2021Times 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 Oxford2022195.791.074.496.3United Kingdom
2California Institute of Technology2022295.093.690.483.8United States
3Harvard University2022295.094.548.979.8United States
4Stanford University2022494.992.391.079.7United States
5University of Cambridge2022594.690.956.795.8United Kingdom
6Massachusetts Institute of Technology2022594.690.993.789.9United States
7Princeton University2022793.689.588.880.7United States
8University of California, Berkeley2022892.285.784.777.6United States
9Yale University2022990.890.756.269.9United States
10The University of Chicago20221089.887.256.374.4United States
11Columbia University20221189.687.848.079.8United States
12Imperial College London20221289.381.470.897.5United Kingdom
13Johns Hopkins University20221388.480.093.774.6United States
14University of Pennsylvania20221388.484.577.669.7United States
15ETH Zurich20221588.281.362.597.9Switzerland
16Peking University20221687.591.493.165.1China (Mainland)
17Tsinghua University20221687.588.1100.050.6China (Mainland)
18University of Toronto20221887.277.661.289.1Canada
19UCL20221887.276.844.796.7United Kingdom
20University of California, Los Angeles20222086.782.156.565.1United States
21National University of Singapore20222185.276.375.494.4Singapore
22Cornell University20222285.078.638.375.4United States
23Duke University20222383.579.299.066.6United States
24University of Michigan-Ann Arbor20222483.178.648.959.5United States
25Northwestern University20222483.174.381.665.3United States
26New York University20222682.475.441.472.3United States
27London School of Economics and Political Science20222780.868.035.892.7United Kingdom
28Carnegie Mellon University20222880.664.759.080.8United States
29University of Washington20222979.868.846.361.7United States
30University of Edinburgh20223078.966.140.295.2United Kingdom
31University of Hong Kong20223078.966.258.598.8Hong Kong SAR, China
32LMU Munich20223278.668.1100.069.1Germany
33University of Melbourne20223377.867.574.994.0Australia
34University of California, San Diego20223477.760.596.668.1United States
35King’s College London20223576.057.643.795.9United Kingdom
36The University of Tokyo20223576.086.988.142.0Japan
37University of British Columbia20223775.861.647.494.9Canada
38Technical University of Munich20223875.664.5100.076.1Germany
39Karolinska Institute20223974.355.170.586.2Sweden
40École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne20224074.163.874.998.3Switzerland
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