World University Rankings by Times Higher Education 2013 - 2014

By EasyUni Staff | Last modified 11 Nov 2017

The TOP 20 ranked by the Times Higher Education

As in the previous years the top ten of the world’s best universities can be found in the United Kingdom and especially in the United States. As the previous two years the Californian Institute of Technology (US) is the number one amongst the best. The University of Oxford (UK) and the Harvard University (US) tied for second. The first university that is neither in the US nor in the UK is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich in Switzerland.

World Rank by THE		Name of education institution	Country
2013-2014	2012 - 2013	Name of education institution	Country
1	1	California Institute of Technology	US
2	4	Harvard University	US
2	2	University of Oxford	UK
4	3	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

Methodology of THE’s World University Ranking

All of the 620 universities were assessed on several performance indicators that are grouped into the listed five areas. It is important to mention that the Reputation survey for both Teaching and Research are the most factors that have the highest influence on the ranking.

Assessed Area	Performance criteria	Weight
Teaching	Total students / academic staff PhD awards / bachelor PhD / academic staff Reputation survey (teaching) Institutional income / Academic staff	30%
Research	Volume Income Reputation	30%
Citations	Research Impact Citations per paper	30%
Industry Income	Income from Industry	2.5%
International outlook	Ratio of international to domestic staff International co-authorship Ratio of international to domestic students	7.5%

Posted on 09 Oct 2017

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