX - 401+ new Universidad Federico Henríquez Y Carvajal DO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Apec (Unapec) DO - 401+ 351-400 i Universidad Francisco Gavidia SV -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí (Unachi) PA - 401+ new Universidad Mexiquense del Bicentenario MX -
351-400 301-350 i Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit MX - 401+ new Universidad Technologica Privada de Santa Cruz BO -
351-400 301-350 i Universidad Autónoma de Occidente CO - 401+ new Universidad Tecnológica de Honduras HN -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Católica Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez - Ucsh CL -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Católica de Santo Domingo DO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Católica del Salvador SV -
351-400 new Universidad Católica San Pablo, Arequipa PE -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Central del Este DO -
351-400 new Universidad Cristiana de Bolivia (Ucebol) BO -
351-400 301-350 i Universidad de Guayaquil EC -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad de Ibagué CO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad de La Amazonía CO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad de Las Américas Chile (Udla) CL -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad de los Llanos CO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad de Manizales CO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad de Occidente MX -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad del Caribe (Unicaribe) DO -
351-400 new Universidad del Noreste MX -
351-400 301-350 i Universidad del Quindío CO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Estatal de Sonora MX -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador SV -
351-400 new Universidad Mayor de San Francisco Xavier BO -
351-400 301-350 i Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento AR -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Nacional de La Matanza AR -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Nacional de La Pampa AR -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Nacional de Lanús AR -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora AR -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Nacional de Misiones AR -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Nacional del Altiplano PE -
351-400 301-350 i Universidad Nacional del Nordeste AR -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán (Upnfm) HN -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Privada del Norte PE -
351-400 301-350 i Universidad Privada del Valle (Univalle) - Bolivia BO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Regiomontana MX -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Tec Milenio MX -
351-400 new Universidad Técnica de Oruro BO -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Tecnológica del Centro (Unitec) VE -
351-400 351-400 n Universidad Uniacc CL -
351-400 351-400 n Universidade Ibirapuera - Unib BR -
351-400 251-300 i Universidade Positivo BR -
351-400 301-350 i Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul BR -
351-400 new Universidade Veiga de Almeida BR -

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Innovative Arab Region

By Anton John Crace

The Arab region is in the middle of change. The past

ten years have seen historic advances within the
region, and education has played a central role.

Among the educational changes throughout the

2010s, overall positioning on the world stage has
improved. Arab universities within the top 300 of the
QS World University Rankings doubled, from 2017
ranking to 2021.

As changes in higher education have taken place, the

Arab region has also seen significant economic shifts.
Governments are placing an emphasis on building
knowledge economies and market diversification,
looking towards their education systems’ past
successes as a foundation to build into the future.
“The reality is
we didn’t do any The untapped
of this alone.”
Many countries within the region are in the process
of economic diversification, most notably through
Vision 2030 development plans established in
countries including Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Each share goals to boost economic prosperity, with
aims to reduce dependency on natural resources.

A key component is education, which, according to

the World Bank’s 2018 Expectations and Aspirations:
A New Framework for Education in the Middle East
and North Africa, has “a large untapped potential to
contribute to human capital, well-being, and wealth”.

The report also notes the Middle East and Africa

has the lowest ratio of human capital to total
wealth, despite conversely having a significantly
higher investment in education and higher levels of
Arab Region education attainment.

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Among its recommendations to combat these tensions, the report highlights

growing collaborative partnerships and meaningfully implementing technology.

“Technology presents a unique opportunity to help to deliver high-quality

education in a more efficient and effective manner,” the report notes.

Diversification and outreach

The Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE) in the UAE has been
working within this cross-section of tensions since its foundation in 2015 and
has seen significant success but providing scholarships and opportunities for
underserviced, high achieving students as well as through partnering with
others to increase access to education.

One of the largest philanthropic organisations in the Arab region, its goals
include preparing 50,000 Emirati youth for higher education and work and
elevating the livelihoods of a further 150,000 Arab youth by 2025.

“The reality is we didn’t do any of this alone,” explains Chief Executive Dr Sonia
Ben Jafaar on the foundation’s achievements.

Among those achievements, AGFE has grown from 50 students graduating a

micro-master’s program in partnership with MIT, to 1,200 students undertaking
blended introductory courses.

Along the way, AGFE has also co-created training for faculty and staff and most
recently helped form a consortium in the region, while continuously reflecting
back on its achievements to improve student outcomes.

“We’ve taken each step in success to the next level,” says Dr Ben Jafaar.

“We started out slow, each time we learn, we move to a greater reach with higher
aspirations and... we rely heavily on the insights of our partners.”

Increasing the number of options for students to undertake online education,

however, is not the only action required to achieve the foundation’s goals of
improving those learning outcomes and building lifelong learning, she tells QS.

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall

1 1 n King Abdul Aziz University SA 100
2 2 n American University of Beirut LB 97.2
3 4 h Qatar University QA 96.9
4 3 i King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals SA 96.6
5 5 n United Arab Emirates University AE 95.9
6 6 n King Saud University SA 90.6
7 7 n American University of Sharjah AE 88.3
8 8 n Sultan Qaboos University OM 84.3
9 12 h Khalifa University AE 82
“Online learning done well takes purposeful effort, 10 10 n University of Jordan JO 81.4
just like face-to-face learning,” she says, adding once 11 9 i The American University in Cairo EG 81
an online learning opportunity is created, ensuring 12 11 i Cairo University EG 75.4

students can access it still remains “a complex 13 13 n Jordan University of Science and Technology JO 71.4
14 15 h Lebanese American University LB 69.3
endeavor”.
15 14 i Ain Shams University EG 67.9
h
“What this [means], in term of an example, would 16 17 University of Sharjah AE 67.2
17 22 h Umm Al-Qura University SA 66.2
be purchasing technology and broadband access 18 16 i Alexandria University EG 65.6
and delivering it to areas that were actually under 19 18 i Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth LB 62.4
lockdown [due to COVID-19] at the time with special 20 20 n Zayed University AE 62.4
precautions and permissions from local authorities,” 21 25= h Lebanese University LB 61.8

she says. 22 21 i Kuwait University KW 59.3

23 19 i University of Baghdad IQ 57
“We started Like the recommendations of the World Bank, 24 24 n American University in Dubai AE 54.1

out slow, each AGFE’s work in online education and educational 25 23 i University of Bahrain BH 52.6

time we learn, partnerships predate the COVID-19 pandemic, 26 36 h University of Balamand LB 52.3
27 28 h Notre Dame University-Louaize LB 50
we move to a but bringing together a team of highly-educated h
28 31 Mansoura University EG 49.8
greater reach.” professionals in their fields who are eager to learn 29 37 h Applied Science University of Bahrain BH 49.5
from each other has created a culture of ongoing 30 30 n Holy Spirit University of Kaslik LB 49.4
improvement and adaptability, notes Dr Ben Jafaar. 31 25= i King Khalid University SA 48.2
32 32 n Assiut University EG 47.3
“What that allowed us to do is to react quickly and 33 33 n King Faisal University SA 46.4

adapt to our programming and with our partnerships,” 34 28 i Yarmouk University JO 46.2
35 45 h Ajman University AE 45.9
she says.
36 27 i Abu Dhabi University AE 45.8
h
The result of their efforts saw students graduate 37 46 An-Najah National University PS 44.9
38 42 h Princess Sumaya University for Technology JO 44.2
from the Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair school of Advanced 39 61-70 h Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University SA 42.5
Computing in May, despite not being able to take in- 40 38 i Alfaisal University SA 42.5
person classes. 41 49 h Helwan University EG 42.2
42 41 i Canadian University of Dubai AE 41.8
The article from which this was abridged originally 43 40 i Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Formerly University of Dammam) SA 41.6
appeared in the 2021 Arab Region Rankings Higher 44= 34 i Arabian Gulf University BH 41
Education Report. 44= 81-90 h Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University SA 41
46 43 i Ahlia University BH 40.5
47 35 i University of Kufa IQ 39.8
48 47 i German Jordanian University JO 39.7
49 39 i The Hashemite University JO 39.6
50 48 i Beirut Arab University LB 38.8

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
51-60 44 i Al Azhar University EG - 101-110 71-80 i Al Akhawayn University Ifrane MA -
51-60 61-70 h Al Quds University the Arab University in Jerusalem PS - 101-110 91-100 i Al Zaytoonah University JO -
51-60 50= i American University of Ras Al Khaimah AE - 101-110 91-100 i Applied Science Private University - Jordan JO -
51-60 51-60 n Birzeit University PS - 101-110 91-100 i Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport EG -
51-60 61-70 i Gulf University for Science and Technology KW - 101-110 101-110 n Fayoum University EG -
51-60 new Islamic University of Lebanon LB - 101-110 111-120 h Taif University SA -
51-60 51-60 n Prince Sultan University SA - 101-110 121-130 h Université Antonine LB -
51-60 50= h Suez Canal University EG - 101-110 91-100 i Université Hassan Ii de Casablanca MA -
51-60 51-60 n University of Dubai AE - 101-110 81-90 i Université Mohammed V de Rabat MA -
51-60 61-70 i University of Khartoum SD - 101-110 101-110 n University of Anbar IQ -
61-70 51-60 h Al Nahrain University IQ - 111-120 111-120 n Al Hussein Bin Talal University JO -
61-70 61-70 n Al-Imam Mohamed Ibn Saud Islamic University SA - 111-120 91-100 i American University of Science and Technology LB -
61-70 new American University of the Middle East KW - 111-120 91-100 i Beni-Suef University EG -
61-70 new British University in Dubai AE - 111-120 new Middle East University Jordan JO -
61-70 51-60 i German University in Cairo EG - 111-120 91-100 i Minia University EG -
61-70 51-60 i Islamic University in Madinah SA - 111-120 111-120 n National University of Science and Technology OM -
61-70 61-70 n Jeddah University SA - 111-120 81-90 i Sudan University of Science and Technology SD -
61-70 61-70 n Mustansiriyah University IQ - 111-120 91-100 i Université Des Sciences et de la Technologie Houari-Boumediene DZ -
61-70 71-80 h Université de Tunis El Manar TN - 111-120 81-90 i University of Kerbala IQ -
61-70 61-70 n University of Technology - Iraq IQ - 111-120 101-110 i University of Petra JO -
71-80 101-110 h Al Ain University AE - 121-130 121-130 n Al Albayt University JO -
71-80 81-90 h Al Balqa Applied University JO - 121-130 121-130 n Al Baha University SA -
71-80 51-60 i Damascus University SY - 121-130 new Arab American University PS -
71-80 111-120 h Future University in Egypt EG - 121-130 new Dhofar University OM -
71-80 61-70 i Najran University SA - 121-130 111-120 i Jazan University SA -
71-80 71-80 n Qassim University SA - 121-130 121-130 n Kafrelsheikh University EG -
71-80 71-80 n Tanta University EG - 121-130 121-130 n Menoufia University EG -
71-80 71-80 n Université de Monastir TN - 121-130 101-110 i Université Abou Bekr Belkaid Tlemcen DZ -
71-80 51-60 i University of Babylon IQ - 121-130 111-120 i Université de Tunis TN -
71-80 81-90 h Zagazig University EG - 121-130 new Université Ibn Tofail MA -
81-90 71-80 i British University in Egypt EG - 131-160 new Al Azhar University of Gaza PS -
81-90 81-90 n Effat University SA - 131-160 new Al Jouf University SA -
81-90 71-80 i Islamic University of Gaza PS - 131-160 new Al-Yamamah University SA -
81-90 111-120 h South Valley University EG - 131-160 new Arab Open University Kuwait KW -
81-90 81-90 n Taibah University SA - 131-160 new Aswan University EG -
81-90 71-80 i Université de Carthage TN - 131-160 121-130 i Dar Al-Hekma University SA -
81-90 61-70 i University of Basrah IQ - 131-160 new Isra University - Jordan JO -
81-90 new University of Mosul IQ - 131-160 new Jerash Private University JO -
81-90 71-80 i University of Nizwa OM - 131-160 new Palestine Polytechnic University PS -
81-90 new University of Sadat City EG - 131-160 new Rafik Hariri University LB -
91-100 101-110 h Al-Ahliyya Amman University JO - 131-160 121-130 i Salahaddin University - Erbil IQ -
91-100 111-120 h American University in the Emirates AE - 131-160 new Sohag University EG -
91-100 91-100 n Benha University EG - 131-160 111-120 i Sohar University OM -
91-100 101-110 h Cadi Ayyad University MA - 131-160 new Tafila Technical University JO -
91-100 101-110 h Majmaah University SA - 131-160 new Tikrit University IQ -
91-100 91-100 n Mutah University JO - 131-160 new Université Badji Mokhtar De Annaba DZ -
91-100 71-80 i Philadelphia University at Jordan JO - 131-160 111-120 i Université de Bejaia DZ -
91-100 81-90 i Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University SA - 131-160 new Université de Gabès TN -
91-100 81-90 i Université de Sousse TN - 131-160 new Université des Sciences et de la Technologie D'oran Mohamed Boudiaf DZ -
91-100 101-110 h University of Tabuk SA - 131-160 new Université Mohammed Premier Ump MA -

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall

131-160 101-110 i Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah MA -
131-160 121-130 i University of Alqadisiyah IQ -
131-160 new University of Business and Technology SA -
131-160 new University of Diyala IQ -
131-160 new University of Duhok IQ -
131-160 new University of Hail SA -
131-160 new University of Science & Technology, Sana'a YE -
131-160 121-130 i University of Sulaimani IQ -
131-160 new World Islamic Sciences and Education University JO -
131-160 new Zarqa University JO -

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USA Rankings Overview

by Dr Andrew MacFarlane

Welcome to the very first edition of the QS World University Rankings: USA
2020. This year sees QS rank the top 300 US higher education institutions –
the best of over 750 that were eligible for inclusion. The Top 10 includes many
of the prestigious Ivy League institutions but making their way into the Top
30 are a number of ‘public ivies’, a result of their commitment to diversity and
internationalisation.

The QS World University Rankings: USA 2020 aim to provide not only
international students with new and more granular insights when deciding on a
study destination in the USA, but also offer domestic students a fresh outlook
at their home institutions, set within the frame of a new bespoke methodology.
17 indicators distributed under four broad groupings, Research; Diversity &
Internationalisation; and Learning Experience and Employability, provide the
framework of analysis for this ranking.

The QS World University Rankings: USA 2020 is unique in focusing on diversity &
internationalisation inputs and employability outcomes, through a combination
of QS proprietary datasets including alumni outcomes and the QS Employer
Reputation survey.

The USA remains the number one international student destination in the world,
and as such attracts significant interest from students all over the world. This
ranking, and indeed every QS ranking, is designed specifically with students in
mind. Choosing where to invest one’s time, money and resources to study is
no light task, and so this rankings offer insights to students on the criteria that
matter to them, to ultimately make their decision making that little bit easier.

USA Rankings
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2021 Institution Name Overall 2021 Institution Name Overall

1 Harvard University MA 93.3 51 Syracuse University NY 55.5
2 Stanford University CA 89.7 52 University of Wisconsin-Madison WI 55.4
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) MA 87.1 53 Purdue University IN 55.1
4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) CA 79.2 54 Northeastern University MA 54.9
5 Columbia University NY 79.0 55 University of Minnesota Twin Cities MN 54.6
6= University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) CA 78.3 56 Michigan State University MI 54.3
6= Yale University CT 78.3 57 Brandeis University MA 54.2
8 University of Pennsylvania PA 76.1 58 Ohio State University, Columbus OH 54.0
9 Princeton University NJ 75.7 59 Drexel University PA 53.9
10 Cornell University NY 73.5 60 University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA 53.6
11 New York University (NYU) NY 72.9 61 Temple University PA 53.2
12 University of Chicago IL 71.8 62= North Carolina State University NC 52.6
13 Duke University NC 70.5 62= University of Colorado at Boulder CO 52.6
14 Johns Hopkins University MD 70.2 64= Lehigh University PA 52.5
15 University of Southern California CA 68.5 64= Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY 52.5
16 Northwestern University IL 67.2 66 University of Hawaii at Manoa HI 51.9
17 Carnegie Mellon University PA 66.5 67 Tulane University LA 51.7
18 University of Michigan MI 66.3 68= Howard University DC 51.3
19 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) CA 66.1 68= University of Arizona AZ 51.3
20 Brown University RI 65.8 68= University of Maryland, Baltimore County MD 51.3
21= Boston University MA 64.3 71= Binghamton University SUNY NY 51.1
21= Rice University TX 64.3 71= Illinois Institute of Technology IL 51.1
23 Georgetown University DC 64.1 73 University of Pittsburgh PA 51.0
24 University of Washington, Seattle WA 62.5 74 New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) NJ 50.8
25 University of Texas at Austin TX 62.4 75 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) CA 50.7
26 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) CA 62.3 76 University of the Pacific CA 50.6
27 Emory University GA 61.1 77 Texas A&M University TX 50.5
28= University of California, Davis (UCD) CA 60.9 78 University of Denver CO 50.3
28= Washington University in St. Louis MO 60.9 79 University of Massachusetts, Boston MA 50.1
30= University of Rochester NY 60.8 80= College of William & Mary VA 49.8
30= Vanderbilt University TN 60.8 80= Florida State University FL 49.8
32 Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) GA 60.4 82= San Diego State University CA 49.7
33 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL 59.9 82= University of Connecticut CT 49.7
34 George Washington University DC 59.1 82= Virginia Commonwealth University VA 49.7
35= Tufts University MA 58.6 85= Indiana University Bloomington IN 49.4
35= University of Florida FL 58.6 85= Worcester Polytechnic Institute MA 49.4
37 Dartmouth College NH 58.4 87 University of Houston TX 49.3
38 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC 58.3 88 University of San Francisco CA 49.2
39 University of Miami FL 57.9 89= The University of Georgia GA 49.1
40 University of Notre Dame IN 57.8 89= University of Oklahoma, Norman OK 49.1
41= Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick NJ 57.6 91 Arizona State University, Tempe AZ 49.0
41= University of California, Irvine (UCI) CA 57.6 92 Wake Forest University NC 48.9
43= Case Western Reserve University OH 57.5 93 Southern Methodist University TX 48.8
43= University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) IL 57.5 94= Andrews University MI 48.6
45 Stony Brook University NY 56.8 94= University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) CA 48.6
46 University at Buffalo SUNY NY 56.6 94= University of Oregon OR 48.6
47 Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA 56.4 97 University of Texas Dallas TX 48.5
48= Boston College MA 56.3 98= Santa Clara University CA 48.4
48= University of Maryland, College Park MD 56.3 98= University of Louisville KY 48.4
50 University of Virginia VA 55.8 100= George Mason University VA 48.3

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2021 Institution Name Overall 2021 Institution Name Overall

100= Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, Newark NJ 48.3 141-150 Villanova University PA 44.1-43.1
100= Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) VA 48.3 151-160 New York Institute of Technology NY 43-42.5
101-110 Loyola University Chicago IL 47.9-47.3 151-160 Nova Southeastern University FL 43-42.5
101-110 Oregon State University OR 47.9-47.3 151-160 Rowan University NJ 43-42.5
101-110 Stevens Institute of Technology NJ 47.9-47.3 151-160 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden NJ 43-42.5
101-110 University at Albany SUNY NY 47.9-47.3 151-160 Texas Tech University TX 43-42.5
101-110 University of California, Riverside (UCR) CA 47.9-47.3 151-160 University of Cincinnati OH 43-42.5
101-110 University of Iowa IA 47.9-47.3 151-160 University of New Mexico NM 43-42.5
101-110 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 47.9-47.3 151-160 University of North Texas TX 43-42.5
101-110 University of Utah UT 47.9-47.3 151-160 Yeshiva University NY 43-42.5
111-120 American University DC 47-45.8 161-170 Baruch College NY 42.4-41.9
111-120 Clark University MA 47-45.8 161-170 Brigham Young University-Provo UT 42.4-41.9
111-120 Clarkson University NY 47-45.8 161-170 California State University - Fullerton CA 42.4-41.9
111-120 Florida International University FL 47-45.8 161-170 Marquette University WI 42.4-41.9
111-120 Loyola Marymount University CA 47-45.8 161-170 San Jose State University CA 42.4-41.9
111-120 Pace University - New York NY 47-45.8 161-170 Seton Hall University NJ 42.4-41.9
111-120 Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) NY 47-45.8 161-170 Suffolk University MA 42.4-41.9
111-120 University of Delaware DE 47-45.8 161-170 Texas Christian University TX 42.4-41.9
111-120 University of Nebraska - Lincoln NE 47-45.8 161-170 University of Kansas KS 42.4-41.9
111-120 Washington State University WA 47-45.8 161-170 University of Redlands CA 42.4-41.9
121-130 Baylor University TX 45.6-44.8 171-180 Chapman University CA 41.8-41.2
121-130 DePaul University IL 45.6-44.8 171-180 Dominican University of California CA 41.8-41.2
121-130 Loyola University Maryland MD 45.6-44.8 171-180 Duquesne University PA 41.8-41.2
121-130 St. Johns University NY 45.6-44.8 171-180 Hofstra University NY 41.8-41.2
121-130 St. Louis University MO 45.6-44.8 171-180 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis IN 41.8-41.2
121-130 University of Colorado at Denver CO 45.6-44.8 171-180 Kansas State University KS 41.8-41.2
121-130 University of New Hampshire NH 45.6-44.8 171-180 Missouri University of Science and Technology MO 41.8-41.2
121-130 University of San Diego CA 45.6-44.8 171-180 Portland State University OR 41.8-41.2
121-130 University of South Carolina at Columbia SC 45.6-44.8 171-180 San Francisco State University CA 41.8-41.2
121-130 University of Vermont VT 45.6-44.8 171-180 University of Alabama, Birmingham AL 41.8-41.2
131-140 Bentley University MA 44.7-44.2 171-180 University of Idaho ID 41.8-41.2
131-140 Clemson University SC 44.7-44.2 171-180 University of Missouri, Columbia MO 41.8-41.2
131-140 Fordham University NY 44.7-44.2 171-180 University of Missouri, Kansas City MO 41.8-41.2
131-140 Iowa State University IA 44.7-44.2 171-180 University of Nevada - Las Vegas NV 41.8-41.2
131-140 University of Central Florida FL 44.7-44.2 181-190 Adelphi University NY 41.1-41
131-140 University of Kentucky KY 44.7-44.2 181-190 Auburn University AL 41.1-41
131-140 University of South Florida FL 44.7-44.2 181-190 Ohio University OH 41.1-41
131-140 University of Tulsa OK 44.7-44.2 181-190 Saint Marys College of California CA 41.1-41
131-140 Wayne State University MI 44.7-44.2 181-190 University of Hawaii at Hilo HI 41.1-41
131-140 West Virginia University WV 44.7-44.2 181-190 University of Nevada - Reno NV 41.1-41
141-150 California Lutheran University CA 44.1-43.1 191-200 California State University Northridge CA 40.9-40.2
141-150 CUNY Queens College NY 44.1-43.1 191-200 Catholic University of America DC 40.9-40.2
141-150 Fairfield University CT 44.1-43.1 191-200 Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO 40.9-40.2
141-150 Georgia State University GA 44.1-43.1 191-200 Creighton University NE 40.9-40.2
141-150 Michigan Technological University MI 44.1-43.1 191-200 CUNY Lehman College NY 40.9-40.2
141-150 Pepperdine University CA 44.1-43.1 191-200 Northern Arizona University AZ 40.9-40.2
141-150 Seattle University WA 44.1-43.1 191-200 Seattle Pacific University WA 40.9-40.2
141-150 University of Alabama AL 44.1-43.1 191-200 St. Edward's University TX 40.9-40.2
141-150 University of Rhode Island RI 44.1-43.1 191-200 University of Massachusetts Lowell MA 40.9-40.2
141-150 University of Texas Arlington TX 44.1-43.1 191-200 University of Mississippi MS 40.9-40.2

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2021 Institution Name Overall 2021 Institution Name Overall

191-200 University of Wyoming WY 40.9-40.2 251-300 Augustana University SD 37.6-36.1
201-250 Ball State University IN 40.1-37.7 251-300 Boise State University ID 37.6-36.1
201-250 Butler University IN 40.1-37.7 251-300 Bradley University IL 37.6-36.1
201-250 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Bryant University RI 37.6-36.1
201-250 California State University - East Bay CA 40.1-37.7 251-300 California State Polytechnic University - Pomona CA 37.6-36.1
201-250 California State University - Los Angeles CA 40.1-37.7 251-300 California State University Monterey Bay CA 37.6-36.1
201-250 California State University, Dominguez Hills CA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Calvin College MI 37.6-36.1
201-250 California State University, San Bernardino CA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Cedar Crest College PA 37.6-36.1
201-250 Chaminade University of Honolulu HI 40.1-37.7 251-300 Chatham University PA 37.6-36.1
201-250 CUNY Hunter College NY 40.1-37.7 251-300 Chestnut Hill College PA 37.6-36.1
201-250 Dominican University IL 40.1-37.7 251-300 Clark Atlanta University GA 37.6-36.1
201-250 Drake University IA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Cleveland State University OH 37.6-36.1
201-250 East Carolina University NC 40.1-37.7 251-300 CUNY City College NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 Elon University NC 40.1-37.7 251-300 Endicott College MA 37.6-36.1
201-250 Gonzaga University WA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University FL 37.6-36.1
201-250 Hawaii Pacific University HI 40.1-37.7 251-300 Gwynedd Mercy University PA 37.6-36.1
201-250 Ithaca College NY 40.1-37.7 251-300 Hampton University VA 37.6-36.1
201-250 La Salle University PA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Immaculata University PA 37.6-36.1
201-250 Marymount University VA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Iona College NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 Mississippi State University MS 40.1-37.7 251-300 James Madison University VA 37.6-36.1
201-250 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology NM 40.1-37.7 251-300 Marist College NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 Northern Illinois University IL 40.1-37.7 251-300 Miami University OH 37.6-36.1
201-250 Notre Dame of Maryland University MD 40.1-37.7 251-300 Montana State University - Bozeman MT 37.6-36.1
201-250 Oklahoma State University OK 40.1-37.7 251-300 Nazareth College NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 Old Dominion University VA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Oklahoma City University OK 37.6-36.1
201-250 Rider University NJ 40.1-37.7 251-300 Quinnipiac University CT 37.6-36.1
201-250 Rollins College FL 40.1-37.7 251-300 Regis University CO 37.6-36.1
201-250 Simmons University MA 40.1-37.7 251-300 Roosevelt University IL 37.6-36.1
201-250 State University of New York at Oswego (SUNY Oswego) NY 40.1-37.7 251-300 Siena College NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 Stetson University FL 40.1-37.7 251-300 Sonoma State University CA 37.6-36.1
201-250 SUNY Fredonia NY 40.1-37.7 251-300 SUNY Brockport NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 SUNY Geneseo NY 40.1-37.7 251-300 SUNY Cortland NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 SUNY Oneonta NY 40.1-37.7 251-300 Texas State University TX 37.6-36.1
201-250 The College of New Jersey NJ 40.1-37.7 251-300 Trinity University TX 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Alaska Fairbanks AK 40.1-37.7 251-300 Truman State University MO 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Bridgeport CT 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Alaska Anchorage AK 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Dayton OH 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Arkansas Fayetteville AR 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Hartford CT 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Evansville IN 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Illinois, Springfield (UIS) IL 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of La Verne CA 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Memphis TN 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Mary Washington VA 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of North Carolina at Charlotte NC 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Montana Missoula MT 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of North Carolina at Greensboro NC 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of New Haven CT 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of St Thomas - Houston TX 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of North Florida FL 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Texas at San Antonio TX 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Portland OR 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Texas El Paso TX 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Saint Thomas MN 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of the District of Columbia DC 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Tampa FL 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Toledo OH 40.1-37.7 251-300 University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire WI 37.6-36.1
201-250 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee WI 40.1-37.7 251-300 Valparaiso University IN 37.6-36.1
201-250 Western Michigan University MI 40.1-37.7 251-300 Wagner College NY 37.6-36.1
201-250 Western Washington University WA 40.1-37.7 251-300 William Paterson University of New Jersey NJ 37.6-36.1
251-300 Abilene Christian University TX 37.6-36.1 251-300 Woodbury University CA 37.6-36.1
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 Subject Rankings
Overview 136

Arts & Humanities 138

Engineering & Technology 148
Life Sciences & Medicine 156
Stepping into Tomorrow: The direction of medical education 158

