The QS Subject Rankings: Harvard and MIT Dominant

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have published their 2014 subject rankings, based on data collected for the 2013 World University Rankings. Altogether 30 subjects have been ranked.
These rankings are receiving a lot of international attention but they are also likely to be controversial, partly because of their reliance on a subjective academic survey. The scores are based on four indicators: a survey of academic opinion, a survey of graduate employers, citations per paper and the H-index, which measures quantity and quality of research. More...