The 2014-2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Physical Sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 100 universities for physical sciences employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
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The Times Higher Education World University Rankings’ Physical Sciences subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas, defined by our data partners Thomson Reuters.
The full list of Physical Sciences subjects used to create this ranking is:
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Chemistry
- Crystallography
- Earth Sciences
- Mathematics & Statistics
- Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
- Nanotechnology
- Physics
- Polymer Science
- Physical Sciences - Other topics