Natural Sciences 170

Space Science 171

Social Sciences & Management 180

QS Yearbook 2021
Subject Rankings Overview
by Dr Andrew MacFarlane
Welcome to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021. This mammoth
ranking evaluates more than 3,800 individual university programs, taken by
students at more than 1,440 universities in 85 locations across the world, across
51 academic disciplines. This is our largest subject ranking to date, with over
1,000 more programs ranked than last year’s edition, and the largest ranking by
subject on the market.
At a time of uncertainty in higher education, QS seeks to provide a stable and
reliable tool that our students can use to benchmark and compare institutions
in their journey through higher education.
The United States continues to dominate the field, having around a fifth of
all ranked programs. The Top 2 institutions for programs ranked are Harvard
University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The United Kingdom,
China, Australia, and Germany complete the Top 5 by number of institutions
ranked.
We have considerably extended the range of programs evaluated in Business
and Management Studies, Computer Science and Information Systems,
Medicine, Education, Environmental Sciences and Pharmacy and Pharmacology.
This year, 850 institutions find themselves with entries in subject areas they
haven’t previously achieved a ranking. The United States, United Kingdom,
China, Canada, and Italy are the Top 5 countries with the largest number of new
programs ranked. China in particular has seen a strong rise in performance with
a record number of Chinese programs attaining a Top 50 rank. Russia too can
be pleased with its increased performance, with a record number of Russian
programs attaining Top 20 ranks.
Whilst reputation remains a core component of our subject rankings, many of
the new additions and increases in performance are attributable to improved
research performance. Recent years have seen a rise in global research
collaboration, and it is perhaps no surprise, then, that the locations in which we
see strong international research collaboration are very closely correlated with
those that achieve the top shares of QS’ subject ranking.
International research collaboration is particularly high in the UK, Netherlands,
Denmark, Australia, France, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Singapore. Indeed,
Singapore and Hong Kong both see exceptionally strong rates of international
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research collaboration at above 70 percent. Correspondingly, National University
of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, University of Hong Kong, and
The Chinese University of Hong Kong have between them around 20 percent of
the share of programs for the Top 10 institutions in Asia in this ranking.
Institutions at the top of their fields are, of course, tackling the big research
issues of our time. COVID-19 and immunology, cancer research, obesity, Brexit,
and the effect on financial markets – in all of these topics we can see a strong
focus in the research community, and in particular our more highly evaluated
regions and institutions.
When we looked across different research trends this year, we saw multi-
disciplinary approaches to solving these issues. In Mathematics and Economics,
both showed trends on market volatility; in Medicine, we saw strong correlation
with our top ranked institutions and the research focus being put towards
Covid-19; in Environmental Sciences we saw trends in air quality and sustainability
which were also mirrored in Economics; and in Physics we saw shared focus on
renewable energy and climate change also mirrored in Environmental Sciences.
We have maintained a consistent methodology this year. This allows students
and institutions alike to benchmark historical performance more easily.
Therefore, we can begin to look at what the top performing institutions have in
common, and some areas for growth from emerging institutions.
Equipping students for life after graduation is an especially important role for
institutions, particularly as many students face uncertain futures. In our annual
QS Global Employer Survey, we looked at the skills most important to employers,
and the skills of graduates they found the most and least satisfied. The most
important skills were problem solving, communication, and team work.
Employers were the least satisfied with graduates’ commercial awareness,
leadership and negotiation skills. Professional experience was the most sought
after characteristic of the global employers we surveyed. It is paramount that
institutions prepare their students for the realities of the global workplace. By
ensuring that work experience is woven into the fabric of their education, as well
as integrating these soft skills into the learning experience, institutions will be
supporting their students’ futures in their regions and beyond.
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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
1 1 n University of Oxford UK 98.6 49= 48 i Monash University AU 79.2
2 2 n Harvard University US 98.5 49= 42= i The University of Warwick UK 79.2
3 3 n University of Cambridge UK 97.3 53= 47 i Lomonosov Moscow State University RU 78.8
4= 4 n University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US 93.3 53= 51 i Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) CL 78.8
4= 6 h Yale University US 93.3 53= 42= i The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) AU 78.8
6 5 i Stanford University US 92.7 53= 58= h Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna IT 78.8
7 7 n New York University (NYU) US 91.6 57 63= h Universidade de São Paulo BR 78.5
8 9 h Princeton University US 90.3 58 60 h University of Leeds UK 78.2
9 8 i University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US 90.2 59= 70 h Georgetown University US 78.1
10 10 n Columbia University US 89.6 59= 53 i Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin IE 78.1
11 11 n The University of Edinburgh UK 89.1 59= 63= h University of Helsinki FI 78.1
12 12 n UCL UK 87.9 62= 68= h Fudan University CN 77.9
13= 13= n Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 87.8 62= 65 h Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg DE 77.9
13= 13= n University of Chicago US 87.8 62= 54 i Waseda University JP 77.9
15 19 h National University of Singapore (NUS) SG 87.7 65 81= h Sapienza University of Rome IT 77.8
16 20 h The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) UK 87.1 66 73 h KU Leuven BE 77.5
17 18 h University of Toronto CA 87.0 67= 67 n Kyoto University JP 77.3
18 16= i The University of Melbourne AU 85.5 67= 76= h Complutense University of Madrid ES 77.3
19 15 i Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE 85.3 69 371= h The New School US 77.2
20 24 h University of British Columbia CA 85.1 70 83= h University of Southern California US 77.1
21 16= i The Australian National University AU 84.9 71 55 i University of Birmingham UK 77.0
22 21 i The University of Tokyo JP 84.7 72= 83= h Northwestern University US 76.6
23 22 i The University of Sydney AU 84.6 72= 66 i University of Copenhagen DK 76.6
24= 23 i Freie Universitaet Berlin DE 84.5 72= 62 i University of Glasgow UK 76.6
24= 26 h Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX 84.5 72= 68= i Victoria University of Wellington NZ 76.6
26 29 h University of Amsterdam NL 84.2 72= 88= h Yonsei University KR 76.6
27= 28 h Cornell University US 84.1 77 76= i Korea University KR 76.5
27= 27 n The University of Hong Kong HK 84.1 78 71= i University of York UK 76.2
29 31 h University of Michigan-Ann Arbor US 83.9 79= 86 h Lancaster University UK 75.9
30 25 i King's College London UK 83.4 79= 57 i The University of Auckland NZ 75.9
31= 32= h Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR 83.1 81 74 i University of Wisconsin-Madison US 75.8
31= 32= h University of Pennsylvania US 83.1 82 93= h Queen Mary University of London UK 75.6
33 30 i McGill University CA 82.0 83 93= h Rutgers University–New Brunswick US 75.5
34 52 h Sorbonne University FR 81.6 84= 90= h City University of New York US 75.4
35 32= i Leiden University NL 81.4 84= 81= i National Taiwan University (NTU) TW 75.4
36= 38 h Peking University CN 81.3 86= 90= h Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen DE 75.2
36= 37 h University of Texas at Austin US 81.3 86= 93= h Universitat de Barcelona ES 75.2
38 36 i Seoul National University KR 81.2 88 103= h University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US 75.1
39 35 i Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) AR 81.0 89= 92 h Indiana University Bloomington US 74.9
40 44 h Duke University US 80.9 89= 87 i Johns Hopkins University US 74.9
41 61 h Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) SG 80.8 91= 88= i Universidad de Chile CL 74.8
42 45 h University of St Andrews UK 80.7 91= 76= i University of Bristol UK 74.8
43 39= i The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) HK 80.4 93= 98= h Delft University of Technology NL 74.6
44 49= h SOAS University of London UK 80.0 93= 75 i The University of Sheffield UK 74.6
45= 39= i Durham University UK 79.8 93= 76= i University of Zurich CH 74.6
45= 39= i The University of Manchester UK 79.8 96= 96= n Boston University US 74.5
47= 56 h Tsinghua University CN 79.6 96= 85 i The University of Queensland AU 74.5
47= 58= h University of Vienna AT 79.6 98= 117= h Goldsmiths, University of London UK 74.4
49= 46 i Brown University US 79.2 98= 110= h Renmin (People's) University of China CN 74.4
49= 49= n Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE 79.2 100= 123 h The Ohio State University US 74.2
100= 113= h Utrecht University NL 74.2
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Subject Ranking: Arts & Humanities 2021
Archaeology
1 University of Cambridge
2 University of Oxford
3 UCL
4 Durham University
5 Harvard University
6 University of California, Berkeley
7 Stanford University
8 Leiden University
9 University of California, Los Angeles
10 Sapienza University of Rome
11 Arizona State University
12 University of York
13 The Australian National University
14 Peking University
15 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
16 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
17 Simon Fraser University
18 University of Pennsylvania
19 Pennsylvania State University
20 University of Chicago
21 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
22= The University of Arizona
22= University of Toronto
24 Yale University
25= Freie Universitaet Berlin
25= Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
27 Columbia University
28 University of Florida
29 Sorbonne University
30= Kyoto University
30= University of British Columbia
32 The University of Tokyo
33 The University of Edinburgh
34 Washington University in St. Louis
35 University of Bordeaux
36 Aarhus University
37 The University of Auckland
38 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
39 The University of Sheffield
40 The University of Sydney
41 University of Reading
42 Seoul National University
43 University of Leicester
44 Jilin University
45 University of Copenhagen
46= Flinders University
46= University of Vienna
48= Nanjing University
48= University of Otago
48= University of Texas at Austin
48= Uppsala University
140
Architecture / Built Environment
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 UCL
3 Delft University of Technology
4 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
5 Harvard University
6 National University of Singapore
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 Tsinghua University
9 University of Cambridge
10 Politecnico di Milano
11 Manchester School of Architecture
12 EPFL
13 Tongji University
14= Columbia University
14= The University of Hong Kong
16 The University of Tokyo
17 University of California, Los Angeles
18 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
19 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
20 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ·
BarcelonaTech
21 The University of Sydney
22 Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
23= Georgia Institute of Technology
23= Technical University of Munich
23= The University of Melbourne
26 Cornell University
27 The University of Sheffield
28= RMIT University
28= University of Pennsylvania
30 University of British Columbia
31= Seoul National University
31= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
33 The University of New South Wales
(UNSW Sydney)
34= Politecnico di Torino
34= Stanford University
36 KU Leuven
37= Cardiff University
37= Tokyo Institute of Technology
37= Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
40 University of Texas at Austin
41 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
42 Aalto University
43 Peking University
44 Chalmers University of Technology
45 McGill University
46= Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
46= University of Toronto
48= Shanghai Jiao Tong University
48= Universidade de São Paulo
50 Tianjin University
Art & Design
1 Royal College of Art
2 University of the Arts London
3 Parsons School of Design at The New
School
3 Rhode Island School of Design
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Politecnico di Milano
6 Aalto University
7 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
8= The Glasgow School of Art
8= Pratt Institute
10 Art Center College of Design
11 Delft University of Technology
12 Design Academy Eindhoven
13 Tongji University
15= Goldsmiths, University of London
15= RMIT University
17 California Institute of the Arts
18 Carnegie Mellon University
19 Stanford University
20 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
21 Konstfack University of Arts , Crafts and
Design
22 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
23 Tsinghua University
24 Central Academy of Fine Arts
25 University of Technology Sydney
26 École Nationale Supérieure de Création
Industrielle, ENSCI Les Ateliers
28 National University of Singapore
29 California College of the Arts
30 Emily Carr University of Art + Design
31 Loughborough University
32 School of Visual Arts
33= Savannah College of Art and Design
33= Umea University
35 Zurich University of the Arts
36 University of Oxford
37 Yale University
38 The University of Tokyo
39= Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts
Decoratifs
39= Seoul National University
41= Columbia University
41= Universität der Künste Berlin
43 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
44 Maryland Institute College of Art
45 New York University
46 University of California, Los Angeles
47 University of California, Berkeley
48= Queensland University of Technology
48= UCL
48= Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
Subject Rankings: Arts & Humanities 2021
Classics & Ancient History
1 Sapienza University of Rome
2 University of Oxford
3 University of Cambridge
4 Leiden University
5 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
6= Harvard University
6= Sorbonne University
8 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
9 Scuola Normale Superiore
10 Yale University
11 Princeton University
12 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
13 University of California, Berkeley
14 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
15 Durham University
16 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
17 Stanford University
18 University of Pisa
19 Freie Universitaet Berlin
20 Alma Mater Studiorum - University of
Bologna
21 University of St Andrews
22 UCL
23 Peking University
24 University of Chicago
25 Waseda University
26 King’s College London
27 University of Geneva
28 KU Leuven
29 Trinity College Dublin, The University of
Dublin
30 University of Göttingen
31 University of Toronto
32 University of Vienna
33 Fudan University
34 Brown University
35 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
36 Cornell University
37 National Taiwan University
38 University of Naples - Federico II
39 University of Bristol
40= City University of New York
40= University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
42 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
43 University of California, Los Angeles
44 The University of Edinburgh
45 University of Milan
46 University of Zurich
47 Université PSL
48 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
49 Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
50 Columbia University
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English Language & Literature
1 University of Oxford
2 University of Cambridge
3 Harvard University
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 Yale University
6 Stanford University
7= Princeton University
7= The University of Edinburgh
9 University of California, Los Angeles
10 Columbia University
11 University of Toronto
12 University of Chicago
13 UCL
14 King’s College London
15 New York University
16 University of British Columbia
17 Duke University
18 The University of Sydney
19 The University of Manchester
20 The University of Melbourne
21 Cornell University
22= The University of Warwick
22= University of Pennsylvania
22= University of York
25 Trinity College Dublin, The University of
Dublin
26 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
27 McGill University
28 The University of Hong Kong
29= National University of Singapore
29= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
31= University of Glasgow
31= University of Leeds
33 University of Texas at Austin
34 Queen Mary University of London
35 University of Birmingham
36 Freie Universitaet Berlin
37 The University of Tokyo
38 The University of Auckland
39 Brown University
40 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
41 University of Amsterdam
42 University of Bristol
43 The Australian National University
44= Durham University
44= Sorbonne University
44= University of St Andrews
47 Monash University
48 The University of New South Wales
(UNSW Sydney)
49 Peking University
50 The University of Queensland
142
History
1 Harvard University
2 University of Oxford
3 University of Cambridge
4 Yale University
5 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
6 Columbia University
7 Stanford University
8 University of California, Berkeley
9 Princeton University
10 University of California, Los Angeles
11 University of Chicago
12 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
13 University of Toronto
14 King’s College London
15= Leiden University
15= National University of Singapore
17 The Australian National University
18 Cornell University
19= UCL
19= The University of Edinburgh
21 Johns Hopkins University
22 The University of Sydney
23 Freie Universitaet Berlin
24= University of British Columbia
24= University of Wisconsin-Madison
26 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
27 University of Texas at Austin
28 University of Pennsylvania
29 Peking University
30= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
30= New York University
32 The University of Tokyo
33 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
34 Duke University
35= Kyoto University
35= University of Amsterdam
37 Durham University
38 The University of Melbourne
39= University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
39= University of St Andrews
41 The University of Manchester
42 The University of Warwick
43 McGill University
44 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
45 SOAS University of London
46= Sorbonne University
46= The University of Exeter
46= University of York
49 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
50 The University of Hong Kong
Subject Ranking: Arts & Humanities 2021
Linguistics
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 University of Massachusetts Amherst
3= University of Cambridge
3= University of Oxford
5 The University of Edinburgh
6= Harvard University
6= Stanford University
8 University of California, Berkeley
9 University of Maryland, College Park
10 University of California, Los Angeles
11 The University of Hong Kong
12 University of British Columbia
13 University of Toronto
14 McGill University
15 Lancaster University
16 University of Pennsylvania
17= National University of Singapore
17= UCL
19 The Ohio State University
20 University of Amsterdam
21 University of Chicago
22 The Australian National University
23 The University of Tokyo
24 Lomonosov Moscow State University
25 The University of Melbourne
26 Peking University
27 Macquarie University
28= University of Connecticut
28= University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
30 University of Vienna
31= Leiden University
31= Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
33= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
33= The University of Sydney
35 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
36= The Chinese University of Hong Kong
36= University of Zurich
38 Seoul National University
39 Georgetown University
40 New York University
41= University of California, San Diego
41= University of California, Santa Barbara
43 City University of Hong Kong
44 University of Ottawa
45 University of Texas at Austin
46 Université de Montréal
47= Michigan State University
47= National Taiwan University
47= The University of Manchester
50 University of Helsinki
144
Modern Languages
1= Harvard University
1= University of Oxford
3 University of Cambridge
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 Stanford University
6 Yale University
7 Princeton University
8 University of California, Los Angeles
9 The University of Tokyo
10 Peking University
11 Columbia University
12 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
13 The University of Edinburgh
14 University of Chicago
15 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
16 National University of Singapore
17 New York University
18 Sorbonne University
19 Seoul National University
20 UCL
21 Kyoto University
22 Freie Universitaet Berlin
23= Fudan University
23= Universidad de Buenos Aires
25 University of Toronto
26 The University of Hong Kong
27= Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
27= The University of Melbourne
29= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
29= King’s College London
31= The Chinese University of Hong Kong
31= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
33 Tsinghua University
34 The University of Sydney
35 Cornell University
36 Lomonosov Moscow State University
37 Complutense University of Madrid
38 University of Pennsylvania
39 The Australian National University
40= Duke University
40= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
40= Alma Mater Studiorum - University of
Bologna
43 National Taiwan University
44 The University of Manchester
45 University of British Columbia
46 Yonsei University
47 Universidade de São Paulo
48= Korea University
48= Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
48= University of Texas at Austin
48= Waseda University
Performing Arts
1 The Juilliard School
2 Royal College of Music
3 Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
4 Royal Academy of Music
5 Conservatoire national supérieur de
musique et de danse de Paris
6 New York University
7 Universität für Musik und darstellende
Kunst Wien
8 Norwegian Academy of Music
9 Sibelius Academy, University of the
Arts Helsinki
10 Hong Kong Academy for Performing
Arts
11 University Mozarteum Salzburg
12= Harvard University
12= University of Oxford
14 University of Cambridge
15 Guildhall School of Music and Drama
16 University of Rochester
17 Indiana University Bloomington
18 Royal Holloway University of London
19 The University of Melbourne
20= Royal College of Music in Stockholm
20= Yale University
22= Columbia University
22= The Royal Danish Academy of Music
24= University of California, Berkeley
24= University of California, Los Angeles
26 Curtis Institute of Music
27 University of Huddersfield
28 University of Southern California
29 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
30= The University of Sydney
30= Universität der Künste Berlin
32 The Central Academy of Drama, China
33 The Royal Central School of Speech and
Drama
34 Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaik-
ovsky
35 Monash University
36 Korea National University of Arts
37 Stanford University
38 Queen Mary University of London
39 McGill University
40 National University of Singapore
41 Northwestern University
42 Goldsmiths, University of London
43 Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin
44 Royal Northern College of Music
45 UCSI University
46 University of Toronto
47 The University of Auckland
48 Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
49 The University of Warwick
50 Griffith University
Subject Rankings: Arts & Humanities 2021
Philosophy
1 New York University
2 Rutgers University–New Brunswick
3 University of Pittsburgh
4 University of Oxford
5 The Australian National University
6 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
7 University of Cambridge
8 Harvard University
9 King’s College London
10 Princeton University
11= University of St Andrews
11= University of Toronto
13 University of Notre Dame
14 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
15 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
16 Yale University
17 University of California, Berkeley
18 Stanford University
19 Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
20 The University of Edinburgh
21 Université PSL
22 UCL
23 Macquarie University
24 University of Chicago
25 Columbia University
26 The University of Sydney
27 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
28 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
29 Monash University
30 University of Bristol
31 Fudan University
32 University of Helsinki
33= KU Leuven
33= University of Southern California
35 Central European University
36 Freie Universitaet Berlin
37 University of Oslo
38 University of Copenhagen
39 Boston College
40 Renmin (People’s) University of China
41= Lomonosov Moscow State University
41= Massachusetts Institute of Technology
43 The University of Warwick
44 Peking University
45 City University of New York
46= National University of Singapore
46= Tsinghua University
46= Universitat de Barcelona
49 Sun Yat-sen University
50 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies

1 University of Notre Dame

2 Harvard University
3 University of Oxford
4 Duke University
5 Durham University
6 KU Leuven
7 Boston College
8 Yale University
9 University of Cambridge
10 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
11 University of Toronto
12 University of Chicago
13 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
14 Emory University
15 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
16 Princeton University
17 The University of Edinburgh
18 University of California, Berkeley
19 University of St Andrews
20= University of Göttingen
20= Stanford University
22 Université catholique de Louvain
23 University of Zurich
24= Georgetown University
24= Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
26 Boston University
27 University of Birmingham
28 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
29 University of Vienna
30 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
31 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
32 Tel Aviv University
33= International Islamic University Malaysia
33= University of Oslo
35 Fordham University
36= King’s College London
36= University of Helsinki
38 University of Aberdeen
39 University of California, Los Angeles
40 Columbia University
41 Fudan University Creative
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44 McGill University the world
45 University of Virginia
46 The University of Melbourne
47 University of Otago
48 SOAS University of London
49 University of Wisconsin-Madison
50 The Catholic University of America

