1 QS World University Rankings by Subject 12 Engineering & Technology - Computer Science 1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 95.5 90 92 92.8 2 Stanford University 91.5 87.7 96.6 91.9 3 Carnegie Mellon University 79.1 90.8 91 4 University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 90.2 81.5 95.3 89.1 5 Harvard University 85.5 93.7 87.5 88.6 6 University of Oxford 85.2 92.5 88.1 88.3 7 University of Cambridge 83.3 91.5 84.3 86.1 8 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland 82.1 86.4 89.2 85.5 9 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore 80 94.7 81.5 84.9
2 10 Princeton University 78 81.4 93.5 83.7 11 The University of Tokyo Japan 83.8 63.5 82.6 12 University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 80.5 78 89.2 82.4 13 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong 74.7 84.9 86.9 81.4 14 Cornell University 76.7 74.9 93.6 81.2 15 University of Toronto Canada 80.2 73 88.5 80.5 16 Columbia University 70 81.4 92.4 80.1 17 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland 73.9 79.5 87.5 79.7 18= Imperial College London 75.6 80.6 83.5 79.5 18= University of Washington 75.6 68.8 95.4 79.5
3 University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 78 69.2 91.3 79.4 21= The University of Melbourne Australia 70.4 86.7 81.8 78.7 21= University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 70.1 87.2 81.7 78.7 23= University of Chicago 67.3 80 92.4 78.6 23= University of Texas at Austin 77.3 72.4 86.4 78.6 25 Yale University 69.7 81.4 86.9 78.4 26 Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore 69.9 87.5 78.9 77.9 27= California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 74.6 67.9 90.5 77.4 27= University of British Columbia Canada 74.1 73 86.1 77.4
4 29 Georgia Institute of Technology 76.2 73.7 82 77.2 30 University of Edinburgh 77.9 76.1 76.2 76.9 31 Australian National University Australia 70.4 86.8 75.2 76.8 32 University of Pennsylvania 70 76.3 85.6 76.6 33 University of California, San Diego (UCSD) 72 67.7 91.2 76.5 34 University of Waterloo Canada 74.9 69.9 83.2 75.9 35= Peking University China 72.7 87.2 68.6 75.8 35= Tsinghua University China 75.7 84.4 67.3 75.8 37 The University of Manchester 67.4 73.8 88.5 75.7 38 New York University (NYU) 64.9 77.6 87.2 75.4
5 39 The University of Queensland Australia 67.6 81.4 78.6 75 40 The University of New South Wales Australia 70.4 81.9 73.8 74.9 41= Seoul National University Korea, South 72.5 81.4 71.1 74.8 41= The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 66.1 80.8 80.5 74.8 43 University of Michigan 67.2 75 83.4 74.4 44 Purdue University 69.6 71.6 83 74.2 45 UCL (University College London) 68.9 76.2 79 74.1 46 Brown University 63.8 72.6 88.1 73.7 47 McGill University Canada 71.2 79.2 70.9 73.5 48= Technische Universität München Germany 72.9 76 71.5 73.4
6 48= The University of Sydney Australia 66.5 82.5 73.5 73.4 48= Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan 73.6 87.6 59 73.4 Aarhus University Denmark 61.1 73.3 75.7 Boston University 54.6 71.9 86.4 City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong 56.7 70.3 84.2 Delft University of Technology Netherlands 65.1 68.1 72.6 Duke University 58.4 73.4 80.6 École Normale Supérieure, Paris France 66.1 64.3 89.5 Ecole Polytechnique France 64.5 75.4 71.3 Fudan University China 65.6 82.3 65
7 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) India 69.8 77.7 62.8 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) India 67.9 74.7 76.3 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) India 66.2 69.8 76.2 Johns Hopkins University 63.5 67.4 80.1 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology Korea, South 75.8 67.1 72.5 KU Leuven Belgium 65.6 68.8 78.9 King s College London (University of London) 62 75.7 79.7 Karlsruher Institut für Technologie Germany 66.5 74.9 75.8 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Sweden 63.3 77.9 66.9
8 Kyoto University Japan 68 93.1 57 Kyushu University Japan 63.4 87.7 59 London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) 60.6 86.5 69.9 Monash University Australia 65.6 84.2 68.3 National Taiwan University (NTU) Taiwan 64.4 78.3 75.5 National Tsing Hua University Taiwan 64 66.1 74.8 Northwestern University 53.3 72.5 84.6 Osaka University Japan 66.6 95.3 59.7 Pennsylvania State University 59.7 69.5 84 Politecnico di Milano Italy 65.4 83.3 71.1
9 Queensland University of Technology Australia 56.5 74 83.6 Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen Germany 68.6 75.5 69 Rice University 59.9 64.9 86.5 RMIT University Australia 65.1 80 73.5 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China 68.4 82.9 66.8 Technische Universität Berlin Germany 70.7 75.3 70.3 Texas A&M University 57.9 74.6 75.1 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 61.6 66.9 82.8 The University of Auckland New Zealand 60.4 77.7 71 Trinity College Dublin Ireland 60.5 74.2 73.3
