The ratings of Arab universities in the QS rankings of world universities increased in 2022, and appeared among the top 50 universities in the world. The rating also confirmed the consolidation of Saudi Arabia as a regional leader in university education, while the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Jordan achieved numbers Standard for classified subjects compared to previous years.
A new leap for Arab universities
The 12th edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject compiled by global higher education analysts at QS Quacquarelli Symonds provides an independent comparative analysis of 15,200 individual university programs taught at 1,543 universities in 88 locations worldwide in 51 academic majors.
According to the press release that Al Jazeera Net obtained a copy of, the two leading universities in the world, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, achieved leadership in 12 subjects each, while the University of Oxford scored excellence. in 6 topics.
Among the top 50 Arab universities in the world, Saudi Arabia emerged as a regional leader in university education (QS University Rankings)
52 Arab universities emerged in this edition of the ranking, as the scores of Arab universities rose in the QS rankings of world universities by subject in 2022. 324 programs were ranked in Arab universities in 2022, 42 programs decreased in the rankings, and 121 of them remained Unchanged, 64 of them were new topics.
The classification showed that Qatar has the highest percentage of ranked university programs, and that the first regional university according to the classification is King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, which was ranked sixth globally in petroleum engineering and 16th globally in engineering-metals and mining.
As for Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates, which is ranked among the top 20 universities in petroleum engineering in the world, it achieved the title of second best regional university.
Arab universities have emerged 57 times in the classification by faculty (Arts and Humanities, Engineering and Technology, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences), with 30 of them obtaining improved ranks in the classification, and Egypt has the largest number of ranked universities, followed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, and then the United Arab Emirates.
The most ranked university programs in the Arab region are engineering, computer science and medicine.
52 Arab universities featured in this edition of the ranking after 324 programs were ranked (QS University Ranking)
QS Ranking of Universities
It is an annual classification of universities around the world and is published by the British company Quacquarelli Symondos. The first version of this classification was published in 2004 in cooperation with the Times Higher Education under the name “The Times Higher Education World University Rankings.” and Quacquarelli Symonds” (Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings), which ran from 2004 until 2009, when the two institutions decided to separate and issue separate rankings for each other.
QS issues an annual report in which it ranks more than 30,000 universities around the world according to academic and scientific standards.
It also makes a comparison of the 500 largest universities, to issue a directory of universities, by relying on evaluation criteria that address the structural structure of each of these universities.
International Ranking of Universities
In the world there are more than 30,000 universities and higher institutes in 238 countries, and several thousand of them are evaluated and ranked to choose the best annually, through 20 international university rankings.
The international rankings websites put information on the educational and research capabilities of universities and their services to the community, and compare the performance of these universities, which makes most universities race and are proud of their superiority, and are usually keen to be included in the international rankings.
Universities in the Arab region are among the top 50 universities in the world by subject (QS University Rankings)
Arab universities are currently competing to appear in such classifications, as the university's progress in international classifications contributes to attracting outstanding students to join them for study, to ensure that its graduates obtain suitable jobs in the labor market, and to attract distinguished professors to teach there.
Many international universities have praised the "QS" ranking of universities, which has become a measure that universities follow to develop their performance and reach greater fame.
What distinguishes this classification is that it deals in depth with the analysis of the components of universities, such as evaluating the level of education provided by ranked universities, the quality of their basic and applied research, and describing the capabilities of their graduates in the basic and higher educational stages.
In order to put these criteria in the form of variables whose indicators can be measured, the classification has set weights for its main tools in evaluating universities.
The institution has an analysis unit responsible for collecting and evaluating data for rankings. The QS World University Rankings are based on 6 main factors in evaluating universities, namely, academic reputation (40%), the ratio of professors to students (20%), and the ratio of research citation to number of Faculty members (20%), the reputation in the field of graduate employment (10%), the proportion of international faculty members (5%), and the proportion of international students at the university (5%).