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
1 1 n Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 97.3 50= 41= i The University of Melbourne AU 79.8
2 2 n Stanford University US 96.0 52= 57= h Ecole Polytechnique FR 79.7
3 3 n University of Cambridge UK 93.4 52= 64 h KU Leuven BE 79.7
4= 4 n ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH 93.2 54= 47= i Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) IN 79.4
4= 8 h Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) SG 93.2 54= 55= h Universiti Malaya (UM) MY 79.4
6 6 n University of Oxford UK 92.5 54= 72= h University of Washington US 79.4
7 5 i University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US 92.4 57 38 i Kyoto University JP 79.2
8 7 i Imperial College London UK 92.1 58= 54 i Monash University AU 79.1
9 10 h National University of Singapore (NUS) SG 91.9 58= 57= i Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) KR 79.1
10 9 i Tsinghua University CN 91.5 60= 61= h Northwestern University US 79.0
11 12 h Harvard University US 90.6 60= 45= i Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) DE 79.0
12 11 i EPFL CH 90.5 60= 63 h University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US 79.0
13 13 n Georgia Institute of Technology US 89.2 63= 53 i Korea University KR 78.8
14 14 n California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 89.0 63= 82= h Technical University of Denmark DK 78.8
15 15 n Delft University of Technology NL 87.7 65 61= i The University of Sydney AU 78.7
16 16 n KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology KR 87.0 66 55= i Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) KR 78.5
17 17 n Carnegie Mellon University US 86.7 67= 59= i Lomonosov Moscow State University RU 78.3
18 22= h University of Toronto CA 85.8 67= 76= h Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) ES 78.3
19 19 n University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US 85.7 67= 93= h Xi’an Jiaotong University CN 78.3
20= 20 n Politecnico di Milano IT 85.3 70= 68= i KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology DE 78.2
20= 18 i The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HK 85.3 70= 79= h Texas A&M University US 78.2
20= 21 h The University of Tokyo JP 85.3 72= 59= i CentraleSupélec FR 77.9
23 26 h Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN 85.0 72= 96= h King Abdulaziz University (KAU) SA 77.9
24 22= i Peking University CN 84.7 72= 72= n Pennsylvania State University US 77.9
25 28= h University of Texas at Austin US 84.4 75= 90= h Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) ES 77.8
26 27 h University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US 84.1 75= 66 i The University of Edinburgh UK 77.8
27= 22= i Seoul National University KR 83.9 77 67 i University of Science and Technology of China CN 77.7
27= 32= h Zhejiang University CN 83.9 78 76= i University of Chicago US 77.6
29 25 i Technical University of Munich DE 83.7 79= 71 i The Australian National University AU 77.5
30 31 h Princeton University US 83.6 79= 85 h Chalmers University of Technology SE 77.5
31 30 i KTH Royal Institute of Technology SE 83.5 79= 79= n Hanyang University KR 77.5
32 32= n University of British Columbia CA 83.3 82= 100= h Huazhong University of Science and Technology CN 77.2
33 36 h University of Michigan-Ann Arbor US 83.2 82= 82= n The Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK 77.2
34= 32= i Purdue University US 82.6 84 72= i University of Pennsylvania US 77.1
34= 28= i Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) JP 82.6 85 76= i The University of Queensland AU 77.0
36= 32= i Cornell University US 81.9 86= 72= i The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) HK 76.7
36= 37 h The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) AU 81.9 86= 86= n Universidade de São Paulo BR 76.7
38 41= h University of Waterloo CA 81.2 88= 109= h Aalborg University DK 76.6
39 47= h Politecnico di Torino IT 81.0 88= 84 i National Tsing Hua University TW 76.6
40= 47= h McGill University CA 80.6 88= 79= i Yonsei University KR 76.6
40= 41= h National Taiwan University (NTU) TW 80.6 91 88= i University of Wisconsin-Madison US 76.5
40= 39= i The University of Hong Kong HK 80.6 92 99 h Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX 76.2
43= 50 h Fudan University CN 80.5 93 96= h Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University US 76.0
43= 51= h RWTH Aachen University DE 80.5 94= 88= i Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) IN 75.9
43= 45= h The University of Manchester UK 80.5 94= 95 h New York University (NYU) US 75.9
43= 70 h Yale University US 80.5 96= 90= i City University of Hong Kong HK 75.8
47 51= h Columbia University US 80.2 96= 119= h Harbin Institute of Technology CN 75.8
48 39= i UCL UK 80.1 96= 114= h Sorbonne University FR 75.8
49 44 i Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) IN 79.9 96= 93= i Tohoku University JP 75.8
50= 68= h Eindhoven University of Technology NL 79.8 100 106= h National Technical University of Athens GR 75.6
100= 113= h Utrecht University NL 74.2
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Computer Science & Information Systems
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 Carnegie Mellon University
4 National University of Singapore
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 University of Oxford
7 Harvard University
8 University of Cambridge
9 EPFL
10 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
11 University of Toronto
12 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
13 Tsinghua University
14 Princeton University
15 University of Washington
16 Imperial College London
17 University of California, Los Angeles
18 Columbia University
19 Cornell University
20 Peking University
21 New York University
22 California Institute of Technology
23= UCL
23= University of Waterloo
25 University of British Columbia
26 The University of Edinburgh
27 The University of Tokyo
28 University of Texas at Austin
29 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
30 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
31 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
32 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
33= University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
33= University of Pennsylvania
35= Technical University of Munich
35= Université PSL
35= Yale University
38 Georgia Institute of Technology
39 The University of Melbourne
40 University of Amsterdam
41 Seoul National University
42 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
43 The University of Hong Kong
44= Fudan University
44= Politecnico di Milano
46 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
47= University of Chicago
47= Zhejiang University
49 McGill University
50 The University of Sydney
150
Engineering - Chemical
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 National University of Singapore
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 University of Cambridge
6 Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
7 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
8 University of Oxford
9 California Institute of Technology
10 Imperial College London
11 Tsinghua University
12 EPFL
13 The University of Tokyo
14 Delft University of Technology
15 Princeton University
16 Kyoto University
17 University of Wisconsin-Madison
18 Peking University
19 Georgia Institute of Technology
20 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
21 Yale University
22 University of Texas at Austin
23 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
24= UCL
24= University of California, Los Angeles
26 University of Toronto
27 Northwestern University
28 The University of Manchester
29 Seoul National University
30 Zhejiang University
31 Monash University
32 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
33 Tokyo Institute of Technology
34 Cornell University
35 Eindhoven University of Technology
36 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
37 Politecnico di Milano
38 RWTH Aachen University
39 Technical University of Denmark
40= Purdue University
40= Technische Universität Berlin
42 University of Pennsylvania
43= KU Leuven
43= Sungkyunkwan University
45 The University of Queensland
46 Pennsylvania State University
47 McGill University
48 KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
49 The University of Melbourne
50 The University of New South Wales
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Civil & Structural
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 National University of Singapore
3 Delft University of Technology
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 University of Cambridge
6 Imperial College London
7= Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
7= Tsinghua University
9 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
10= EPFL
10= Stanford University
12 The University of New South Wales
13 Politecnico di Milano
14 The University of Sydney
15 Georgia Institute of Technology
16= The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
16= The University of Tokyo
16= University of Oxford
19 The University of Hong Kong
20 University of Texas at Austin
21 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
22 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
23= Monash University
23= Tongji University
25= Purdue University
25= Shanghai Jiao Tong University
25= University of British Columbia
28 The University of Melbourne
29 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ·
BarcelonaTech
30 The University of Queensland
31 Tokyo Institute of Technology
32 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
33 Politecnico di Torino
34 University of Toronto
35= Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
35= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
37 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
38 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
39= KU Leuven
39= Universidade de São Paulo
41= Kyoto University
41= Zhejiang University
43 McGill University
44= National Taiwan University
44= Technical University of Denmark
44= University of Leeds
47 The University of Western Australia
48 The University of Manchester
49= The University of Auckland
49= University of California, Los Angeles
Electrical & Electronic
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 University of California, Berkeley
4 Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
5 National University of Singapore
6 University of Cambridge
7= ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
7= University of Oxford
9 Imperial College London
10 EPFL
11 Harvard University
12 Tsinghua University
13 California Institute of Technology
14 Georgia Institute of Technology
15 University of California, Los Angeles
16 Delft University of Technology
17 Technical University of Munich
18 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
19 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
20 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
21 Carnegie Mellon University
22= Politecnico di Milano
22= The University of Tokyo
24 University of Toronto
25= Shanghai Jiao Tong University
25= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
27 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
28 Peking University
29 University of Texas at Austin
30= Princeton University
30= Seoul National University
32 Tokyo Institute of Technology
33 The University of New South Wales
34 University of British Columbia
35 RWTH Aachen University
36 The University of Hong Kong
37 The University of Manchester
38 KU Leuven
39 Zhejiang University
40 Aalborg University
41= Purdue University
41= University of California, San Diego
43 Universiti Malaya (UM)
44 Cornell University
45 Politecnico di Torino
46= The University of Melbourne
46= Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya ·
BarcelonaTech
48 University of Waterloo
49= Columbia University
49= UCL
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Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 University of Cambridge
4 Harvard University
5 Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
6 University of California, Berkeley
7 Delft University of Technology
8 Imperial College London
9 National University of Singapore
10 University of Oxford
11 Tsinghua University
12 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
13 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
14 Georgia Institute of Technology
15 Politecnico di Milano
16 EPFL
17 California Institute of Technology
18 RWTH Aachen University
19 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
20 Purdue University
21 The University of Tokyo
22 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
23 Technical University of Munich
24 Peking University
25 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
26 Seoul National University
27 KU Leuven
28 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
29 The University of Manchester
30 Politecnico di Torino
31 Tokyo Institute of Technology
32 University of California, Los Angeles
33 Northwestern University
34 McGill University
35 Zhejiang University
36 KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
37= Ecole Polytechnique
37= Eindhoven University of Technology
37= Pennsylvania State University
37= Princeton University
37= University of Texas at Austin
42= Technical University of Denmark
42= University of Toronto
42= Xi’an Jiaotong University
45= Cornell University
45= Cranfield University
47 Universität Stuttgart
48 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
49 Kyoto University
50 Chalmers University of Technology
152
Mineral & Mining
1 Colorado School of Mines
2 Curtin University
3 The University of Queensland
4 McGill University
5 The University of New South Wales
6 The University of Western Australia
7 Queen’s University at Kingston
8 The University of Exeter
9 University of British Columbia
10 Pennsylvania State University
11 University of Alberta
12 Saint-Petersburg Mining University
13 University of Witwatersrand
14 Universidad de Chile
15 Monash University
16 King Fahd University of Petroleum &
Minerals
17 Technische Universität Bergakademie
Freiberg
18 The University of Melbourne
19 China University of Mining and Tech.
20 Delft University of Technology
21 RWTH Aachen University
22 The University of Arizona
23 The University of Newcastle, Australia
24= The University of Adelaide
24= Université PSL
26 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
27 University of Toronto
28 University of Wollongong
29 Kyushu University
30 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
31 University of Colorado Boulder
32 Wuhan University
33 Nanjing University
34 Universidade de São Paulo
35 University of Utah
36 Middle East Technical University
37 Politecnico di Torino
38 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
39 Ruhr-Universität Bochum
40 Waseda University
41 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
42= Istanbul Technical University
42= The National University of Science and
Technology MISIS
44 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
45 Université Laval
46 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
47 Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
48= Missouri University of Science and Tech.
48= University of Pretoria
50 Universidad de Concepción
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Petroleum Engineering
1 National University of Singapore
2 University of Texas at Austin
3 Technical University of Denmark
4 Stanford University
5 Texas A&M University
6 Imperial College London
7 King Fahd University of Petroleum &
Minerals
8 University of Strathclyde
9 University of Alberta
10 Heriot-Watt University
11= Middle East Technical University
11= The University of Adelaide
13 Delft University of Technology
14 The University of Manchester
15 Politecnico di Torino
16 University of Surrey
17 Sharif University of Technology
18 The University of New South Wales
19 Colorado School of Mines
20 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
21 Khalifa University of Science and Tech.
22 Aalborg University
23= National Research Tomsk Polytechnic
University
23= Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
25 Pennsylvania State University
26 University of Tehran
27 The University of Queensland
28 Universidade Estadual de Campinas
29 Universidade de São Paulo
30 Indian Institute of Technology Madras
31 University of Southern California
32= Amirkabir University of Technology
32= Lomonosov Moscow State University
34 King Abdullah University of Science &
Technology
35 China University of Petroleum - Beijing
36= Istanbul Technical University
36= University of Leeds
38= Norwegian University of Science And
Technology
38= Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
40 University of Oklahoma
41 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
42 Universidad Industrial de Santander
43 Texas Tech University
44= Curtin University
44= Universidad de Buenos Aires
46 University of Calgary
47 University of Lisbon
48 Bogaziçi Üniversitesi
49 Cairo University
50= Universidad Nacional de Colombia
50= University College Dublin
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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
1 1 n Harvard University US 98.6 52 52 n McMaster University CA 80.1
2 2 n University of Oxford UK 94.7 53= 44 i ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH 80.0
3 4 h Stanford University US 94.4 53= 60= h University of Helsinki FI 80.0
4 3 i University of Cambridge UK 93.5 55= 57 h KU Leuven BE 79.8
5 5 n Johns Hopkins University US 93.3 55= 63= h Northwestern University US 79.8
6 6 n Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 92.9 55= 50 i The University of Hong Kong HK 79.8
7 7 n University of California, San Francisco US 91.1 58 54= i Uppsala University SE 79.7
8= 10 h Karolinska Institutet SE 90.5 59 58 i Wageningen University & Research NL 79.6
8= 8= n University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US 90.5 60 65= h Baylor College of Medicine US 79.5
10 8= i UCL UK 90.2 61 72 h The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center US 79.4
11 12 h Yale University US 89.8 62= 53 i Peking University CN 79.0
12 11 i Imperial College London UK 89.6 62= 73= h The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas US 79.0
13 13 n University of Toronto CA 89.1 64 59 i University of Bristol UK 78.8
14 15= h University of Pennsylvania US 87.5 65 63= i Universitat de Barcelona ES 78.7
15 17 h University of Washington US 87.2 66= 68 h The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) AU 78.4
16= 19 h Columbia University US 86.8 66= 70= h Université de Paris FR 78.4
16= 30= h Duke University US 86.8 68= 81 h The Ohio State University US 78.3
16= 14 i University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US 86.8 68= 62 i Technical University of Munich DE 78.3
19 18 i University of Copenhagen DH 86.1 70 65= i University of Basel CH 78.2
20= 22= h Cornell University US 86.0 71= 70= i Leiden University NL 77.9
20= 15= i University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US 86.0 71= 75= h Université de Montréal CA 77.9
22 24 h The University of Sydney AU 85.9 71= 67 i University of Wisconsin-Madison US 77.9
23 20= i King's College London UK 85.7 74= 79 h Universidade de São Paulo BR 77.8
24 20= i The University of Edinburgh UK 85.6 74= 69 i University of Geneva CH 77.8
25 22= i The University of Melbourne AU 85.2 74= 73= i University of Groningen NL 77.8
26 25= i University of Michigan-Ann Arbor US 85.0 74= 77= h Vanderbilt University US 77.8
27 25= i National University of Singapore (NUS) SG 84.7 78= 83= h Queen Mary University of London UK 77.6
28 32 h Seoul National University KR 84.4 78= 83= h The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) HK 77.6
29 28= i University of British Columbia CA 83.8 80= 77= i Lund University SE 77.5
30 28= i Washington University in St. Louis US 83.5 80= 80 n National Taiwan University (NTU) TW 77.5
31 27 i McGill University CA 83.3 82= 54= i Kyoto University JP 77.3
32 33= h University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US 83.2 82= 75= i University of Nottingham UK 77.3
33 30= i The University of Tokyo JP 82.9 82= 88= h Ghent University BE 77.3
34 33= i Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg DE 82.8 85 86= h Aarhus University DH 77.1
35 39 h Monash University AU 82.0 86 86= n University of Birmingham UK 77.0
36= 40 h New York University (NYU) US 81.9 87 88= h University of Minnesota Twin Cities US 76.7
36= 33= i University of Amsterdam NL 81.9 88= 92= h Newcastle University UK 76.3
38= 37 i The University of Queensland AU 81.6 88= 90 h University of Alberta CA 76.3
38= 38 n University of Chicago US 81.6 90 94= h Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna IT 76.1
40= 33= i Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE 81.0 91= 106= h Medical University of Vienna AT 76.0
40= 42 h Utrecht University NL 81.0 91= 100= h Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) KR 76.0
42= 41 i The University of Manchester UK 80.9 91= 102= h University of Calgary CA 76.0
42= 43 h University of Zurich CH 80.9 94 94= n The University of Auckland NZ 75.9
44 51 h London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine UK 80.8 95= 83= i University of Milan IT 75.8
45 47 h Boston University US 80.7 95= 100= h University of Bern CH 75.8
46= 45= i Sorbonne University FR 80.6 95= 105 h University of Gothenburg SE 75.8
46= 45= i University of California, Davis US 80.6 98= 82 i Fudan University CN 75.6
48 48 n University of Pittsburgh US 80.4 98= 116 h Yonsei University KR 75.6
49= 54= h Erasmus University Rotterdam NL 80.3 100= 91 i The University of Adelaide AU 75.5
49= 49 n University of Glasgow UK 80.3 100= 92= i The University of Western Australia AU 75.5
51 60= h Emory University US 80.2 100= 94= i University of Otago NZ 75.5
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Stepping into Tomorrow

The direction of medical education
By Anton John Crace

“Modern medicine has gone through major changes

in the past 100 years,” says Dr Charas Suwanwela,
Professor Emeritus in Surgery (Neurosurgery) at
Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University.

“The first disruption can be traced back to Flexner

in 1918, when the scientific basis of medicine was
emphasised, and universities were given the duty of
overseeing medical education.”

Medical education is being disrupted. The past

“Making changes century has seen significant changes to the field,
to curriculum from factors like the explosion of medical knowledge
is sort of like and tech in the 1960s, increased evidence-based
moving the deck practice, and commercialisation and globalisation.
chairs around
the Titanic.” Dr Suwanwela, however, says the 21st century’s focus
on soft skills as well as the sudden increase in the
opportunities technology provide has profoundly
impacted medical education.

“Digital transformation demands drastic changes

in the medical care system as well as medical
education,” he says.

Coupled with a period of uncertainty, the future of

medical education is positioned to define the new
normal.

Dissecting Medical Education

According to Dr Charles G Prober, Senior Associate

Vice Provost for Health Education at Stanford
University in the United States, outside of current
global circumstances, medical education faces three
major concerns: cost, route memory, and a focus on
form over function.

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In the US, a medical degree can cost as much as US$200,000, which Dr Prober
says is unsustainable. The use of route memory, meanwhile, means medical
students are not necessarily learning as effectively as possible.
“Students are expected to learn myriad facts often to put them into their
memory banks and in doing so, it pushes out opportunities for different kinds of
learning,” Dr Prober tells QS.
Instead, Dr Prober says educations should fine-tune students’ search capabilities
as devices, as more information accessibility increases.
In disrupting medical education, however, Dr Prober says there needs to
be consideration behind the reasons why changes are being made, and the
implementation of a change for its own sake may not result in better learning
outcomes.
“Making changes to curriculum is sort of like moving the deck chairs around the
Titanic. It doesn’t really amount to any difference in the ultimate outcome,” he
adds.
Post-COVID
Several educators tell QS, ultimately, COVID has seen them move their courses
online faster than they had originally planned, rather than forcing a change.
One example of pre-COVID innovation is the Sophya platform, created by
medical doctor Vishal Punwani and PhD candidate Emma Giles, both at
Harvard University, and borne out of the Harvard Innovation Labs. The project
is described as the “Spotify of Education”, aiming to deliver courses to students
as they need them, rather the student searching for courses.
As well as content seeking out the learners, the platform allows them to learn
collaboratively and make notes on almost all content, while simultaneously
empowering educators with better data and insight.
“In the past, what we’ve done is just survey students at the end of a seven-week
term,” says Dr Adrienne Torda, Associate Dean of Education and Innovation at
the University of New South Wales’ Faculty of Medicine UNSW in Australia.
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“Now you begin extracting data a lot quicker than
that.”
Dr Torda used Sophya to co-create Preparation
for Practice along with Dr Michelle Leech, Deputy
Dean of the of Faculty Medicine Nursing and Health
Sciences at Monash University, also in Australia.
The course, developed in response to COVID-19,
quickly upskills final year medical students for entry
into clinical practice, and Dr Torda says putting the
content online and available for other institutions
increases efficiency within the medical education
space.
“Now you begin
For the benefits digital delivery provides, however, extracting data a
there are parts of learning it can’t recreate, like lot quicker than
suturing. These limitations are further exacerbated that.”
by the current social distancing measures and safety
concerns. Education has continued, but students will
need to be brought up to speed, Dr Torda notes.
“We have to do an intensive clinical teaching block to
catch them up,” she says.
“We want to make sure that they know how to take a
pulse, they know how to listen to a heart and a lung.”
Dr Torda tells QS she and others are confident
medical students will not be left behind during this
period and students will quickly complete their
studies and graduate. Achieving this, she says,
requires ongoing, adaptive planning for the months
and potentially years ahead.
The full version of this abridged article first appeared
in the 2021 Latin America Rankings Higher Education
Report.
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Agriculture & Forestry
1 Wageningen University & Research
2 University of California, Davis
3 Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences
4 AgroParisTech
5 Cornell University
6 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
7 China Agricultural University
8 University of Wisconsin-Madison
9 University of California, Berkeley
10 Michigan State University
11 Ghent University
12 University of Reading
13 University of Copenhagen
14 Iowa State University
15 Purdue University
16 Texas A&M University
17 University of British Columbia
18 University of Hohenheim
19= Norwegian University of Life Sciences
19= Oregon State University
21 University of Guelph
22 The University of Tokyo
23 Nanjing Agricultural University
24 Pennsylvania State University
25 University of Florida
26= University of Göttingen
26= The University of Queensland
28 Aarhus University
29 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
30 University of Natural Resources and
Applied Life Sciences Vienna
31 The Ohio State University
32 Technical University of Munich
33 North Carolina State University
34 Massey University
35 University of Massachusetts Amherst
36 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
37= The University of Georgia
37= Zhejiang University
39 The Australian National University
40= Kansas State University
40= South China Agricultural University
42 Seoul National University
43 Kyoto University
44= Alma Mater Studiorum - University of
Bologna
44= Washington State University
46= Colorado State University
46= Universidade de São Paulo
48 University of Helsinki
49= Universidade Estadual de Campinas
49= The University of Edinburgh
162
Anatomy & Physiology
1 University of Oxford
2 University of Cambridge
3 Stanford University
4 Columbia University
5 Johns Hopkins University
6 University of Toronto
7 UCL
8 Duke University
9 University of California, Los Angeles
10 McGill University
11 Washington University in St. Louis
12 Imperial College London
13= University of California, San Francisco
13= University of Pennsylvania
15 The University of Melbourne
16 University of California, San Diego
17 University of British Columbia
18= University of Copenhagen
18= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
20 The University of Tokyo
21= National University of Singapore
21= University of Washington
23 University of Zurich
24= King’s College London
24= The University of Edinburgh
26= Pennsylvania State University
26= The University of Western Australia
28 The University of Sydney
29 The University of Queensland
30 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
31 Northwestern University
32 Peking University
33 University of Bristol
34 University of Alberta
35 Universitat de Barcelona
36 Kyoto University
37= McMaster University
37= Monash University
39 The University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center at Dallas
40 University of Otago
41 Vanderbilt University
42= Case Western Reserve University
42= Fudan University
42= University of Basel
45 University of Wisconsin-Madison
46 University of Florida
47= The Australian National University
47= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
49 University of Geneva
50 The University of New South Wales
Biological Sciences
1 Harvard University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 University of Cambridge
4 Stanford University
5 University of Oxford
6 University of California, Berkeley
7 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
8 Yale University
9 University of California, Los Angeles
10 University of California, San Diego
11 California Institute of Technology
12 Cornell University
13= Imperial College London
13= University of California, San Francisco
15 UCL
16 University of Toronto
17 National University of Singapore
18 The University of Tokyo
19 Columbia University
20 The University of Edinburgh
21= Princeton University
21= University of Copenhagen
23 University of Pennsylvania
24 Johns Hopkins University
25 EPFL
26= Kyoto University
26= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
26= Tsinghua University
29= University of Chicago
29= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
31 Peking University
32 Karolinska Institutet
33= Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
33= University of British Columbia
33= University of Washington
36 McGill University
37= The Rockefeller University
37= Sorbonne University
39= Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
39= Seoul National University
41 Duke University
42 Wageningen University & Research
43 The University of Melbourne
44 New York University
45= University of California, Davis
45= Washington University in St. Louis
47 Uppsala University
48 Technical University of Munich
49 University of Zurich
50 The University of Queensland
Subject Rankings: Life Sciences & Medicine 2021
Dentistry
1 University of Gothenburg
2 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
3= Academic Centre for Dentistry Am-
sterdam
3= The University of Hong Kong
5= King’s College London
5= Tokyo Medical and Dental University
7 University of California, San Francisco
8 Harvard University
9 University of Bern
10 Karolinska Institutet
11 University of Zurich
12 UCL
13 Universidade de São Paulo
14 Queen Mary University of London
15 University of Washington
16 University of Pennsylvania
17 New York University
18 Complutense University of Madrid
19 KU Leuven
20 University of Birmingham
21 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
22= UNESP
22= University of Iowa
24 Malmo University
25 University of California, Los Angeles
26 Universidade Estadual de Campinas
27 Wuhan University
28 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
29 University of Geneva
30 University of Copenhagen
31 The University of Manchester
32= Boston University
32= Peking University
34 The University of Adelaide
35 Aarhus University
36 University of British Columbia
37 Seoul National University
37 The University of Melbourne
38 University of Toronto
39= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
39= Alma Mater Studiorum - University of
Bologna
41= Columbia University
41= Radboud University
43 University of Otago
44 Sichuan University
45= Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
45= University of Oslo
47 University at Buffalo SUNY
48 University of Helsinki
49 Newcastle University
50= Tufts University
50= University of Groningen
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Medicine
1 Harvard University
2 University of Oxford
3 Stanford University
4 University of Cambridge
5 Johns Hopkins University
6 Karolinska Institutet
7 University of California, Los Angeles
8 Yale University
9 UCL
10 Imperial College London
11 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12 University of California, San Francisco
13 Columbia University
14 University of Toronto
15 University of Pennsylvania
16 Duke University
17 King’s College London
18 The University of Melbourne
19 The University of Sydney
20 University of Washington
21 The University of Edinburgh
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
23 London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
24 National University of Singapore
25 McGill University
26 University of California, San Diego
27 University of Chicago
28 Seoul National University
29 The University of Tokyo
30 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
31 University of British Columbia
32 University of Amsterdam
33= Cornell University
33= New York University
35 Erasmus University Rotterdam
36= Monash University
36= Washington University in St. Louis
38 The University of Manchester
39 The University of Hong Kong
40 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
41= McMaster University
41= University of Copenhagen
43 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
44 Sorbonne University
45 The University of New South Wales
46 University of Pittsburgh
47= Baylor College of Medicine
47= University of Glasgow
49= Emory University
49= National Taiwan University
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Nursing
1 University of Pennsylvania
2 King’s College London
3 Johns Hopkins University
4 University of Washington
5 The University of Manchester
6 University of California, San Francisco
7 Yale University
8 University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
9 University of Southampton
10 Duke University
11 University of Technology Sydney
12 University of Toronto
13 The University of Sydney
14 University of Alberta
15= McMaster University
15= Monash University
17 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
18= Columbia University
18= Emory University
20 Karolinska Institutet
21 University of Pittsburgh
22 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
23 National University of Singapore
24 New York University
25 Griffith University
26 The University of Edinburgh
27= University of British Columbia
27= University of California, Los Angeles
29 University of Turku
30 Deakin University
31 Queensland University of Technology
32 McGill University
33 The University of Melbourne
34 The Ohio State University
35 The University of Auckland
36 The University of Newcastle, Australia
37 University of Nottingham
38= Seoul National University
38= The University of Queensland
38= The University of Hong Kong
41 Ulster University
42 Australian Catholic University
43= Pennsylvania State University
43= The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
43= University of Illinois at Chicago
46 Trinity College Dublin, The University of
Dublin
47= Lund University
47= Vanderbilt University
49 University College Cork
50= University of Calgary
50= University of Leeds
Pharmacy & Pharmacology
1 University of Oxford
2 Monash University
3 Harvard University
4 University of Cambridge
5 University of Nottingham
6 University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
7 UCL
8 University of California, San Francisco
9 Johns Hopkins University
10 University of Toronto
11 Leiden University
12 National University of Singapore
13 The University of Sydney
14 The University of Manchester
15= The University of Tokyo
15= University of Copenhagen
17= Karolinska Institutet
17= Yale University
19 King’s College London
20 University of California, San Diego
21= ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
21= Seoul National University
23= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
23= University of Washington
25 McGill University
26= Imperial College London
26= University of British Columbia
28 The University of Auckland
29 Peking University
30 Purdue University
31 The University of Queensland
32 Utrecht University
33= Duke University
33= The University of Edinburgh
33= University of Geneva
36 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
37= Trinity College Dublin, The University of
Dublin
37= Uppsala University
39 Kyoto University
40 University of Basel
41 KU Leuven
42 University of Pennsylvania
43= Fudan University
43= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
43= Sungkyunkwan University
46 King Abdulaziz University
47= Columbia University
47= Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
49= Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
49= Université catholique de Louvain
Subject Rankings: Life Sciences & Medicine 2021
Modern Languages
1 Harvard University
2 Stanford University
3 University of Oxford
4 University of Cambridge
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 University of California, Los Angeles
7 Yale University
8 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10= UCL
10= University of Pennsylvania
12 Columbia University
13 New York University
14 University of Chicago
15 University of Amsterdam
16= National University of Singapore
16= University of British Columbia
18 Princeton University
19 University of Toronto
20= King’s College London
20= The University of Melbourne
22 Northwestern University
23 KU Leuven
24= The London School of Economics and
Political Science
24= The University of New South Wales
26 The University of Queensland
27 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
28 Duke University
29 McGill University
30 The University of Sydney
31 Utrecht University
32 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
33 The University of Edinburgh
34= The University of Manchester
34= The University of Hong Kong
36 University of Texas at Austin
37 Carnegie Mellon University
38 The Australian National University
39 Erasmus University Rotterdam
40 Michigan State University
41= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
41= The University of Western Australia
43= Freie Universitaet Berlin
43= University of Groningen
45 Cornell University
46= The Chinese University of Hong Kong
46= University of Wisconsin-Madison
48= The Ohio State University
48= University of Zurich
50 University of California, San Diego
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Veterinary Science

1 Royal Veterinary College , University of

London
2 University of California, Davis
3 Utrecht University
3 The University of Edinburgh
4 Cornell University
5 University of Guelph
6 The Ohio State University
7= University of Cambridge
7= University of Copenhagen
7= Vetsuisse Faculty Bern and Zurich
10 University of Glasgow
11 Michigan State University
12 Ghent University
13 University of Bristol
14 Colorado State University Master Of Science

15 University of Pennsylvania
16 The University of Sydney
17 Wageningen University & Research
18 The University of Melbourne
19 Massey University
20 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
21= University of Liverpool
21= University of Wisconsin-Madison
23 University College Dublin
24= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
24= Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
26 The University of Queensland
27 Iowa State University

40 +
28 University of Florida
29= The University of Georgia
29= The University of Tokyo
31= Freie Universitaet Berlin
31= North Carolina State University
31= Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences
31= University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
35 Complutense University of Madrid
36 University of Nottingham
37 University of Calgary
38 University of Helsinki
39 University of Milan
40= Universidade de São Paulo
42 Université de Montréal
43= London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine ‫ﺣﺎﺻﻞ ﻋﻠﻰ اﻻﻋﺘﻤﺎد اﻟﻤﺆﺳﺴﻲ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﺮﻛﺰ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻲ ﻟﻠﺘﻘﻮﻳﻢ واﻻﻋﺘﻤﺎد اﻻﻛﺎدﻳﻤﻲ‬
43= Washington State University
45 Seoul National University Institutionally Accredited by National Center for Academic Accreditation and Evaluation
46 Texas A&M University
47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Quality and Accreditation Memberships
University
48 Kansas State University
49 The University of Adelaide
50 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign

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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
1 1 n Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 97.5 49= 67= h University of Maryland, College Park US 81.3
2 2= n Stanford University US 97.3 52 49= i The University of Hong Kong HK 81.2
3 2= i Harvard University US 97.0 53= 58= h KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology DE 81.1
4 4 n University of Cambridge UK 96.7 53= 55= h Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg DE 81.1
5 5 n University of Oxford UK 95.4 53= 46 i The University of Melbourne AU 81.1
6 6= n ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH 95.1 53= 63 h Zhejiang University CN 81.1
7 6= i California Institute of Technology (Caltech) US 94.9 57= 55= i Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN 81.0
8 6= i University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US 94.4 57= 52= i UCL UK 81.0
9 9 n Imperial College London UK 91.7 59 49= i The University of Manchester UK 80.8
10 10 n Princeton University US 91.6 60= 65= h Pennsylvania State University US 80.7
11 11 n EPFL CH 90.1 60= 60= n University of Bristol UK 80.7
12 14 h National University of Singapore (NUS) SG 90.0 62= 54 i National Taiwan University (NTU) TW 80.3
13 13 n The University of Tokyo JP 89.8 62= 49= i The University of Sydney AU 80.3
14 19 h Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) SG 89.5 64= 62 i Delft University of Technology NL 80.1
15= 16 h Tsinghua University CN 89.1 64= 90 h Université Paris-Saclay FR 80.1
15= 15 n University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US 89.1 66= 67= h Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT / Moscow Phystech) RU 80.0
17 17 n Peking University CN 88.4 66= 65= i RWTH Aachen University DE 80.0
18= 12 i University of Chicago US 87.7 68= 57 i Osaka University JP 79.9
18= 18 n University of Toronto CA 87.7 68= 58= i Tohoku University JP 79.9
20 20 n Yale University US 87.4 70 70= n University of Pennsylvania US 79.8
21 21 n Lomonosov Moscow State University RU 86.7 71 69 i Sapienza University of Rome IT 79.7
22 31 h Sorbonne University FR 85.9 72 75 h The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) AU 79.6
23= 23 n Columbia University US 85.6 73 72= i Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE 79.3
23= 25 h University of British Columbia CA 85.6 74 64 i Novosibirsk State University RU 79.2
25 24 i Cornell University US 85.5 75 76= h Universidade de São Paulo BR 79.1
26 26= n Ecole Polytechnique FR 85.0 76 89 h Monash University AU 79.0
27 22 i Kyoto University JP 84.8 77 76= i Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ES 78.9
28 26= i Université PSL FR 84.6 78 93 h Duke University US 78.7
29= 30 h University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US 84.5 79= 80= h Carnegie Mellon University US 78.6
29= 33 h University of Texas at Austin US 84.5 79= 86= h University of Waterloo CA 78.6
31 28 i Technical University of Munich DE 84.0 81 80= i Universitat de Barcelona ES 78.4
32 29 i Seoul National University KR 83.9 82= 74 i Korea University KR 78.3
33 34 h University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) US 83.8 82= 72= i Nagoya University JP 78.3
34= 40= h University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US 83.4 82= 80= i University of Copenhagen DK 78.3
34= 42= h University of Michigan-Ann Arbor US 83.4 85= 83 i Johns Hopkins University US 78.2
36 45 h University of Washington US 83.2 85= 84= i KTH Royal Institute of Technology SE 78.2
37= 37= n The Australian National University AU 83.0 85= 92 h University of California, Davis US 78.2
37= 42= h Northwestern University US 83.0 88= 94= h Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) KR 78.1
37= 35 i University of Science and Technology of China CN 83.0 88= 78 i The University of Warwick UK 78.1
40 32 i Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) JP 82.8 88= 96= h University of Amsterdam NL 78.1
41 36 i Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE 82.7 91 99= h Texas A&M University US 78.0
42 40= i The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HK 82.6 92= 111 h Indian Institute of Science IN 77.9
43= 39 i Fudan University CN 82.4 92= 86= i Purdue University US 77.9
43= 47= h Georgia Institute of Technology US 82.4 92= 91 i The University of Queensland AU 77.9
43= 37= i The University of Edinburgh UK 82.4 92= 88 i Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX 77.9
46 44 i KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology KR 82.2 96 79 i Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) KR 77.8
47 52= h University of Wisconsin-Madison US 82.1 97 84= i Durham University UK 77.7
48 47= i McGill University CA 81.5 98 104= h Stockholm University SE 77.5
49= 60= h Nanjing University CN 81.3 99= 110 h The Ohio State University US 77.4
49= 70= h University of Colorado Boulder US 81.3 99= 120= h Université Grenoble Alpes FR 77.4
99= 101= h University of Minnesota Twin Cities US 77.4
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Space Science
By Martin Ince

Every time a person uses a smartphone to find best

route to a meeting, they are a customer of the space
industry.

But satellite navigation is only the start of the story.

Satellites now come in all sizes, from some as big as a
bus to a cube that can be held in a hand. They bring
access to the web; help monitor the Earth’s surface
and oceans; and they permit the development of
new industries, such as the provision of banking and
“Space is insurance in remote parts of the Global South.
not just one The space industry is growing fast, making it a
discipline or desirable destination for ambitious grads. According
department.” to the US non-profit Space Foundation, it employed
179,000 people in the US in 2018, with other major
space industries in Europe, Russia, Japan, and India.

As a result, space science is a growth business for

universities. Observers point to two main approaches
to the subject. Some degree provision comes from
institutions with a long-standing commitment
to aerospace engineering. Over time, the space
component of many programs in this area is growing
relative to the comparatively traditional aviation part.
And some universities are launching new courses
exclusively to do with satellites, launchers, and other
space systems.

The other approach to space science is via astronomy

and space exploration. Because these activities are
complex and specialist, university experts often know
a lot about building telescopes and other equipment
to use in space, and how to integrate them into a
working space mission that will last for years with no
chance of a visit from the repair team.

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In the UK, for example, five universities now offer undergraduate courses in
space science. Aberystwyth offers a program in space science and robotics,
while others have more of an emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering.
At the junction between university and industry is Professor Martin Barstow at
the University of Leicester in the UK and director of strategic partnerships at
Space Park Leicester, a fast-growing part of the UK’s significant space industry.
“Space is not just one discipline or department,” he explains.
“[A recent survey] showed 300 people at the university, including academics,
researchers and technicians, are involved with space in one way or another.”
Bairstow adds space-based astronomy “is highly technical and has always been
close to industry” throughout its 60-year history at Leicester.
“Partnerships are vital because we build instruments, while industry provides
the spacecraft they fit into,” Barstow tells QS.
The availability of smaller satellites and decreasing cost of sending them into
orbit has similarly transformed the ponderous ways of the traditional space
industry. Jae-Hung Han sees these developments from the point of view of
emerging technology, as head of the aerospace engineering department at
KAIST in Korea.
Located in central South Korea, KAIST is close to KASI, the national astronomy
and space research centre, and KARI, the state aerospace research organisation.
Han says it is now benefitting from growing government support for space,
including both launcher technology and satellites.
“Our courses emphasise overall space system design. This allows the students
to enter careers with major companies such as Hyundai,” he says, adding space
is now a global business.
In 2017, KAIST students worked with colleagues from Australia’s RMIT, Drexel
University in the US, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to
win a global lunar lander competition.
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Being global and airborne has its challenges, however.
Han says the Republic of Korea has “come late”, and
because of its tricky relations with North Korea, the
subject remains a delicate one.
“Most of our projects have to do with Earth
observation and relate to defense.” However, this
knowledge is now being put to peaceful use, and
more broadly, space science can be seen as a key
to global cooperation, with nations such as Ethiopia
interested in KAIST’s nanosatellite technology.
“We have wildfires every year in Korea, although not
on the scale seen in California, and as a result have The space
experience of imaging them,” says So Young Kim, industy employed
director of national centre Korean Policy Centre for 179,000 people
the 4th Industrial Revolution, based at KAIST. in the US in 2018.
Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of
Astronomy at Williams College in the United States,
the number one rated liberal-arts college, points
out that before the growth of space science as a
university subject, astronomy was a major attraction
for students, whether or not they intend it as a career.
“We teach our introductory level course on two tracks:
one for general students and one for astrophysics or
physics majors,” he says.
“We get a lot of students looking for an interesting
course outside of their majors.”
The full version of this abridged article first appeared
in QS-GEN 2, November 2020.
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Chemistry
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 Harvard University
4 University of Cambridge
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 University of Oxford
7 National University of Singapore
8 Nanyang Technological University
9 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
10 EPFL
11 California Institute of Technology
12 Imperial College London
13 The University of Tokyo
14 Northwestern University
15= Peking University
15= University of California, Los Angeles
17 Tsinghua University
18 Yale University
19 University of Toronto
20 Kyoto University
21 University of Texas at Austin
22 Zhejiang University
23 Fudan University
24 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
25 Princeton University
26 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
27 The University of Manchester
28= Georgia Institute of Technology
28= Tokyo Institute of Technology
30 Technical University of Munich
31= Seoul National University
31= The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
33 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
34= University of Chicago
34= University of Wisconsin-Madison
36= Monash University
36= Osaka University
38 University of British Columbia
39 UCL
40 University of Science and Technology of
China
41 Cornell University
42= Columbia University
42= Nanjing University
44 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
45 University of Pennsylvania
46 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
47 The University of Melbourne
48 Université de Strasbourg
49 KU Leuven
50 Delft University of Technology
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Earth & Marine Sciences
1 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Harvard University
4 University of Cambridge
5= California Institute of Technology
5= Stanford University
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 University of Washington
9 University of Oxford
10 Columbia University
11 University of British Columbia
12 Pennsylvania State University
13 University of California, Los Angeles
14 University of Colorado Boulder
15= The University of Tokyo
15= Yale University
17 University of California, San Diego
18 Princeton University
19= University of Leeds
19= University of Toronto
21= University of Bristol
21= University of Texas at Austin
23 The Australian National University
24 Imperial College London
25 Colorado School of Mines
26 Utrecht University
27 The University of Edinburgh
28 McGill University
29 The University of Arizona
30 University of California, Davis
31 Peking University
32 Sorbonne University
33 University of Reading
34= Colorado State University
34= UCL
34= University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
37= Oregon State University
37= The University of Western Australia
39 University of Maryland, College Park
40= The University of New South Wales
40= University of Oslo
42 University of Alberta
43= Delft University of Technology
43= Texas A&M University
45 The University of Melbourne
46 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
47= Tsinghua University
47= University of Bergen
49 The University of Hong Kong
50 Curtin University
Environmental Sciences
1= Harvard University
1= Stanford University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 University of Oxford
5= University of Cambridge
5= Wageningen University & Research
7 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
8 Tsinghua University
9 University of California, Berkeley
10 Imperial College London
11 National University of Singapore
12 University of British Columbia
13 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
14 Delft University of Technology
15= University of California, Davis
15= Yale University
17 The University of Queensland
18 University of California, Los Angeles
19 The University of New South Wales
20 Cornell University
21= EPFL
21= Peking University
23= Stockholm University
23= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
25 The University of Melbourne
26 Princeton University
27 California Institute of Technology
28 McGill University
29= The University of Tokyo
29= University of Leeds
31= Duke University
31= University of Toronto
33 UCL
34 The Australian National University
35 Columbia University
36 University of Washington
37 The University of Edinburgh
38 Technical University of Denmark
39= University of Wisconsin-Madison
39= Zhejiang University
41= The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
41= University of Copenhagen
43 The University of Exeter
44= Georgia Institute of Technology
44= Lund University
44= University of East Anglia
44= The University of Hong Kong
48 University of Texas at Austin
49= University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
49= Uppsala University
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Geography
1 University of Oxford
2 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
3 University of Cambridge
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 National University of Singapore
6 University of California, Los Angeles
7 The Australian National University
8 University of British Columbia
9 UCL
10 University of Toronto
11 The University of Hong Kong
12 Durham University
13 The University of Tokyo
14 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
15 The University of Exeter
16 The University of Melbourne
17= The University of Edinburgh
17= University of Wisconsin-Madison
19= The Chinese University of Hong Kong
19= University of Amsterdam
21 The University of Sydney
22 Peking University
23 King’s College London
24= Lund University
24= McGill University
26 Utrecht University
27 The University of Manchester
28 University of Washington
29 The Ohio State University
30 KU Leuven
31= Seoul National University
31= University of Chicago
33= SOAS University of London
33= University of Leeds
35= Freie Universitaet Berlin
35= Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
37 Tsinghua University
38 University of Bristol
39= Kyoto University
39= Pennsylvania State University
41= The University of Sheffield
41= Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
41= University of Minnesota Twin Cities
44 The University of Auckland
45 The University of Queensland
46 Universidade de São Paulo
47 Stockholm University
48 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
49 Uppsala University
50 Newcastle University
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Geology
1 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
2 Harvard University
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 University of Washington
5 University of Cambridge
6 California Institute of Technology
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 Stanford University
9 University of Oxford
10= Columbia University
10= University of Colorado Boulder
12 Pennsylvania State University
13 University of British Columbia
14 Yale University
15= University of California, Los Angeles
15= University of California, San Diego
17 University of Leeds
18= Princeton University
18= The University of Tokyo
20 University of Toronto
21 University of Bristol
22 University of Texas at Austin
23 Utrecht University
24= The Australian National University
24= The University of Arizona
24= University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
27 The University of Edinburgh
28 Colorado State University
29 Imperial College London
30 McGill University
31 University of California, Davis
32 University of Maryland, College Park
33 Peking University
34= Sorbonne University
34= University of Oslo
36 The University of Western Australia
37 Oregon State University
38 The University of New South Wales
39 Texas A&M University
40 UCL
41 China University of Geosciences
42 University of Bergen
43= Curtin University
43= Delft University of Technology
45 University of Alberta
46 Tsinghua University
47 The University of Melbourne
48 University of Tasmania
49 Wageningen University & Research
50= The University of Hong Kong
50= University of Southampton
176
Geophysics
1 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
2 Harvard University
3= California Institute of Technology
3= Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 University of Washington
6 University of Cambridge
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 University of Oxford
9 Stanford University
10 University of Colorado Boulder
11 Columbia University
12 Pennsylvania State University
13 University of British Columbia
14 Yale University
15 University of Leeds
16= Princeton University
16= University of California, Los Angeles
16= University of California, San Diego
19 The University of Tokyo
20 University of Toronto
21 Colorado State University
22= The Australian National University
22= University of Bristol
22= University of Texas at Austin
25 The University of Edinburgh
26= The University of Arizona
26= University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
28 Utrecht University
29= University of California, Davis
29= University of Maryland, College Park
31 McGill University
32 Sorbonne University
33 Imperial College London
34 Peking University
35 University of Oslo
36 Texas A&M University
37 The University of New South Wales
38 UCL
39= Tsinghua University
39= Wageningen University & Research
41= Delft University of Technology
41= University of Alberta
43= Oregon State University
43= University of Bergen
45= The University of Melbourne
45= The University of Western Australia
47 The University of Exeter
48= University of Bern
48= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
50 Stockholm University
Materials Science
1 Nanyang Technological University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 University of Cambridge
5= Harvard University
5= National University of Singapore
7 Georgia Institute of Technology
8 University of California, Berkeley
9 University of Oxford
10 Tsinghua University
11 Northwestern University
12 EPFL
13 Peking University
14 Imperial College London
15 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
16= Fudan University
16= KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of
Science & Technology
16= The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
19 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
20 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
21 University of California, Los Angeles
22 Seoul National University
23 Pennsylvania State University
24 University of Science and Technology of
China
25= California Institute of Technology
25= City University of Hong Kong
27 Zhejiang University
28 The University of Manchester
29= Sungkyunkwan University
29= The University of Tokyo
31 University of Texas at Austin
32 Carnegie Mellon University
33 University of California, Santa Barbara
34= Monash University
34= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
36 Delft University of Technology
37 Pohang University of Science And Tech.
38 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
39= The University of New South Wales
39= University of Toronto
41 RWTH Aachen University
42= Nanjing University
42= Rice University
44 Purdue University
45 KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
46 University of Pennsylvania
47 Cornell University
48 Korea University
49 Technical University of Munich
50= Kyoto University
50= The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Subject Rankings: Natural Sciences 2021
Mathematics
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Stanford University
3 Harvard University
4 University of Cambridge
5 University of Oxford
6 University of California, Berkeley
7 Princeton University
8 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
9 National University of Singapore
10 University of California, Los Angeles
11 Imperial College London
12 New York University
13 Université PSL
14 University of Toronto
15 California Institute of Technology
16 Columbia University
17 University of Chicago
18 Tsinghua University
19 Peking University
20 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
21= The University of Warwick
21= University of British Columbia
21= Yale University
24= Ecole Polytechnique
24= The University of Tokyo
26 EPFL
27 Georgia Institute of Technology
28 Carnegie Mellon University
29 Sorbonne University
30 University of Texas at Austin
31 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
32 University of Pennsylvania
33 Cornell University
34 Lomonosov Moscow State University
35 University of Waterloo
36 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
37 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
38 The University of New South Wales
39= Brown University
39= University of Wisconsin-Madison
41 The University of Edinburgh
42= The University of Sydney
42= UCL
44 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
45= Fudan University
45= Kyoto University
47= McGill University
47= Seoul National University
49 KTH Royal Institute of Technology
50 The Australian National University
177
Subject Rankings: Natural Sciences 2021