10 Universidade de São Paulo Brazil 62.7 78.6 63.7 Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Belgium 59.2 77.4 75 University College Dublin Ireland 51.6 69.8 89.5 University of Amsterdam Netherlands 61 70.5 91.2 University of California, Davis 60.8 66.3 94.9 University of California, Irvine 66.1 64.3 87.6 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) 62.2 54.7 91 University of Maryland, College Park 69.4 59.6 87.9 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 62.3 58.9 94.5 University of Southampton 61.9 64.9 85.1
11 University of Southern California 62.7 57.6 85.5 University of Wisconsin-Madison 65.3 69.1 80.8 Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) 58 71.1 77.8 Chalmers University of Technology Sweden 54.4 77.3 67.9 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 60.6 58.9 76.8 Freie Universität Berlin Germany 55 69.2 79.7 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany 63.1 62.1 75 Indian Institute of Science India 64.2 69.6 67.6 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) India 65.3 64 69.3
12 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) India 66.9 71.3 63.8 Keio University Japan 53.9 86.2 61.2 Leiden University Netherlands 51.8 67.2 86.9 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany 56.6 71.1 76.3 Lund University Sweden 53.2 74.9 78.7 Nagoya University Japan 58.2 88 56.3 Nanjing University China 58.3 71 69.7 National Taiwan University of Science And Technology (formerly National Taiwan Institute of Technology) Taiwan 52.6 76.2 77.7 Ohio State University 52.3 65.1 83.2
13 Pohang University of Science And Technology (POSTECH) Korea, South 63.5 65.2 74.8 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Chile 62.3 70.5 67 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 55 57.6 85 Sapienza - Università di Roma Italy 54.8 69.7 74.7 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel 68.7 50.6 82.8 Technische Universität Darmstadt Germany 60.3 66.5 75.7 Vienna University of Technology Austria 60 67.8 77.1 Tel Aviv University Israel 59.7 57.3 86 The University of Nottingham 54.7 63.3 80.9
14 The University of Western Australia Australia 53.1 70.8 75.8 Tohoku University Japan 60.2 90.8 53.9 Universidad de Chile Chile 57.5 67 75.8 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Mexico 65.4 72.1 61.8 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp) Brazil 66.5 66.2 67.4 Università di Bologna (UNIBO) Italy 53.1 71.7 73.6 Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain 56.2 70.8 71.2 Universität Stuttgart Germany 56.6 66.2 79.4 Université de Montréal Canada 61 67.4 74 University of Alberta 59.8 64.7 81
15 Canada University of Arizona 59.2 57.9 81.5 University of Basel Switzerland 45.5 65.9 90.2 University of Birmingham 54.5 70 80.2 University of Copenhagen Denmark 47.8 73.4 78.4 University of Glasgow 59.1 69.6 73.3 University of Helsinki Finland 57 72.5 74.7 University of Minnesota 55.1 60.9 87 University of Science and Technology of China China 63.4 65 69.2 University of Technology, Sydney Australia 61.5 69.6 66.3
16 University of York 59.7 64.7 80.4 University of Zurich Switzerland 52.1 63.3 85.2 Uppsala University Sweden 54.8 70.3 77.4 Utrecht University Netherlands 58.4 65.1 81.9 VU University Amsterdam Netherlands 56.6 59.6 89.5 Waseda University Japan 58.2 88.7 54.2 Zhejiang University China 64.9 76.4 60.7 1 City University London 51.8 65.6 73.1 1 Curtin University Australia 51 72.5 70.9 1 Dartmouth College 50 63 83.8
17 1 Georgetown University 43.8 71.9 83.1 1 Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) France 58.3 67.8 62.4 1 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel 59.7 45.8 89.9 1 Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) Mexico 60.5 69.1 64.7 1 King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Saudi Arabia 55.8 73.6 63.2 1 Korea University Korea, South 52.7 74.3 67.6 1 Kyung Hee University Korea, South 43.6 86.6 62.4 1 Lancaster University 51.9 61.9 76.8 1 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia 59.4 70.6 61.9 1 McMaster University 52.6 59.5 80.3
18 Canada 1 Michigan State University 46.9 68.1 83.9 1 National Cheng Kung University Taiwan 48.2 75.4 73.8 1 National Chiao Tung University Taiwan 57.6 56.3 76.1 1 National Technical University of Athens Greece 54.2 70.5 71.8 1 National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland 47.7 68 75.1 1 North Carolina State University 49.7 63.5 79.7 1 Oxford Brookes University 47.7 63 83.2 1 Politécnica de Madrid Spain 55.3 77.4 62.2 1 Politecnico di Torino Italy 52.8 75.9 69
