QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019.

Kazakh universities represented only two of the five subject areas of the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019.

Company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) published the results of the annual QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019.

Kazakh universities do not occupy high positions in the ranking. Kazakh national University named after al-Farabi in the 'Arts and Humanities' is a 339-e a place (in 2018 – 301-e a place), under 'Social Sciences and management' – 364-e a place. One of the best results in University ranking for individual subjects – under 'Modern languages', where he was in the first hundred (divided places from 51 th to 100 th). In 2018, the result of the University in this subject category were below (designated with 101 to 150).

The subjects 'Right', 'English language and literature' KazNU named after al-Farabi referred to the group of universities, enclosing a third hundred.

In ranking on the subject of 'Linguistics' is also present, Eurasian national University named after Gumilev. He was among the universities that have taken place in the 251-to 300-e, KazNU named after al-Farabi – from 201-to 250-E. Also, the Gumilyov Eurasian national University entered the rating on the subject of 'Physics and astronomy' (places with 551 to 600-e).

Subject areas of 'Engineering and technological Sciences', 'biomedical science', 'science' Kazakh universities are not represented.

The ranking evaluates the world's best universities for 48 subjects and five subject areas.

Subject QS World University Rankings 2019 is the result of the study, which relies on the opinion of more than 83 thousand teachers and more than 42 thousand employers. The rankings are assessed, including academic reputation of the University reputation among employers, citation index of scientific articles and h-index (the average productivity and efficiency of an employee of the University).

In the ranking of 2019 is dominated by universities in the U.S. and the UK.