The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 have been published. As last year, the top rank is held by the University of Oxford, UK. The University of Cambridge, also UK, has improved compared with last year, jumping from fourth to second place. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Stanford University, both CA, USA, share the third place.

As in last year’s ranking, the top 20 are dominated by U.S. and UK universities. The top institution based in continental Europe is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, in tenth place, and the top Asian university is the National University of Singapore at rank 22.

Top 20 Universities

 

Rank	Institution	Country	Score
1	University of Oxford	UK	94.3
2	University of Cambridge	UK	93.2
3	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA	93.0
3	Stanford University	USA	93.0
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	92.5
6	Harvard University	USA	91.8
7	Princeton University	USA	91.1
8	Imperial College London	UK	89.2
9	University of Chicago	USA	88.6
10	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich	Switzerland	87.7
10	University of Pennsylvania	USA	87.7
12	Yale University	USA	87.6
13	Johns Hopkins University	USA	86.5
14	Columbia University	USA	86.0
15	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	USA	85.7
16	University College London	UK	85.3
17	Duke University	USA	85.1
18	University of California, Berkeley	USA	84.3
19	Cornell University	USA	84.2
20	Northwestern University	USA	83.3

 

Methodology

The Times Higher Education ranking uses 13 performance indicators, grouped into five areas:

• Teaching: the learning environment (30 % of the overall ranking score)
• Research: volume, income, and reputation (30 %)
• Citations: research influence (30 %)
• International outlook: staff, students, and research (7.5 %)
• Industry income: knowledge transfer (2.5 %)

Institutions provide and sign off their institutional data for use in the rankings. Bibliometric data is supplied by Elsevier. The calculation of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has been subject to an independent audit.

 

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Source

• Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018
  in partnership with Elsevier

Also of Interest

• Academic Ranking of World Universities 2017,
  ChemistryViews.org 2017.
  Harvard University keeps top rank for the 15th consecutive year
• CWTS Leiden Ranking 2017,
  ChemistryViews.org 2017.
  Assessing the scientific performance of over 900 universities based on bibliometric indicators
• World University Rankings 2016–2017,
  ChemistryViews.org 2016.
  Times Higher Education university ranking places Oxford University in the top spot for the first time