Seven Universities in NZ make Expanded World Rankings
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Seven Universities in NZ make Expanded World Rankings
Thursday, 1 October 2015, 11:55 am
Press Release: The Times Higher Education
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SEVEN UNIVERSITIES IN NEW ZEALAND MAKE THE NEWLY EXPANDED WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS TOP 800
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLISHES EXPANDED WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2015-16
London, 30th September 2015: The Times Higher Education has published the 12th edition of its World University Rankings. There are seven New Zealand institutions in the newly expanded World University Rankings top 800 ranking, with the University of Auckland its top performer in the top 200 (joint 172nd).
RANK 2015–16
Institution
=172
University of Auckland
201-250
University of Otago
351-400
Victoria University of Wellington
401-500
University of Canterbury
401-500
University of Waikato
501-600
Massey University
601-800
Auckland University of Technology
THE World University Rankings are partly based on publication and citation data from Elsevier’s Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, and include analytics from SciVal, Elsevier’s tool to calculate comparative research metrics. The ranking features universities in 70 countries, with 29 new countries included this year. Countries entering this year include Indonesia, Malaysia, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Latvia, Oman, Qatar and the Ukraine.
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Phil Baty, the editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings said:
“It is good news for New Zealand to have once again made this prestigious list of the world’s top universities. It is now among one of 70 countries in the elite four per cent of universities in the world - something it can be very proud of achieving again this year.”
Elsewhere, Australia has 31 universities represented in the newly expanded World University Rankings top 800, with eight in the top 200 and a further 14 ranked between 201 and 400.
In Asia, the National University of Singapore holds Asia’s number one spot (in 26th place) while China’s two leading universities (Peking and Tsinghua) are firmly established in the world’s elite top 50 group at 42nd and joint 47th respectively. Japan has two institutions in the top 200, University of Tokyo (43rd) and Kyoto University (joint 88th), while South Korea has four institutions in the top 200: Seoul National University (85th), Pohang University of Science and Technology (116th), the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (148th) and Sungkyunkwan University (153rd). Hong Kong has three institutions in the top 200: the University of Hong Kong (joint 44th), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (59th) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (joint 138th). India has 17 institutions in the top 800 list, with two in the top 400 list, which are the Indian Institute of Science in the 251-300 group and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (351-400).
Phil Baty continued:
“It is a mixed picture for Asia. China’s two leading universities, Peking and Tsinghua, are firmly established within the world’s elite top 50 group. Singapore is another strong performer - it now boasts Asia’s number one university, the National University of Singapore in 26th place, and its compatriot, Nanyang Technological University, sits in its highest ever place, 55th.
“But tough times for Japan and disappointment for South Korea mean that leading Asian nations’ grip on the higher ranks of the THE World University Rankings is loose. Many leading institutions, particularly in East Asia, have been focussing heavily on attaining world class status, backed with funding and powerful political will. But this rankings demonstrates how difficult a task this is, as universities right across the world continue to improve.”
THE World University Rankings feature universities in 70 countries, with 29 new countries included this year. Countries entering this year include Indonesia, Malaysia, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Latvia, Oman, Qatar and the Ukraine_._ While the US remains the world leader when it comes to elite universities, its dominance has been eroded this year. It has six of the top ten universities – down from seven last year – and 39 of the top 100 – down from 45 last year.
Phil Baty continued:
“The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, now in their 12th year, apply rigorous standards, using tough global benchmarks across all of a global research university’s key missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The results are trusted by students and their families and by academics, university leaders and governments. The top 800 list represents just 4 per cent of the world’s higher education institutions, so we congratulate all institutions who have made this year’s list.
“This year’s expanded list is testament to just how competitive global higher education has become – our top 800 universities come from 70 different countries, and the traditional dominance of the US is eroding. Make no mistake – many countries aspire to have world class universities competing with the very best in the world, and no one at the top can afford to rest on their laurels. You have to run very fast just to stand still and there are many rising stars from a wide range of nations seeking to gain the upper hand in the 21stcentury knowledge economy.”
THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2015-16 – FULL TOP 200
Copyright Times Higher Education 2015
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Rank 2015-16
Institution
Country
1
California Institute of Technology
US
2
University of Oxford
UK
3
Stanford University
US
4
University of Cambridge
UK
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
US
6
Harvard University
US
7
Princeton University
US
8
Imperial College London
UK
9
ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
10
University of Chicago
US
11
Johns Hopkins University
US
12
Yale University
US
13
University of California, Berkeley
US
14
University College London
UK
15
Columbia University
US
16
University of California, Los Angeles
US
17
University of Pennsylvania
US
18
Cornell University
US
19
University of Toronto
Canada
20
Duke University
US
21
University of Michigan
US
22
Carnegie Mellon University
US
23
London School of Economics and Political Science
UK
24
University of Edinburgh
UK
25
Northwestern University
US
26
National University of Singapore
Singapore
27
King’s College London
UK
28
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
29
LMU Munich
Germany
30
New York University
US
31
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Switzerland
32
University of Washington
US
33
University of Melbourne
Australia
34
University of British Columbia
Canada
35
KU Leuven
Belgium
36
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
US
37
Heidelberg University
Germany
38
McGill University
Canada
39
University of California, San Diego
US
39
University of California, Santa Barbara
US
41
Georgia Institute of Technology
US
42
Peking University
China
43
University of Tokyo
Japan
44
University of California, Davis
US
44
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
46
University of Texas at Austin
US
47
Tsinghua University
China
47
Wageningen University and Research Center
Netherlands
49
Humboldt University of Berlin
Germany
50
University of Wisconsin-Madison
US
51
Brown University
US
52
Australian National University
Australia
53
Technical University of Munich
Germany
54
École Normale Supérieure
France
55
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
56
University of Manchester
UK
56
University of Sydney
Australia
58
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
59
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong
60
University of Queensland
Australia
60
Washington University in St Louis
US
62
Utrecht University
Netherlands
63
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
US
64
Boston University
US
65
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
65
University of Minnesota
US
67
Leiden University
Netherlands
68
University of Southern California
US
69
University of Bristol
UK
70
Durham University
UK
71
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Netherlands
72
Free University of Berlin
Germany
73
Monash University
Australia
74
University of Groningen
Netherlands
75
Pennsylvania State University
US
76
University of Glasgow
UK
76
University of Helsinki
Finland
78
University of Tübingen
Germany
79
University of Pittsburgh
US
80
University of Warwick
UK
81
Uppsala University
Sweden
82
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
82
University of New South Wales
Australia
84
University of Freiburg
Germany
85
Seoul National University
Korea, Republic of
86
University of St Andrews
UK
87
Vanderbilt University
US
88
Kyoto University
Japan
88
Maastricht University
Netherlands
90
Emory University
US
90
Lund University
Sweden
90
Ohio State University
US
93
University of Exeter
UK
94
University of Bonn
Germany
94
Georgetown University
US
94
McMaster University
Canada
97
University of Sheffield
UK
98
Queen Mary University of London
UK
99
University of Göttingen
Germany
99
Michigan State University
US
101
University of Basel
Switzerland
101
École Polytechnique
France
101
Rice University
US
104
Dartmouth College
US
104
University of Zurich
Switzerland
106
University of California, Irvine
US
106
University of Mannheim
Germany
108
University of Notre Dame
US
109
University of Western Australia
Australia
110
RWTH Aachen University
Germany
110
University of Southampton
UK
112
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Italy
113
University of Montreal
Canada
113
Pierre and Marie Curie University
France
113
Purdue University
US
116
Pohang University of Science and Technology
Korea, Republic of
117
University of Maryland, College Park
US
118
Ghent University
Belgium
119
University of Birmingham
UK
120
University of Bern
Switzerland
120
University of Cape Town
South Africa
120
University of Florida
US
123
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Germany
123
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
US
125
University of Münster
Germany
125
Radboud University Nijmegen
Netherlands
127
University of Colorado Boulder
US
127
Tufts University
US
129
Royal Holloway, University of London
UK
130
Lancaster University
UK
131
University of Geneva
Switzerland
131
University of York
UK
133
Case Western Reserve University
US
133
University of Leeds
UK
135
University of Oslo
Norway
136
Stockholm University
Sweden
137
University of Alberta
Canada
138
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
138
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Germany
140
University of Sussex
UK
141
University of Massachusetts
US
142
University of Vienna
Austria
143
University of Nottingham
UK
144
University of California, Santa Cruz
US
144
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
146
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Spain
147
University of Virginia
US
148
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Korea, Republic of
149
Aarhus University
Denmark
149
University of Adelaide
Australia
149
University of East Anglia
UK
149
University of Twente
Netherlands
153
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
Korea, Republic of
154
VU University Amsterdam
Netherlands
155
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Sweden
156
University of Cologne
Germany
157
University of Liverpool
UK
158
Dresden University of Technology
Germany
158
University of Rochester
US
160
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
161
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
161
University of Miami
US
163
University of Arizona
US
164
Pompeu Fabra University
Spain
164
University of Reading
UK
164
Yeshiva University
US
167
University of California, Riverside
US
167
University of Leicester
UK
167
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
167
Technical University of Denmark
Denmark
167
Université Catholique de Louvain
Belgium
172
University of Aberdeen
UK
172
University of Auckland
New Zealand
174
University of Barcelona
Spain
175
University of Konstanz
Germany
176
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
176
University College Dublin
Ireland
178
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
179
University of Waterloo
Canada
180
University of Gothenburg
Sweden
180
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Italy
182
University of Bergen
Norway
182
Cardiff University
UK
182
University of Utah
US
185
Brandeis University
US
185
University of Dundee
UK
185
University of Würzburg
Germany
188
Paris-Sud University
France
189
Arizona State University
US
190
University of Antwerp
Belgium
190
Boston College
US
192
Ulm University
Germany
193
University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
193
Texas A&M University
US
195
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany
196
Newcastle University
UK
196
St George’s, University of London
UK
198
University of Trento
Italy
199
Paris Diderot University – Paris 7
France
200
Queen’s University Belfast
UK
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Methodology key facts
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-16 draw upon:
800 universities ranked, up from 400 from last year, with 70 countries included (29 more than in 2014)
Thirteen performance indicators make these the ONLY world rankings to examine ALL the core missions of the modern global university – research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity
The world’s largest invitation-only academic reputation survey (including responses from more than 10,000 senior academics in 2014-15)
Research excellence assessed through the examination of more than 11 million research papers (up from six million last year) with 51 million citations (up from 50 million last year)
Arts, humanities and social sciences placed on an equal footing with science
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
The full title of the tables is “Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-16”
This edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings marks the first time that core institutional and reputational information has been gathered in-house by THE’s new dedicated team of data experts. This has allowed THE to publish data on more institutions than ever before. Bringing the data in-house means that_THE_ can develop more sophisticated analyses: for example, tables that focus on particular regions with bespoke metrics
This is supplemented by extended research publication data drawn from Elsevier’s Scopus database, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed academic literature
This updated approach enables THE to analyse a deeper range of research activity from a wider range of institutions than ever before, including those institutions from emerging economies that account for a growing proportion of the world’s research output
There are caveats. While the tried, trusted and comprehensive combination of 13 performance indicators remains in place, with some carefully calibrated weightings, naturally there is a degree of volatility compared with last year because of the improvements that have been made. This has led to significant changes in some institutions’ positions that cannot be attributed solely to performance. This is why last year’s results have not been shown alongside this year’s results, as direct comparisons cannot be made
Research publication data are supplied by Elsevier from its Scopus database. http://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus
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