This year, the QS World University Rankings rated 945 universities from 60 countries in their annual evaluation.

Published annually the report ranks universities by subject and highlights the world’s top-performing institutions in a broad spectrum of individual academic areas.

Commenting on the results, Professor Joanne Conaghan, Head of School said;

‘We are tremendously pleased that we have received such strong endorsement in this survey. The QS rankings are rigorous, and reflect a fantastic educational experience for our student community.”

The rankings aim to help prospective students identify leading universities in their chosen field of study, and are being continually expanded in response to growing demand for comparisons of this kind.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject are compiled using indicators selected to assess institutions’ international reputation in each subject area, alongside research impact in the field.

Reputation is assessed using surveys of academics and employers, while research impact is gauged using citations data from Elsevier’s Scopus® bibliometric database.

The 2016 results draw on the opinions of 76,798 academics and 44,426 employers, alongside analysis of 28.5 million research papers and over 113 million citations.