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September 26, 2018
Oxford tops Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019
Photo: Sheldonian Theatre (built in 1668), University of Oxford. The University of Oxford tops Times Higher Education’s this year’s list of the best universities in the world. (Image Credit: Harry NL).
LONDON — Times Higher Education (THE) today announced its World University Rankings 2019, which includes more than 1,250 universities, making it THE’s biggest international league table to date.
This global universities performance table judges research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. “We use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments,” Times Higher Education said after the announcement.
According to THE, “The calculation of the rankings for 2019 has been audited by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), making these the only global university rankings to be subjected to full, independent scrutiny of this nature.”
• The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge lead this year’s list of the best universities in the world.
Yale University is the only newcomer to the top 10, joining at eighth place, up from 12th. Meanwhile, Switzerland’s ETH Zurich has fallen out of this elite group, dropping from joint 10th to 11th place.
Tsinghua University is now the top university in Asia, after rising eight places to 22nd, becoming the first Chinese institution to lead the continent under the current methodology.
Elsewhere in Asia, Japan has overtaken the UK as the second most-represented nation in the world, with 103 institutions (the UK has 98).
France has a top 50 university for the first time since 2011, while several leading universities in Italy, Spain, and Canada have risen.
Overall, 86 countries are represented, including Iraq, Jamaica, Nepal, Tanzania, and Kazakhstan for the first time.
THE World University Rankings 2019: Top 30
- University of Oxford — United Kingdom
- University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
- Stanford University — United States
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States
- California Institute of Technology — United States
- Harvard University — United States
- Princeton University — United States
- Yale University — United States
- Imperial College London — United Kingdom
- University of Chicago — United States
- ETH Zurich — Switzerland
- Johns Hopkins University — United States
- University of Pennsylvania — United States
- University College London — United Kingdom
- University of California, Berkeley — United States
- Columbia University — United States
- University of California, Los Angeles — United States
- Duke University — United States
- Cornell University — United States
- University of Michigan — United States
- University of Toronto — Canada
- Tsinghua University — China
- National University of Singapore — Singapore
- Carnegie Mellon University — United States
- Northwestern University — United States
- London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom
- New York University — United States
- University of Washington — United States
- University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom
- University of California, San Diego — United States
THE World University Rankings 2019
Institutions from INDIA
RANK — INSTITUTION
- 251-300 Indian Institute of Science
- 351-400 Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- 401-500 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- 401-500 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
- 401-500 JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research
- 501-600 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
- 501-600 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- 501-600 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- 501-600 Savitribai Phule Pune University
- 601-800 Amrita University
- 601-800 Banaras Hindu University
- 601-800 University of Delhi
- 601-800 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
- 601-800 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
- 601-800 Indian Institute of Technology Madras
- 601-800 Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
- 601-800 Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
- 601-800 Jadavpur University
- 601-800 National Institute of Technology Rourkela
- 601-800 Panjab University
- 601-800 Tezpur University
- 801-1000 Acharya Nagarjuna University
- 801-1000 Aligarh Muslim University
- 801-1000 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
- 801-1000 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata
- 801-1000 Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad
- 801-1000 Jamia Millia Islamia
- 801-1000 National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
- 801-1000 Osmania University
- 801-1000 Pondicherry University
- 801-1000 Sri Venkateswara University
- 801-1000 Thapar University
- 801-1000 VIT University
- 1001+ Amity University
- 1001+ Andhra University
- 1001+ Annamalai University
- 1001+ Cochin University of Science and Technology
- 1001+ G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar
- 1001+ GITAM University
- 1001+ University of Kerala
- 1001+ KIIT University
- 1001+ Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
- 1001+ Manipal Academy of Higher Education
- 1001+ University of Mysore
- 1001+ PSG College of Technology
- 1001+ SASTRA University
- 1001+ Sathyabama University
- 1001+ SRM University
- 1001+ Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Source: Times Higher Education (THE)
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