The sixth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, recently released on TopUniversities.com, features a record-breaking 42 disciplines, making it the largest-ever ranking of its kind. The Colorado School of Mines has been ranked as the world’s best university for the study of mineral and mining engineering, in what is the first-ever global ranking for this subject.
The expert opinion of 76,798 academics and 44,426 employers informed the results, alongside the analysis of 28.5 million research papers and over 113 million citations sourced from the Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric database. This contributed to QS evaluating 713 institutions worldwide that provide a degree in mineral/mining engineering, internally ranking 403 of these based on the data received, before publishing the world’s top 100 institutions in the final rankings.