THE World University Rankings 2013-14

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are out The final ranking of the season is now available from THE. More details of the methodology and regional and subject variations are available on the THE rankings site. Are they “the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry … Continued

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are out

The final ranking of the season is now available from THE.

More details of the methodology and regional and subject variations are available on the THE rankings site. Are they “the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments”? Perhaps. But there certainly seems to be more of a fuss about the launch than ever before.

Some exciting stats from the press release:

• There are 26 countries in the world top 200 list – two more than last year thanks to Turkey, Spain and Norway rejoining the group (Brazil drops out)
• The highest-ranked institution outside the US and the UK is Switzerland’s ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, which slips two places to 14th
• Asia’s number one is the University of Tokyo, rising four places to 23rd
• After the US and the UK, the Netherlands is the next best represented nation (12 institutions), but its number one, Leiden University, makes it only to 67th

So, without further ado, here is the Top 20…

The world top 20 is as follows:

2013-14 rank	2012-13 rank	Institution	Country
1	1	California Institute of Technology	US
2	4	Harvard University	US
2	2	University of Oxford	UK
4	2	Stanford University	US
5	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
6	6	Princeton University	US
7	7	University of Cambridge	UK
8	9	University of California, Berkeley	US
9	10	University of Chicago	US
10	8	Imperial College London	UK
11	11	Yale University	US
12	13	University of California, Los Angeles	US
13	14	Columbia University	US
14	12	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland
15	16	Johns Hopkins University	US
16	15	University of Pennsylvania	US
17	23	Duke University	US
18	20	University of Michigan	US
19	18	Cornell University	US
20	21	University of Toronto	Canada

And the UK rankings:

2	2	University of Oxford
7	7	University of Cambridge
10	8	Imperial College London
21	17	University College London
32	39	London School of Economics and Political Science
38	57	King’s College London
39	32	University of Edinburgh
58	49	University of Manchester
79	74	University of Bristol
80	80	Durham University
100	103	University of York
102	119	Royal Holloway, University of London
112	110	University of Sheffield
114	145	Queen Mary, University of London
117	139	University of Glasgow
117	108	University of St Andrews
121	110	University of Sussex
137	145	Lancaster University
139	142	University of Leeds
141	124	University of Warwick
146	130	University of Southampton
148	153	University of Exeter
153	158	University of Birmingham
157	120	University of Nottingham
161	196	University of Leicester
169	171	University of Liverpool
174	176	University of East Anglia
188	176	University of Aberdeen
194	176	University of Reading
196	201-225	University of Dundee
198	180	Newcastle University