Dalhousie placed in the top 200 globally for the individual subjects of Agriculture & Forestry, Nursing, Petroleum Engineering, Earth & Marine Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geography, Geology, Geophysics, and Law in the 2023 QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Within Canada, Dal was ranked in the top 10 for the subjects of Agriculture & Forestry, Biological Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Petroleum Engineering, Earth & Marine Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Geography, Geology, Geophysics, and Law.
The rankings included 1,594 institutions from 161 countries and looked at 54 individual subjects across five broad subject areas: Arts & Humanities, Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences & Management.
This year, Dalhousie received a top 500 global ranking — top 20 nationally — in all five broad subject areas.
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How it’s calculated
QS uses a variable approach to the weightings for each of the different subjects. Included in the assessment are the results from the annual QS Academic Reputation and Employer Reputation surveys, measurement of International Research Network, citation data from Elsevier and Scopus, and the h-index, which measures the impact and quality of published works.
Earth & Marine Sciences continued as Dalhousie’s best performing subject based on Academic Reputation. Marketing, new to the ranking this year, was the university’s top subject based on Employer Reputation.
The subject of Medicine led the university in citations per paper. Pharmacy & Pharmacology received Dalhousie’s highest score in h-index. And the subject of Agriculture & Forestry earned Dal’s highest score for International Research Network.