The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022 include more than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.
The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The US is the most-represented country overall with 183 institutions, and also the most represented in the top 200 (57), although its share of universities in this elite group is falling.
Top 100
Both in terms of the overall ranking and the highest positions, the US and the UK are well represented. Japan and China are among the best represented countries in the ranking but they fall behind other nations, such as Germany, Australia and the Netherlands, for universities in the top 200.
In total, 99 countries or regions are represented in the ranking and 27 of these have at least one university in the top 200. A further 452 universities are listed with “reporter” status, meaning that they provided data but did not meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank.
“The world’s elite universities have enjoyed a long period of dominance at the top of the table with help from historic reputation, global status, and reliable income. But our data shows us that there are clear shifts happening across higher education around the world. We are already seeing clear disruption to the established norms from mainland China, and record highs for Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Hong Kong show that Asia is continuing to benefit from the focus and investment in higher education across the continent.” … Phil Baty, Chief Knowledge Officer (THE).
China, Hong Kong & East Asia
In Asia, mainland China registers its highest ever position in the ranking (16th) and sees a record 10 universities reach the world top 200, while South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong all achieve their highest positions under the current methodology.
HKU and CUHK climb up 2022 Times Higher Education league table, placing 30th and 49th, respectively; PolyU surges to 91st spot while HKUST drops to 66th
Researchers say they have not seen ‘significant negative changes’ to global reputation of city’s higher education institutions
*FTE
Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Enrollment On and Off Campus – FTE is the most common measure of enrollment is a simple headcount of students enrolled in classes. Enrollment can also be measured as full time equivalent (FTE) student, a calculation showing how many students would be attending if all were enrolled full time. The FTE calculation is based on the sum of credits carried by all students at a particular level enrolled in classes, divided by the number of credits in a full-time load. Occasionally undergraduate students take graduate level courses and vice versa.
1st 100
Rank | Name | No. of FTE Students | No. of students per staff | International Students | Country/Region |
1 | University of Oxford | 20,800 | 10.7 | 42% | United Kingdom |
2 | California Institute of Technology | 2,200 | 6.3 | 34% | United States |
2 | Harvard University | 21,500 | 9.5 | 24% | United States |
4 | Stanford University | 16,300 | 7.3 | 23% | United States |
5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 11,400 | 8.4 | 33% | United States |
5 | University of Cambridge | 19,600 | 11.1 | 39% | United Kingdom |
7 | Princeton University | 7,700 | 7.5 | 23% | United States |
8 | University of California, Berkeley | 40,300 | 18.9 | 23% | United States |
9 | Yale University | 13,300 | 5.9 | 21% | United States |
10 | The University of Chicago | 14,800 | 6.1 | 33% | United States |
11 | Columbia University | 21,600 | 4.6 | 35% | United States |
12 | Imperial College London | 17,700 | 11.3 | 59% | United Kingdom |
13 | Johns Hopkins University | 16,500 | 4.3 | 28% | United States |
13 | University of Pennsylvania | 21,200 | 6.4 | 22% | United States |
15 | ETH Zurich | 20,400 | 14.4 | 41% | Switzerland |
16 | Peking University | 31,600 | 10.2 | 19% | China |
