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THE Subject Rankings 2021

The Times Higher Education (THE) has published Subject Rankings 2021 based on data gathered from 1512 universities from 93 countries. The ranking table is helpful to know about top subjects to study in 2021. In total THE released rankings for 11 subjects. The United Kingdom gained top position for Clinical and Health and Computer Science. While United States gained No. 1 position in Arts and Humanities, Education, Engineering, Law, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Psychology, and Social Sciences. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore gained 96 Rank in Computer Science category. 

Here is the list of top 10 institutes across the streams from around the world:

Arts and Humanities

  1. Stanford University, United States
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  3. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  4. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  5. UCL, United Kingdom
  6. Harvard University, United States
  7. The University of Chicago, United States
  8. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  9. Princeton University, United States
  10. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Business and Economics

  1. Stanford University, United States
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  3. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  4. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  5. Harvard University, United States
  6. The University of Chicago, United States
  7. London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
  8. Yale University, United States
  9. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  10. Duke University, United States

Computer Science

  1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. Stanford University, United States
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  4. ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  5. Carnegie Mellon University, United States
  6. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  7. Harvard University, United States
  8. National University of Singapore, Singapore
  9. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  10. Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Clinical and Health Science

  1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. Harvard University, United States
  3. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  4. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  5. Stanford University, United States
  6. University of Toronto, Canada
  7. Yale University, United States
  8. Johns Hopkins University, United States
  9. UCL, United Kingdom
  10. Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Education

  1. Stanford University, United States
  2. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  3. Harvard University, United States
  4. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  5. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  6. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  7. Tsinghua University, China
  8. University of California, Los Angeles, United States
  9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States
  10. Vanderbilt University, United States

Engineering

  1. Harvard University, United States
  2. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  3. Stanford University, United States
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  5. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  6. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  7. California Institute of Technology, United States
  8. Princeton University, United States
  9. *ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  10. *Peking University, China
  11. University of California, Los Angeles, United States
* (Tie) The ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Peking University, China both stands at 9th Position.

Law

  1. Stanford University, United States
  2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  3. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  4. The University of Chicago, United States
  5. Yale University, United States
  6. Duke University, United States
  7. New York University, United States
  8. UCL, United Kingdom
  9. Harvard University, United States
  10. London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Life Sciences

  1. Harvard University, United States 
  2. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  3. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  5. Stanford University, United States
  6. Yale University, United States
  7. California Institute of Technology, United States
  8. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  9. Johns Hopkins University, United States
  10. Princeton University, United States

Physical Sciences

  1. California Institute of Technology, United States
  2. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  3. Stanford University, United States
  4. Princeton University, United States
  5. Harvard University, United States
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  7. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  8. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  9. ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  10. Yale University, United States

Psychology

  1. Stanford University, United States
  2. Princeton University, United States
  3. UCL, United Kingdom
  4. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  5. The University of Chicago, United States
  6. Harvard University, United States
  7. Yale University, United States
  8. University of Pennsylvania, United States
  9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States
  10. University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Social Sciences

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
  2. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  3. Stanford University, United States
  4. Harvard University, United States
  5. University of California, Berkeley, United States
  6. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  7. Princeton University, United States
  8. London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
  9. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States
  10. Yale University, United States

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