QS Subject Rankings 2024 Out: Art History, Data Science & Marketing, New Fields

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released its World University Rankings by Subject for 2023. The world’s leading ranking provider, QS, has analyzed a total of 54 disciplines, grouped into six subject categories, for its 13th edition. History of Art, Data Science and Marketing are the new subjects ranked this year. 

As per the 2023 rankings, Harvard tops the chart across four broad categories, namely, Arts & Humanities, Social Studies, Life Sciences & Medicine, and Natural Sciences. The university has claimed the lead in 14 disciplines, including History, Biological Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Psychology, Chemistry, Environmental Sciences, Accounting and Finance, Business and Management Studies, Economics and Econometrics, Law and Legal Studies, Politics, Sociology, Social Policy and Medicine.

MIT continues to maintain its dominance in Engineering & Technology, as per the QS subject rankings 2023. The institute has bagged #1 rank across 11 disciplines: Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Linguistics; Materials Science; Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Manufacturing Engineering; Mathematics; Physics and Astronomy; and Statistics and Operational Research.

The rankings, this time, feature 15,700 academic programs from 1,594 institutions in 93 countries and territories.  

Here is an overview of the 2023 rankings across the six broad subject categories: 

Source: Topuniversities.com

QS has ranked the programs based on the following five indicators: 

• Academic Reputation
• Research Citations per paper
• Employer Reputation
• H-Index (way of measuring productivity & impact of a university department)
• International research network