National Taiwan University

“The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities is released by National Taiwan University, and is also known as NTU Ranking. NTU Ranking provides overall ranking, rankings by six fields, and rankings by 14 selected subjects.” Visit their website to learn more.

MIT’s relative position in World Rankings:

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
9 8 7 7 8 10 10 8 6 9 7 9 9 7 8

By field 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Agriculture 185 181 180 187 136 129 130 129 138 143 119 129 163
Engineering 2 1 1 1 1 1 6 5 4 4 4 5 2 2
Life Sciences 11 8 5 5 10 10 6 5 4 4 4 5 2 2
Medicine 74 65 67 69 78 76 97 88 83 84 90 95 74 78
Natural Sciences 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 5
Social Sciences 21 18 24 23 19 24 38 33 26 33 30 34 30 24

By subject 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Agricultural Sciences 451-500 401-450 451-500 451-500
Biology & Biochemisty 4 3 3
Chemical Engineering 33 20 25 16 13 19 19 21 21 24 26 40
Chemistry 3 3 2 2 2 2 4 5 6 8 14 19
Civil Engineering 25 51 42 34 35 44 56 61 57 51 66 53
Clinical Medicine 107 117 125
Computer Science 1 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 12 19 32 47
Economics & Business 2 2 2
Electrical Engineering 1 1 1 1 1 3 5 7 11 13 14 27
Environment/Ecology 152 138 87 80 82 96 96 88 77 83 103
Geoscience 7 9 10 14 12 11 14 15 16 20 29 29
Immunology 42 39 39
Materials Science 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 7 14
Mathematics 10 8 7 4 7 7 5 7 6 2 2 8
Mechanical Engineering 1 1 1 1 2 3 4 4 7 10 21 30
Microbiology 3 2 2
Molecular Biology & Genetics 2 2 2
Neurscience & Behavior 20 18 17
Pharmacology & Toxicology 49 42 55 38 21 29 25 23 48 45
Physics 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2
Plant & Animal Science 247 196 201 199 218 183 167 241 224 233 178
Psychiatry / Psychology 73 69 54
Social Sciences, General 98 87 71
Space Science 16 20 20
Energy Science & Engineering 19
Environmental Science & Engineering 51
Biomedical Engineering 4

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