{"id":49258,"date":"2017-06-01T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T02:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/?p=49258"},"modified":"2017-06-05T14:56:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T05:56:12","slug":"nine-subjects-in-global-top-100-waseda-jumps-in-newest-world-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/news\/49258","title":{"rendered":"Nine Subjects in Global Top 100 \u2013 Waseda jumps in newest world rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/subject-rankings\/2017\">World University Rankings by Subject\u00a02017<\/a> published March 8 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS*), Waseda University placed nine research areas in the global top 100, six more than just one year ago.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/03\/QS-subject-table-2-610x265.jpg\" alt=\"Waseda placed 9 subjects in the Global Top 100\" width=\"610\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/03\/QS-subject-table-2-610x265.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/assets\/uploads\/2017\/03\/QS-subject-table-2.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Waseda placed 9 subjects in the Global Top 100<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In its proposal chosen for major funding by the Education Ministry in 2014, Waseda University set a goal of having eighteen research areas in the global top 100 by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, six areas with worldwide recognition were chosen as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/en\/\">model units<\/a> for prioritized funding: Global Japanese Studies; Empirical Analyses of Political Economy; Health Promotion, Sports and Exercise; ICT and Robotics; Energy and Nanomaterials; and Multiscale Analysis, Modeling and Simulation.<\/p>\n<p>The results announced today, such as Sports-related Subjects ranked 19th in the world, show the impact of that initiative and Waseda\u2019s commitment to excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the top 200, generally considered the world\u2019s elite, Waseda has 24 subjects earning this distinction, three more than last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the five broad subject groupings, Arts &amp; Humanities and Social Science &amp; Management are both very high (45 &amp; 59, respectively), and two more, Natural Sciences (102) and Engineering &amp; Technology (105), are also on the verge of the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>These numbers demonstrate the University\u2019s overall strength and remarkable progress towards the goals described above. Waseda will continue its efforts as a leader in the world, in service to the world community.<\/p>\n<p>*Quacquarelli Symonds is a company headquartered in London, providing information and consulting services related to higher education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Get a quick introduction to the\u00a0University and our city Tokyo at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/whywaseda\/\">Why Waseda?<\/a>\u00a0(in 13 languages!)<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the World University Rankings by Subject\u00a02017 published March 8 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS*), Waseda Unive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":49267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[196,353,178],"class_list":["post-49258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-data-en","tag-editors-pick","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}