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 | United States | 17 | |
| #2 | United States | =3 | |
| #3 | United States | 12 | |
| #4 | United States | 9 | |
| #5 | United Kingdom | 2 | |
| #6 | United Kingdom | 1 | |
| #7 | Australia | 32 | |
| #8 | United Kingdom | 16 | |
| #9 | United States | 6 | |
| #10 | Canada | =22 |
THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: Education Top 10
| 2018 Rank | University | Country | WUR 2018 Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | United States | =3 | |
| #2 | United States | 6 | |
| #3 | United Kingdom | 1 | |
| #4 | Hong Kong | 40 | |
| #5 | United States | 18 | |
| #6 | United States | 43 | |
| #7 | United States | 15 | |
| United States | 21 | ||
| #9 | United States | =10 | |
| #10 | 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 | United Kingdom | 1 | |
| #2 | #5 | United States | 6 | |
| #6 | United States | 5 | ||
| #4 | #1 | United States | =3 | |
| #5 | #8 | United States | 7 | |
| #6 | #11 | United Kingdom | 2 | |
| #7 | #4 | United States | 9 | |
| #8 | #3 | United States | 12 | |
| #9 | #7 | United States | 21 | |
| #10 | #15 | 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 | United States | =3 | |
| #2 | #1 | United States | 5 | |
| #3 | #3 | United Kingdom | 1 | |
| #4 | Not ranked | United Kingdom | Not ranked | |
| #5 | #7 | United Kingdom | 2 | |
| #6 | #5 | United States | 6 | |
| #7 | #4 | United States | 9 | |
| #8 | #6 | United States | 20 | |
| #9 | #9 | United States | =10 | |
| #10 | #8 | 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.
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