Aarhus University has been ranked among the world’s 100 best universities in thirteen out of 42 subjects in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. This is almost twice as many top-100 subject areas for AU as last year. And what’s more, AU is now in the top 50 for three of these subjects. AU’s highest rated subject is odontology, at no. 17 worldwide. In communication and media, AU ranks no. 34, and no. 40 in archaeology.

• Read article: Odontology moves up at the World University Ranking (In Danish)
• Read article: Archaeology at the top of the international QS-ranking
• Read article: Continued progress for media and communication in QS-ranking (in Danish) 

The ranking is primarily based on reputation among researchers from all over the world as well as the employers of the universities’ graduates, in addition to researcher citation rates. The relative weight of these indicators varies from subject to subject. Reputation is weighted most heavily in the humanities and social sciences, while citation rates are the most important indicator in the natural and health sciences.

In addition to the three top 50 subjects, AU ranks in the top 100 in the following subjects: anthropology, history, agriculture and forestry, medicine, environmental science, nursing, policy and international studies, psychology, statistics and operational analysis, and economics and econometrics.

The ranking lists for the individual subjects are based on the data from the general ranking list published by QS in September 2015, on which AU ranks 107th.

• Learn more about AU’s placement on the ranking list 
• Find out how Aarhus University ranks on all of the major international ranking lists