World University Rankings 2014-15
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World University Rankings 2014-15
Thursday, 2 October 2014, 10:21 am
Press Release: The Times Higher Education
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLISHES WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2014-15
- Concern for New Zealand as its only top-200 university, University of Auckland, falls down the rankings
California Institute of Technology holds on to the world number one spot for the fourth consecutive year, ahead of Harvard University in second and the University of Oxford in third
Leading Asian institutions continue to rise. Asia now has 24 universities in the world top 200, up from 20 last year. Two Asian universities now make the world top 25 and six make the top 50
Strong year for Australia, but bad news for New Zealand
UK loses three universities from the prestigious top 200 list, while power concentrates in the South East
Worrying evidence of decline in North America, with significant losses for both the US and Canada
Japan retains its position as Asia’s number one nation. But its universities lose ground against rising Asian nations, including China, Hong Kong and South Korea
Still no top-200 place for India, but it does have a new joint number-one university
Strong performance from the Middle East and North Africa, with Turkey making major rankings gains and representation for Morocco, Iran and Israel
The top 200 now features 28 countries, up from 26 countries last year, with Italy and Russia appearing as new entrants
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• FULL TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2014-15 - WORLD TOP 200
• NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES IN THE THE WUR 2014-15 TOP 400
• COUNTRY REPRESENTATION IN THE TOP 200
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• QUOTES FROM PHIL BATY, EDITOR, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
Times Higher Education (THE) magazine today publishes its 2014-15 World University Rankings – the 11th annual edition of the globally trusted rankings.
The California Institute of Technology retains its place at the top for the fourth consecutive year, with Harvard University retaining second place. The UK’s University of Oxford slips one place from joint second to third, Stanford University holds fourth place and the UK’s University of Cambridge moves up two places to fifth.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (down one place to sixth), Princeton University (down one place to seventh), the University of California, Berkeley (holding eighth) and Imperial College London and Yale University (sharing ninth place) complete the top ten. The University of Chicago loses its top ten place, dropping to 11th.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, powered by Thomson Reuters, are the world’s most comprehensive global league tables, using 13 separate performance indicators to examine a university’s strengths against all its core missions – research, knowledge transfer, international outlook and, uniquely among global rankings, the teaching environment.
The THE rankings have been built into government policy and institutions’ strategic plans across the globe, and are the most widely known and most widely used rankings among internationally mobile students.
The US continues to dominate the rankings, taking seven of the top 10 places and 15 of the top 20. But this year it has lost significant ground. It has 74 universities in the top 200, down from 77 last year. After a fairly stable performance last year, 60 per cent of the US universities lost ground this year, and the nation suffered an average fall of 5.34 rankings places. As with previous years, publicly funded US universities suffered the worst losses.
It was a strong year for Asia. There are now 24 universities from the Asian continent in the top 200, compared to 20 last year. This year, two of its institutions appear in the world top 25 (Tokyo University and the National University of Singapore).
Japan’s University of Tokyo maintained its status as Asia’s number one – holding steady in 23rd place – and Japan retained its position as Asia’s top nation for world-class institutions, with five of the top 200 universities. But of Japan’s five universities, four lost ground.
The National University of Singapore this year closed in on Tokyo’s position as the number one in Asia, moving up one place into 25th. Singapore’s other top-200 university, Nanyang Technological University, continued an extraordinary rise, moving from 76th to 61st.
South Korea’s Seoul National University retained its top 50 position (slipping from 44th to 50th), while the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology continued an impressive rise to 52nd place from 56th last year. Sungkyunkwan University joined the top 200 for the first time, in 148th place, while Yonsei University dropped out.
Peking University in China slipped from 45th to 48th, while its close rival, Tsinghua University, rose for another consecutive year, this year moving one place to 49th. China also gained a new top-200 entrant, Fudan University entering the elite list at 193.
The University of Hong Kong maintained its position at 43rd in the world, while the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology moved up from 57th to 51st. Hong Kong also saw City University Hong Kong regain its place in the top 200, in 192nd place.
Australia had a strong year: it gained a new top 200 entrant (the University of Adelaide joining in 164th), and most of its universities moved up the table, led by University of Melbourne in 33rd position (up one place from last year).
