Success for Huddersfield in the QS World Subject Rankings

Successes for Music and Drama, Business and Management, and Mechanical Engineering

INTERNATIONALLY-recognised global intelligence company QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) has just published its World University Subject Rankings for 2019.

QS is a rating system that provides a detailed look at an institution, enabling potential students to identify the strengths of the universities present. 

The company analyses more than 15,000 departments in over 1,200 institutions across the world, covering more than 20 million research outputs and over 200 million citations.  It also seeks the opinions of over 75,000 academics in over 140 countries across the world and consults over 40,000 employers.

In Performing Arts, the University of Huddersfield ranked 25th in the world, alongside Columbia University and the University of Chicago.

Performing Arts is one of the University’s best-connected and most international disciplines and has active research links with Harvard University, Stanford University and Northwestern University, which are also ranked in the 25 institutions.  Huddersfield can also boast links with the University of San Diego, the University of Chicago, Montreal University, Sydney University and the University of Melbourne.

Associate Deans for Research and International, Professor Monty Adkins and Professor Rupert Till, have worked with others across the Department of Music and Drama to build international strategic research partnerships across the world, ensuring that its work is internationally relevant, world-renowned and globally respected.  Today, it can boast links with more than half of the Top 300 world-ranked institutions and its researchers are active in more than 30 countries.

Other notable successes saw Business and Management ranked within the top 300-350 in the world, a testament to its growing research reputation and international recognition.  And Mechanical Engineering ranked in the 400-450 band in the world and 33rd in the UK.