16 | Tsinghua University | 38,200 | 11.5 | 13% | China |
18 | UCL | 35,700 | 10.6 | 57% | United Kingdom |
18 | University of Toronto | 75,800 | 25.5 | 25% | Canada |
20 | University of California, Los Angeles | 42,000 | 10 | 17% | United States |
21 | National University of Singapore | 31,800 | 18.8 | 25% | Singapore |
22 | Cornell University | 23,600 | 10.3 | 25% | United States |
23 | Duke University | 15,700 | 4.2 | 22% | United States |
24 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 44,600 | 8.1 | 17% | United States |
24 | Northwestern University | 18,700 | 13 | 19% | United States |
26 | New York University | 45,400 | 11 | 35% | United States |
27 | London School of Economics & Political Sc | 10,900 | 12.1 | 72% | United Kingdom |
28 | Carnegie Mellon University | 14,100 | 13.5 | 47% | United States |
29 | University of Washington | 52,000 | 11.6 | 17% | United States |
30 | University of Edinburgh | 31,600 | 12.1 | 44% | United Kingdom |
30 | University of Hong Kong | 18,000 | 18.3 | 43% | Hong Kong |
32 | LMU Munich | 34,200 | 33.7 | 18% | Germany |
33 | University of Melbourne | 52,000 | 26.5 | 50% | Australia |
34 | University of California, San Diego | 36,200 | 12.2 | 29% | United States |
35 | King’s College London | 28,200 | 12 | 49% | United Kingdom |
35 | The University of Tokyo | 25,900 | 10.6 | 14% | Japan |
37 | University of British Columbia | 54,700 | 18.9 | 33% | Canada |
38 | Technical University of Munich | 32,600 | 38.7 | 33% | Germany |
39 | Karolinska Institute | 7,900 | 9.6 | 24% | Sweden |
40 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | 11,200 | 12.3 | 62% | Switzerland |
40 | Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research U | 20,500 | 15.1 | 25% | France |
42 | Heidelberg University | 19,500 | 13.9 | 19% | Germany |
42 | KU Leuven | 46,300 | 36.3 | 16% | Belgium |
44 | McGill University | 31,500 | 12.6 | 32% | Canada |
45 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 27,800 | 25.7 | 25% | United States |
46 | Nanyang Technological University | 23,900 | 14.7 | 24% | Singapore |
47 | University of Texas at Austin | 49,800 | 16.7 | 10% | United States |
48 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 47,200 | 18.3 | 23% | United States |
49 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 18,400 | 19.1 | 25% | Hong Kong |
50 | University of Manchester | 36,500 | 14.3 | 43% | United Kingdom |
51 | Washington University in St Louis | 14,200 | 7.9 | 22% | United States |
52 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 31,000 | 8.1 | 8% | United States |
53 | Wageningen University & Research | 14,800 | 20.2 | 27% | Netherlands |
54 | Seoul National University | 26,800 | 15.4 | 11% | South Korea |
54 | Australian National University | 18,900 | 17.6 | 47% | Australia |
54 | The University of Queensland | 41,900 | 35.8 | 41% | Australia |
57 | Monash University | 60,200 | 44.1 | 45% | Australia |
58 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 39,700 | 10.3 | 14% | United States |
58 | University of Sydney | 47,900 | 19.3 | 47% | Australia |
60 | Fudan University | 33,100 | 11.1 | 12% | China |
61 | Kyoto University | 22,200 | 9.2 | 11% | Japan |
62 | Boston University | 27,700 | 11 | 29% | United States |
63 | University of Southern California | 42,500 | 13.2 | 24% | United States |
64 | Brown University | 9,800 | 10.6 | 20% | United States |
65 | University of Amsterdam | 25,500 | 13.1 | 29% | Netherlands |
66 | The Hong Kong University of Sc & Technology | 10,100 | 21.3 | 31% | Hong Kong |
67 | University of California, Davis | 37,200 | 13.2 | 19% | United States |
68 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 25,500 | 28.2 | 19% | United States |
69 | Utrecht University | 33,500 | 18.1 | 11% | Netherlands |
70 | UNSW Sydney | 48,000 | 40.5 | 44% | Australia |
71 | Leiden University | 31,500 | 19.4 | 19% | Netherlands |
72 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 28,900 | 29.3 | 22% | Netherlands |