There are 11 countries with one top-200 representative: Austria (University of Vienna, joint 182nd), Finland (Helsinki, joint 103rd), Israel (Tel Aviv University, joint 188th), Italy (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 63rd), New Zealand (University of Auckland, joint 175th), Norway (Oslo, joint 186th), South Africa (University of Cape Town, joint 124th), Spain (Pompeu Fabra University, 165th), the Republic of Ireland (Trinity College Dublin, in 138th), Russia (Moscow State University, in joint 196th)and Taiwan (National Taiwan University, 155th).
Several countries have no top-200 institutions, but are represented in the 200-400 list, including: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland, India, Iran, Macau, Poland, Portugal and Thailand.
Comments
Phil Baty, the editor of Times Higher Education World University Rankings, said:
“East Asia’s top universities continue their strong upward movement in the rankings, on the back of strong government financial support, strong leadership and a strong commitment to excellence in higher education and research. We now have two Asian universities in the world top 25 for the first time, with eight Asian institutions in or very close to the world top 50 and 24 Asian institutions in the top 200 – four more than last year.
“At the same time, many Western universities, in many cases starved of vital public funding, are losing ground. There is much talk of a power shift from East to West, but these new world university rankings provide hard evidence of the phenomenon. There is little doubt that key East Asian nations have emerged as powerhouses in global higher education and research, while traditional leaders including the UK, Canada and the US, risk losing significant ground in the global knowledge economy.”
On New Zealand
“These results will make difficult reading for New Zealand, as its flagship university, Auckland falls further away from the top of the rankings, and other universities slip or stagnate. Competition in the global knowledge economy is intensifying, and New Zealand will need to invest and work hard strategically to stay competitive – making the best of its geographical advantages in the thriving Asia-Pacific region.”
Tables
THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2014-15 – NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITIES IN THE TOP 400
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2014-15 Rank
2013-14 Rank
Institution name
Country / region
175
164
University of Auckland
New Zealand
251-275
226-250
University of Otago
New Zealand
276-300
276-300
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
301-350
301-350
University of Canterbury
New Zealand
351-400
301-350
University of Waikato
New Zealand
THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2014-15 – FULL TOP 200
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If any of this table is reproduced, you must credit: Times Higher Education and link to the full results and analysis at www.thewur.com
2014-15 Rank
2013-14 Rank
Institution name
Country / region
1
1
California Institute of Technology
United States
2
2
Harvard University
United States
3
2
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
4
4
Stanford University
United States
5
7
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
6
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
7
6
Princeton University
United States
8
8
University of California, Berkeley
United States
9
10
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
9
11
Yale University
United States
11
9
University of Chicago
United States
12
12
University of California, Los Angeles
United States
13
14
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
Switzerland
14
13
Columbia University
United States
15
15
Johns Hopkins University
United States
16
16
University of Pennsylvania
United States
17
18
University of Michigan
United States
18
17
Duke University
United States
19
19
Cornell University
United States
20
20
University of Toronto
Canada
21
22
Northwestern University
United States
22
21
University College London
United Kingdom
23
23
University of Tokyo
Japan
24
24
Carnegie Mellon University
United States
25
26
National University of Singapore
Singapore
26
25
University of Washington
United States
27
28
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States
28
27
University of Texas at Austin
United States
29
29
University of Illinois - Urbana
United States
29
55
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Germany
29
30
University of Wisconsin Madison
United States
32
31
University of British Columbia
Canada
33
34
University of Melbourne
Australia
34
37
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
34
32
London School of Economics and Political Science
United Kingdom
36
39
University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
37
33
University of California, Santa Barbara
United States
38
40
New York University
United States
39
35
McGill University
Canada
40
38
King's College London
United Kingdom
41
40
University of California, San Diego
United States
42
42
Washington University Saint Louis
United States
43
43
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
44
36
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
45
48
Australian National University
Australia
46
46
University of Minnesota
United States
46
47
University of North Carolina
United States
48
45
Peking University
China
49
50
Tsinghua University
China
50
44
