{"id":212171,"date":"2025-03-12T08:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=212171"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T18:16:36","slug":"qs-rankings-by-subject-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/12\/qs-rankings-by-subject-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics, library management, Earth sciences, more earn top marks for <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/manoa-student-gnrc-2024-5.jpg\" alt=\"U H Manoa students smiling\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-203527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/manoa-student-gnrc-2024-5.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/manoa-student-gnrc-2024-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/manoa-student-gnrc-2024-5-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twenty two academic subjects at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa earned high marks in the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/subject-rankings\">Quacquarelli Symonds (<abbr>QS<\/abbr>) World University Rankings by Subject<\/a>, released on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way was linguistics, which earned a <abbr title=\"Number\">No<\/abbr>. 11 ranking in the U.S. and <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 40 ranking in the world. Library and information management (<abbr>No<\/abbr>. 17 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 51&#8211;100 world) and Earth and marine sciences (<abbr>No<\/abbr>. 20 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 51&#8211;100 world) also placed within the top 100 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven additional subjects placed in the world\u2019s top 1&#37; (within top 250 in the world out of <a href=\"https:\/\/research.com\/universities-colleges\/university-statistics\">more than 25,000 colleges and universities worldwide<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geophysics: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 30 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 101&#8211;150 world<\/li>\n<li>Geology: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 31 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 101&#8211;150 world<\/li>\n<li>Anthropology: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 35 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 101&#8211;170 world<\/li>\n<li>Agriculture and forestry: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 34 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 151&#8211;200 world<\/li>\n<li>English language and literature: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 40 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 151&#8211;200 world<\/li>\n<li>Philosophy: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 42 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 201&#8211;225 world<\/li>\n<li>Geography: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 34 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 201&#8211;250 world<\/li>\n<li>History: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 42 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 201&#8211;250 world<\/li>\n<li>Politics: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 43 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 201&#8211;250 world<\/li>\n<li>Physics and astronomy: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 45 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 201&#8211;250 world<\/li>\n<li>Communication and media studies: <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 57 U.S., <abbr>No<\/abbr>. 201&#8211;250 world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;These rankings reflect the outstanding scholarship and dedication of our faculty, staff and students,&rdquo; <abbr title=\"东精影业\">东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Provost Michael Bruno said. &ldquo;They reaffirm our university\u2019s reputation for excellence and innovation, not just in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, but on a global scale. For the communities we serve and the students considering <abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, these rankings are a powerful endorsement of the exceptional education and opportunities we provide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa was ranked in four broad subject areas and 22 narrow subject areas. The QS World University Rankings by Subject are calculated using five criteria: academic reputation (survey responses from academics), employer reputation (survey responses from graduate employers worldwide), research citations per paper (citations data sourced from\u202fElsevier Scopus), H-index (measures most cited papers and the number of citations) and international research network (reflects ability to diversify the geography of their international research network).<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 edition of the rankings by global higher education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds analyzed the performance of more than 18,300 university programs, taken by students at more than 1,700 universities in 100 locations around the world.<\/p>\n<h2>Other rankings<\/h2>\n<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa also received these notable rankings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/20\/uh-manoa-research-one-designation\/\"><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa earns highest national research designation<\/a>, February 20, 2025<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/01\/23\/times-higher-education-subject\/\">2025 <em>Times Higher Education<\/em> World University Rankings by Subject<\/a>, January 23, 2025<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/24\/us-news-best-colleges-2025\/\"><em>U.S. News and World Report<\/em> 2025 Best Colleges rankings<\/a>, September 24, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa was ranked in four broad subject areas and 22 narrow subject areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[222,137,735,1471,301,212,661,1187,342,38,252,378,173,225,303,215,1466,1467,262,764,124,545,185,911,631,741,92,1026,9],"class_list":["post-212171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-agriculture","tag-anthropology","tag-campus-recognition","tag-college-of-arts-languages-and-letters","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-college-of-tropical-agriculture-and-human-resilience","tag-communications","tag-earth-science","tag-english","tag-geography","tag-geology","tag-geology-and-geophysics","tag-geophysics","tag-history","tag-library-and-information-science","tag-linguistics","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-marine-science","tag-philosophy","tag-physics","tag-physics-and-astronomy","tag-political-science","tag-program-recognition","tag-ranking","tag-school-of-communications","tag-school-of-ocean-and-earth-science-and-technology","tag-social-science","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212174,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212171\/revisions\/212174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}