Among VNU’s five ranked disciplines in this ranking, Business & Management Studies was, for the first time, listed in the table together with 4 previously ranked disciplines including Computer Science and Information Systems, Mechanical, Aeronautical & Manufacturing Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics & Astronomy.

 

The QS World University Rankings by Subject are based on the following four indicators: Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Citations per Paper, and H-index (the productivity and the impact of the scientific publications of the faculty).

QS's ranking indicators emphasize the contribution and impact of the training quality of a broad subject area on society (through responses from academics and employers) as well as the contributions to scientific research activities (through Citations per Paper and H-index). The weights of the ranking indicators applied to different subject areas are not the same.