QS Subject Rankings 2011 – Engineering & Technology
Full results of our first ever QS Subject Rankings – Engineering & Technology have just been released. Check it out out here.
QS SUBJECT RANKINGS – ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION SYSTEMS
QS World University Rankings by Subject: a new comparative tool for students
Following the success of the 2010 World University Rankings, viewed by an estimated 50 million people since its release last September, QS Quacquarelli Symonds is launching a new series of rankings in April. The QS World University Rankings® by Subject will provide new insights on the strengths of the world’s leading institutions in specific subject areas.
Students around the world are interested not only in identifying the universities that match their aspirations but also in a comparative tool at disciplinary level.
Ben Sowter, head of research explains “There is a clear demand for ways to compare the effectiveness of higher education institutions in narrower subject disciplines. After all, the majority of prospective international students know first what they want to study before asking themselves where they want to study”.
The first series of the four-part release of the rankings, will be Engineering and IT disciplines, revealing the world’s best universities for computer science, mechanical, chemical, electrical and civil engineering. Rankings by biomedicine and Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines will be released as separate groups throughout 2011.
In compiling these new rankings, QS is taking into account the view of academics, the opinion of the employers and citations per paper – as a measure of a key aspect of the research activity, using Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric data.
QS World University Rankings® by Subject and details of the methodology, approved by the QS Academic Advisory Board will available on the 2nd of April on www.topuniversities.com.
Stay Tuned…
In May, we are hosting a symposium in Paris which seeks to bring together high-profile thought leaders in the field of higher education rankings and evaluations who will present the latest developments and trends in the field and lead the debate on Identifying Excellence and Diversity in International Education: Rankings and Beyond.
High profile speakers including Jan Sadlak from IREG Observatory, Richard Yelland from OECD, Monique Canto-Sperber from ENS, and Yasushi Adachi, Elsevier BV are confirmed for the event and will share valuable insight and debate issues crucial to universities in their quest for globalisation and international recognition.
Watch this space for more information regarding this event as well as the release of our long-awaited Subject Rankings beginning in April.
HE News Briefs 11.1.10
by Abby Chau
- With tuition fees set to rise to up to £9,000 in 2012, applications for places in 2011 will see record levels. According to Ucas, there has already been a 2.5% increase in applicants. The figures also show that applications from under-18s have fallen while applications from older students have increased. Although ministers approved an extra 10,000 places last year, there is still a dramatic gap with one in three candidates not finding a place. Other trends show that the number of females applying have also increased, 199,000 compared to only 145,000 male students.
Full Story: BBC News
More: Guardian
- Qatar is positioning itself as a new foreign higher educational hub with six US universities including the Carnegie Mellon University, Texas A&M University, and Northwestern University, already establishing branches there and interest from a French graduate school. The Education City is a 14 million square metre site boasting research facilities and is a project of the Qatar Foundation, which is a private non-profit organisation overseen by Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser, the Emir’s wife. According to the Foundation, opening foreign branches has successfully combatted the emirate’s brain drain, with more domestic students deciding to stay in Qatar.
Full Story: University World News
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HE News Brief 16.11.10
by Abby Chau
- Ranking-related news this past week includes musings across the pond regarding university rankings and their foothold in higher education. The French government has just published a new rankings based on 43,000 graduate students surveyed from 63 of the country’s 83 institutions. Paris-XI, Lyon I, and Rennes I ranked the highest, respectively. The findings come at a time when President Sarkozy is ramping up his government’s pledge to grant the country’s universities more autonomy. Some praise the findings, saying that the rankings show that universities must develop career services to help graduates find jobs. Critics of the rankings are dismayed by what they see as yet another exercise to try to homogenise a disparate and unique higher education university system. Some universities like Jussieu, based in Paris, and Dauphine refused to participate in the rankings.
Full Story: New York Times
More: New York Times
- Indian Human resource development minister Kapil Sibal and UK’s universities minister David Willets have recently announced that higher education expenditure will grow annually by 13% in the next decade. Since the 1950s, the number of institutions in India have dramatically augmented, from 28 to 504. Still despite this enormous boom, the country is still 800 universities short to accommodate the growing middle class who are now eyeing higher education as a means to a fruitful future. In 1981, the average Indian household was spending 1.46% on education, now that number has risen to 7.5%.
Full Story: University World News
More: Livemint
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2010 QS World University Subject Rankings
Our 2010 Subject Rankings are hot off the press - go to www.topuniversities.com for more results including for subject areas like Engineering and the Sciences.
