The World University Rankings for 2012/13 will be published next week. At their heart is the biggest-ever snapshot of informed global judgment on higher education. To create this picture, we carried out two surveys. One gathered the opinion of active academics on the universities that excel in the subjects they know about. The other asked
The QS World University Rankings by Subject are designed to provide targeted information to university applicants, academics, and anyone else who needs to know where there is excellence in a specific discipline. One unique feature of these rankings is that it is possible for universities which would never be prominent in the overall World University
Universities from a total of 17 different countries on five continents make the top 20 in at least one of the new subject rankings published by QS. The rankings – now in their second year – cover a record 29 disciplines. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard underline their place at the forefront
Last month, Belgium announced the implementation of quotas for international students for medicine and dentistry, officially targeting students who have not lived in Belgium for at least three years by restricting to a proportion of 30% of non-residents, concretely; French students are the most affected by this measure. Currently 20 to 30% of first-year students
While the UK is busy undergoing the final preparations for this year’s Olympics, Spain has been playing host to the first European Universities Games. Organized by the European Universities Sports Association (EUSA), this first edition of the European Universities Games was held in Cordoba, in southern Spain, between 13 and 23 July 2012. More than
Yale University’s latest financial report shows that income from students – including tuition fees, accommodation and other charges – accounted for only 8.6% of the university’s total operating revenue in the 2010-11 academic year. Other major sources of funding for universities are governments, businesses and non-profit organizations, income from investments, and private donors such as
No area of intellectual life characterises the modern university quite as well as the sciences. Along with the related area of biomedicine, they have the biggest budgets, they generate the best-paid graduates, and they attract the most attention from governments, beguiled by the apparent connection between scientific excellence and economic success. When it comes to
Universities from four continents were represented at the launch of the 2012 QS World University Rankings by Subject in Prague. Ben Sowter, head of research at QS, said the rankings would help prospective students to compile shortlists of universities that excelled in the particular subject that they wished to study. The extra layer of subject