THE Ranking by Subject 2020

Still leading in social sciences, business & economics and law: The University of Zurich has achieved its best-ever ranking in three out of four subjects in the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Ranking.

The university of Zurich has moved up the rankings in the life sciences (+7, from 66th to 59th), psychology (+6, from 101st to 95th), computer sciences (+5, from 88th to 83rd) and education (+6, from 92nd to 86th) compared to last year.

Drops came in the fields of clinical, pre-clinical & health (-10, from 73rd to 83rd), physical sciences (at least 24 positions, from 77th to 101-125), business & economics (-9, from 42nd to 51st), social sciences (-11, from 62nd to 73rd), law (-14, from 84th to 94th) and arts & humanities (-8, from 77th to 85th).

Subject

2018

2019

2020

2019/2020

Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health

86

73

83

-10

Life Sciences

68

66

59

+7

Physical Sciences

73

77

101-125

-24

Psychology

72

101-125

95

+6

Computer Science

n/a

88

83

+5

Business and Economics

43

42

51

-9

Education

80

92

86

+6

Law

91

84

98

-14

Social Sciences

88

62

73

-11

Arts & Humanities:

88

77

85

-8

Evaluation Criteria

The subjects are evaluated based on five criteria: Teaching (weighting: 27.5 %), Research (weighting: 27.5 %), Citations (weighting: 35%), Industry Income (weighting: 2.5 %), International Outlook (weighting: 7.5 %). For more details on the evaluations, please visit the Times Higher Education’s website.

UZH in the THE World University Rankings

UZH ranks 90th in the overall Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2020. The ranking is based on a survey of highly respected academics who, on invitation by THE, are asked to identify the world’s best universities. ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne came in first and second among universities in Switzerland, while the University of Zurich ranks third ahead of the universities of Basel, Bern and Geneva.

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