{"id":9628,"date":"2026-03-31T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T07:51:22","slug":"waseda-ranked-in-worlds-top-100-in-13-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/news-en\/9628","title":{"rendered":"Waseda Ranked in World\u2019s Top 100 in 13 Subjects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Waseda University Ranked in World\u2019s Top 100 in 2 Subject Areas, Top 50 in 2 Subjects, and Top 100 in 13 Subjects Total<\/h1>\n<h2>The QS World University Rankings by Subject<\/h2>\n<p>The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026 were announced on March 25, 2026. Institutions are ranked in 5 broad subject areas and 55 individual subjects. For the 2026 edition, 6,273 universities worldwide were surveyed, with 1,908 being assigned a position in the rankings.<\/p>\n<h3>Waseda ranked in the top 100 worldwide in 2 of the 5 broad subject areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Arts &amp; Humanities\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #61\uff08#3 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Social Sciences &amp; Management\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #78\uff08#3 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.credential.net\/0eaee5ad-5ca5-4361-addf-2b6b6045e76f\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Arts-Humanities-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Social-Sciences-Management-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span data-teams=\"true\">Waseda ranked within the top 50 worldwide in 2 of the 55 subjects and within the top 100 worldwide in 13<\/span><span data-teams=\"true\"> subjects total<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4>Rankings within 50<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>History of Art\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #26-50\uff08#2 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Modern Languages\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #36\uff08#3 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Modern-Languages-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-History-Of-Art-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Rankings between 51-100<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Politics &amp; International Studies\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #57\uff08#2 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Law\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #72\uff08#3 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Economics &amp; Econometrics\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #84\uff08#2 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Accounting &amp; Finance\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #90\uff08#2 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Linguistics\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #92\uff08#4 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Sociology\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #92\uff08#3 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Archaeology\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #51-100\uff08#2 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Engineering &#8211; Mineral &amp; Mining\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #51-100\uff08#1 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Petroleum Engineering\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #51-100\uff08#2 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Sports-related Subjects\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #51-100\uff08#1 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Classics &amp; Ancient History\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Rank #51-150\uff08#7 in Japan\uff09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Politics-International-Studies-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Law-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Economics-Econometrics-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Engineering-Mineral-Mining-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Linguistics-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Sociology-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Archaeology-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Accounting-Finance-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Petroleum-Engineering-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Sports-Related-Subjects-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/03\/QS-World-University-Rankings-by-Subject-Classics-Ancient-History-2026-Badge-610x750.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rankings are based on five categories (the weight of each category differs depending on the subject): \u2460 academic reputation, \u2461 employer reputation, \u2462 research citations per paper, \u2463 H-index, \u2464 international research network (by broad faculty area). More information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/subject-rankings\/2026\">the QS Subject Rankings2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u203bQuacquarelli Symonds (QS): A British higher education analytics firm. Every year the firm evaluates universities worldwide and publishes various university rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University Ranked in World\u2019s Top 100 in 2 Subject Areas, Top 50 in 2 Subjects, and Top 100 in 13 Subjec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[94,134,132,133],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-general-en","tag-newsletter-e","tag-vision150-en","tag-vision-now-e"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9662,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions\/9662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}