NSU only pvt university in Bangladesh ranked by subject in QS Ranking 2020
North South University (NSU) has been ranked in the QS World University Rankings 2020 by subject for the very first time, consequently becoming the only private university in Bangladesh to have achieved this milestone.
North South University secured the Global Rank of 401-450 in Business and Management Studies (School of Business and Economics) and of 551-600 in Computer Science and Information Systems (School of Engineering and Physical Sciences) in the 10th edition of the subject rankings, where 13,138 individual university programmes were assessed and ranked.
The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks the world's top universities in individual subject areas, covering 51 subjects. Rankings for each subject is compiled using four sources. The first two indicators are QS's global surveys of academics and employers, which are used to assess institutions' international reputation in each subject. The two other indicators are assessment of research impact, based on research citations per paper, and h-index in the relevant subject, both sourced from Elsevier's Scopus database, the world's most comprehensive research citations database. These four components are combined to produce the results for each of the subject rankings, with weightings adapted for each discipline.
Moreover, North South University continues to hold its leading position from Bangladesh across all ranking platforms. The university ranked as the top private university in Bangladesh in QS Asia Rankings 2020, besides being the only private university in the country to be among the Top 300 universities ranked in the region. Also, NSU has been declared the top private university by Webometrics rankings as well as the rankings published by Org Quest in Dhaka Tribune.
Earlier, NSU emerged in the list of Global Top 500 for Graduate Employability Ranking 2019, which compares the university's performance in terms of graduate employability outcomes and prospects. It was an achievement of an unprecedented scale for a private university in Bangladesh to have made it to the list for the very first time.