In the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject, PolyU has made a great leap moving up from the 50th place in 2012 to the 16th place in 2013 in the discipline of civil and structural engineering.

PolyU also tops the world in terms of the two objective research performance indicators – citations per paper and the H-index which measures both the scientific productivity of its researchers and the apparent scientific impact of its research.