selects the top 1000 Universities worldwide and then ranks their best 4000 Master’s programs. The ranking emerges from the answers to questionnaires completed by Master’s Directors, employers and graduate students. The results of the questionnaires determine the ranking of Master’s programs in 30 scientific disciplines.
The ranking criteria are:
· The program’s reputation: The opinion of employers as well as the number of
U.S. News ranks the top Universities in 22 scientific fields, using different criteria and variable weights in each field. These criteria are:
Global research reputation: This indicator reflects the aggregation of the most recent five years of results of the Academic Reputation Survey for the best universities globally for research.
Regional research reputation: This indicator reflects the aggregation of the most recent five
The Shanghai List ranks the world’s top Universities in 52 scientific fields. This classification was initiated in 2017.
ARWU’s ranking criteria are:
Number of papers authored by an institution in an academic subject
Category Normalized Citation Impact from InCites database to measure average impact of papers
Percentage of internationally collaborated papers
Number of papers published in top journals per academic
The ranking compares 930 leading universities from 80 countries according to 20 indicators spanning four areas: teaching, research, international diversity, and financial sustainability. The evaluation criteria are:
Teaching (40%)
Academic staff per students (8%)
Academic staff per bachelor degrees awarded (8%)
Doctoral degrees awarded per academic staff (8%)
Doctoral degrees awarded per bachelor degrees
Ranking criteria for the global ranking of Universities by subject field are:
Academic reputation
Employer reputation
Research citations per paper
H-index: a measure of the productivity and impact of research work
For more information about QS World University Rankings by Subject, click here
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) focuses on Universities’ academic performance. URAP gathers data from around 3.000 Higher Education Institutions and ranks the top 2.500. The evaluation criteria are:
Article (21%): a measure of current scientific productivity which includes articles published in journals that are listed within the first, second and third quartiles in terms of their Journal Impact Factor. Articles that
