Three UK conservatoires make top four in QS world rankings for Performing Arts
Harriet Clifford
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
The higher-education think-tank has tonight published its QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2021, with the UK boasting three of the top four for Performing Arts.
Robert McFadzeanRCS
QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) has published its eleventh World University Rankings by Subject, placing the Royal College of Music in second place with a score of 91.2, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in third (89.2), and the Royal Academy of Music in fourth (88.6).
The top spot went to The Juilliard School in New York and Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris is in fifth.
HE institutions are ranked using four key components: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, and H-index (based on the set of the academic’s most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications).
Speaking of the RCS’s position in the top three, professor Jeffrey Sharkey, principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, said: ‘It is especially gratifying to achieve this recognition at a time of great challenge to the arts in a global pandemic.
‘It is a tribute to the entire RCS community of students and staff who continue to show such creativity and determination to keep the arts flourishing and developing.
‘This exciting news demonstrates that our wider community places faith and trust in our conservatoire to be a place where the arts will continue to tell our shared stories and help rebuild our bonds of society.’
The full list of rankings by subject can be viewed here.