Two Romanian universities among the world’s top 500 in Arts& Humanities

Two Romanian universities are ranked in this year’s QS World University Rankings by Subject in the Arts& Humanities area. The Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj is ranked in the 401-450 band, while the University of Bucharest is ranked in the 451 – 500 band. The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks universities in individual subject areas. Starting with 2017, 46 subjects are covered. It is based on four performance indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, and the H-index, which measures the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar. The rankings have several Broad Subject Areas: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences. The Babes-Bolyai University ranks in the 201 – 250 band (out of 300 ranked universities) in the Modern Languages subject, in the 251-300 band in the English Language and Literature subject (out of 300 ranked universities), in the 451-500 band in Chemistry (out of 500 ranked universities) and in the 351-400 band in Mathematics (out of 400 ranked universities). The University of Bucharest ranks in the 151 -200 band in Linguistics (out of 300 ranked universities), in the 201 – 250 band in Modern Languages (out of 300 ranked universities), in the 251 – 300 band in English Language and Literature (out of 300 ranked universities), in the 301 – 350 band (out of 400 ranked universities) in Mathematics, in the 351 – 400 band (out of 400 ranked universities) in Economics & Econometrics, in the 401 – 450 band (out of 500 ranked universities) in Chemistry, in the 401 – 450 band (out of 500 ranked universities) in Social Sciences and Management, in the 401 – 450 band (out of 500 ranked universities) in Natural Sciences, in the 401 – 450 band (out of 500 ranked universities) in Physics and Astronomy. The Polytechnics University in Bucharest also features in the rankings by broad subject areas. It ranks in the 451 - 500 band in Natural Science, in Engineering and Technology, and in Natural Science. The rankings by subject can be consulted here. Only four Romanian universities have been included in the 2016/17 QS World University Ranking, which features just over 900 of the top universities in the world. Romania’s top 10 largest state universities editor@romania-insider.com