Fifty-two universities in the Arab region are featured in the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published earlier this month.
The rankings by subject are part of the QS World University Rankings portfolio published each year by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a British higher-education analytics company.
The 2022 subject listings analyse the performance of 15,200 individual academic programmes in 51 subjects at more than 1,500 universities around the world. The subjects ranked include 324 programmes in the Arab region.
Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals had two of the region’s top programmes, ranking sixth globally in petroleum engineering and 16th in mineral and mining engineering.
Besides evaluating programmes in specific subjects, the list also ranks universities in five broad subject categories: arts and humanities, engineering and technology, life sciences and medicine, natural sciences, and social sciences and management.
Following are examples of how some universities fared in the lasting listings.