TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLISHES WORLD
UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2013-14
- A gloomy year for New
Zealand in the prestigious league tables, as Auckland falls
further -
California Institute of
Technology holds on to the world number one spot for the
third consecutive year, while Harvard University – tied
with Oxford - regains second place, pushing Stanford
University into fourth
Japan cements its
position as Asia’s number one nation
Top institutions in China, South Korea, Singapore and
Japan make gains - China now has two top 50 universities,
but Hong Kong’s flagship loses ground
Improvement for Thailand, with India increasing its
representation in the World University Rankings
No place in the top 400 list for Indonesia, Malaysia or
the Philippines
Bad news for Australia
overall, and for its number one, University of
Melbourne
US remains dominant with seven
institutions in the world top 10 and 77 in the top 200 –
one more than last year
Alarming signs
across Europe as the top universities in Germany, France,
Switzerland, the Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, the Republic
of Ireland and Austria all fall
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Times Higher
Education magazine today publishes its prestigious 2013-14 World University Rankings. It
was another strong year in general for East Asian
nations.
The California Institute of Technology retains
its place at the top for the third consecutive year, with
Harvard University regaining second place (up from fourth),
a position shared with the UK’s University of Oxford.
Stanford University slips from joint second to fourth.
The
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (fifth), Princeton
University (sixth), the University of Cambridge (seventh),
University of California, Berkeley (up one place to eighth),
the University of Chicago (up one place to ninth) and
Imperial College London (down two places to 10th) complete
the top 10.
The Times Higher Education World
University Rankings are the most comprehensive, carefully
calibrated and highly respected global league tables, using
13 separate performance indicators to examine a
university’s strengths against all its core missions –
teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international
outlook. The rankings are powered by Thomson Reuters, which
independently collects, analyses and verifies the data.
Japan solidified its position as Asia’s number one
nation in the rankings, with a total of five top-200
universities. South Korea has four top 200 institutions,
while Hong Kong lost a top 200 institution (City University
of Hong Kong) and now has only three
representatives.
Japan’s University of Tokyo maintains
its status as Asia’s number one and moves up four places
to 23rd. The National University of Singapore holds on to
second place in the region, moving from 29th to 26th and
overtaking Australia’s University of Melbourne in the
process.
South Korea’s Seoul National University moves
into the top 50 for the first time (44th), followed by the
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (up from
68th to 56th).
Peking University in China creeps up one
place to 45th, while its close rival, Tsinghua University,
rises two places to joint 50th.
Thailand’s only top-400
representative, King Mongkut’s University of Technology
rose from the 351-400 group into the 301-350 band.
The
University of Hong Kong is one of the few leading East Asian
institutions not to improve its position, falling eight
places to 43rd. However, the Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology (57th) and the Chinese University of Hong
Kong (joint 109th) both make significant gains.
India
increased its representation in the overall rankings,
although none reached the top 200 list. India has five
universities in the group of universities ranked between
200th and 400th. It was led by Panjab University, which made
the 226th to 250th group.
Australia lost a top 200
institution with the University of Adelaide slipping out of
contention, leaving seven representatives in the list. Of
these, four have fallen, with the country’s number one,
Melbourne, dropping out of the world top 30 and down to
third place in the Asia-Pacific region.
New Zealand’s
only top 200 representative, University of Auckland, dropped
from 161st last year to 164th.
The US continues to
dominate, taking seven of the top 10 places. This year it
has 77 institutions in the rankings – one more than in
2012-13. It seems to have largely arrested signs of decline
in recent years: of its top 200 institutions, 40 have risen
up the tables, 33 have fallen and four have retained their
position.
Europe has generally fared badly this year.
While the UK’s number one, Oxford, holds on to second
place in the table, almost across the board the
continent’s top institutions lose ground: ETH Zürich ¬-
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, the world
number one outside the US and the UK, slips two places to
14th; Germany’s University of Munich falls out of the top
50; and it is a similar tale of woe for Belgium, France, the
Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland and
Austria.
Scandinavia is an exception to the trend, with
its top institutions strengthening their positions.
The
UK remains Europe’s strongest representative, with 31
universities in the top 200. The Netherlands has 12 players,
followed by Germany with 10 (down from 11 last year), France
with eight, Switzerland with seven and Belgium with five
(one more than last year).
Key
facts
• There are 26 countries in the world top
200 list – two more than last year thanks to Turkey, Spain
and Norway rejoining the group (Brazil drops out)
• The highest-ranked institution outside the US and
the UK is Switzerland’s ETH Zürich ¬- Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology Zürich, which slips two places to
14th
• Asia’s number one is the University of Tokyo,
rising four places to 23rd
• After the US and the UK,
the Netherlands is the next best represented nation (12
institutions), but its number one, Leiden University, makes
it only to 67th
• France has eight
representatives
• Belgium has five top 200
institutions
• Switzerland has seven players,
maintaining its numbers from 2012-13
• Germany has 10
universities in the top 200 (one fewer than last year). Its
highest-ranked player, Munich, has fallen out of the top
50
• The Republic of Ireland has just two top 200
institutions – and neither make the top 100
• Japan
has five representatives, more than any other Asian nation.
After worrying signs of decline, most improved their
positions this year
• Of the so-called “Bric”
economies, Brazil, Russia and India are not represented in
the top 200
• The Middle East is represented in the
list by Turkey and Israel. The latter now has two players,
down one from last year
• Saudi Arabia and Iran have no
top 200 institutions (although both are represented in the
200-400 group)
• Eight countries now have only one top
200 representative – Austria, Finland, New Zealand,
Norway, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey
• Africa
has only a single representative: Cape Town (joint
126th)
• New Zealand’s sole representative, Auckland,
loses ground
•
Comments
Phil
Baty, the editor of Times Higher Education Rankings,
said:
“The power shift from West to East is not as
dramatic this year as the US and the UK have both managed to
arrest alarming falls at the national level. But the trend
is continuing: the vast majority of continental Europe’s
leading institutions have slipped, while those leading the
East Asian nations have for the most part risen yet
again.
“More Asian institutions are nipping at the heels
of the best in the West, increasingly occupying world top 50
places and showing no signs of letting
up.”
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Methodology key facts
The Times
Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-14 draw
upon:
• The world’s largest academic reputation
survey (more than 10,000 academics in 2013, and almost
60,000 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
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