Lancaster University has been ranked in the Top 10 in the world for its teaching of linguistics and placed in the Top 100 for eight other subjects.
Linguistics at the university came in tenth in the latest QS World Rankings which ranks subjects taught at more than 1,500 educational institutions across the globe.
Lancaster also ranks in the top 50 for English Language and Literature (40th) and the top 100 for Art and Design (51-100), Modern Languages (joint 85th), Environmental Sciences (joint 93rd), Accounting and Finance (joint 65th), Business and Management Studies (joint 70th), Sociology (joint 83rd) and Statistics and Operational Research (51-100).
The rankings base their findings on a range of quality indicators from academic reputation (based on votes from over 151,000 academics around the world) to employer reputation, research paper citations and other measures of research quality such as impact and research collaboration stability.
“Whether we are exploring great works of Literature or the Amazon, analysing business practices or social care, Lancaster University is home to research that seeks to engage with and change the world for the better," said Professor Andy Schofield, vice-chancellor at Lancaster University.
"To have many of our areas of excellence recognised in this global ranking is something for us all to be rightly proud of.”
In addition to a number of high performing individual subjects, Lancaster’s Arts and Humanities as a whole moved into the top 75 (72nd). Lancaster also saw an improvement in ranking for all five broad subject areas.
Lancaster’s world-leading Department of Linguistics and English Language examines how language works in cognition, communication and, in particular, at the heart of society.
The research at the university makes a real difference, improving health communication, transforming how we test for language proficiency, protecting people from online abuse, and more.
The Department was awarded The Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education for its work in corpus linguistics. It is home to the ESRC Centre of Corpus Approaches to the Social Science, which provides insights into a host of areas of pressing concern, including cyber security, climate change and education.
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