Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), one of the leading education consultancies in the world, had released QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020 on March 4, 2020. The rankings covered 48 disciplines, sorted into five main subjects. Beijing Normal University has altogether 22 subjects listed on the Rankings. Economics and Econometrics ranked 12th among the universities in China (Mainland), Accounting and Finance 12th and Business & Managements Studies 11th.

Since 2011, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published the World University Rankings by Subject annually. The Rankings focuses on four dimensions: Academic reputation, Employer reputation, Citations per paper and H-Index (a high citation index based on the productivity and impact of a group of scientists of a university). The four components are combined to produce the results for each of the subject rankings, with weightings adapted for each subject. The first two subjective evaluation indicators always account for large weightings (from 40% to 95%).   

Ranking index and weight: