Penn Nursing Ranked #1 Nursing School in the World
The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is the number one nursing school in the world according to a recent ranking by QS World University.
March 28, 2016The rankings highlight the world’s top universities in 42 different subject areas based on academic reputation, employer reputation, and research impact.
The QS World University Rankings by Subject rankings aim to help prospective students identify the world’s leading schools in their chosen field. Each of the subject rankings is compiled using four sources. The first two of these are QS’s global surveys of academics and employers, which are used to assess institutions’ international reputation in each subject. The second two indicators assess research impact, based on research citations per paper and h-index (a way of measuring both the productivity and impact of the published work) in the relevant subject.
These four components are combined to produce the results for each of the subject rankings, with weightings adapted for each discipline. In 2016, the QS World University Rankings by Subject were based on responses from 77,000 academics worldwide.