Results For Four Subjects in THE World University Rankings 2018 Announced

by on October 20, 2017 | Top Stories, University Rankings

Results For Four Subjects in THE World University Rankings 2018 Announced - StudyMalaysia.com

The Times Higher Education subject rankings 2018 for four subjects were released in early October, and includes two new subjects for the first time—Education and Law. The other two subjects were Social Sciences, and Business and Economics.

The top 10 institutions for each of the four subjects are:

THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: Law Top 10

2018 Rank	University	Country	WUR 2018 Rank
#1	Duke University	United States	17
#2	Stanford University	United States	=3
#3	Yale University	United States	12
#4	University of Chicago	United States	9
#5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2
#6	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1
#7	University of Melbourne	Australia	32
#8	University College London	United Kingdom	16
#9	Harvard University	United States	6
#10	University of Toronto	Canada	=22

THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: Education Top 10

2018 Rank	University	Country	WUR 2018 Rank
#1	Stanford University	United States	=3
#2	Harvard University	United States	6
#3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1
#4	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	40
#5	University of California, Berkeley	United States	18
#6	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	43
#7	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	15
#7	University of Michigan	United States	21
#9	University of Pennsylvania	United States	=10
#10	Michigan State University	United States	=83

THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: Social Sciences Top 10

2018 Rank	2017 Rank	University	Country	WUR 2018 Rank
#1	#2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1
#2	#5	Harvard University	United States	6
#2	#6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	5
#4	#1	Stanford University	United States	=3
#5	#8	Princeton University	United States	7
#6	#11	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2
#7	#4	University of Chicago	United States	9
#8	#3	Yale University	United States	12
#9	#7	University of Michigan	United States	21
#10	#15	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	=25

THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: Business and Economics Top 10

2018 Rank	2017 Rank	University	Country	WUR 2018 Rank
#1	#2	Stanford University	United States	=3
#2	#1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	5
#3	#3	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1
#4	Not ranked	London Business School	United Kingdom	Not ranked
#5	#7	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	2
#6	#5	Harvard University	United States	6
#7	#4	University of Chicago	United States	9
#8	#6	Northwestern University	United States	20
#9	#9	University of Pennsylvania	United States	=10
#10	#8	University of California, Berkeley	United States	18

The top rankings for all four subjects are largely dominated by universities in the US and the UK. For Law, only two universities outside the Us and the UK made it to top 10—the University of Melbourne ranks at #7 and University of Toronto at #10.

In Education, the University of Hong Kong which garnered a very high score for research is ranked #4, making it the first Asian university to reach a top-five position in a THE World University Rankings table. Other Asian institutions that fared well in education table are: the Chinese University of Hong Kong at #20, National Taiwan Normal University #22, and Nanyang Technological University #27.

In Social Sciences, three Asian universities made it to the top 30 for the first time; the National University of Singapore ranked #37, Peking University #22, and the University of Hong Kong #30.

According to THE, the subject rankings for business and economics, education, law and social sciences are based on the same range of 13 performance indicators used in the overall THE World University Rankings 2018, but the methodologies have been recalibrated to suit the individual fields.

Source: World University Rankings 2018 by subject: four results out now