73 | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin | 7,900 | 18.7 | 21% | Germany |
74 | Humboldt University of Berlin | 33,800 | 54.2 | 18% | Germany |
75 | University of Zurich | 23,700 | 15 | 22% | Switzerland |
75 | Delft University of Technology | 20,100 | 17 | 31% | Netherlands |
75 | Zhejiang University | 40,300 | 11.8 | 20% | China |
78 | University of Warwick | 22,700 | 14.2 | 43% | United Kingdom |
78 | University of Tübingen | 20,400 | 26.2 | 14% | Germany |
80 | University of Groningen | 29,400 | 23.8 | 27% | Netherlands |
80 | McMaster University | 26,100 | 30.2 | 20% | Canada |
82 | Emory University | 13,100 | 4.4 | 20% | United States |
83 | Free University of Berlin | 27,000 | 43.2 | 23% | Germany |
84 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 36,600 | 11.3 | 10% | China |
85 | Ohio State University (Main campus) | 55,800 | 12.4 | 13% | United States |
86 | University of Minnesota | 61,300 | 12 | 10% | United States |
86 | University of Glasgow | 27,600 | 13.9 | 40% | United Kingdom |
88 | Sorbonne University | 42,300 | 14.2 | 21% | France |
88 | University of Science and Technology of China | 16,700 | 7.3 | 5% | China |
88 | University of Montreal | 36,500 | 19.6 | 23% | Canada |
91 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | 21,900 | 26.4 | 29% | Hong Kong |
92 | University of Bristol | 24,100 | 14.4 | 30% | United Kingdom |
93 | University of Maryland, College Park | 34,000 | 16.7 | 11% | United States |
93 | Michigan State University | 45,600 | 16 | 14% | United States |
95 | Institut Polytechnique de Paris | 6,000 | 6.9 | 40% | France |
96 | University of Copenhagen | 30,300 | 4.2 | 18% | Denmark |
96 | Ghent University | 38,900 | 35.7 | 11% | Belgium |
98 | University of California, Irvine | 35,900 | 17.1 | 28% | United States |
99 | Dartmouth College | 6,300 | 7.6 | 15% | United States |
99 | Korea Advanced Institute of Sc & Tech (KAIST) | 9,500 | 10.3 | 10% | South Korea |
India
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is India’s best-ranked institution, maintaining its position in the 301-350 band for a third consecutive year. As a result, India is home to 35 of the world’s top 1000 universities, its second-highest total ever in the rankings (36 in THE World University Rankings 2020). IIT Ropar has been ranked in the top 351-400 bracket, while IIT Indore is in the 401-450 bracket.
Dramatic improvements for the Middle East, as Saudi Arabia and Egypt emerge as the fastest-rising countries in the world.
Africa
The best universities in Africa span 10 countries, from Uganda in the east to Nigeria in the west, Morocco in the north to South Africa at the southernmost tip of the continent, according to the Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2021.
Two of South Africa’s universities feature in the top 250 of the worldwide rankings: the University of Cape Town is Africa’s top university, sitting at joint 155th position, while the University of the Witwatersrand is in the 201-250 bracket.
next 100
Rank | name | No. of FTE Students | No. of students per staff | International Students | Country/Region |
101 | University of Bern | 11,600 | 16.6 | 16.00% | Switzerland |
101 | University of Helsinki | 22,600 | 15.7 | 6.00% | Finland |
103 | University of Basel | 9,400 | 12.3 | 30.00% | Switzerland |
104 | Aarhus University | 26,500 | 13.6 | 9.00% | Denmark |
105 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 43,400 | 16.6 | 21.00% | United States |
105 | University of Birmingham | 31,300 | 15 | 32.00% | United Kingdom |
105 | Nanjing University | 37,100 | 17.1 | 9.00% | China |
108 | University of Freiburg | 21,400 | 39.7 | 12.00% | Germany |
108 | RWTH Aachen University | 45,600 | 55.5 | 25.00% | Germany |
110 | University of Sheffield | 27,200 | 15.3 | 38.00% | United Kingdom |
111 | University of Adelaide | 22,000 | 30.6 | 32.00% | Australia |
112 | University of Bonn | 27,700 | 49.8 | 16.00% | Germany |
