Medicine rises in QS world rankings

The Faculty of Medicine’s growing reputation around the world has led to a remarkable rise of 17 places in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022.

It means the Faculty is now ranked at 71st, cementing its place within the top 100 in the world.

Medicine was the University subject with the largest ranking increase this year.

The University increased its reputational rating for Medicine amongst academic peers and made improvement in its higher ‘hi-index’ score, which measures the productivity and impact of work published by scientists and scholars in the subject.

Professor Diana Eccles, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, commented: “We are incredibly proud of this outstanding result, which is a result of our highly skilled staff’s dedication to bringing research and education together to positively impact healthcare in the UK and around the world.

“Our success reflects our interdisciplinary nature in which we bring medics, scientists, engineers and biologists together to tackle some of the world’s most pressing medical issues. We are particularly pleased that this success has come against the unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, and I would like to thank all our staff and students for their hard work over the past few years.”

The Faculty of Medicine has just celebrated 50 years since we welcomed our first ever students to study for a medical degree in Southampton.

Since its inception, the Faculty has provided an innovative research-led curriculum that puts compassion and communication at the centre, giving students contact with patients early in their first year. This is alongside cutting-edge research in areas such as cancer, osteoporosis, asthma and nutrition, taking basic scientific discoveries in the laboratory and translating them into successful clinical treatments for the benefit of patients.

Our teams have been responsible for discovering the relationship between birth weight and a lifetime risk of chronic diseases; were the first to use fibre-optic bronchoscopy to demonstrate the cellular mechanisms in asthma; and have advanced our understanding of human development by investigating disorders of children caused by genetic changes in their mothers. We have pioneered the use of our own immune system to fight cancer.

In June last year, the University Southampton was ranked 77th in the QS World University Rankings 2022 – a climb of 25 places since 2018 and its highest ranking by QS since the University achieved 73rd overall in 2012.