Thanks to the hard work of faculty and student researchers, the School of Public Affairs in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University was recently ranked #3 in the U.S. and #7 globally for research on public administration in the 2019 ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects — ranking above institutions such as Harvard, Oxford and UC-Berkeley. The 2019 results demonstrate an increase from #5 in the U.S.