113 | Vanderbilt University | 12,300 | 3 | 16.00% | United States |
113 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 24,800 | 11.4 | 12.00% | Taiwan |
115 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 26,500 | 18.6 | 14.00% | Netherlands |
116 | Lund University | 28,400 | 11.2 | 19.00% | Sweden |
117 | Queen Mary University of London | 19,900 | 13.5 | 46.00% | United Kingdom |
117 | Université Paris-Saclay | 40,800 | 12.7 | 19.00% | France |
119 | Penn State (Main campus) | 46,500 | 14.1 | 16.00% | United States |
119 | University of Oslo | 21,400 | 13.2 | 19.00% | Norway |
119 | University of Göttingen | 30,600 | 26.6 | 14.00% | Germany |
122 | Lancaster University | 13,500 | 12.3 | 37.00% | United Kingdom |
122 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | 23,100 | 19.2 | 19.00% | South Korea |
124 | University of Southampton | 21,800 | 14.1 | 36.00% | United Kingdom |
125 | University of Alberta | 33,400 | 21.9 | 28.00% | Canada |
126 | Case Western Reserve University | 10,800 | 9.4 | 23.00% | United States |
127 | University of Virginia (Main campus) | 25,300 | 9 | 13.00% | United States |
127 | University of Leeds | 33,300 | 14.6 | 32.00% | United Kingdom |
127 | Maastricht University | 18,100 | 18 | 55.00% | Netherlands |
130 | Georgetown University | 16,700 | 8.6 | 20.00% | United States |
131 | Uppsala University | 26,900 | 16.5 | 17.00% | Sweden |
132 | Arizona State University (Tempe) | 48,200 | 19.7 | 18.00% | United States |
132 | Radboud University Nijmegen | 21,800 | 17.7 | 15.00% | Netherlands |
132 | University of Hamburg | 30,900 | 59.8 | 13.00% | Germany |
132 | The University of Western Australia | 18,600 | 21.3 | 30.00% | Australia |
136 | Rice University | 6,800 | 9.2 | 28.00% | United States |
137 | University of Auckland | 32,900 | 22.7 | 32.00% | New Zealand |
137 | University of Vienna | 33,800 | 38.3 | 29.00% | Austria |
139 | Technical University of Berlin | 22,100 | 55 | 27.00% | Germany |
140 | University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh | 26,800 | 5.6 | 12.00% | United States |
141 | University of Nottingham | 31,300 | 14.8 | 30.00% | United Kingdom |
142 | University of Rochester | 10,100 | 6.7 | 36.00% | United States |
143 | University of Exeter | 22,700 | 16.1 | 28.00% | United Kingdom |
143 | University of Antwerp | 15,300 | 30.8 | 17.00% | Belgium |
143 | University of Technology Sydney | 26,900 | 39.6 | 37.00% | Australia |
146 | Newcastle University | 24,600 | 14.5 | 27.00% | United Kingdom |
146 | Trinity College Dublin | 17,400 | 21.2 | 32.00% | Ireland |
146 | University of Mannheim | 7,600 | 57.5 | 25.00% | Germany |
146 | Ulm University | 10,200 | 27.2 | 13.00% | Germany |
150 | University of Arizona | 39,600 | 17.3 | 10.00% | United States |
151 | University of Sussex | 17,400 | 17.6 | 37.00% | United Kingdom |
151 | Yonsei University (Seoul campus) | 18,500 | 14.7 | 21.00% | South Korea |
151 | City University of Hong Kong | 9,500 | 10.7 | 56.00% | Hong Kong |
154 | University of Florida | 47,000 | 16.3 | 9.00% | United States |
155 | Université de Paris | 62,300 | 17 | 19.00% | France |
156 | Pompeu Fabra University | 11,800 | 22.9 | 13.00% | Spain |
157 | Wuhan University | 54,400 | 15.2 | 7.00% | China |
158 | University of Colorado Boulder | 35,400 | 16.6 | 10.00% | United States |
158 | University of Aberdeen | 13,100 | 16.8 | 44.00% | United Kingdom |
158 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 29,100 | 9.1 | 36.00% | Russian Federation |
158 | Université Catholique de Louvain | 26,400 | 39.1 | 20.00% | Belgium |
162 | Durham University | 17,700 | 15 | 33.00% | United Kingdom |
162 | Southern University of Sc & Tech (SUSTech) | 4,200 | 8.4 | 1.00% | China |
162 | University of Ottawa | 35,700 | 25.4 | 22.00% | Canada |
165 | University of Würzburg | 23,300 | 35.6 | 10.00% | Germany |
166 | Bielefeld University | 25,100 | 70.6 | 8.00% | Germany |
167 | Indiana University | 66,700 | 12.9 | 14.00% | United States |
