BME makes significant progress in the QS subject rankings

The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) higher education analyst centre has published its global ranking of subjects. The London-based company examined 5,203 of the more than 20,000 higher education institutions operating worldwide, and 1,747 of them made the list.

BME was ranked in two of the five broad subjects. In engineering it was ranked 231st, up 12 places from a year earlier, and in natural sciences 383rd.

QS ranks universities in 55 subjects, with BME making the list in 12 of them, up from 9 in 2021.

BME was ranked the best or the only Hungarian university in all engineering disciplines it teaches.

The top two ones are mechanical engineering (151-200) and civil engineering (201-275). Chemical Engineering (251-300) and Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (301-350) also did well. This year, for the first time, the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, founded in 1998, was ranked in Economics and Econometrics (551-700th).

QS assesses uses 5 main criteria: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per paper, the Hirsch Index (measuring the academic performance of academics), and the International Research Network, an indicator assessing global engagement.

The scope of the analysis is well illustrated by the fact that 220 institutions from the United States, 124 from China, 104 from the United Kingdom, 81 from France, 79 from India and 53 from Japan were included.

The BME has recently achieved a breakthrough on the international stage: the European Foundation for Management Development, an international non-profit organisation, has accredited two English-language Master's programmes, namely, Management @ Leadership and Finance, of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences.

Rector's Office, Communications Directorate