| Arts & Humanities | |||
| 2010 | 2009 | Instititution Name | Country/Territory |
| 1 | 2 | University of Oxford | GB |
| 2 | 3 | University of Cambridge | GB |
| 3 | 1 | Harvard University | US |
| 4 | 4 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | US |
| 5 | 5 | Yale University | US |
| 6 | 6 | Princeton University | US |
| 7 | 9 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | US |
| 8 | 7 | Stanford University | US |
| 9 | 8 | University of Chicago | US |
| 10 | 10 | Columbia University | US |
| 11 | 11 | University of Toronto | CA |
| 12 | 25 | UCL (University College London) | GB |
| 13 | 21 | Université Paris Sorbonne, Paris 4 | FR |
| 14 | 24 | University of Edinburgh | GB |
| 15 | 18 | New York University (NYU) | US |
| 16 | 14= | Cornell University | US |
| 17 | 12 | Australian National University (ANU) | AU |
| 18 | 26 | University of Michigan | US |
| 19 | 19 | University of Sydney | AU |
| 20 | 13 | University of Tokyo, The | JP |
2010 QS World University Rankings results
Here is a fuller look – positions 300 to 320 – at our 2010 results; for more rankings (including the full list of the top 500 universities) go to www.topuniversities.com.
| 2010 | 2009 | Institution Name |
| RANK | RANK | |
| 300= | 322 | Università di Pisa |
| 300= | - | Tokyo Medical and Dental University |
| 302 | 299 | Massey University |
| 303 | 401-450 | University of Jyväskylä |
| 304 | 302= | Jagiellonian University |
| 305 | 273= | University of Essex |
| 306 | 259= | University of Utah |
| 307 | 234= | Ateneo de Manila University |
| 308 | 328= | University of Eastern Finland |
| 309 | 314= | Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) |
| 310 | 346= | Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| 311 | 335 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) |
| 312 | 346= | Universität Konstanz |
| 313 | 331= | University of Oulu |
| 314 | 262= | University of the Philippines |
| 315 | 357= | Universität des Saarlandes |
| 316= | 342 | Universität Bielefeld |
| 316= | 314= | University of Waikato |
| 318 | 307= | Chiba University |
| 319 | 345 | Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) |
| 320 | 326= | University of Tasmania |
2010 QS World University Rankings® Video – Continental Europe focussed
Nunzio Quacquarelli, Managing Director of QS Quacquarelli Symonds, gives a brief description of the QS World University Rankings®.
Ben Sowter, Head of the QS Intelligence Unit, gives an overview of the performances of German, Spanish, Italian and French institutions.
2010 QS World University Rankings® Video – US and Canadian focussed
Want a deeper insight into the 2010 QS World University Ranking results?
Nunzio Quacquarelli, Managing Director of QS Quacquarelli Symonds, gives a brief description of the QS World University Rankings®.
Ben Sowter, Head of the QS Intelligence Unit, talks about the overall trends in this year’s Rankings and discusses the movements of Canadian Universities.
John O’Leary, executive member of the QS Academic Advisory Board, talks about the performance of US universities.
Latin America, an under explored territory for global education.
by Liliana Casallas
Latin America may not be considered a first choice by international students for academic exchange, and global universities do not seem to consider this part of the world as a priority for the development of exchange partnerships. Why this is the case leads one to ask the following: is there a global understanding of the Latin American educational systems, quality of their programs or administration processes, or is it merely a matter of location? Perhaps, Latin America is seen more as a holiday hotspot rather than a strategic choice to strengthen career prospects.
There are some interesting facts about the region. Public expenditure in education is significant in Cuba and Bolivia where it makes up 9.1% and 6.1% of their national budget respectively. These represent higher proportions than in the USA (5.3%), UK (5.6%), and France (5.7%) in the same year of reference. Furthermore, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil and Paraguay all invest at least 4% in education. Mexico, in particular, has made major and consistent investments in education during recent years; their proportion of GDP in 2005 was 5.5%.
In most cases, universities that profile in the QS World RankingTM Top 400 are based in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile. For example, UNAM, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Universidad Austral, Universidad de Sao Paulo, UNICAMP and Universidad de Chile.
As indicated by the Chilean journal America Economia in their annual ranking for business schools in the region, there are highly qualified and recognised business schools for almost every country of the region among others, (see table below), that foster exchange programs with well known universities particularly in Europe and USA, such as ESADE in Spain, HEC in France, HHL in Germany and any others in the USA as Arizona State University, Tulane University, University of Texas at Austin among others.
| Country | University |
| Colombia | Universidad de los Andes |
| Costa Rica | INCAE |
| Chile | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC) |
| Brazil | Fundação Getulio Vargas |
| México | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) |
| Venezuela | Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion |
| Argentina | IAE |
Latin-America’s largest populations are mainly concentrated in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina, representing 70% of the region, with 396.5 million inhabitants. Despite the world economic crisis over the last year, the region has experienced an important growth of 4% GDP on average, with Peru, Panama and Argentina growing at 9.9%, 9.2% and 6.8% respectively.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world as mother tongue, after Chinese, by 329 million people in 44 countries and these figures will likely increase as there are already around 14 million students around the world learning Spanish as a second language by 2008**. This number will also rapidly increase since, in 2010, Brazil – one of the most populated and market oriented countries in the region – made Spanish a compulsory language to learn in classrooms from the age of 7. It is expected that in just a few short years an additional 41 million Brazilians under 17 will be able to read and speak Spanish. In the United States, Spanish is the primary language spoken at home by over 34 million people aged 5 or older, representing over 12% of the population. In states such as New Mexico, California and Texas more than 30% of the population speaks Spanish***. Continue Reading
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