Physics & Astronomy

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2 Stanford University
3 Harvard University
4 University of Cambridge
5 University of Oxford
6 University of California, Berkeley
7 California Institute of Technology
8 Princeton University
9 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
10 The University of Tokyo
11 Imperial College London
12 University of California, Los Angeles
13 Tsinghua University
14 EPFL
15 National University of Singapore
16= University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
16= Yale University
18= Columbia University
18= University of Chicago
20 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
21 Peking University
22= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
22= Technical University of Munich
24 Cornell University
25 University of California, Santa Barbara
26= Kyoto University
26= University of Toronto
28 Tokyo Institute of Technology
29= Lomonosov Moscow State University
29= University of Maryland, College Park
31= Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
31= UCL
31= Université PSL
34= University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
34= University of Texas at Austin
36 Seoul National University
37= The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
37= Tohoku University
39 Ecole Polytechnique
40 The Australian National University
41= Sapienza University of Rome
41= The University of Manchester
43= Georgia Institute of Technology
43= Shanghai Jiao Tong University
45= Osaka University
45= The University of Edinburgh
47 Sorbonne University
48 Fudan University
49 University of British Columbia
50 Moscow Institute of Physics and Tech-
nology

178
Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021 Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021

2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
1 1 n Harvard University US 97.8 52= 49 i King's College London UK 77.9
2 2 n The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) UK 94.5 52= 63= h Universidade de São Paulo BR 77.9
3= 3 n Stanford University US 93.7 54 69 h Copenhagen Business School DK 77.8
3= 4 i University of Oxford UK 93.7 55 54= i Lomonosov Moscow State University RU 77.7
5 5 n University of Cambridge UK 92.9 56= 54= i ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH 77.6
6 6 n Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US 92.4 56= 59= h Sciences Po FR 77.6
7 7 n University of California, Berkeley (UCB) US 90.0 56= 86= h Tecnológico de Monterrey MX 77.6
8 8 n Yale University US 89.1 59 51= i The University of Edinburgh UK 77.5
9 12 h National University of Singapore (NUS) SG 88.9 60= 51= i Imperial College London UK 77.3
10 15 h University of Chicago US 88.0 60= 80 h Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) AR 77.3
11 9 i University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) US 87.8 62 54= i Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne FR 77.2
12= 10 i Columbia University US 87.2 63 50 i The University of Queensland AU 77.0
12= 13 h New York University (NYU) US 87.2 64= 65 h KU Leuven BE 76.8
12= 11 i University of Pennsylvania US 87.2 64= 59= i Yonsei University KR 76.8
15 14 i Princeton University US 86.9 66 59= i Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DE 76.6
16 16 n Bocconi University IT 86.7 67= 70 h Universidad de Chile CL 76.5
17 23= h Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) SG 85.4 67= 67 n University of Wisconsin-Madison US 76.5
18 18= n University of Toronto CA 84.1 69= 54= i National Taiwan University (NTU) TW 76.4
19 18= h Northwestern University US 83.8 69= 71 h Pennsylvania State University US 76.4
20 21= h University of British Columbia CA 83.6 71 83= h University of Navarra ES 76.3
21 20 h Peking University CN 83.4 72 92= h Tilburg University NL 76.2
22 27 h University of Michigan-Ann Arbor US 83.3 73 89= h Zhejiang University CN 76.1
23 28 h London Business School UK 83.2 74 n Michigan State University US 76.0
24 17 i The University of Melbourne AU 82.9 75 74= i Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna IT 75.8
25 31 h INSEAD FR 82.7 76= 74= i Boston University US 75.7
26 21= i The University of Hong Kong HK 82.3 76= 94= h Singapore Management University SG 75.7
27 32 h Tsinghua University CN 81.6 76= 78= h University of Southern California US 75.7
28 25= i UCL UK 81.5 79 72 i The Hong Kong Polytechnic University HK 75.6
29= 37= h Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) CL 81.4 80= 89= h Renmin (People's) University of China CN 75.4
29= 35 h University of Amsterdam NL 81.4 80= 63= i The University of Auckland NZ 75.4
31 29= i Seoul National University KR 81.3 82 78= i Sungkyunkwan University(SKKU) KR 75.3
32 25= i The University of Sydney AU 81.1 83= 53 i Kyoto University JP 75.2
33 37 h Cornell University US 80.9 83= 82 i Universidad de los Andes CO 75.2
34= 29= i The Australian National University AU 80.7 85 74= i Universiti Malaya (UM) MY 75.0
34= 23= i The University of Tokyo JP 80.7 86= 92= h Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) ES 74.9
36 46 h Erasmus University Rotterdam NL 80.6 86= 83= i Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) ES 74.9
37 42 h Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) MX 80.5 86= 81 i University of St.Gallen (HSG) CH 74.9
38 39= h Duke University US 80.4 89 66 i University of Zurich CH 74.8
39= 33 i The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology HK 79.9 90 102= h The Ohio State University US 74.7
39= 34 i The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) AU 79.9 91= 69= i City University of Hong Kong HK 74.6
41 43= h HEC Paris School of Management FR 79.5 91= 73 i Universität Mannheim DE 74.6
42 36 i The University of Warwick UK 79.4 91= 98= h University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US 74.6
43 43= n McGill University CA 79.3 94 98= h University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US 74.5
44 47= h University of Texas at Austin US 79.1 95 102= h University of California, San Diego (UCSD) US 74.4
45 37= i The University of Manchester UK 78.9 96= 86= i Carnegie Mellon University US 74.2
46= 43= i Korea University KR 78.7 96= 94= i Georgetown University US 74.2
46= 39= i Monash University AU 78.7 96= 101 h University of Copenhagen DK 74.2
48 59= h HSE University RU 78.5 99= 96= i Freie Universitaet Berlin DE 74.1
49 47= i Fudan University CN 78.4 99= 104= h University of Washington US 74.1
50 41 i The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) HK 78.3 99= 101= h University of Minnesota Twin Cities US 77.4
51 58 h Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN 78.2 100= 94= i University of Otago NZ 75.5
180 181
Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021
Accounting & Finance
1 Harvard University
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 Stanford University
4 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
5 University of Oxford
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 University of Cambridge
8 University of California, Berkeley
9 University of Chicago
10 New York University
11 London Business School
12 Columbia University
13 National University of Singapore
14 Bocconi University
15 Yale University
16 University of California, Los Angeles
17 The University of Manchester
18 The University of Melbourne
19 The University of New South Wales
20 HEC Paris School of Management
21 The University of Sydney
22 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
23 Tsinghua University
24 Peking University
25 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
26 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
27 University of Toronto
28 The University of Hong Kong
29= Northwestern University
29= Princeton University
31 INSEAD
32 Monash University
33 Imperial College London
34= Cornell University
34= Shanghai Jiao Tong University
36= Tilburg University
36= University of Texas at Austin
38 Erasmus University Rotterdam
39 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
40 The University of Edinburgh
41 Duke University
42 The Australian National University
43 University of British Columbia
44 The University of Warwick
45= Copenhagen Business School
45= ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
45= University of Navarra
48 The University of Queensland
49 The University of Tokyo
50 Seoul National University
182
Anthropology
1 University of Cambridge
2 University of Oxford
3 Harvard University
4 University of California, Berkeley
5 The Australian National University
6 UCL
7 University of Chicago
8 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
9 University of California, Los Angeles
10 University of Toronto
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
12 Columbia University
13 Stanford University
14 National University of Singapore
15 Yale University
16 SOAS University of London
17 New York University
18 The University of Edinburgh
19 The University of Melbourne
20 The University of Tokyo
21 University of Amsterdam
22 The University of Manchester
23 University of British Columbia
24 The University of Sydney
25 Leiden University
26 Duke University
27 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
28 University of Copenhagen
29 Princeton University
30 Freie Universitaet Berlin
31 Kyoto University
32 Durham University
33 University of Oslo
34 McGill University
35= Arizona State University
35= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
37 Universidad de Buenos Aires
38 University of Pennsylvania
39 Aarhus University
40 The University of Arizona
41= Goldsmiths, University of London
41= Massachusetts Institute of Technology
41= The Chinese University of Hong Kong
44= Universidade de São Paulo
44= University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
44= University of Texas at Austin
47 Johns Hopkins University
48 The University of Auckland
49= Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
49= University of Vienna
Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021
Business & Management Studies
1 Harvard University
2 INSEAD
3 London Business School
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5 Stanford University
6 University of Pennsylvania
7 Bocconi University
8 University of Cambridge
9 HEC Paris School of Management
10 University of Oxford
11 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
12 National University of Singapore
13 University of California, Berkeley
14 Northwestern University
15 Copenhagen Business School
16 Erasmus University Rotterdam
17 New York University
18 Yale University
19 Columbia University
20 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
21 Universitat Ramon Llull
22 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
23 University of Chicago
24 The University of Warwick
25 University of Navarra
26 The University of Melbourne
27 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
28 IE University
29 University of California, Los Angeles
30 University of St.Gallen
31 Tsinghua University
32 The University of Manchester
33 ESSEC Business School
34 Imperial College London
35 Peking University
36= Shanghai Jiao Tong University
36= Tecnológico de Monterrey
38= Singapore Management University
38= University of Toronto
40 The University of New South Wales
41 Seoul National University
42 WU (Vienna University of Economics and
Business)
43 The University of Sydney
44 The University of Hong Kong
45= Monash University
45= University of British Columbia
47 Cornell University
48 Korea University
49 Duke University
50 Fudan University
Communication & Media Studies
1 University of Amsterdam
2 University of Southern California
3 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
4 University of Texas at Austin
5 Stanford University
6 Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
7 New York University
8 University of Pennsylvania
9 University of Wisconsin-Madison
10 University of California, Berkeley
11 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
12 Goldsmiths, University of London
13 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14 Michigan State University
15 Northwestern University
16= Queensland University of Technology
16= University of Zurich
18= Columbia University
18= University of California, Los Angeles
20 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
21 National University of Singapore
22 The University of Sydney
23 King’s College London
24 University of Vienna
25= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
25= University of California, Santa Barbara
27 The University of Hong Kong
28= Cardiff University
28= Cornell University
28= The Ohio State University
31 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
32 University of Leeds
33 Yale University
34= Seoul National University
34= University of Copenhagen
34= University of Toronto
37 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
38= Pennsylvania State University
38= University of Missouri, Columbia
40 Aarhus University
41 RMIT University
42 University of Washington
43 The University of Melbourne
44= City University of Hong Kong
44= UCL
46= Freie Universitaet Berlin
46= McGill University
48= Indiana University Bloomington
48= University of British Columbia
50= City, University of London
50= Tampere University
50= University of Westminster
183
Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021
Development Studies
1 University of Sussex
2 University of Oxford
3= Harvard University
3= The London School of Economics and
Political Science
5 SOAS University of London
6 University of Cambridge
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 Stanford University
9 University of East Anglia
10 University of Cape Town
11 The University of Manchester
12 Erasmus University Rotterdam
13 Wageningen University & Research
14 University of California, Los Angeles
15 The Australian National University
16 Columbia University
17= University of Göttingen
17= University of Copenhagen
19 Cornell University
20 University of Chicago
21 The University of Melbourne
22 Princeton University
23 The University of Tokyo
24 University of Amsterdam
25 The University of Hong Kong
26 The University of Edinburgh
27 University of Witwatersrand
28 Leiden University
29 University of British Columbia
30 University of Toronto
31 King’s College London
32 Lund University
33= McGill University
33= Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
33= University of Leeds
36 Duke University
37= The University of Sydney
37= Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
39= Sciences Po
39= University of California, Davis
41 Utrecht University
42 University of Massachusetts Amherst
43 Michigan State University
44 The University of Sheffield
45 Makerere University
46 Universidad de los Andes
47 University of Oslo
48 Uppsala University
49 Ghent University
50= Arizona State University
50= University of Delhi
184
Economics & Econometrics
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Harvard University
3 Stanford University
4 Princeton University
5 University of California, Berkeley
6 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
7 University of Chicago
8 Yale University
9 University of Oxford
10 University of Cambridge
11 Columbia University
12 New York University
13 University of Pennsylvania
14 Northwestern University
15 University of California, Los Angeles
16 UCL
17 National University of Singapore
18 Bocconi University
19 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
20 University of California, San Diego
21 Duke University
22 University of Toronto
23 University of British Columbia
24 Peking University
25= The University of Warwick
25= Tsinghua University
27 The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
28= Boston University
28= Tilburg University
30= The University of Melbourne
30= The University of Tokyo
30= University of Zurich
33= The Australian National University
33= London Business School
35= Cornell University
35= ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
35= Monash University
38= California Institute of Technology
38= The University of Sydney
40= Paris School of Economics
40= Universität Mannheim
42 The University of New South Wales
43 Erasmus University Rotterdam
44 Brown University
45= Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
45= Seoul National University
47 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
48 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
49 The University of Hong Kong
50= Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
50= University of California, Davis
Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021
Education
1 UCL
2 Harvard University
3 University of Toronto
4 University of Oxford
5 Stanford University
6 University of Cambridge
7 The University of Hong Kong
8 University of California, Berkeley
9 Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
10 University of British Columbia
11 Columbia University
12 University of California, Los Angeles
13 University of Wisconsin-Madison
14 The University of Melbourne
15 Monash University
16 The Education University of Hong Kong
17 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
18 Johns Hopkins University
19 Michigan State University
20 University of Pennsylvania
21 Vanderbilt University
22= The University of Edinburgh
22= University of Helsinki
24 Beijing Normal University
25 The University of Sydney
26 McGill University
27 King’s College London
28 National Taiwan Normal University
29 The University of Auckland
30 The University of Queensland
31= Deakin University
31= Pennsylvania State University
31= The University of Manchester
34 University of Bristol
35 Utrecht University
36 University of Washington
37 University of Amsterdam
38= KU Leuven
38= Seoul National University
38= University of Glasgow
41= Maastricht University
41= New York University
41= University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
44= University of Chicago
44= University of Texas at Austin
44= University of Twente
47= Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
47= The Chinese University of Hong Kong
49 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
50 University of Nottingham
186
Hospitality & Leisure Management
1 EHL - Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne
2 University of Nevada - Las Vegas
3 Glion Institute of Higher Education
4 Les Roches Global Hospitality Ed.
4 Swiss Hotel Management School
5 Hotel School The Hague
6 Hotel Institute Montreux
7 César Ritz Colleges Switzerland
8 Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland
9 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
10 IHTTI School of Hotel Management
11 University of Surrey
12 Cornell University
13 HTMi Switzerland
14 Oxford Brookes University
15 International Management Institute
Switzerland
16 Bournemouth University
17 Taylor’s University
19 Vatel, Hotel and Tourism Bus. School
20 Pennsylvania State University
21 Griffith University
22 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
23 Breda University of Applied Sciences
24 Uni. College of Hospitality Management
and Culinary Arts of Sant Pol de Mar
25 University of Florida
26 Blue Mountains International Hotel Man-
agement School
27= Nanyang Technological University
27= University of Central Florida
29 Michigan State University
30 Macao Institute for Tourism Studies
31= The University of Queensland
31= University of Houston
33 Texas A&M University
34 Florida State University
35= Florida International University
35= Purdue University
37= Universidade de São Paulo
37= University of Massachusetts Amherst
39 University of South Florida
40= Ecole Hôtelière de Genève
40= Sejong University
42 Kyung Hee University
43 SAIT Polytechnic - School of Hospitality
and Tourism
44= EHL Swiss School of Tourism and Hosp.
44= University of Calgary
46 Washington State University
47 Zhejiang University
48 Sun Yat-sen University
49 Universitat Ramon Llull
50= Clemson University
50= NKUHT
Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021
Law
1 Harvard University
2 University of Oxford
3 University of Cambridge
4 Yale University
5 Stanford University
6 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
7 Columbia University
8 New York University
9 University of California, Berkeley
10 National University of Singapore
11= The University of Melbourne
11= University of Chicago
13 The University of New South Wales
14 The University of Sydney
15 UCL
16 King’s College London
17= The Australian National University
17= University of Toronto
19 Georgetown University
20 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
21= The University of Tokyo
21= The University of Hong Kong
23 The University of Edinburgh
24 Leiden University
25 McGill University
26 University of California, Los Angeles
27 Tsinghua University
28 Peking University
29 Queen Mary University of London
30 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
31 University of Pennsylvania
32 Duke University
33 Seoul National University
34 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
35= KU Leuven
35= University of Amsterdam
37 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
38 Cornell University
39 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
40 Monash University
41 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München
42 University of British Columbia
43 The University of Queensland
44 Universidad de Buenos Aires
45 Universidad de los Andes
46= Universidade de São Paulo
46= University of Virginia
48 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
49 Northwestern University
50 Durham University
Library & Information Management
1 The University of Sheffield
2 University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
3 University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-
paign
4 University of Toronto
5 University of Washington
6 Indiana University Bloomington
7 University of British Columbia
8= Syracuse University
8= University of California, Berkeley
10 McGill University
11 Rutgers University–New Brunswick
12 University of Maryland, College Park
13 University of Pittsburgh
14 Loughborough University
15= University of Texas at Austin
15= Western University
17 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
18 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
19 UCL
20 Wuhan University
21= City, University of London
21= Tampere University
23 Université de Montréal
24 University College of Boras
25 Victoria University of Wellington
26 The University of Arizona
27 University of Technology Sydney
28 University of Amsterdam
29 Sungkyunkwan University
30 University of Southern California
31 University of Strathclyde
32 Universiti Malaya
33 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
34 Peking University
35= Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
35= University at Buffalo SUNY
37= Universitat de Barcelona
37= University of California, Los Angeles
39 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
40= Monash University
40= RMIT University
40= University of Tsukuba
43= Drexel University
43= Erasmus University Rotterdam
45= Cornell University
45= University College Dublin
47= McMaster University
47= University of Wisconsin-Madison
49 University of Porto
50= Nanjing University
50= University of California, San Francisco
187
Subject Rankings: Social Sciences & Management 2021
Politics & International Studies
1 Harvard University
2 Sciences Po
3 University of Oxford
4 Princeton University
5 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
6 University of Cambridge
7 Stanford University
8 Yale University
9 The Australian National University
10= National University of Singapore
10= University of California, Berkeley
12 Georgetown University
13 Columbia University
14= Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14= New York University
16 University of California, San Diego
17= King’s College London
17= University of California, Los Angeles
19 University of Chicago
20 Freie Universitaet Berlin
21 SOAS University of London
22 Leiden University
23 George Washington University
24 Cornell University
25 Central European University
26 University of Amsterdam
27 University of Toronto
28 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
29= The University of Tokyo
29= The University of Hong Kong
31 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
gapore
32 Johns Hopkins University
33= Tsinghua University
33= University of Copenhagen
35 Fudan University
36 McGill University
37 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
38 Peking University
39 Duke University
40
41
European University Institute
MGIMO University
42 UCL
43 University of British Columbia
44 The University of Sydney
45 HSE University
46=
46=
Seoul National University
The University of Melbourne
48= Luiss University
48=
50
Essex, University of
Universidade de São Paulo
188
Social Policy & Administration
1 Harvard University
2 University of Oxford
3 The London School of Economics and
Political Science
4 National University of Singapore
5 University of Cambridge
6 Stanford University
7 University of California, Berkeley
8 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9 Johns Hopkins University
10 Columbia University
11 Seoul National University
12= The Australian National University
12= The University of Tokyo
14 The University of Melbourne
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32 University of British Columbia
33 Seoul National University
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39= King’s College London
41 McGill University
42 Utrecht University
43 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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28 The University of Western Australia
29 University of Technology Sydney
30 Edith Cowan University
31 Western University
32 Nanyang Technological University, Sin-
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33 Victoria University
34 University College Dublin
35 The University of Manchester
36 The University of Hong Kong
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39 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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14 Princeton University
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16 Tsinghua University
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19 University of Pennsylvania
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22 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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26 The London School of Economics and
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27 The University of Tokyo
28 UCL
29 Eindhoven University of Technology
30 Université de Montréal
31= Erasmus University Rotterdam
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33 University of Southampton
34 Duke University
35 Northwestern University
36 The University of Melbourne
37 University of British Columbia
38 Delft University of Technology
39 Seoul National University
40 Technical University of Munich
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42 Yale University
43 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
44 Johns Hopkins University
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Faraway Home
By Anton John Crace

