{"id":767396,"date":"2024-04-10T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=767396"},"modified":"2024-04-10T16:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T14:18:30","slug":"the-best-universities-in-south-africa-to-study-science-engineering-and-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/767396\/the-best-universities-in-south-africa-to-study-science-engineering-and-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The best universities in South Africa to study science, engineering and business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject has been published \u2013 featuring 10 South African universities with courses that are among the top 500 in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The QS rankings identify which subjects universities are particularly strong in relative to international competitors, focusing specifically on academic reputation and research output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ranking is an independent comparative analysis of over 16,000 university programmes at 1,500 universities in 95 countries and territories across 55 academic subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research citations, along with the results of major global surveys of employers and academics, are also used to rank the universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States of America (US) dominated the rankings, featuring 213 ranked universities, with 244 of these ranking among the top 10 for one or more disciplines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvard University is the world\u2019s strongest-performing institution, first in 19 disciplines. MIT follows, leading in 11 subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South African universities ranked in 39 of the 55 subjects covered in the QS listing, with a particularly strong showing in Engineering, Medicine and Natural Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best performances were seen in Development Studies, Mining and Mineral Engineering, Veterinary Sciences, Geography, and Agriculture & Forestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Cape Town ranked the top institution in most subjects in South Africa (32), followed by the University of Pretoria (6), Wits (3), Stellenbosch University (2), Unisa (1) and UKZN (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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University of Cape Town (UCT) campus, Western Cape. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other South African universities ranked include the University of Johannesburg (UJ) (21 subjects), North-West University (3), the University of the Western Cape (2), and the International Hotel School (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering the scale of the rankings, we looked at which of South Africa’s best universities was ranked among the top 500 by subject, separated into five disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These five disciplines \u2013 and the subjects South Africa managed to rank among the top 500 under these disciplines \u2013 are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n