168 | Northeastern University | 20,900 | 14.1 | 36.00% | United States |
169 | University of York | 17,300 | 14.7 | 26.00% | United Kingdom |
170 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | 31,500 | 12.7 | 16.00% | Spain |
170 | University of Canberra | 9,800 | 35.4 | 29.00% | Australia |
172 | Tufts University | 11,100 | 9.9 | 16.00% | United States |
172 | University of Bologna | 68,300 | 24.3 | 12.00% | Italy |
172 | University of Cologne | 32,400 | 28.9 | 18.00% | Germany |
172 | TU Dresden | 30,500 | 32.3 | 17.00% | Germany |
176 | University of Lausanne | 13,000 | 9.5 | 23.00% | Switzerland |
176 | Stockholm University | 28,000 | 19.6 | 10.00% | Sweden |
178 | University of Liverpool | 25,900 | 14.7 | 35.00% | United Kingdom |
178 | Ulsan National Institute of Sc & Tech (UNIST) | 3,600 | 13.9 | 10.00% | South Korea |
180 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 23,200 | 22.6 | 24.00% | Germany |
181 | Huazhong University of Sc & Tech | 56,700 | 16.2 | 5.00% | China |
182 | University of East Anglia | 15,700 | 13.5 | 26.00% | United Kingdom |
183 | University of Notre Dame | 12,200 | 10.8 | 13.00% | United States |
183 | University of Cape Town | 21,700 | 13.3 | 16.00% | South Africa |
185 | University of Leicester | 15,000 | 14.1 | 31.00% | United Kingdom |
185 | University of Gothenburg | 21,000 | 10.6 | 13.00% | Sweden |
185 | Pohang University of Sc & Tech (POSTECH) | 3,100 | 10.1 | 3.00% | South Korea |
185 | Technical University of Denmark | 9,300 | 6.6 | 23.00% | Denmark |
189 | Cardiff University | 26,600 | 14.7 | 28.00% | United Kingdom |
190 | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | 44,800 | 10.8 | 17.00% | United States |
190 | King Abdulaziz University | 32,000 | 7.8 | 22.00% | Saudi Arabia |
192 | Macquarie University | 30,200 | 69.6 | 30.00% | Australia |
193 | Texas A&M University | 62,700 | 21.6 | 8.00% | United States |
193 | University of Barcelona | 45,300 | 16.1 | 11.00% | Spain |
193 | Queensland University of Technology | 36,300 | 40.2 | 18.00% | Australia |
196 | Medical University of Graz | 3,700 | 13.3 | 26.00% | Austria |
197 | University of Geneva | 17,700 | 8.2 | 39.00% | Switzerland |
197 | Sapienza University of Rome | 71,900 | 30.6 | 9.00% | Italy |
197 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | 30,700 | 44.7 | 13.00% | Germany |
197 | University of Hohenheim | 8,600 | 38.5 | 11.00% | Germany |
next 100
Rank | name | No. of FTE Students | No. of students per staff | International Students | Country/Region |
197 | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | 600 | 6.9 | 12% | Italy |
201–250 | University of California, Santa Cruz | 19700 | 24.1 | 13% | United States |
201–250 | George Washington University | 23400 | 12.7 | 18% | United States |
201–250 | University of Massachusetts | 62600 | 13.2 | 15% | United States |
201–250 | University of Miami | 16500 | 10.3 | 16% | United States |
201–250 | University of South Florida | 39800 | 21.4 | 13% | United States |
201–250 | University of Bath | 14700 | 15.6 | 34% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | Brighton and Sussex Medical School | 1000 | 10.4 | 17% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | University of Dundee | 13100 | 18.2 | 24% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | Queen’s University Belfast | 18500 | 16 | 37% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | University of Reading | 15500 | 15.7 | 31% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | St George’s, University of London | 3500 | 13.5 | 21% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | University of St Andrews | 9500 | 12.2 | 47% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | University of Surrey | 14500 | 15.9 | 36% | United Kingdom |
201–250 | Taipei Medical University | 6200 | 9.9 | 10% | Taiwan |
201–250 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | 13500 | 16.7 | 21% | Sweden |
