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THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: psychology

THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: life sciences

THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: clinical, pre-clinical and health

Stanford University has topped a new Times Higher Education ranking of the world’s best universities for psychology.

The Californian institution, which has already topped THE global tables for arts and humanities, business and economics, computer science, education, and engineering and technology subjects this year, also achieves the highest research environment score in the 100-strong psychology list.

The top three is completed by UCL in second place, which achieves the top teaching environment score, and Princeton University in third.

For the first time this year, psychology, education and law have been ranked separately from social sciences in the THE subject rankings.

The US dominates the psychology table, claiming almost half (48) of the top 100 places, and eight of the top 10 spots.

The UK is the second most-represented nation, but has just 13 featured institutions.

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THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: psychology top 10

Editor’s note, 5 April 2018: this table has been amended to include Yale University. For more details, please click here.

Alan Thompson, dean of UCL’s Faculty of Brain Sciences, said that the results reflect the university’s “innovative and engaging programmes that integrate research into the heart of the curriculum”.

Meanwhile, THE’s global rankings for life sciences and clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects have also been updated for 2018 and expanded to include 500 institutions each, up from 100 each last year.

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The new life sciences table features the same top five as last year, led by Harvard University, but there have been prominent movements lower down the list.

Johns Hopkins University has risen five places to sixth, while the University of California, San Diego has climbed 12 places to 12th.

Both institutions have improved in terms of their teaching and research environments and have seen a big jump in their industry income score this year. Johns Hopkins also achieved a greater citation impact score, while UC San Diego now has a more international outlook.

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THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: life sciences top 10

The University of Oxford once again tops the clinical, pre-clinical and health table, while the University of Cambridge and Harvard University jointly share second place.

The subject rankings for clinical, pre-clinical and health, life sciences and psychology are based on the same range of 13 performance indicators used in the overall THE World University Rankings 2018, but the methodologies have been recalibrated to suit the individual fields.

THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject: clinical, pre-clinical and health top 10

ellie.bothwell@timeshighereducation.com