Where you go to school often is as important as what you take. These days many Asian students go to universities and colleges around the world in search of a better, more respected or just more well rounded education. Choosing a school which excels in the subject matter the student wants to take is important. But how do find the best university for you?  We can help.

Global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds ranks 1222 universities in 78 countries across 48 single subjects and five broad subject-areas. The QS World University Rankings by Subjects features the insight of 83,000 academics, who contributed over 1.25 million nominations to QS’s Academic Survey while  42,000 employers, contributed 199,123 nominations to QS’s Employer Survey; 150 million citations yielded from 22 million academic papers were analysed to compile the rankings. 

Arts & Humanities

1. University of Oxford, UK
2. Harvard, US
3. University of Cambridge, UK
4. University of California, Berkeley, US
5. Stanford University, US

Engineering & Technology

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
2. Stanford University, US
3. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of technology, Switzerland
4. University of Cambridge, UK
5. University of California, Berkeley, US

Life Sciences & Medicine

1. Harvard, US
2. University of Oxford, UK
3. University of Cambridge, UK
4. Stanford University, US
5. John Hopkins University, US

Natural Sciences

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US
2. Stanford University, US
3. Harvard, US
4. University of Cambridge, UK
5. University of Oxford, UK

Social Sciences & Management

1. Harvard, US
2. London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
3. Stanford University, US
4. University of Oxford, UK
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US