201–250 | Korea University | 22800 | 13.4 | 23% | South Korea |
201–250 | Alfaisal University | 2800 | 10.1 | 34% | Saudi Arabia |
201–250 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) | 6000 | 11.6 | 18% | Russian Federation |
201–250 | University of Bergen | 14400 | 12.3 | 13% | Norway |
201–250 | Auckland University of Technology | 18600 | 17.4 | 50% | New Zealand |
201–250 | University of Otago | 18700 | 20.5 | 21% | New Zealand |
201–250 | Eindhoven University of Technology | 11400 | 24.6 | 22% | Netherlands |
201–250 | Tilburg University | 10000 | 24.8 | 18% | Netherlands |
201–250 | University of Twente | 9000 | 14.9 | 37% | Netherlands |
201–250 | University of Macau | 9900 | 15.1 | 38% | Macao |
201–250 | Tohoku University | 17900 | 12.2 | 14% | Japan |
201–250 | University of Padua | 48700 | 21.9 | 8% | Italy |
201–250 | Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa | 800 | 10.3 | 21% | Italy |
201–250 | Vita-Salute San Raffaele University | 3200 | 10.6 | 4% | Italy |
201–250 | Tel Aviv University | 22900 | 22.2 | 7% | Israel |
201–250 | RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences | 2500 | 24.9 | 66% | Ireland |
201–250 | University College Dublin | 23100 | 23 | 31% | Ireland |
201–250 | Friedrich Schiller University Jena | 17000 | 25.3 | 15% | Germany |
201–250 | University of Konstanz | 11500 | 50.2 | 13% | Germany |
201–250 | University of Münster | 28600 | 25.5 | 7% | Germany |
201–250 | Aalto University | 12900 | 19.4 | 24% | Finland |
201–250 | Aalborg University | 16600 | 12.8 | 13% | Denmark |
201–250 | Copenhagen Business School | 16700 | 27.5 | 25% | Denmark |
201–250 | University of Calgary | 33100 | 18.2 | 21% | Canada |
201–250 | Simon Fraser University | 27100 | 27.9 | 31% | Canada |
201–250 | University of Waterloo | 33700 | 23.8 | 22% | Canada |
201–250 | Western University | 28400 | 28.5 | 22% | Canada |
201–250 | University of São Paulo | 82400 | 16.5 | 3% | Brazil |
201–250 | Université Libre de Bruxelles | 25800 | 44.8 | 31% | Belgium |
201–250 | Medical University of Innsbruck | 3200 | 12.1 | 43% | Austria |
201–250 | Medical University of Vienna | 7300 | 8.9 | 30% | Austria |
201–250 | Griffith University | 35100 | 29 | 18% | Australia |
201–250 | La Trobe University | 26100 | 33.8 | 39% | Australia |
201–250 | Western Sydney University | 35800 | 37.8 | 23% | Australia |
201–250 | University of Wollongong | 18300 | 30.2 | 30% | Australia |
251–300 | Boston College | 13000 | 15.1 | 12% | United States |
251–300 | Brandeis University | 5500 | 12.2 | 28% | United States |
251–300 | University at Buffalo | 27200 | 17.9 | 16% | United States |
251–300 | University of California, Riverside | 23200 | 17.7 | 14% | United States |
251–300 | University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus | 17300 | 3.9 | 8% | United States |
251–300 | Florida State University | 39400 | 24.7 | 7% | United States |
251–300 | George Mason University | 31700 | 18.2 | 11% | United States |
251–300 | University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | 14800 | 10.7 | 11% | United States |
251–300 | Howard University | 8500 | 8 | 8% | United States |
251–300 | University of Iowa | 29600 | 11.5 | 9% | United States |
251–300 | University of New Mexico (Main campus) | 19300 | 17.5 | 5% | United States |
251–300 | Oregon Health and Science University | 3100 | 1 | 3% | United States |
251–300 | University of Utah | 30800 | 14.7 | 7% | United States |
251–300 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | 35000 | 18.3 | 14% | United States |
251–300 | Swansea University | 17600 | 15.7 | 22% | United Kingdom |
251–300 | Chalmers University of Technology | 9600 | 13.8 | 18% | Sweden |
251–300 | Linköping University | 15900 | 14.6 | 14% | Sweden |
251–300 | University of Navarra | 11600 | 14.7 | 26% | Spain |
251–300 | Kyung Hee University | 20600 | 17.5 | 25% | South Korea |
251–300 | Sejong University | 12100 | 20.1 | 12% | South Korea |
