Outstanding Placings in QS Rankings by Subject

Top position in Germany goes to subject area Life Sciences & Medicine, and to Medicine in the individual ranking by subject. In the new 2021 QS World University Rankings by Subject, Heidelberg University has performed outstandingly in the subject area of Life Sciences & Medicine. Ranked 34th internationally, it tops the list of German universities, ahead of Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU, ranked 40th worldwide) and the Technical University of Munich (68th). Besides its ranking of broad subject areas, the QS Rankings by Subject, published in early March, comprises a second part listing individual subjects. In the individual subject ranking for Medicine, which moves up from 31st to 30th place internationally, Heidelberg has gained first place Germany-wide for the second successive year, ahead of LMU (43) and Charite - University Medicine Berlin (58). In the international comparison, Classics & Ancient History rank 5th - the best placing of a German university in the whole QS Rankings by Subject - and thereby come out top in Germany. In the rankings of the individual disciplines, other subjects represented at Heidelberg University are also very well positioned.