19 1 Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) 51.5 62.7 76.8 1 Queen's University of Belfast 55.8 70.4 66.9 1 Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Germany 55.2 67.1 67.8 1 Simon Fraser University Canada 51.3 61.3 81.4 1 Singapore Management University Singapore 41.2 78.7 74.9 1 Stockholm University Sweden 57.1 67.6 64.3 1 Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) Mexico 60.6 76.6 51.6 1 The University of Adelaide Australia 56.7 75.3 63.3 1 The University of Warwick 52.2 69.4 74 1 The University of Western Ontario Canada 49.3 64 80.7
1 Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina 63.7 68.5 58.1 1 Università di Pisa Italy 56.9 62.7 73.5 1 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain 62.7 62.5 69 1 Universität Wien Austria 55.8 65.3 74.2 1 Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Belgium 43.4 71.7 84.5 1 Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne France 55.9 71.4 61 1 University of Bristol 57.2 63.6 73 1 University of Calgary Canada 55.6 65.2 74.7 1 University of Colorado at Boulder 49.4 69.3 76.6 1 University of Ghent Belgium 51.7 67.5 74.5
21 1 University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC) 47.7 61 89.2 1 University of Leeds 51.8 66.6 72 1 University of Massachusetts, Amherst 52.1 58 86.4 1 University of Oslo Norway 49.2 70.6 77 1 University of Pittsburgh 43.4 74.1 82.8 1 Washington University in St. Louis 52.2 54.8 84.2 1 Yonsei University Korea, South 54.9 71.3 70.1 1 York University Canada 51.3 63.1 76.2
22 CORE CRITERIA TEACHING 6 indicators + EMPLOYABILITY 3 indicators + RESEARCH 5 indicators + INTERNATIONALIZATION 7 indicators LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FACILITIES 6 indicators OR ONLINE / DISTANCE 6 indicators SPECIALIST CRITERIA DISCIPLINE RANKING 2 indicators + 50
23 ACCREDITATION 2 indicators ADVANCED CRITERIA 50 CULTURE 3 indicators OR 50 INNOVATION 3 indicators OR 50 ENGAGEMENT 4 indicators OR 50 ACCESS 4 indicators Core Criteria These criteria feature the key building blocks of a university whether focused globally, domestically or locally All categories in this section are mandatory for the evaluation. TEACHING 50 Faculty student ratio The ratio of faculty to students 40 Overall student satisfaction Proportion of students expressing satisfaction with overall experience in student survey OR
24 Completion Proportion of students scheduled to graduate succeeding in doing so 40 Satisfaction with teaching Proportion of students expressing satisfaction with teaching through student survey OR Faculty with PhD Proportion of faculty with PhD or equivalent terminal degree Further study Proportion of students pursuing further study within 12 months of graduation EMPLOYABILITY 50 Employer reputation Number of employer referees endorsing institution in QS Global Employer Survey 50 Graduate employment rate Proportion of students employed within 12 months of graduation (excluding those not actively seeking work e.g. pursuing further study) 50 Career service support Number of full-time careers advisors RESEARCH 40 Academic reputation Number of academic referees endorsing institution in QS Global Academic Survey 40 Citations per paper Citations per paper adjusted for institutions with negligible activity in medicine, science and technology 40 Papers per faculty Research papers (Scopus) per faculty member
25 OR Arts-related related outputs Recognition of academic outputs in disciplines where journal articles are not pervasive 30 Prolific academic experts Number of faculty members achieving international recognition through awards (e.g Nobel) INTERNATIONALIZATION 50 Institutional research collaborations University research collaborations or joint degree programs with QS top 500 universities in previous three years published rankings International faculty Proportion of international faculty International students Proportion of international students Inbound exchange students Proportion of inbound exchange students Outbound exchange students Proportion of inbound exchange students 10 Religious facilities Provision of appropriate facilities for international students of different religions 10 International diversity Number of nationalities represented in student body Learning Environment Universities will typically select one of the categories in this area as part of the QS Stars evaluation
