The results from QS World University Rankings have Victoria ranked in the top 40 of the world’s 18,000 universities in the world for three subjects, including Law, 60 in the world for arts and humanities and 83= in the world for social sciences and management.
The other two subjects to be ranked in the top 40 are within Victoria Business School—Hospitality & Leisure Management, part of Tourism Management, is ranked 28 in the world and Library Management, which sits within the Information Studies programme, is ranked at 40.
The results also confirm that Auckland, Otago and Victoria universities are leaders in the university sector in terms of the number of internationally ranked subjects they offer.
Victoria University has significantly increased its number of internationally ranked subjects to 31, marginally behind the University of Otago on 33 and the University of Auckland on 40. The other New Zealand universities have from between two to 22 internationally ranked subjects.
The results for Victoria show that the University is among the top 1% of universities in the world for 17 subjects and in the top 2% of universities overall. There are more than 18,000 universities worldwide and the 2018 QS World University Rankings by Subject rank the top institutions.
Victoria’s ranking at 38 in the world for Law, up from 46 in 2017, reflects the University’s strength in this area. Victoria’s Law School is home to outstanding legal scholarship across a broad range of areas. Students learn from teachers who are actively engaged in world-leading research and enjoy access to an international network, including visits from some of the world’s most high-profile legal minds.
The results for Victoria Business School illustrate its quality and excellence. Victoria is the only New Zealand university to have been awarded the Tourism Education Quality (TedQual) certification by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation and its ranking at 28 in the world shows its leadership in this diverse and growing industry. The ranking of 40 for Library Management demonstrates excellence in a specialist field of growing importance in a world driven by big data.
The latest QS rankings also illustrate Victoria’s consistently strong results in arts, humanities and social sciences.
In addition to the overall results for arts and humanities and social sciences (60 and 83= respectively), five of the individual subjects in the top 100 band are within these areas—Archaeology, English, History, Linguistics and Performing Arts.
Victoria has a robust commitment to the humanities and social sciences; these disciplines are crucial to the University’s vision of cultivating global citizens capable of critical and creative thinking.
Outstanding results were also achieved in subjects taught in the Faculty of Science—Psychology, Earth Sciences, Geography and Development Studies were all placed in the top 100.
An additional seven subjects at Victoria are ranked in the top 150 in the world. They are Architecture, Accounting & Finance, Business, Communication, Education, Politics and Sociology.
“These results are further evidence of Victoria’s standing as an internationally respected and globally ranked capital city university,” says Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Guilford.