Shanghai – It’s good news for the University of Florence, featured in the World University Rankings by Subject edited by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The Tuscan University is mentioned for 15 of the 42 analyzed disciplines this year, reveals the ranking announced today. For Pharmacy and Pharmacology and History, the University is among the top fifty in the world; for Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Law, Modern Languages, Medicine, Political Science and International Studies, and Statistics, the University of Florence is in the top 200. The university is also mentioned in the reports on Biology, Economics, Computer Sciences, and Mathematics. This is the 6th edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, which looked at 4226 universities from all regions of the world. Of these, only 945 were mentioned in the ranking, which is drawn up by the private and independent group on the basis of clear parameters, such as the vote of academics, of the students, of the companies that recruit the graduates, and the citation index. Compared to 2015, the University of Florence makes the cut in one more discipline (Economics), while in five disciplines it improved its score. In the general ranking by country, Florence is ninth. (9Colonne)
