QS: World's Best Universities in 48 Subjects Revealed

          The world's most-consulted university rankings portfolio[1], released today by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli
Symonds, ranks 1222 universities in 78 countries across 48 single subjects and five broad subject-areas. The QS World University Rankings by
Subjects features the insight of 83,000 academics, who contributed over 1.25 million nominations to QS's Academic Survey while 42,000
employers, contributed 199,123 nominations to QS's Employer Survey; 150 million citations yielded from 22 million academic papers were
analysed to compile the rankings.

          Major Trends

          - The number of number-one ranks held by US universities decreases from 34 in 2018 to 28 in 2019;
          - Harvard University remains the world-leader, ranking number-one for 12 subjects, followed by MIT, which leads in 11 subjects.
          - Switzerland has become the world's third-best higher education system. Impressive performances from ETH Zurich mean that only
the United States and United Kingdom occupy more top-10 ranks;
          - The United Kingdom has remained resilient despite Brexit uncertainty, increasing its share of number-one ranks from 10 to 13 and
improving research performance across the board;
          - Singapore is Asia's outstanding system, with more top-10 university departments than the rest of the continent's universities
combined;
          - China continues to increase its competitiveness, recording a higher share of top-50 departments than ever-before;
          - Brazil remains embattled, declining at a rate greater than the Latin American average.

          QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019:
          Top-10 countries by number of top-10 departments

Location        Number of top-10 departments 

United States   234                         

United Kingdom  137                         

Switzerland     22                           

Australia       18                           

Canada          15                           

Singapore       14                           

Netherlands     12                           

Italy           6                           

Mainland China  4                           

Sweden          4

(c) TopUniversities.com

Ben Sowter, Research Director at QS, said: "The major narrative emerging here is the perhaps-inexorable erosion of United States
pre-eminence. Since 2015, it has lost 10% of its top-ranked research departments, with China, Australia, and the United Kingdom the major
beneficiaries. UK research performance stays strong despite considerable funding cuts, though the contribution that EU research
collaboration has made to this success cannot be understated."

University Leader  Subjects 

Harvard            12       

MIT                11       

Oxford             6       

UCL                2

          Universities leading in one Subject

          British Columbia, Cambridge, Colorado School of Mines, Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne, ETH Zurich, Julliard School, Karolinska
Institute, LSE, Loughborough, Royal College of Art, Royal Veterinary College, La Sapienza, Stanford, University of Amsterdam, University of
Music and Performing Arts Vienna, UPenn, Pittsburgh, Sussex, Wageningen.

          Methodology: https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/methodology

          [1] 'Most-consulted' refers to data from media monitoring platform Meltwater, corroborated by insights from SimilarWeb, Alexa, and
Google Analytics.