As the world is currently discovering while it sits in

some form of lockdown, the online realm provides
the ability to travel almost anywhere virtually.

A high appetite for online education, which, according

to the ongoing QS International Student Survey (ISS),
continues to increase year-on-year, means there
is potential for universities to reach more students
unable to travel overseas.

“That recording MBA programs are a distinct example of how the

is not to watch online world could reach those with low capacity
if you missed a to travel. Typically attracting those aged in their
meeting. It’s for late 20s and onwards, with full-time work in middle
revision only to senior management positions, student profiles
within MBA courses present unique challenges for
in-person overseas experiences.

Many, for example, are unable to take time off from

work, while others have young families which can be
difficult to relocate.

While online could solve those problems, however,

the 2020 QS Online MBA Rankings, released in April,
reveal diverse international student ratios, ranging
from entirely international to entirely domestic.
According to educators, the reasons behind the
variances are just as diverse.

Creating Diversity

“The online MBA for us and, as I understand, for all

universities, is basically to reach that student body
anywhere in the world,” observes Izabela Karanfiloska,
Head of Master Programs at the SBS Swiss Business
School (SBS).

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“That’s why we do tend to allocate more funds for marketing to international
students.”
Marketing alone, however, is unlikely the driving factor behind why Karanfiloska’s
institution attracts a predominantly international cohort into its program.
“The main reason why we have such a high international body I think it is that
the students that can come to onsite classes, they tend to choose that option,”
she says.
Associate Dean Open Programs, Antonella Moretto, meanwhile, says Politecnico
di Milano (MIP) School of Management is meticulous in its curation of diversity
within its MBA programs.
Ranked fifth and 137th in the MBA and 2021 World University Rankings (WUR),
respectively, Italian-based MIP has achieved a more or less even split between
domestic and international students in its online MBA program.
“We really believe that for an MBA program, one of the values is the diversity
that you have in the class in order to brainstorm, to bring different backgrounds,
to bring different points of view,” she says.
Moretto tells QS diversity does not start and end with nationality, and her
university actively enrolls those from diverse work and sector backgrounds, but
adds having international students creates a different dimension to the learning
experience.
“We really believe that the capability to work in a diverse team or to collaborate
with different cultures, with people in different time zones, is an additional soft
skill that is fundamental in the current management approach,” she says.
“In the business world, that is something that you can learn much more if you try
this, if you live this rather than if you just listen to a class explaining to you the
value and the importance of the elements.”
Consequently, Moretto says, MIP’s marketing department pays close attention
not just to the proportion of international students overall, but the mix of
nationalities.
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“If the recruitment is done well and we investigate
that very carefully… [students] really see a value in
that.”
Marketing and cohort curation, however, are not
the only factors that influence the make up of
international students in an online MBA program.
The top 15 largest proportions of international
students among the almost 50 universities within
the 2020 Online MBA Rankings are all within Europe,
enjoying close proximity to international students in
a comparable time zone. “Students that
can come to
Geography, coupled with mode of delivery appears
onsite classes,
to be one of the biggest determining factors for
they tend to
international students, observes Ian Lafferty,
choose that
Director of Executive Programmes at the University
option.”
of Otago, located in Dunedin on the South Island of
New Zealand.
Otago delivers a synchronous program, requiring
students to actively participate in class.
“That recording is not to watch if you missed a
meeting. It’s for revision only,” Lafferty tells QS.
“The idea is that you will show up for the meeting.
Attendance is 92, 93 percent, even though a
recording is there.”
Delivering a synchronous program, observes Lafferty,
also means ensuring a work-life balance in addition
to studies is an important consideration.
This was excerpted from an article that first appeared
in the 2021 World University Rankings Higher
Education Report.
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2021 2020 Institution Name Overall 2021 2020 Institution Name Overall
1 1= n Stanford Graduate School of Business US 94.5 52= 76 h University of Edinburgh Business School UK 64.2
2 1= i Penn (Wharton) US 92.6 52= 59 h Vlerick Business School BE 64.2
3 3= n MIT (Sloan) US 92.5 54 44 i INn Institute of Management Bangalore IN 64.1
4 5 h Harvard Business School US 92.1 55 60 h Georgia Tech (Scheller) US 63.8
5 7 h HEC Paris FR 92.0 56 49= i Georgetown (McDonough) US 63.3
6 3= i INSEAD FR 91.1 57 47 i St. Gallen CH 63.2
7 6 i London Business School UK 91.0 58 66 h WHU (Otto Beisheim) DE 62.9
8 11 h Columbia Business School US 90.6 59 71= h McGill (Desautels) CA 62.4
9 14 h IE Business School ES 89.8 60 51= i Emory (Goizueta) US 62.3
10 9 i UC Berkeley (Haas) US 89.5 61 73 h Shanghai Jiao Tong (Antai) CN 61.8
11= 8 i Chicago (Booth) US 89.0 62= 97 h EMLyon Business School FR 61.6
11= 12 h IESE Business School ES 89.0 62= 57 i North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) US 61.6
13 17 h Esade Business School ES 88.0 64 58 i Florida (Warrington) US 61.4
14 10 i Northwestern (Kellogg) US 87.9 65 51= i Michigan State (Eli Broad) US 61.2
15 13 i UCLA (Anderson) US 87.8 66 78 h Queen's (Smith) CA 60.5
16 16 n Oxford (Said) UK 87.4 67 65 i Minnesota (Carlson) US 60.2
17= 15 i Cambridge (Judge) UK 86.0 68 67= i CUHK Business School HK 60.0
17= 18 h Yale School of Management US 86.0 69 75 h Western (Ivey) CA 59.5
19 22 h NYU (Stern) US 84.8 70 71= h Washington (Olin) US 59.4
20 19= i Michigan (Ross) US 84.4 71 61 i Washington (Foster) US 59.3
21 19= i Duke (Fuqua) US 84.1 72 67= i Texas A&M (Mays) US 59.2
22 19= i Imperial College Business School UK 83.7 73 89 h Monash Business School AU 59.1
23 23 n SDA Bocconi IT 81.6 74 94 h Rochester (Simon) US 58.9
24 26= h Copenhagen Business School DK 81.4 75= 90 h The Business School (formerly Cass) UK 58.6
25 24 i IMD CH 79.6 75= 62 i Vanderbilt (Owen) US 58.6
26 26= n Melbourne Business School AU 78.8 77 101-110 h Trinity College Dublin IE 58.4
27 30 h ESSEC Business School FR 77.3 78 101-110 h TIAS Business School NL 58.2
28 32 h National University of SG (NUS) SG 75.1 79= 151-200 h AUB (Suliman S. Olayan) LB 57.9
29 29 n Erasmus (RSM) NL 74.6 79= 51= i Cranfield School of Management UK 57.9
30= 43 h Nanyang NTU SG SG 72.5 79= 101-110 h IIM Calcutta IN 57.9
30= 28 i USC (Marshall) US 72.5 79= 67= i Rice (Jones) US 57.9
32 35 h Cornell (Johnson) US 72.3 83 80 i ESMT Berlin DE 57.8
33 31 i Boston (Questrom) US 71.9 84= 74 i Durham University Business School UK 57.6
34 34 n Warwick Business School UK 71.8 84= 91 h Grenoble Ecole de Management FR 57.6
35 25 i CEIBS CN 71.7 84= 84= n INCAE Business School CR 57.6
36 37 h Texas (McCombs) US 71.0 84= 131-140 h The American University in Cairo EG 57.6
37 39 h Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) US 69.5 88= 63 i Babson College (Olin) US 57.4
38 33 i INna (Kelley) US 69.2 88= 83 i York (Schulich) CA 57.4
39 38 i Mannheim Business School DE 69.0 90 70 i Penn State (Smeal) US 57.2
40 46 h EDHEC Business School FR 68.7 91 64 i Ohio State (Fisher) US 57.0
41 42 h UNSW (AGSM) AU 68.5 92 79 i UT Dallas (Naveen) US 56.6
42 41 i Frankfurt School of Finance & Management DE 67.9 93 98= h INn School of Business IN 56.5
43= 49= h HKUST HK 67.8 94 111-120 h UBC (Sauder) CA 56.3
43= 36 i University of Hong Kong HK 67.8 95 121-130 h MGSM Macquarie AU 56.2
45 54 h Toronto (Rotman) CA 67.3 96= 81 i Boston College (Caroll) US 56.1
46 55 h EGADE Business School MX 67.2 96= 111-120 h George Washington US 56.1
47 new ESCP Business School FR 67.0 98 82 i Pittsburgh (Katz) US 56.0
48 48 n Manchester (Alliance) UK 66.9 99 111-120 h UQ Business School AU 55.8
49 45 i Dartmouth (Tuck) US 65.7 100 77 i Wisconsin School of Business US 55.5
50 40 i IIM Ahmedabad IN 65.6 101-110 101-110 n Alberta School of Business CA -
51 56 h Virginia (Darden) US 64.7 101-110 new Asian Institute of Technology TH -
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101-110 131-140 h Cape Town GSB ZA - 151-200 151-200 n Brigham Young (Marriott) US -
101-110 141-150 h IESEG School of Management FR - 151-200 141-150 i Brunel Business School UK -
101-110 100 i Lehigh University US - 151-200 121-130 i Case Western (Weatherhead) US -
101-110 95 i North Carolina State (Jenkins) US - 151-200 121-130 i City University of Hong Kong HK -
101-110 86 i Notre Dame (Mendoza) US - 151-200 151-200 n Connecticut (UCONN) US -
101-110 101-110 n Politecnico di Milano IT - 151-200 201+ h Dalhousie (Rowe) CA -
101-110 88 i Purdue (Krannert) US - 151-200 151-200 n Denver (Daniels) US -
101-110 131-140 h University of Western AU Business School AU - 151-200 111-120 i ESAN Graduate School of Business PR -
111-120 84= i Arizona State (Carey) US - 151-200 151-200 n ESIC Business & Marketing School ES -
111-120 131-140 h Athens University of Economics and Business GR - 151-200 201+ h Exeter Business School UK -
111-120 87 i Colorado State US - 151-200 111-120 i Florida International University US -
111-120 101-110 i Georgia (Terry) US - 151-200 151-200 n Glasgow (Adam Smith) UK -
111-120 111-120 n IPADE Business School MX - 151-200 new Graduate School of Business AlmaU KZ -
111-120 121-130 h Lancaster University Management School UK - 151-200 141-150 i Houston (Bauer) US -
111-120 111-120 n SMU (Cox) US - 151-200 141-150 i IAE Business School AR -
111-120 93 i The Lisbon MBA PT - 151-200 new INn Institute of Management Lucknow IN -
111-120 92 i UCD (Smurfit) IE - 151-200 new International University of MC MC -
111-120 new Zhejiang University CN - 151-200 151-200 n Kent Business School UK -
121-130 96 i American (Kogod) US - 151-200 new Kentucky (Gatton) US -
121-130 151-200 h Aston Business School UK - 151-200 151-200 n La Trobe Business School AU -
121-130 121-130 n Auburn (Harbert) US - 151-200 131-140 i Liverpool Management School UK -
121-130 151-200 h AUn National University AU - 151-200 151-200 n Loughborough School of Business and Economics UK -
121-130 111-120 i Concordia (John Molson) CA - 151-200 151-200 n LUISS University IT -
121-130 151-200 h Leeds University Business School UK - 151-200 201+ h McMaster (DeGroote) CA -
121-130 121-130 n Maryland (Smith) US - 151-200 151-200 n Newcastle University Business School UK -
121-130 101-110 i Rutgers Business School US - 151-200 151-200 n Oregon (Lundquist) US -
121-130 new Thammasat Business School TH - 151-200 151-200 n Otago Business School NZ -
121-130 151-200 h Toulouse Business School FR - 151-200 121-130 i Pepperdine (Graziadio) US -
131-140 111-120 i Birmingham Business School UK - 151-200 151-200 n Riverside (UCR) US -
131-140 151-200 h Colorado (Leeds) US - 151-200 151-200 n RMIT University School of Business and Law AU -
131-140 141-150 h EU Business School ES - 151-200 151-200 n S. P. Jain IMR IN -
131-140 101-110 i Fordham (Gabelli) US - 151-200 new Sasin School of Management TH -
131-140 151-200 h Howard University US - 151-200 new Shanghai University CN -
131-140 101-110 i Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) US - 151-200 151-200 n Sheffield University Management School UK -
131-140 151-200 h Nottingham University Business School UK - 151-200 141-150 i South Carolina (Moore) US -
131-140 98= i UC Davis US - 151-200 131-140 i Sungkyunkwan University GSB KR -
131-140 111-120 i UC Irvine (Merage) US - 151-200 151-200 n Texas Christian (Neely) US -
131-140 131-140 n Universidad de Palermo AR - 151-200 new The University of Sussex Business School UK -
131-140 101-110 i University of Strathclyde Business School UK - 151-200 151-200 n UC San Diego (Rady) US -
141-150 121-130 i Baylor (Hankamer) US - 151-200 new Unisa Business School, University Of South AU, AU AU -
141-150 141-150 n EADA Business School ES - 151-200 151-200 n Waseda Business School JP -
141-150 131-140 i HEC Montreal CA - 151-200 151-200 n Willamette (Atkinson) US -
141-150 111-120 i HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management DE - 151-200 151-200 n William & Mary (Mason) US -
141-150 121-130 i Miami (Herbert) US - 151-200 new Wits Business School ZA -
141-150 151-200 h Missouri (Trulaske) US - 151-200 151-200 n Wollongong (Sydney) AU -
141-150 151-200 h NUCB Business School JP - 151-200 151-200 n Yonsei School of Business KR -
141-150 131-140 i San Francisco (Masagung) US - 201+ 201+ n Alabama (Manderson) US -
141-150 new Uts Business School, University Of Technology Sydney, AU AU - 201+ 201+ n ALBA Graduate Business School GR -
151-200 141-150 i Arizona (Eller) US - 201+ 201+ n American University in Dubai AE -
151-200 151-200 n Audencia Business School FR - 201+ 201+ n Arkansas (Walton) US -
151-200 141-150 i Bath School of Management UK - 201+ new Bentley (McCallum) US -
151-200 151-200 n Brandeis International Business School US - 201+ new Brock (Goodman) CA -
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201+ 201+ n California State Long Beach US -
201+ 151-200 i CENTRUM Catolica Business School PR -
201+ 201+ n Chapman (Argyros) US -
201+ 151-200 i Cincinnati (Lindner) US -
201+ new Claremont (Drucker) US -
201+ 201+ n Clark University US -
201+ 201+ n Doshisha University JP -
201+ 151-200 i Drexel (LeBow) US -
151-200 131-140 i EAE Business School ES -
201+ new GBSB Global Business School ES -
201+ new Haskayne School of Business CA -
201+ 201+ n Hofstra (Zarb) US -
201+ 201+ n International University of JP JP -
201+ new Iowa State University (Ivy) US -
201+ new ISC Paris FR -
201+ new Kazan Federal University RU -
201+ 201+ n Kent State University US -
201+ 201+ n Manitoba (Asper) CA -
201+ new MGIMO School of Business and International Proficiency RU -
201+ 201+ n North Carolina, Greensboro (Bryan) US -
201+ 201+ n Oregon State US -
201+ new Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business MY -
201+ 151-200 i Porto Business School PT -
201+ 201+ n RIT (Saunders) US -
201+ 201+ n Ritsumeikan APU JP -
201+ 201+ n Sabanci University TR -
201+ 151-200 i Saint Mary's (Sobey) CA -
201+ 201+ n Saskatchewan (Edwards) CA -
201+ 201+ n Simon Fraser (Beedie) CA -
201+ 201+ n South Dakota (Beacom) US -
201+ 201+ n Stevens Institute of Technology US -
201+ 201+ n Suffolk (Sawyer) US -
201+ 201+ n Suleman Dawood School of Business PK -
201+ 201+ n Sun Yat-sen University CN -
201+ 151-200 i Syracuse (Whitman) US -
201+ 201+ n Telfer School of Management CA -
201+ 151-200 i Texas Tech (Rawls) US -
201+ 201+ n UMass Amherst (Isenberg) US -
201+ 151-200 i Universidad EAFIT CO -
201+ new Universidad Icesi CO -
201+ new Universitas Gadjah Mada ID -
201+ 201+ n University at Albany US -
201+ new University at Buffalo US -
201+ 151-200 i University of San Diego US -
201+ 201+ n University of South Florida US -
201+ new University of Tennessee - Knoxville US -
201+ 201+ n Utah (Eccles) US -
201+ 201+ n Victoria (Gustavson) CA -
201+ 201+ n Victoria University AU -
201+ 201+ n Wilfrid Laurier (Lazaridis) CA -
201+ 201+ n Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Foisie) US -
201+ 151-200 i Zagreb School of Economics and Management HR -
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Masters in Business Analytics Masters in Finance