Seoul National University
Korea, Republic of
51
57
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
52
56
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korea, Republic of
52
58
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
54
52
Brown University
United States
55
52
University of California Davis
United States
55
61
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Belgium
57
50
Boston University
United States
58
49
Pennsylvania State University
United States
59
52
Kyoto University
Japan
60
72
University of Sydney
Australia
61
70
École Polytechnique
France
61
76
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
63
Not ranked
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Italy
64
67
Leiden University
Netherlands
65
63
University of Queensland Australia
Australia
66
60
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Korea, Republic of
67
63
University of Göttingen
Germany
68
59
Ohio State University
United States
69
65
Rice University
United States
70
68
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
Germany
71
69
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
72
73
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands
73
77
Wageningen University and Research Center
Netherlands
74
79
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
75
74
University of Basel
Switzerland
75
70
University of Southern California
United States
77
83
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
78
65
École Normale Supérieure, Paris
France
79
74
Utrecht University
Netherlands
80
94
Humboldt University of Berlin
Germany
81
86
Free University of Berlin
Germany
82
83
Michigan State University
United States
83
80
Durham University
United Kingdom
83
91
Monash University
Australia
85
201-225
Middle East Technical University
Turkey
86
103
University of Arizona
United States
86
90
University of Notre Dame
United States
88
93
University of California, Irvine
United States
88
80
Tufts University
United States
90
85
Ghent University
Belgium
91
132
University of Massachusetts
United States
91
78
University of Pittsburgh
United States
93
80
Emory University
United States
94
117
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom
94
92
McMaster University
Canada
96
88
Vanderbilt University
United States
97
97
University of Colorado
United States
98
103
Stockholm University
Sweden
98
87
Technical University of Munich
Germany
98
111
Uppsala University
Sweden
101
98
Maastricht University
Netherlands
102
62
Purdue University
United States
103
100
University of Helsinki
Finland
103
96
Pierre and Marie Curie University
France
103
141
University of Warwick
United Kingdom
103
121
University of Zürich
Switzerland
107
124
University of Geneva
Switzerland
107
114
Queen Mary, University of London
United Kingdom
109
136
University of California, Santa Cruz
United States
109
114
University of New South Wales
Australia
111
117
University of St. Andrews
United Kingdom
111
121
University of Sussex
United Kingdom
113
106
Université de Montréal
Canada
113
201-225
Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
Germany
113
100
University of York
United Kingdom
116
88
Case Western Reserve University
United States
117
98
University of Groningen
Netherlands
118
102
Royal Holloway, University of London
United Kingdom
119
123
Lund University
Sweden
120
114
Université Paris-Sud
France
121
95
University of Rochester
United States
121
112
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
121
117
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark
124
109
University of Alberta
Canada
124
126
University of Cape Town
South Africa
126
135
Boston College
United States
126
128
University of Florida
United States
126
117
Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
129
109
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
130
112
University of Virginia
United States
131
137
Lancaster University
United Kingdom
132
157
University of Bern
Switzerland
132
108
University of Maryland, College Park
United States
132
146
University of Southampton
United Kingdom
135
251-275
Dresden University of Technology
Germany
136
132
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
136
144
VU University Amsterdam
Netherlands
138
129
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
139
199
Boğaziçi University
Turkey
140
131
Radboud University Nijmegen
Netherlands
141
139
Colorado School of Mines
United States
141
159
Texas A&M University
United States
141
125
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Japan
144
106
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
144
103
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
United States
146
139
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
147
164
Brandeis University
United States
148
153
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom
148
201-225
Sungkyunkwan University
Korea, Republic of
150
148
University of California, Riverside
United States
150
132
Indiana University
United States
152
126
Dartmouth College
United States
153
138
Aarhus University
Denmark
154
148
University of Exeter
United Kingdom
155
142
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
156
129
RWTH Aachen University
Germany
157
169
University of Liverpool
United Kingdom
157
144
Osaka University
Japan
157
168
University of Western Australia
Australia
160
150
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
160
156
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
France
162
143
University of Utah
United States