251–300 | Stellenbosch University | 24800 | 26.1 | 8% | South Africa |
251–300 | University of the Witwatersrand | 26900 | 24.3 | 8% | South Africa |
251–300 | Macau University of Science and Technology | 11200 | 25.7 | 88% | Macao |
251–300 | University of Luxembourg | 4900 | 19.1 | 52% | Luxembourg |
251–300 | University College Cork | 17400 | 20.3 | 20% | Ireland |
251–300 | Semmelweis University | 9900 | 9.2 | 33% | Hungary |
251–300 | University of Duisburg-Essen | 41800 | 45 | 19% | Germany |
251–300 | University of Düsseldorf | 29300 | 36.1 | 12% | Germany |
251–300 | University of Kiel | 27800 | 22.5 | 9% | Germany |
251–300 | University of Potsdam | 14900 | 41.1 | 14% | Germany |
251–300 | Ruhr University Bochum | 38900 | 50.4 | 15% | Germany |
251–300 | École des Ponts ParisTech | 2100 | 11.7 | 45% | France |
251–300 | Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT | 4400 | 29.6 | 15% | Finland |
251–300 | University of Oulu | 9800 | 25.1 | 6% | Finland |
251–300 | Tampere University | 15500 | 20.9 | 6% | Finland |
251–300 | University of Tartu | 9100 | 12.2 | 12% | Estonia |
251–300 | University of Southern Denmark | 18900 | 10.5 | 16% | Denmark |
251–300 | Beijing Normal University | 23500 | 14.5 | 12% | China |
251–300 | Sun Yat-sen University | 56500 | 15.7 | 6% | China |
251–300 | Dalhousie University | 16100 | 13.8 | 28% | Canada |
251–300 | Université Laval | 28700 | 17.1 | 14% | Canada |
251–300 | Queen’s University | 25300 | 25.9 | 16% | Canada |
251–300 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | 13400 | 32.4 | 23% | Belgium |
251–300 | Australian Catholic University | 23800 | 42.9 | 15% | Australia |
251–300 | Curtin University | 30300 | 20.7 | 32% | Australia |
251–300 | Deakin University | 42700 | 33.6 | 28% | Australia |
251–300 | Flinders University | 17000 | 28.2 | 36% | Australia |
251–300 | James Cook University | 10800 | 20.1 | 12% | Australia |
251–300 | University of Newcastle | 23800 | 29 | 19% | Australia |
Participating Universities
A record 1,662 universities from 99 countries and regions are part of this year’s rankings as the competition in the global knowledge economy intensifies.
This year’s ranking analysed more than 108 million citations across over 14.4 million research publications and included survey responses from almost 22,000 scholars globally. Overall, we collected over 430,000 datapoints from more than 2,100 institutions that submitted data.
Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year’s league table reveals how the Covid-19 pandemic has started to shift global higher education performance.
Methodology (Criteria and weighting)
*Liberal Arts Colleges in the U.S.
Since this ranking places significant weight on research, many good USA state universities and liberal arts colleges that mainly focus on teaching are not included here. Students looking for a good Bachelor degree should not just look at the ranking, you should look at the score columns such as, [Teaching], [Students per Staff ratio] and [Number of Full Time Students] as more important factors of their choices.
Overall indicator | Individual indicator | Percentage weighting |
Industry Income – innovation | Research income from industry (per academic staff) | 2.50% |
International diversity | Ratio of international to domestic staff | 3% |
Ratio of international to domestic students | 2% | |
Teaching – the learning environment | Reputational survey (teaching) | 15% |
PhDs awards per academic | 6% | |
Undergrad. admitted per academic | 4.50% | |
Income per academic | 2.25% | |
PhDs/undergraduate degrees awarded | 2.25% | |
Research – volume, income and reputation | Reputational survey (research) | 19.50% |
Research income (scaled) | 5.25% | |
Papers per research and academic staff | 4.50% | |
Public research income/ total research income | 0.75% | |
Citations – research influence | Citation impact (normalised average citation per paper) | 32.50% |