ROME - In the latest QS World University Rankings the Sapienza University of Rome was judged the best in the world for Classics and Ancient History, beating both Oxford and Cambridge, with the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa coming in at ninth. 

 Though no Italian university was ranked in the overall top 100 in the world - the Politecnico di Milano being the highest ranked Italian institution at 137th - they did see some success in the rankings by subject.

  The Politecnico di Milano was judged fifth in the world for Art & Design and tenth for Architecture. In total eight Italian universities were in the top 50 for Classics. Sapienza was also in the top ten for Architecture.

  Italian institutions, however, saw much less success in Scientific and Technological subject areas, with no university in the top 50 for Medicine, Chemistry, Biology, Maths or Environmental Sciences.

  Other successes were Bocconi University in Milan ranked 18th in the world for Economics and 

  The global rankings were a fairly unsurprising picture, with MIT, Stanford and Harvard being the top three overall.

  ANSA also reports that Italian universities as a whole ranked fourth in the world for their Covid-19 scientific research, with the US, China and the UK taking the top three places and India fifth.

  The QS world rankings are compiled yearly, in collaboration with Scopus, using global analytic data relating to 13,883 programmes at 1,440 universities in 51 academic disciplines.

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