The 91̽»¨ landed at No. 9 with 45 subjects ranked in the top 10 in the . The ranking features the top global universities in 227 subjects covering all academic disciplines in the sciences and social sciences. This is the highest the 91̽»¨has placed in a global subject ranking.
Social work at the 91̽»¨was ranked as the best such program in the world, while the UW’s oceanography and audiology & speech language pathology programs each ranked second. In all, 22 91̽»¨subjects were rated among the top five in the world.
The CWUR Rankings by Subject 2017 highlights the world’s elite universities in the sciences and the social sciences, based on the number of research articles in top-tier journals. Data is obtained from Clarivate Analytics (previously the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters). More information about the methodology is available .
The new CWUR global subjects ranking joins several others in which the 91̽»¨is highly regarded. Most recently, the 91̽»¨had 52 subjects ranked in the top 10 on the ranking.
Last fall, the ranking placed the 91̽»¨at No. 11, while Reuters named the UW . The of Scientific Papers for World Universities ranked the 91̽»¨No. 6 in 2016. The  placed the 91̽»¨at No. 25, fourth among U.S. public institutions, and the  from the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was released in August and ranked the 91̽»¨No. 15, also fourth among U.S. public institutions.
The following  ranked in the top 10 of the CWUR’s subject rankings:
- Acoustics (6th)
- Anatomy & morphology (10th)
- Anesthesiology (6th)
- Audiology & speech-language pathology (2nd)
- Biochemical research methods (3rd)
- Biotechnology & applied microbiology (4th)
- Critical care medicine (6th)
- Emergency medicine (4th)
- Endocrinology & metabolism (8th)
- Family studies (5th, tied)
- Fisheries (4th)
- Genetics & heredity (5th)
- Geosciences, multidisciplinary (5th)
- Geriatrics & gerontology (5th)
- Gerontology (8th)
- Health care sciences & services (8th)
- Health policy & services (6th)
- Hematology (7th)
- Immunology (4th)
- Infectious diseases (4th)
- Information science & library science (6th)
- Mathematical & computational biology (6th)
- Medical informatics (3rd, tied)
- Medical laboratory technology (8th)
- Medicine, general & internal (5th)
- Medicine, research & experimental (4th)
- Meteorology & atmospheric sciences (6th)
- Microbiology (3rd)
- Oceanography (2nd)
- Otorhinolaryngology (10th)
- Parasitology (8th)
- Pediatrics (7th)
- Peripheral vascular disease (5th)
- Psychology, applied (7th)
- Psychology, clinical (9th)
- Public, environmental & occupational health (5th)
- Rehabilitation (10th)
- Social sciences, interdisciplinary (7th)
- Social work (1st)
- Sport sciences (6th)
- Statistics & probability (4th)
- Toxicology (8th)
- Urology & nephrology (8th)
- Virology (3rd, tied)
- Women’s studies (5th)