Hust Reached Top 400 And 500 For Four Subject Groups In Qs World University Rankings By Subject 2020

Monday, 14/12/2020, 14:28

In 2019, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) has 3 subject groups ranked in the top 550 world best subjects including Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering & Manufacturing (Top 451-500); Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Top 401-450); Computer Science & Information Systems (Information Technology) (Top 501-550).

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 was released on March 4^th, 2020. This table ranks the world’s top universities in individual subject areas, covering 48 disciplines in 5 subject areas . The overall 2020 rankings comprise of 1,368 institutions from 158 countries around the world.

The performance indicators of these rankings concentrate on four aspects: academic reputation, employer reputation, citation per paper and H-Index (the index that measures productivity and impact of the published work). In both engineering & technology and natural sciences, academic reputation is the most important factor (taking up 40%), indicating the importance of peers’ opinion on universities in their fields of expertise. This year, 22 million papers with 200 million citations were analysed to produce the rankings.

Compared to 2019, all of HUST’s previously ranked subject groups in engineering & technology witnessed a great improvement, climbing 50-100 places and remain Vietnam TOP 1 Meanwhile the university’s mathematics department, the only representative under natural sciences, entered TOP 500 for the first time, staying at TOP 2 nationally,.This confirmedthe importance of Mathematics in a leading university in science and technology:

Subject Areas	Subjects	Domestic Rank	Global Rank 2020	Global Rank 2019
*Engineering & Technology*	Engineering – Electrical & Electronics	1	351-400	401-450
	Engineering – Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing	1	351-400	451-500
	Computer Science & Information Systems	1	451-500	501-550
*Natural Sciences*	Mathematics	2	451-500

In 2019, HUST was ranking in the top 351-400 in Engineering and Technology, according to THE World University Rankings by Subject, and ranked at TOP 4 in Engineering and Technology in South East Asia. These results are a very positive confirmation of HUST’s great reputation and impact in science and technology fields, in the region as well as over the world.