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The University of Manchester has strengthened its global academic reputation, showing improvements across multiple disciplines in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, achieving four subjects ranked in the world鈥檚 top 10, 15 in the global top 25, and 45 in the top 100.

The rankings measure the quality and reputation of research and include measures on academic and employer reputation, citations performance and international collaboration.

The University remains in the top 40 globally in the broad subject rankings, with Engineering & Technology, Life Sciences & Medicine, and Social Sciences & Management all improving this year. Natural Sciences remained the same, while Arts & Humanities fell slightly. Life Sciences & Medicine achieved its highest ranking in the past seven years.

In individual subject rankings, the University was ranked in 46 subjects. Twenty subjects moved up in the rankings, 13 maintained their position and 13 declined.

Among the top performers, Geography moved into the global top 10, while Anatomy & Physiology rose into the top 25 worldwide.

Significant increases were also recorded in Medicine (up seven places to 26), Modern Languages (up seven places to 28), Physics (up 15 places to 34), Education (up 10 places to 35) and Dentistry (up to 48), reflecting the University鈥檚 continued strength across a diverse range of fields.

Professor Duncan Ivison, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Manchester said: 鈥淚 am really pleased to see the strong progress across so many of our subjects in this year鈥檚 QS rankings. From Geography breaking into the top 10 to Life Sciences & Medicine achieving its highest rank in seven years, these results show how our colleagues across the University are excelling in teaching, research and innovation across a wide range of disciplines.

鈥淲e will continue to raise our standards, pushing to be at our best across everything we do, providing the best experience for our students and strengthening our position among the best universities in the world.鈥�

Performance at the Detailed Subject Level 

• Four subjects ranked in the top 10 globally (up from three in 2025)
• 34 subjects ranked in the top 50 globally (up from 31 in 2025)
• 19 subjects ranked between 50-100 (up from 11 in 2025)
• A total of 45 subjects ranked in the top 100 worldwide (up from 44 in 2025) 

Top 10 Subjects 

Development Studies 鈥� ranked 5 (up from 11 in 2025)

Architecture 鈥� ranked 5 (same as 2025)

Geography 鈥� ranked 9 (up from 18)

Nursing 鈥� ranked 10 (same as 2025)

Subjects Ranked 11-25 

Petroleum engineering 鈥� ranked 12 (down from 10)

Materials science 鈥� ranked 17 (up from 21)

Engineering 鈥� chemical 鈥� ranked 17 (down from 16)

Pharmacy and pharmacology 鈥� ranked 18 (up from 25)

Sociology 鈥� ranked 20 (same as 2025)

Anthropology - ranked 20 (up from 21)

Accounting and Finance 鈥� ranked 21 (up from 23)

Chemistry 鈥� ranked 23 (down from 22)

English Language at Literature 鈥� ranked 22 (same as 2025)

Library and Information Management 鈥� ranked 23 (down from 20)

Anatomy and physiology 鈥� ranked 24 (up from 29)

Another 19 subjects are ranked between 26 and 50 and 19 between 50 and 100 globally, demonstrating a strong presence and broad academic excellence across subject areas.

The annual QS World University Rankings by Subject evaluate universities across 55 individual subjects and five broad subject areas, using indicators including academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact.

This year, QS analysed the reputation and research output of almost 6,277 institutions and 1,912 were ranked.

The University of Manchester is ranked 35th in the QS World University Rankings, 2025 (6th in the UK) and 46th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2025.  It was also recently recognised with 10 subjects featured in the top 100 in the  for 2026.