12 March 2025
UCD College of Arts & Humanities achieves Top-50 QS Ranking
UCD College of Arts & Humanities is delighted to have sustained the top-50 listing in the latest (opens in a new window)QS World University Rankings by Subject for English Language and Literature (41) and top 100 for History and Performing Arts. In addition, the QS classification of Arts & Humanities remained the strongest entry from UCD.
Elsewhere in UCD, three other subjects at University College Dublin ranked in the top-50 globally: Veterinary Science, Petroleum Engineering and Nursing.
The QS Subject Rankings are based on five criteria: Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Citations per Paper, H-Index, and International Research Network (IRN) Index. For the 2025 Subject Rankings, QS analysed the reputation and research data of over 5,200 institutions. From this, more than 1,700 were ranked across a total of 55 academic disciplines and five broad subject areas.
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The University was ranked in forty-three subjects overall by QS, with five subjects rising compared to the 2024 rankings and across all five broad subject areas. The QS classification of Arts & Humanities remained the strongest entry from UCD.
There were nine subjects at UCD also ranked between 51 and 100 by QS, including four subjects offered as part of our undergraduate (opens in a new window)BA Humanities and BA Joint Honours programmes; Archaeology, History, Performing Arts & Philosophy.