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Programa Ejecutivo en PENSAMIENTO ESTRATÉGICO

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Education Management: QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013

This year’s revamped QS World University Rankings by Subject have been expanded to cover a record 30 disciplines, offering students the most detailed comparison of the world’s top universities at individual discipline level.

Find out what's new in this year's subject rankings, with an overview of the top-level competition, followed by a closer look at the performance of universities in different parts of the world.

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013: Fast facts

• 30 subjects ranked (one more than last year)
• 2,858 universities evaluated
• Responses from 70,000 academic experts and graduate recruiters worldwide
• More than 68m citation attributions from Scopus (bibliometric database)
• 8,391 programs manually verified
• 1,526 institutions ranked, with an average of 9 subjects per institution
• 678 universities identified among the world’s top 200 for at least one subject

Competition at the top 

Across the 30 disciplines, the number one spots are distributed among large US and UK institutions that operate primarily in English: Harvard (10 number one places), MIT (7), UC Berkeley (4),Oxford (4), Cambridge (3), Imperial College London (1) and UC Davis (1).

The 30 individual tables are not intended to combine to form an overall ranking, and indeed there is more than one way to interpret which university comes out on top if we attempt to do so.

While Harvard claims more top spots than any other institution, the university that appears in the top ten in most disciplines is the University of Cambridge, with 27, ahead of Oxford and Berkeley on 23, Stanford (22) and Harvard (21).

Cambridge’s near-blanket presence in the top ten indicates that, perhaps more than any other institution, it can claim to be world-class in nearly every major area of academic research. Yet Harvard and MIT have more departments that are truly world leading.

The view from employers

While US institutions remain preeminent for research, the rankings suggest that graduates from the UK’s two most famous institutions are more highly regarded than their Ivy League rivals by the world’s employers.

Employers regard Cambridge graduates as the world’s best in 13 of the 30 subjects, while Oxford ties with Harvard on seven, ahead of London School of Economics (LSE), University of Tokyo and UC Davis, top in one subject each.

The US/UK monopoly extends to nearly two-thirds of the elite positions – 397 of the 600 top-20 spots across the 30 disciplines. Yet there is plenty of evidence in these rankings of world-class departments outside of this traditional power cluster.

Asia excels in engineering 

The rankings feature several notable performances from Asian universities, particularly in the hotly contested areas of science, engineering and technology.

Nine of the top 20 institutions in civil engineering are Asian, led by Japan’s University of Tokyo (3rd) and Kyoto University (7th), Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (8=) and National University of Singapore (11), alongside three universities from Hong Kong and two from mainland China. The US and UK account for just five of the top 20.

“The shift in global economic power is transforming the international higher education landscape, with the likes of Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore emerging as genuine challengers to the traditional elite,” says QS head of research Ben Sowter. “Many institutions in Europe are struggling to keep pace in technical disciplines, in which financial resources are particularly crucial.”

The pace of change is demonstrated by the rapid development of young Asian tech-focused institutions.Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Nanyang Technological University have been in existence for just over 20 years, yet are now established in the global top 20 in several engineering and technical disciplines.

France and Germany feel the squeeze

France and Germany have both introduced ‘excellence initiatives’ to improve the performance of their top universities, and both can point to positive performances in some areas. Germany has five top-50 institutions for mechanical engineering, led by Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, and an impressive five institutions in the top 35 for physics – only the US can claim more.

France can also point to top-20 performances from three of its universities: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) ranks 14th for modern languages, Sciences Po Paris is 16th for politics and international studies, and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ranks 18th for law and 19th for history.

Yet the rankings also reveal areas in which both France and Germany are trailing in the wake of intensified global competition. Germany has no top-50 institutions in important areas such as mathematics and economics, while there are no French institutions in the top 50 in computer science or any of the four areas of engineering: chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical.

The increased competition that is squeezing some European institutions out of the global elite is coming not only from Asia, but also increasingly Australia. University of Melbourne makes the global top ten in six subjects, ahead of Australian National University on four, University of Queensland on two, and Monash University on one. Australian universities make the global top 20 in 25 of the 30 disciplines.

Mixed results for the BRIC nations

While Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan emerge as global players in several disciplines, the world’s major emerging economies see more mixed fortunes.

The rankings are positive for China, whose ambitious schemes to improve higher education standards in the last 20 years have yet to see its universities break the top 20 in the overall QS World University Rankings. Here however, there are Chinese universities in the top 20 in ten disciplines, with Tsinghua University ranking tenth in materials sciences and eleventh in statistics.

