Annual World University Rankings Published, Sofia University and Bulgaria’s Medical University Score Better Results

QS Quacquarelli Symonds - international higher education think-tank - have today released the eleventh edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject: an extensive independent comparative analysis on the performance of 13,883 individual university programs, taken by students at 1440 universities in 85 locations across the world, across 51 academic disciplines. They are part of the annual QS World University Rankings portfolio, which was consulted over 147 million times in 2020, and covered 98,000 times by media and institutions.

 Global Highlights

• Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology are the strongest-performing institutions across the exercise, ranking number-one in twelve subjects.
• The United Kingdom's higher education sector remains resilient. 13 of the 51 subject tables are topped by a British university, with the University of Oxford leading five of those 13.
• Chinese higher education continues to reach new heights, with the sector attaining a record number of programs now achieving a top-50 rank.
• No university has a larger number of top-50 departments than Canada's University of Toronto (46).
• Switzerland's ETH Zurich is continental Europe's top university, achieving number-one spots for Geology, Geophysics, and Earth & Marine Sciences. Based on its share of top-10 ranks, Switzerland is the world's third-best higher education sector.
• Australia now possesses its lowest number of programs ranking among the top 10 in the world in the last three years. Its total of 13 top-10 departments is fewer than in 2020 (17), and 2019 (18). Two-thirds of Australian National University's programs have fallen year-on-year.
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