The Times Higher Education Supplement

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The Times Higher Education Supplement, also known as The Times Higher or The THES for short, is a newspaper based in London, England, that reports specifically on issues related to education. It is not affiliated with The Times newspaper, which is also based in London. The THES published the Times Higher World University Rankings (see college and university rankings) in November 2004, which ranked universities around the world on a number of criteria.[1] (http://www.duranhcp.com/world-rankings-16pages.pdf) The THES has announced its intention to publish new rankings every year.

Contents

1 About the World University Rankings 2 General rankings 2.1 Top universities overall (worldwide) 2.2 Top universities overall (Europe only) 2.3 Top universities overall (North America only) 2.4 Top universities overall (outside Europe and North America) 2.5 Top universities overall (by peer review) 3 Specific rankings 3.1 Top universities worldwide for arts and humanities 3.2 Top universities worldwide for engineering and IT 3.3 Top universities worldwide for medicine 3.4 Top universities worldwide by research impact 3.5 Top universities worldwide for science 3.6 Top universities worldwide for social sciences 3.7 Top universities worldwide by staffing level 4 External link

About the World University Rankings

In the 2004 rankings, institutions from the United States and the United Kingdom had a virtual monopoly over the highest positions in many of the tables. One explanation for this is the preeminence of the English language in modern academia, especially in scientific and technological research, which allows English-speaking institutions to attract some of the best students and researchers from around the world, as well as publish more easily in leading international science journals, many of which are written in English and are rarely translated in their entirety into other languages. The highest-ranked universities in the United States also tend to have the greatest financial resources of any such institutions in the world. Harvard, which notably tops several of the lists, is by some distance the world's richest university.

There have been more cynical suggestions that this bias towards English-speaking universities is due to the fact that the THES is a British institution. Although all university league tables contain subjective elements, are often simplistic, and are also arguably misleading, this particular accusation seems unfounded. Another worldwide ranking of universities[2] (http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/top500(1-100).htm) (based on quite different criteria) compiled by academics at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China showed a similar bias, most likely for the reasons given above.

Some of the 2004 THES rankings are given below.

General rankings

Top universities overall (worldwide)

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 1000)
1	Harvard University	USA	1000.0
2	University of California, Berkeley	USA	880.2
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	788.9
4	California Institute of Technology	USA	738.9
5	University of Oxford	UK	731.8
6	University of Cambridge	UK	725.4
7	Stanford University	USA	688.0
8	Yale University	USA	582.8
9	Princeton University	USA	557.5
10	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	553.7

Top universities overall (Europe only)

Rank	World rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 1000)
1	5	University of Oxford	UK	731.8
2	6	University of Cambridge	UK	725.4
3	10	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	553.7
4	11	London School of Economics	UK	484.4
5	14	Imperial College London	UK	443.7
6	27	École Polytechnique	France	315.5
7	30	École Normale Supérieure	France	298.4
8	32	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	289.4
9	34	University College London	UK	284.2
10	43	University of Manchester	UK	238.5

Top universities overall (North America only)

Rank	World rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 1000)
1	1	Harvard University	USA	1000.0
2	2	University of California, Berkeley	USA	880.2
3	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	788.9
4	4	California Institute of Technology	USA	738.9
5	7	Stanford University	USA	688.0
6	8	Yale University	USA	582.8
7	9	Princeton University	USA	557.5
8	13	University of Chicago	USA	444.0
9	15	University of Texas at Austin	USA	421.5
10	19	Columbia University	USA	384.1

Top universities overall (outside Europe and North America)

Rank	World rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 1000)
1	12	University of Tokyo	Japan	482.0
2	16	Australian National University	Australia	417.7
3	17	Peking University	China	391.8
4	18	National University of Singapore	Singapore	385.9
5	22	University of Melbourne	Australia	353.2
6	29	Kyoto University	Japan	303.7
7	33	Monash University	Australia	286.0
8	36	University of New South Wales	Australia	275.7
9	39	Hong Kong University	China	249.5
10	40	University of Sydney	Australia	245.2

Top universities overall (by peer review)

This ordering of universities worldwide was determined by questioning a group of 1,300 academics in 88 countries, who were asked which institutions they thought were best in the fields they felt qualified to comment on (hence the ranking was determined by a sort of peer review). Although subjective, this peer review score was the single most important factor in determining overall university rankings.