26 FACILITIES Sporting Facilities Provision of key, popular sporting facilities (e.g. swimming pool, gym, track, sports courts etc ) Student accommodation Number of student rooms relative to size of student body IT infrastructure Number of computers on campus; proportion of wired student rooms or campus Wi -Fi coverage Library Facilities Value or number of acquisitions with the past 12 months 10 Medical Facilities Provision of medical facilities appropriate to the size of the student body 10 Student societies Number of student administered organizations ONLINE/ DISTANCE LEARNING Latest technology Use of new technology for program deployment 10 Track record Length of time the institution had been operating successful online programs Student faculty engagement Regular access to faculty for one on one support Student interaction Opportunities to meet and interact with fellow students
27 10 Commitment to online Number/proportion of programs made available online Reputation Number of organizations using programs and technology for staff training Advanced Criteria For a university to aspire to being truly world-class, its mission and its impact must extend further than the basics. This selection of criteria looks at important factors that a university with a solid foundation in the core criteria might target to advance to a higher level of performance and recognition. Recognising that institutions vary in specialisation, this section gives universities the option to select two of the categories in this area that showcase their strengths. CULTURE Concerts and exhibitions Concerts and exhibitions featuring the work or performances of students and faculty Credits and cultural awards Credits or cultural awards for students, faculty members or the institution as a whole publically accessible works 10 Cultural investment Financial contribution to arts projects outside the university OR investment in cultural preservation INNOVATION Patents Active patents registered with national or international patent offices 10 Spin-off companies Spin-off companies established in the last five years still operating and no longer requiring support from the university
28 Industrial research Joint research projects with distinct research corporations (non-university), yielding publications in Scopus in the last 5 years ENGAGEMENT Community investment and development Financial or in-kind contributions to community projects within km of any campus or affiliated facility 10 Charity work and disaster relief Financial or in-kind contributions to national or international causes and charities 10 Regional human capital development Proportion of graduates employed in the region OR proportion of students from the region 10 Environmental impact Performance against a checklist of environmental indicators ACCESS Scholarships and bursaries Financial value of, or number of students granted access through, scholarships 10 Disabled access Proportion of campus with wheelchair access 10 Gender balance Recognition of gender parity 10 Low-income outreach Proportion of students identified as low-income OR investment in promotion to low-income families
29 *Universities only need to be evaluated in two of the sections in this area as part of the QS Stars Evaluation. A maximum of points can be scored. Institutions can request assessment in more than two areas. Specialist Criteria Excellence in a narrow field is as valid a claim to world-class status as competence in the round. These criteria are designed to extend credit where it s due. All categories in this section are mandatory for the evaluation. DISCIPLINE RANKING Faculty area ranking Ranking performance in any one of five broad faculty areas conducted OR Specific subject ranking Ranking performance in specific disciplines in rankings conducted by QS or respected alternate publisher ACCREDITATION 50 Internationally recognized accreditations Programs accredited by internationally recognized and applicable standards OR Nationally recognized accreditations Programs accredited by internationally recognized and applicable standards THRESHOLDS & PRE-REQUISITES 1 Star ( / 0) Must have the authority to grant valid degree level programs in its own name 2 Stars (250 / 0) 3 Stars (400 / 0) 4 Stars (550 / 0) Must have at least 75 academic referees or must have at least 2 citations per faculty member (for any institution not focused exclusively in two or fewer of our broad faculty area
30 Must have at least 1% international students 5 Stars (700 / 0) Must have at least academic referees or 3 citations per faculty member (for any institution not focused exclusively in two or fewer of our broad faculty areas) Must have at least 5% international faculty Must have at least 5% international students Must have at least employer referees Must have a minimum of 70 points in Facilities category within Core Criteria 5 Stars Plus (900/0) Must have 5 star rating in all categories