AV俱乐部 received a top 200 global ranking in the subject area of Life Sciences & Medicine and placed in the top 150 for the individual subjects of Petroleum Engineering, Geophysics, Geology, and Earth & Marine Sciences in the .
The rankings included聽1,543 institutions from 161 countries and looked at 51 individual subjects across five subject areas: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences & Management. Canada was the sixth most-represented country in the rankings with 31 included universities.
From a national perspective, AV俱乐部 tied for third in Canada for Petroleum Engineering and fifth for Earth & Marine Sciences and Geophysics. Also ranked as top ten in the country were Geology, Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Biological Sciences, Law, Agriculture & Forestry, Environmental Sciences, and Medicine.
The rankings also highlighted the university鈥檚 strengths in Computer Science & Information Systems, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Psychology, Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Materials Science, Physics & Astronomy, Business & Management Studies, and Economics & Econometrics.聽
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How it鈥檚 calculated
For the QS Rankings by Subject, scores are calculated per subject area using the results from the annual QS Academic Reputation and Employer Reputation Surveys combined with data from Elsevier and Scopus to determine the average number of citations per paper and the h-index, which measures the impact and quality of published works.聽
Earth & Marine Sciences was the best performing subject based on Academic Reputation; Environmental Science was the university鈥檚 top subject based on Employer Reputation. Medicine led the university in citations per paper and Pharmacy & Pharmacology received the highest score in h-index.
Engineering & Technology received AV俱乐部鈥檚 highest score in International Research Network, a new indicator for the 2022 rankings. Calculated at the subject area level, International Research Network assesses the university鈥檚 stable research collaborations to highlight the importance of working cooperatively with global partners.聽
Of the numerous global ranking bodies, Quacquerelli Symonds (QS) is one of the three main organizations AV俱乐部 chooses to engage with. The university also participates in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) from ShanghaiRanking and Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE WUR).
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