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The Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong is ranked the ^6th globally in the latest QS World Rankings by Subject 2019 released on February 27, 2019.

The Faculty has consistently performed well in world rankings. In the QS University Subject Ranking, the Faculty was ranked the ^7th globally for two consecutive years in 2017 and 2018. The Faculty maintains its position among the top Education faculties in the latest QS ranking and moves up to the 6th place, joining the league of 1) University College London, 2) Harvard University, 3) Stanford University, 4) University of Oxford, and 5) University of Cambridge. In addition, the Times Higher Education (THE) University Subject Ranking for Education placed the Faculty as world number 4 for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019.

QS uses four criteria for its ranking system – Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation, Citations per paper, and H-index, which measures both the productivity and impact of a scholar’s publications. The relative weightings of these criteria vary slightly from discipline to discipline. For Education, the weightings are 50% Academic Reputation, 10% Employer Reputation, 20% Citations, and 20% H-index. The ratings reflect the academic peers’ and employers’ opinions of the Faculty, and also the achievements of academic staff in research (citations and impact). The Faculty has obtained a high indicative score of 88 and scored very strongly on all four criteria, which demonstrates the Faculty’s all-rounded accomplishments.

Professor A. Lin Goodwin, Dean of the Faculty, said: “My colleagues and I are very encouraged by the Faculty’s latest QS University Subject Ranking of 6, which reaffirms our position as a global leader in teaching and research. It is the result of the outstanding achievements by our Faculty members, students and alumni, and an outcome of our unremitting efforts in research, teaching and knowledge exchange. We will continue to strive for excellence and to maintain our high academic and research standards internationally.”

For more information about the Faculty, please visit the Faculty website at http://web.edu.hku.hk/ and our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/education.hku.

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