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 1000)
1	University of California, Berkeley	USA	665
2	Harvard University	USA	643
3	University of Oxford	UK	560
4	University of Cambridge	UK	541
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	484
6	Stanford University	USA	420
7	University of Tokyo	Japan	371
8	Princeton University	USA	353
9	Yale University	USA	347
10	Peking University	China	322

Specific rankings

Top universities worldwide for arts and humanities

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (maximum score unknown)
1	Harvard University	USA	41.83
2	University of Oxford	UK	30.99
3	University of California, Berkeley	USA	29.86
4	Yale University	USA	27.68
5	University of Cambridge	UK	26.04
6	Princeton University	USA	22.14
7	Peking University	China	18.32
8	Columbia University	USA	17.70
9	University of Tokyo	Japan	14.42
10	London School of Economics	UK	12.94

Top universities worldwide for engineering and IT

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 200)
1	University of California, Berkeley	USA	200.00
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	191.15
3	Stanford University	USA	150.71
4	Indian Institutes of Technology	India	149.34
5	Imperial College London	UK	137.87
6	California Institute of Technology	USA	123.99
7	University of Tokyo	Japan	121.46
8	University of Cambridge	UK	116.46
9	National University of Singapore	Singapore	106.50
10	Peking University	China	102.42

Top universities worldwide for medicine

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 200)
1	Harvard University	USA	200.00
2	University of Cambridge	UK	179.39
3	University of Oxford	UK	165.32
4	Imperial College London	UK	139.28
5	Stanford University	USA	133.05
6	Johns Hopkins University	USA	116.48
7	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	112.18
8	Yale University	USA	90.95
9	University of California, Berkeley	USA	84.70
10	University of California, San Diego	USA	78.84

Top universities worldwide by research impact

This ranking was determined by the number of citations per faculty member that universities received.

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 400)
1	California Institute of Technology	USA	400
2	University of California, San Francisco	USA	300
3	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	266
4	Harvard University	USA	243
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	221
6	University of California, San Diego	USA	208
7	University of Texas at Austin	USA	202
8	Stanford University	USA	197
9	University of California, Berkeley	USA	169
10	Princeton University	USA	133

Top universities worldwide for science

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 200)
1	University of Cambridge	UK	200.0
2	University of Oxford	UK	169.8
3	Harvard University	USA	159.8
4	University of California, Berkeley	USA	159.0
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	135.1
6	Stanford University	USA	118.7
7	University of Tokyo	Japan	118.5
8	Princeton University	USA	115.6
9	California Institute of Technology	USA	99.3
10	Imperial College London	UK	89.8

Top universities worldwide for social sciences

Rank	Institution	Country	Score (out of 200)
1	Harvard University	USA	200.00
2	London School of Economics	UK	185.25
3	University of California, Berkeley	USA	163.26
4	University of Oxford	UK	157.00
5	University of Chicago	USA	131.96
6	Stanford University	USA	122.99
7	Yale University	USA	110.10
8	University of Cambridge	UK	100.37
9	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA	100.02
10	National University of Singapore	Singapore	82.14

Top universities worldwide by staffing level

This ranking was determined by the level of attention that students receive from university faculty members (as measured by the ratio of faculty members to students), as well as the number of international faculty staff and students.

Rank	Institution	Country	International Faculty Score	International Students Score	Student/Faculty Score
1	École Normale Supérieure	France	11	22	100
2	Johns Hopkins University	USA	16	13	68
3	Yale University	USA	53	20	65
4	University of Chicago	USA	31	18	58
5	Duke University	USA	12	11	56
6	Columbia University	USA	10	18	56
7	Imperial College London	UK	60	51	55
8	Harvard University	USA	17	17	50
9	Case Western Reserve University	USA	4	11	49
10	University of Rochester	USA	10	8	49

The meaning of the above ranking is unclear. For example, Duke scores higher than Columbia in the Faculty category, but lower in the Students category, with both universities equal in the Student/Faculty category. Duke is placed above Columbia, which might make it sensible to assume that the Faculty category carries more weight. However, Case Western Reserve scores lower on the Faculty category and higher on the Students category than Rochester, but is placed above it.

External link

• THES website (http://www.thes.co.uk/) (subscription is required to access much of the site)

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