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QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015

New Zealand makes Global Top 10

The fifth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject published today on TopUniversities.com, features a record-breaking 36 disciplines making it the largest ever ranking of its kind.

The expert opinion of 85,062 academics -who identified the leading institutions within their field and region of expertise -and 41,910 employers who identified the universities that have produced outstanding graduates in a given discipline area - informed the results, alongside the analysis of 17.3 million research papers and 100 million citations (Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric database).

All the New Zealand universities make the global top 400 in at least one discipline.

The best result is achieved by Otago University which ranks 8th in the world for Dentistry followed by Massey University, 15th in Veterinary Science and The University of Auckland, 23rd in Development Studies.

“These rankings provide the most comprehensive global comparison of universities yet at individual subject level,” says QS head of research Ben Sowter. “The world-class performance of the New Zealand institutions reflects their high-impact research and outstanding reputation among an industry-leading sample of global academic experts and graduate employers.”

SUBJECT	Auckland	Canterbury	Otago	Victoria	Massey	Waikato	AUT	Lincoln
Accounting & Finance	26=	51-100	101-150	51-100	51-100	101-150	101-150
Agriculture & Forestry					33			51-100
Architecture / Built Environment NEW	45
Art & Design NEW		51-100		51-100			42=
Biological Sciences	51-100	301-400	101-150		301-400
Business & Management StudiesNEW	46=	151-200	101-150	101-150	Advertisement - scroll to continue reading 151-200	101-150	151-200
Chemistry	101-150	201-250	151-200	251-300
Communication & Media Studies	101-150	151-200		101-150		101-150
Computer Science & Information Systems	44=	151-200	101-150	101-150	201-250	151-200	251-300
Dentistry NEW			8
Development StudiesNEW	23		51-100	51-100
Earth & Marine Sciences	101-150	151-200	101-150	101-150
Economics & Econometrics	51-100	151-200	151-200			151-200
Education	26	101-150	51-100	51-100	101-150	51-100
Engineering - Chemical	51-100	151-200
Engineering - Civil & Structural	43	44=
Engineering - Electrical & Electronic	51-100	151-200
Engineering - Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing	51-101	151-200
English Language & Literature	33=	151-200	51-100	51-100
Environmental Sciences	51-100	151-200	101-150	251-300	251-300
Geography	44	101-150	51-100	51-100	151-200	101-150
History	51-100	151-200	51-100	51-100
Law	33=	51-100	51-100	45=		101-150
Linguistics	33	101-150	151-200	51-100		101-150
Materials Science	101-150
SUBJECT	Auckland	Canterbury	Otago	Victoria	Massey	Waikato	AUT	Lincoln
Mathematics	51-100	251-300	301-400	301-400	251-300
Medicine	51-100		101-150
Modern Languages	51-100		151-200	201-250		201-250
Pharmacy & Pharmacology	51-100		151-200
Philosophy	101-150		51-100	101-150
Physics & Astronomy	101-150	201-250		301-400
Politics & International Studies	51-100		101-150	101-150
Psychology	28	101-150	31	51-100
Sociology	49	151-200				151-200
Statistics & Operational Research	51-100	101-150	151-200		151-200
Veterinary ScienceNEW					15

The University of Auckland ranks top nationally in 31 disciplines – in four instances tied with another university.

Otago University leads locally in four disciplines, The University of Victoria in Wellington and Massey University in two and The University of Waikato in one.

New Zealand universities secured a total of 130 placements across the 36 subjects ranked.

Of these, 30 are new entries for 2015. Compared to 2014, 38 positions have remained the same, 26 positions have improved and 36 have lost ground, in some cases minimally so.

American universities dominate in terms of the number of subjects in which they lead, just as they do in all the global institutional rankings. Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) continue to take the lion’s share of top places, leading in 21 subjects between them. However, UK universities have improved their positions overall, with six separate institutions leading in at least one subject.

Fifteen different institutions top at least one of the subjects covered in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2015.

Institution	World's Top
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Physics & Astronomy
	Materials Science
	Linguistics
	Engineering - Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing
	Engineering - Electrical & Electronic
	Engineering Civil & Structural
	Engineering - Chemical
	Economics & Econometrics
	Computer Science & Information Systems
	Chemistry
	Architecture / Built Environment
Harvard University	Sociology
	Psychology
	Politics & International Studies
	Pharmacy & Pharmacology
	Medicine
	Mathematics
	Law
	History
	Biological Sciences
	Accounting & Finance
University of California, Davis (UCD)	Veterinary Science
	Agriculture & Forestry
University of Oxford	Modern Languages
	Geography
ETH Zurich	Earth & Marine Sciences
Karolinska Institute	Dentistry
London Business School	Business & Management Studies
New York University (NYU)	Philosophy
Royal College of Art (UK)	Art & Design
Stanford University	Statistics & Operational Research
University College London UCL Institute of Education	Education
University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	Environmental Sciences
University of Cambridge	English Language & Literature
University of Southern California	Communication & Media Studies
University of Sussex (UK)	Development Studies

In the six NEW disciplines ranked, London Business School leads Harvard and INSEAD in Business and Management, while MIT leads The Bartlett School (UCL) and TU Delft in Architecture. The Royal College of Art tops the table for Art & Design followed by Parsons School for Design. Sweden’s Karolinska Institute tops Dentistry while Hong Kong University takes the second spot. University of Sussex dominates Development Studies followed by Harvard and Manchester University. UC Davis, Cornell and The Royal Veterinary College take the top three spots for Veterinary Science.

Ben Sowter comments: “While the dominant players remain the US and the UK, our ranking shows that academic excellence is widely distributed around the globe. The 894 universities ranked in at least one subject are based in 60 different countries. The 200 universities we list for business, for example, are in 32 nations, and the 400 we rank for medicine in 47.”

The University of Cambridge ranks among the top-ten in 31 disciplines while the University of Oxford and Stanford University follow with 29. Harvard makes the top –ten in 28 subjects, University of California, Berkeley in 26 and MIT in 19. They are followed by London School of Economics & Politics (LSE) with 11, Princeton and UCLA with ten apiece, Yale (9) Imperial College (8), UCL (6) Caltech and Columbia University (5).

To view the complete QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015: http://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings

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