The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are out
The last rankings of the season are now available from THE. Not yet done a comparison with last year but the top 20 looks like this:
1 California Institute of Technology
=2 Harvard University
=2 Stanford University
4 University of Oxford
5 Princeton University
6 University of Cambridge
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8 Imperial College London
9 University of Chicago
10 University of California, Berkeley
11 Yale University
12 Columbia University
13 University of California, Los Angeles
14 Johns Hopkins University
15 ETH Zürich
16 University of Pennsylvania
17 University College London
18 University of Michigan
19 University of Toronto
20 Cornell University
CalTech at number one is perhaps a surprise and, I think, the first time the have been at the top of the pile. Four UK universities in the top 20 which is a reasonably creditable result. Oxford above Cambridge, unlike the recent QS ranking.
More details of the methodology and regional and subject variations are available on the THE rankings site. Is it the ‘gold standard’ of rankings as is claimed? Time will tell.
UK rankings
As the following shows, there are 12 UK institutions in the top 100:
4 University of Oxford
6 University of Cambridge
8 Imperial College London
17 University College London
36 University of Edinburgh
47 LSE
48 University of Manchester
56 King’s College London
66 University of Bristol
83 Durham University
85 University of St Andrews
99 University of Sussex
plus another 20 in the second 100
101 University of Sheffield
102 University of Glasgow
107 Royal Holloway
=121 University of York
=127 University of Southampton
=127 Queen Mary
=131 Lancaster University
133 University of Leeds
140 University of Nottingham
145 University of East Anglia
=146 Newcastle University
148 University of Birmingham
149 Birkbeck
=151 University of Aberdeen
156 The University of Exeter
=157 University of Warwick
=164 University of Reading
176 University of Dundee
=181 University of Liverpool
=197 University of Leicester
Perhaps some surprising results in there too? Plenty to keep people talking about here.
