QS Subject Rankings: BME Maintains Its Position in Increasing Competition

Higher education analytics center Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released this year’s subject-specific world rankings. The London-based ranking firm evaluated 6,277 of the more than 20,000 higher education institutions operating worldwide in over 150 countries, with 1,912 making the list — nearly 10 percent more than last year.

BME was ranked in two of the five major subject areas. In engineering, it secured a prestigious 236th place — up from 295th in 2020 and 243rd two years ago —, while in natural sciences, it ranked between 401st and 450th. 

Among the criteria considered by QS, the university achieved its best results in terms of citations per paper and international research network.

The number of narrow subjects in which QS evaluated BME jumped from 12 last year to 13, the highest number to date. In 10 of these 13 subjects, the university ranks in the top 500. Mechanical engineering (151–200), civil engineering (201–275), and architecture (201–260) received the highest rankings, but electrical engineering also made it into the top 300.

It is also worth noting that within the fields of engineering and natural sciences, in all narrow subjects where QS ranked other Hungarian universities, BME outperformed the University of Szeged, the University of Debrecen, and Óbuda University — and in the case of chemical sciences, ELTE as well, which makes is the best in that field, as well as in physics (tied with ELTE).

Both the European and global general rankings show that BME is performing increasingly well in the intensifying competition. The former was published in January, with BME ranking 246th, improving by one place compared to its previous position, and maintaining its 12th place in the Eastern European region. In the latest world rankings published last summer, it moved up 10 places to rank 711–720 out of 8,467 ranked institutions, surpassing such renowned Western European universities as the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Technological University Dublin, and the University of Siena.

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