Three ranking agencies have recently released the latest editions of their subject rankings: Times Higher Education, Shanghai Ranking, and Round University Rankings.
QS, URAP, and National Taiwan University also published
subject rankings earlier in the year. The US News global rankings
announced last year can be filtered for subject. The methods are different and
consequently the results are also rather different. It is instructive to focus
on the results for a specific field, computer science and on two universities,
Oxford and Tsinghua. Note that the scope of the rankings is sometimes
different.
1. Times
Higher Education
has published rankings of eleven broad subjects using the same indicators as in
their world rankings, Teaching, Research Environment, Research Quality,
International Outlook, and Industry: Income and Patents, but with different
weightings. For example, Teaching has a weighting of 28% for the Engineering
rankings and Industry: Income and Patents 8%, while for Arts and Humanities the
weightings are 37.5% and 3% respectively.
These rankings continued to be led by the traditional
Anglo-American elite. Harvard is in first place for three subjects, Stanford,
MIT, and Oxford in two each and Berkeley and Caltech in one each.
The top five for Computer Science are:
1. University of
Oxford
2. Stanford University
3. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
4. Carnegie Mellon
University
5. ETH Zurich.
Tsinghua is 13th.
2. The Shanghai
subject rankings are based on these metrics: influential journal
publications, category normalised citation impact, international collaboration,
papers in Top Journals or Top Conferences, and faculty winning significant
academic awards.
According to these rankings China is now dominant in
Engineering subjects. Chinese universities lead in fifteen subjects although
Harvard, MIT and Northwestern University lead for seven subjects. The Natural
Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences are still largely the preserve
of American and European universities.
Excellence in the Life Sciences appears to be divided between
the USA and China. The top positions in Biology, Human Biology, Agriculture,
and Veterinary Science are held respectively by Harvard, University of
California San Francisco, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, and
Nanjing Agricultural University.
The top five for Computer Science and Engineering are:
1. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
2. Stanford
University
3. Tsinghua
University
4. Carnegie Mellon
University
5. University of
California Berkeley.
Oxford is 9th.
3. The Round
University Rankings (RUR), now published from Tbilisi, Georgia, are derived
from 20 metrics grouped in 5 clusters, Teaching, Research, International
Diversity, and Financial Sustainability. The same methodology is used for
rankings in six broad fields. Here, Harvard is in first place for Medical
Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technical Sciences, Caltech for Life Sciences,
and University of Pennsylvania for Humanities.
RUR’s narrow subject rankings, published for the first time,
use different criteria related to publications and citations: Number of Papers,
Number of Citations, Citations per Paper, Number of Citing Papers, and Number
of Highly Cited Papers. In these rankings, first place goes to twelve
universities in the USA, eight in Mainland China, three in Singapore, and one
each in Hong Kong, France, and the UK.
1. National
University of Singapore
2. Nanyang Technological
University
3. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
4. Huazhong
University of Science and Technology
5. University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China.
Tsinghua is 10th.
Oxford is 47th.
4. The QS World
University Rankings by Subject are based on five indicators: Academic reputation, Employer
reputation, Research citations per paper, H-index and International research
network. At the top they are mostly led
by the usual suspects, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and Cambridge.
The top five for Computer Science and Information Systems
1. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
2. Carnegie Mellon
University
3. Stanford
University
4. University of
California Berkeley
5. University of
Oxford.
Tsinghua is 15th.
5. University
Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is produced by a research group at
the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, and is based on publications,
citations, and international collaboration. Last July it published rankings of
78 subjects.
1. Tsinghua
University
2. University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China
3. Nanyang Technological University
4. National University of Singapore
5. Xidian University
Oxford is 19th
6. The US News
Best Global Universities can be filtered by subject. They are based on publications, citations and
research reputation.
The top five for Computer Science in 2022 were:
1. Tsinghua
University
2. Stanford
University
3. Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
4. Carnegie Mellon
University
5. University of
California Berkeley
Oxford was 11th.
7. The National
Taiwan University Rankings are based on articles, citations, highly cited
papers, and H-index.
The top five for Computer Science are:
1. Nanyang
Technological University
2. Tsinghua
University
3. University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China
4. National
University of Singapore
5. Xidian University
Oxford is 111th
So, Tsinghua is ahead of Oxford for computer science and
related fields in the Shanghai Rankings, the Round University Rankings, URAP,
the US News Best Global Universities, and the National Taiwan University
Rankings. These rankings are entirely or mainly based on research publications
and citations. Oxford is ahead of Tsinghua in both the QS and THE subject
rankings. The contrast between the THE and the Taiwan rankings is especially
striking.
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