163
152
University of Freiburg
Germany
164
201-225
University of Adelaide
Australia
165
201-225
Istanbul Technical University
Turkey
165
154
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
165
164
Pompeu Fabra University
Spain
165
150
Tohoku University
Japan
169
185
University of Miami
United States
170
164
University of Antwerp
Belgium
171
172
Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium
171
157
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom
173
160
Georgetown University
United States
173
201-225
University of Victoria
Canada
175
164
University of Auckland
New Zealand
175
161
University of Iowa
United States
177
Not ranked
Syracuse University
United States
178
188
University of Aberdeen
United Kingdom
178
155
Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble 1
France
180
174
University of Delaware
United States
180
178
University Paris Diderot - Paris 7
France
182
146
Arizona State University
United States
182
Not ranked
Sabanci University
Turkey
182
170
University of Vienna
Austria
185
184
Northeastern University
United States
186
185
University of Oslo
Norway
186
172
Yeshiva University
United States
188
185
University of Ottawa
Canada
188
178
Stony Brook University
United States
188
199
Tel Aviv University
Israel
191
176
State University of New York Buffalo
United States
192
201-225
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
193
201-225
Fudan University
China
193
183
Iowa State University
United States
195
181
University of Bonn
Germany
196
226-250
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
196
201-225
St George's, University of London
United Kingdom
198
174
University of East Anglia
United Kingdom
199
161
University of Leicester
United Kingdom
200
197
Florida Institute of Technology
United States
200
194
George Washington University
United States
THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2014-15:
COUNTRY REPRESENTATION IN THE TOP 200
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Country / region
Institutions in WUR top 200 2014-15
Institutions in WUR top 200 in 2013-14
Difference 2013-14 to 2014-15
Highest ranked institution
THE WUR 2014-15 Rank
United States
74
77
-3
California Institute of Technology
1
United Kingdom
29
31
-2
University of Oxford
3
Germany
12
10
2
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
29
Netherlands
11
12
-1
Leiden University
64
Canada
8
7
1
University of Toronto
20
Australia
8
7
1
University of Melbourne
33
Switzerland
7
7
0
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich
13
France
7
8
-1
École Polytechnique
61
Sweden
5
5
0
Karolinska Institute
44
Japan
5
5
0
University of Tokyo
23
Turkey
4
1
3
Middle East Technical University
85
Korea, Republic of
4
4
0
Seoul National University
50
Hong Kong
4
3
1
University of Hong Kong
43
Belgium
4
5
-1
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
55
Denmark
3
3
0
Technical University of Denmark
121
China
3
2
1
Peking University
48
Singapore
2
2
0
National University of Singapore
25
Taiwan
1
1
0
National Taiwan University
155
Spain
1
1
0
Pompeu Fabra University
165
South Africa
1
1
0
University of Cape Town
124
Russian Federation
1
0
1
Lomonosov Moscow State University
196
Norway
1
1
0
University of Oslo
186
New Zealand
1
1
0
University of Auckland
175
Italy
1
0
1
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
63
Israel
1
2
-1
Tel Aviv University
188
Ireland
1
2
-1
Trinity College Dublin
138
Finland
1
1
0
University of Helsinki
103
Austria
1
1
0
University of Vienna
182
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Notes to editors
Methodology key facts
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-15 draw upon:
• The world’s largest academic reputation survey (around 10,000 academics in 2014, and almost 70,000 since 2010)
• 50 million citations analysed and compared with the world average from the same field
• Arts, humanities and social sciences placed on an equal footing with science
• Thirteen indicators across five areas have been taken into account, making this the ONLY world rankings to examine ALL the core missions of a modern global university: research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity
The indicators are:
Industry income – innovation
1. Research income from industry/academic staff
Teaching – the learning environment
2. Reputation survey – teaching
3. Staff-to-student ratio
4. PhDs/undergraduate degrees awarded
5. PhDs awarded/academic staff
6. Institutional income/academic staff
Citations – research influence
7. Citation impact (normalised average citations per paper)
Research – volume, income and reputation
8. Reputation survey – research
9. Research income/academic staff
10. Scholarly papers/academic staff and research staff
International outlook – staff, students and research
11. International students/total students
12. International academic staff/total academic staff
13. Scholarly papers with one or more international co-authors/total scholarly papers
Terminology and intellectual property
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• Data for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings were provided by Thomson Reuters from its Global Institutional Profiles Project, a multi-stage process that collects and validates factual data about academic institutional performance across a range of aspects and multiple disciplines. http://science.thomsonreuters.com/globalprofilesproject/
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