Brazil’s efforts to improve its research output have been less high profile, yet its universities have been steadily improving their international standing in recent years. Universidade de Sao Paulo in particular performs well here, ranking among the top 50 universities in the world in four disciplines. Brazil’s total of 19 top-200 universities in at least one of the 30 subjects compares to eight from Chile, five from Argentina, four from Mexico and two from Colombia.

Yet there are less encouraging signs from the remaining two BRIC nations, India and Russia. The Indian Institutes of Technology perform reasonably well in their specialist areas, with the IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras all making the top 50 in at least one of the engineering disciplines. Yet there are 11 subjects in which not a single Indian institution makes the top 200.

The situation is worse in Russia, whose institutions feature in just eight of the 30 disciplines. The best performance comes from Lomonosov Moscow State University, which makes the top 50 in mathematics, a subject in which Russia has historically produced numerous world leaders.

See the full QS World University Rankings by Subject now >

Fuente: QS Top Universities

KEY TO SUCCESS, according to Dilbert

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IMPROVE CORPORATE CULTURE, according to Dilbert

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U.S. Vicepresident Joe Biden Addresses Relations with Asia-Pacific Region

US Vice president visits George Washington University to discuss future foreign policy during an event hosted by the Center for American Progress

The economic success of Asia is fundamentally linked to the U.S., Vice President Joe Biden said at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress (CAP) in the Jack Morton Auditorium last Thursday. His address, which focused on the Obama administration’s effort to strengthen relations with the Asia-Pacific region, took place a week before Mr. Biden visits India and Singapore.

The event opened with a brief welcome from George Washington University President Steven Knapp, followed by Rich Verma, a senior fellow at CAP. CAP President Neera Tanden provided introductory remarks before inviting Mr. Biden to the stage.

In his address, the vice president explained the U.S. is rebalancing its attention and resources toward the Asia-Pacific because the region’s promising economy -which includes a middle class of 1 billion people and fast-emerging markets- has the potential to generate growth around the world, including in the U.S. A recent free trade agreement with South Korea, negotiations to create the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and strides toward improving relations with China are part of the U.S. effort to foster closer ties with Asia and the Pacific.

Building a healthy relationship will involve “strengthening our alliances, deepening security partnerships and investing like never before in regional institutions to help manage disputes peacefully”, Mr. Biden said.

His upcoming trips to India and Singapore show a commitment to this rebalancing policy. India’s increased engagement and economic growth in Southeast Asia present an opportunity for the U.S. to develop new trade and transportation, while Singapore has an economy ranked the 17th largest in the world. Cooperation with other emerging countries in Southeast Asia is supported through efforts like President Obama’s Expanded Economic Engagement Initiative with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

The Western Hemisphere has a role to play, too: Western countries are involved in the TPP and the Pacific Alliance, two efforts to bring countries closer together. The TPP, if successful, will account for 40 percent of the world’s GDP, and it has the potential to set new standards for fair competition. Mr. Biden hopes the partnership will go into effect this year.

When he addressed America’s relationship with China moving forward, he predicted it will not involve conflict, but simply “a healthy mix of competition and cooperation”.

Pivoting toward the Asia-Pacific is going to involve challenges, Mr. Biden explained, among them addressing climate change.

He noted the U.S. will work with ASEAN to promote clean energy, help Pacific nations mitigate the effects of rising sea levels and conclude an agreement with China to reduce hydrofluorocarbon pollutants.

Mr. Biden also discussed reducing intimidation and maritime disputes because “economic growth critically depends on peace and stability”. The U.S. looks to China and ASEAN as they work on a code of conduct agreement for the South China Sea. In response to recent “provocative behavior” from North Korea, Mr. Biden said the U.S. welcomes dialogue “if North Korea is prepared to engage in genuine negotiations”.

Despite the new focus on the Asia-Pacific region, Mr. Biden insisted the U.S. will not abandon relationships with Europe or neglect its watch over the Middle East.

“To use the vernacular, we can walk and chew gum at the same time”, he said. “That’s what big powers do”.

Achieving this is possible because “we’re better positioned than any time before to be able to do it all… America is back”, he said, listing 7.2 million new jobs created since 2009 and increases in manufacturing as evidence. He also pointed out the resiliency of Americans, who he said achieve innovation by learning to challenge orthodoxy.

“The president and I are going to continue to reach across the ocean, both east and west, particularly to the indispensable Pacific nations, to help shape a prosperous future for America, for their people and, I would argue, for the world”, Mr. Biden concluded.

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