2025Times Higher Education World University Rankings

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual global university ranking published by Times Higher Education. From 2004 to 2009, THE collaborated with QS to collect data and jointly release the rankings each autumn. Since 2010, THE has published its own rankings in partnership with Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters). The ranking evaluates universities across five main categories: Teaching (30%), Research (30%), Citations (30%), Industry Income (2.5%), and International Outlook (7.5%), which are further divided into 13 specific performance indicators.
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NO.InstitutionRanking YearGlobal RankingOverall ScoreResearch EnvironmentResearch QualityTeachingIndustry IncomeInternational OutlookLocation
1University of Oxford2026198.2100.097.797.299.996.4United Kingdom
2Massachusetts Institute of Technology2026297.795.399.699.2100.091.9United States
3Princeton University2026397.297.399.098.298.085.4United States
4University of Cambridge2026397.299.997.196.287.696.3United Kingdom
5Harvard University2026597.1100.098.995.986.788.3United States
6Stanford University2026597.197.499.597.5100.083.9United States
7California Institute of Technology2026796.397.496.896.4100.087.9United States
8Imperial College London2026894.794.998.090.691.998.2United Kingdom
9University of California, Berkeley2026994.499.098.987.399.583.9United States
10Yale University20261094.194.597.294.687.681.4United States
11ETH Zurich20261193.197.294.588.583.795.1Switzerland
12Tsinghua University20261293.098.593.995.9100.053.4China (Mainland)
13Peking University20261392.397.989.095.4100.067.3China (Mainland)
14University of Pennsylvania20261490.890.396.188.197.978.4United States
15The University of Chicago20261590.690.196.889.676.479.7United States
16Johns Hopkins University20261690.189.996.384.6100.081.9United States
17National University of Singapore20261789.793.195.178.699.992.8Singapore
18Cornell University20261889.590.695.985.970.383.5United States
19University of California, Los Angeles20261889.591.495.686.093.569.2United States
20Columbia University20262089.487.895.987.874.883.7United States
21University of Toronto20262188.592.992.378.295.892.3Canada
22UCL20262287.585.997.677.874.797.5United Kingdom
23University of Michigan-Ann Arbor20262386.987.393.885.781.465.8United States
24Carnegie Mellon University20262485.083.099.072.785.584.3United States
25University of Washington20262583.780.097.677.081.670.1United States
26The University of Tokyo20262683.594.268.294.7100.050.8Japan
27Technical University of Munich20262783.484.891.371.9100.083.4Germany
28Duke University20262882.974.295.478.7100.074.2United States
29University of Edinburgh20262982.574.794.875.771.096.2United Kingdom
30Northwestern University20263081.976.096.973.296.071.0United States
31Nanyang Technological University, Singapore20263181.678.195.265.8100.093.6Singapore
32New York University20263181.678.594.374.674.874.1United States
33University of Hong Kong20263380.570.895.668.396.596.6Hong Kong SAR, China
34LMU Munich20263479.775.492.468.4100.078.7Germany
35École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne20263579.670.887.573.599.995.4Switzerland
36Fudan University20263679.377.184.879.599.853.8China (Mainland)
37University of Melbourne20263779.075.587.867.799.391.6Australia
38King’s College London20263878.772.195.564.272.396.9United Kingdom
39Zhejiang University20263978.378.484.375.0100.055.5China (Mainland)
40Shanghai Jiao Tong University20264077.679.180.275.4100.057.7China (Mainland)
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