US and UK dominate THE world rankings by subject

Expertise across a broad range of disciplines – rather than exceptional performance in just a few – is key to success in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, THE's latest subject rankings suggest, writes Ellie Bothwell for Times Higher Education.

Just 14 different universities make the top five of the eight subject rankings published last week, which cover arts and humanities; business and economics; clinical, pre-clinical and health; computer science; engineering and technology; life sciences; physical sciences; and social sciences. Both computer science and business and economics are new subject rankings for 2016-17.

Only one of the universities in this eminent group is outside the United States and the United Kingdom: Switzerland’s ETH Zurich or Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
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