1 MIT (Sloan) 51+ Aston Business School 1 Oxford (Said) 54 Illinois (Gies)
2 UCLA (Anderson) 51+ Athens University of Economics and 2= London Business School 55= Grenoble Ecole de Management
3 ESSEC Business School Business 2= MIT (Sloan) 55= Ohio State (Fisher)
4 ESCP Business School 51+ Bentley (McCallum) 4 HEC Paris 57 Audencia Business School
5 Imperial College Business School 51+ Brandeis International Business School 5 Cambridge (Judge) 58 Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance
6 Texas (McCombs) 51+ Brunel Business School 6 UC Berkeley (Haas) at SJTU
7 USC (Marshall) 51+ Cal Poly (Orfalea) 7= ESSEC Business School 59 Frankfurt School of Finance & Manag-
8 ESADE Business School 51+ Clark University 7= UCLA (Anderson) ment
9 Manchester (Alliance) 51+ Connecticut (UCONN) 9 London School of Economics 60 Minnesota (Carlson)
10 McGill (Desautels) 51+ EAE Business School 10 Bocconi University 61 Arizona (Eller)
11 Washington (Foster) 51+ ESIC Business and Marketing School 11 ESADE Business School 62 AUB (Suliman S. Olayan)
12 Warwick Business School 51+ Florida International University 12 Imperial College Business School 63 Wisconsin School of Business
13 Purdue (Krannert) 51+ Fordham (Gabelli) 13 IE Business School 64 Vanderbilt (Owen)
14 University of Edinburgh Business School 51+ Georgia State (Robinson) 14 Copenhagen Business School 65= George Washington
15 Melbourne Business School 51+ HEC Montreal 15 ESCP Business School 65= The Business School (formerly Cass)
16 NUS Business School 51+ Higher School of Economics 16 EMLyon Business School 67 Miami Herbert Business School
17 Toronto (Rotman) 51+ IESEG School of Management 17 McGill (Desautels) 68 Politecnico di Milano
18 Wisconsin School of Business 51+ IIM Calcutta 18 WU Vienna University 69 Purdue (Krannert)
19 Minnesota (Carlson) 51+ Kent Business School 19 University of St Gallen 70 NEOMA Business School
20 Michigan State (Eli Broad) 51+ Kent State University 20 Toronto (Rotman) 71= Babson (Olin)
21 UC San Diego (Rady) 51+ La Trobe Business School 21 Warwick Business School 71= Boston College (Caroll)
22 SMU - School of Information Systems 51+ Leeds University Business School 22 EDHEC Business School 71= University of Technology Sydney Busi-
23 UCD (Smurfit) 51+ Liverpool Management School 23 WHU (Otto Beisheim) ness School
24 BI Norwegian Business School 51+ Loughborough University 24 Manchester (Alliance) 74 CENTRUM Catolica Business School
25 Maryland (Smith) 51+ Luiss Business School 25 Erasmus (RSM) 75 HEC Montréal
26 EMLyon Business School 51+ Manchester Metropolitan University 26 University of Edinburgh Business School 76 Durham University Business School
27 Arizona State (Carey) Business School 27 SKEMA Business School 77= Birmingham Business School
28 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 51+ NUI Galway 28 Texas (McCombs) 77= KEDGE Business School
29 EDHEC Business School 51+ Oklahoma (Price) 29 USC (Marshall) 79 Bath School of Management
30 Emory (Goizueta) 51+ Rennes School of Business 30 Florida (Warrington) 80 SMU (Cox)
31 George Washington 51+ RIT (Saunders) 31 Antwerp Management School 81= Case Western (Weatherhead)
32 California (Davis) 51+ Sabanci University 32= HKUST 81= Sheffield University Management School
33 UBC (Sauder) 51+ Southampton Business School 32= MGSM Macquarie 83 EADA Business School
34 SKEMA Business School 51+ Stevens Institute of Technology 32= Trinity College Dublin 84 Nottingham University Business School
35 Colorado Boulder (Leeds) 51+ Strathclyde Business School 35 Solvay (Brussels) 85 Loyola University of Chicago (Quinlan)
36 UIC (Liautaud) 51+ Suffolk University 36 Boston (Questrom) 86 IESEG School of Management
37 Cincinnati (Lindner) 51+ Syracuse (Whitman) 37 UCD (Smurfit) 87 Loughborough
38 Case Western (Weatherhead) 51+ Tilburg University 38 Vlerick Business School 88 Arizona State (Carey)
39= Arizona (Eller) 51+ Toulouse Business School 39 Georgetown (McDonough) 89= Florida International
39= Nottingham University Business School 51+ UMass Boston 40 Cranfield School of Management 89= Higher School of Economics
41= American (Kogod) 51+ University of Bath, School of Manage- 41 Maryland (Smith) 91 UT Dallas (Naveen)
41= SMU (Cox) ment 42 CUHK Business School 92 Rensselaer Polytechnic (Lally)
43= Olayan School of Business 51+ University of Porto 43 EGADE Business School 93= American (Kogod)
43= University of Miami 51+ University of South Florida 44 BI Norwegian Business School 93= The University of Sussex Business
45 Politecnico di Milano 51+ University of Texas at Arlington 45 Georgia Tech (Scheller) School
46 Washington (Olin) 51+ Utah (Eccles) 46 UQ Business School 95= Católica Lisbon School of Business and
47 Lancaster University Management 51+ Wake Forest 47= Koç University Graduate School of Busi- Economics
School 51+ William & Mary (Mason) ness 95= Glasgow (Adam Smith)
48 Rochester (Simon) 51+ Worcester Polytechnic Institute 47= Nova School of Business 97 DCU Business School
49 UT Dallas (Naveen) 51+ Zarb School of Business 49 Lancaster University Management 98 Strathclyde Business School
50 Rensselaer Polytechnic (Lally) School 99= Athens University of Economics and
50 Colorado Boulder (Leeds) Business
51 Texas A&M (Mays) 99= Exeter Business School
52 Washington (Olin) 99= Fordham (Gabelli)
53 Lund University

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Masters in Management
1 HEC Paris
2 London Business School
3 ESSEC Business School
4 Esade Business School
5 Copenhagen Business School
6 IE Business School
7 ESCP Business School
8 Imperial College Business School
9 Bocconi University
10= EMlyon business school
10= WU Vienna
12 ESADE/UVA McIntire/Lingnan
13 London School of Economics
14 EDHEC Business School
15 Michigan (Ross)
16 CEMS
17 WHU (Otto Beisheim)
18 University of St.Gallen
19 Warwick Business School
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Entrepreneurship during COVID-19

By Niamh Ollerton

Jobs, careers, and employment have changed beyond

recognition during the madness of 2020. Social
distancing and lockdowns across the globe gave time
to think, to plan, and for many entrepreneurs – a time
to kickstart the next chapter of their careers.

Surprisingly, a number of new business ventures

and innovative start-ups were launched during
the coronavirus pandemic, making 2020 a year for
growth in some ways. Likewise, many providers have
begun creating their own programs to encourage
“Entrepreneurship innovation.
tends to be a
team-based Business schools making their mark
sport.”
In reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford
Graduate School of Business launched Stanford
Rebuild – a collaboration across Stanford University
to Engage Innovators, Encourage Action, and Offer
Our Expertise by means of approaching and tackling
the global pandemic head on

“We could not be more inspired by the individuals

and teams who have joined this program, sought the
opportunity to make an impact, and committed what
time they could spare to tackle a COVID challenge in
their own community or the broader world,” says the
Stanford team.

Over eight weeks, participants attended virtual

events, actively participating in live office hours while
working on the Stanford Embark platform.

More than 5,300 teams from across the globe

entered the Stanford Rebuild program with 11 making
it to the final showcase in September.

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Stanford Rebuild was capped off with a full day of inspiring and engaging events
to recap the spirit, highlighting the final selection of Rebuild projects, and gave
participants actionable steps to continue with their Rebuild project or another
entrepreneurial endeavor if they were so inclined
The 11 teams who made the showcase were:
• Nightingale (US) — A marketplace and telemedicine app that aims to
connect nurses to caregivers to close the home healthcare gap.
• HireHuman (US) — A hiring platform helping recruiters hire smarter &
faster by replacing the traditional resume & cover letter with a short video
application.
• Distance Voting (US) — curbside voting for all citizens to ensure safety
during COVID-19 and to increase voter turnout and civic engagement.
• Hive Health (US) — The first value-based healthcare insurer in the Philippines
that improves & simplifies care through a patient- centric, transparent
digital platform.
• Celsius (US) — Celsius gives businesses the insights they need to bring their
employees and customers back much faster.
• Maria (Brazil) — A Web platform that uses technology to help people to
renegotiate their debts, with much better deals.
• empowerfull (Albania) — Empowerfull is an economic empowerment model
for survivors of human trafficking.
• CJBS SG - Footprint (Singapore) — An online platform that promotes
flexible leasing arrangements for landlords, developers, and agents to
list retail properties as and when they are available, for businesses to find
suitable properties according to their specific needs, and at the same time
also providing a co-sharing option for retail spaces.
• Escape Homework (US) — We create AR empowered educational escape
rooms for students and teachers to collaborate creatively while building
meaningful relationships.
• Compass (US) — An end-to-end SMS triaging platform designed to
increase accessibility to equitable COVID-19 testing.
• Deva (US) — A web and mobile app that helps you manage your time, tasks,
and mental wellbeing through an integrated platform.
Stefanos Zenios, faculty director for Rebuild and
also co-director of Stanford GSB’s Center for
Entrepreneurial Studies, says while many may
consider the program as a business plan competition,
he sees it more as creating a virtual infrastructure to
help entrepreneurs from across the globe.
“I think business plan competitions are valuable
in their own right They don’t tend to include an
educational component,” he says.
“Our intention wasn’t to select winners, but rather to
develop entrepreneurs.”
“We could
While it’s a different world today following not only not be more
the coronavirus pandemic, but the gradual boom of inspired by the
tech and its capabilities over the past few years, it’s individuals and
also an exciting time for entrepreneurs to use their teams who
skillset to create something new. have joined this
“Entrepreneurship tends to be a team-based sport,” program”
Zenios says.
“In many ways, this period is made for entrepreneurs
to make a difference.”
For budding entrepreneurs, Zenios advises they keep
learning and keep growing.
“I think entrepreneurs should embrace that with all its
ups and downs. Keep up the fight.”
The full article on which this excerpt is based first
appeared in the 2021 Global MBA and Business
Masters Rankings Higher Education Report.

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Chang Jung Christian
University
Committed to the goal of being “Locally
Engaged, Globally Connected, A Leading
University with Social Responsibility,”
CJCU actively pursues advanced
innovation and continuous improvement
for high-quality education.
Student Success
• Graduate employment rate reaches
96% in 2020
• Comprehensively career service
support-38 career advisors,
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development activities and
workshops equipped students
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opportunities in job market
Academic Excellence
• Ranked 401-450 in the QS Asia
University Rankings
• NT$130 million grants subsided
by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education
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Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Eco-
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Energy and Environmental
Resources, Applied Unmanned Aerial
Vehicle Technology, Sustainable
Development
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Locally Engaged, Globally Connected,
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Responsibility
QS Stars
Argentina
Diversified and Inclusive Campus Universidad Nacional del Litoral
• Nearly 400 international students
University of Palermo Business School
from 21 countries
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Australian Catholic University (ACU)
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Bond University
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RMIT University
Edutainment-developing Vtuber and
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application
University of Southern Queensland (USQ)
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
University of Wollongong
UTS Business School
Western Sydney University
Employability
Facilities
Inclusiveness
Overall
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School of Management, University of Science and
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Technology of China
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City University of Hong Kong Universitas Nasional

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Jordan continued UNITAR International University

Princess Sumaya University for Technology Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Kazakhstan Universiti Malaya (UM)

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Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)

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Latvia Mexico

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INTI International University (INTI)

Malaysia University of Science and Technology
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New Zealand

Sunway University Auckland University of Technology (AUT)

Taylor's University Massey University

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Jeonju
South Korea

New Zealand continued

Platform for
University of Canterbury

University of Otago

Victoria University of Wellington

Empathy and Innovation
Renewable
Energy
Northern Cyprus/Turkey

European University of Lefke (EUL)

Carbon
Nano-Materials Semi-
Conductor
Artificial
Intelligence
Eco-friendly
Oman Vehicles
Smart
Dhofar University Farms
Hydrogen
Energy

Big Data

Peru

Universidad Científica del Sur (UCSUR)

Universidad de Lima

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)

Universidad Privada del Norte (UPN)

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Kazan National Research Technical University

Philippines
(KNRTU-KAI)
Batangas State University National Research University, Moscow Power Engi-
neering Institute (MPEI)
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(PRUE)
Cagayan State University RUDN University

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Central Luzon State University St Petersburg State University of Architecture and

Civil Engineering (SPbGASU)
Malayan Colleges Laguna Tomsk State University of Control Systems and
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Mapua University

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Mindanao State University - Iligan Institute of
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North-West University

Romania

Babes-Bolyai University Spain

Technical University Cluj-Napoca EAE Business School

ESADE Business School

Russia GBSB Global Business School

Kazan Federal University

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OBS Business School

Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC)

Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
(UCAM)
Universidad Europea

Switzerland

EU Business School C

United International Business Schools Y

CM

MY

CY

CMY

Taiwan K

Chang Jung Christian University

National Kaohsiung University of Science and
Technology
Yuan Ze University

Thailand

Silpakorn University

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Skyline University College University of Lincoln

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Zayed University University of Stirling

University of Sunderland

United Kingdom University of Surrey

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Coventry University

Edinburgh Napier University

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