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September 12, 2019

Oxford tops Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

Photo: The University of Oxford. Sheldonian Theatre and Bodleian Library from beneath Balliol’s Great Beech. Image Credit: Piers Nye.

London, 11 September 2019 — Times Higher Education today announced its World University Rankings 2020. The rankings include 1,400 universities across 92 countries, standing as the largest and most diverse university rankings ever to date.

The University of Oxford tops the rankings. It is in the first place. The California Institute of Technology is second, while the University of Cambridge is in the third place.

Stanford, Yale, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Imperial College London all appear in the top fifteen.

Times Higher Education ranks universities on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.

Mainland China now provides both of Asia’s top two universities, with Tsinghua and Peking universities finishing at 23rd and 24th place respectively. The country’s universities have continued to expand their influence and presence on the world stage.

Ha Wei, Associate Dean, Graduate School of Education, Peking University, says that China’s excellence initiatives have “poured billions of US dollars” into select groups of universities.” “Talent attraction programs” have also helped the institutions improve, he said.

The latest Double World-Class project, launched in 2015, includes a “monitoring and evaluation system to make it more results-oriented,” Ha Wei added. It means that “those who are deemed less efficient in using the resources will get removed from the list of beneficiaries.”

“I believe the upward trend for Chinese universities will continue,” he said.

• Times Higher Education World University Rankings — Top 30

1. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2. California Institute of Technology, United States
3. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
4. Stanford University, United States
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
6. Princeton University, United States
7. Harvard University, United States
8. Yale University, United States
9. University of Chicago, United States
10. Imperial College London, United Kingdom
11. University of Pennsylvania, United States
12. Johns Hopkins University, United States
13. University of California, Berkeley, United States
14. ETH Zurich, Switzerland
15. UCL, United Kingdom
16. Columbia University, United States
17. University of California, Los Angeles, United States
18. University of Toronto, Canada
19. Cornell University, United States
20. Duke University, United States
21. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States
22. Northwestern University, United States
23. Tsinghua University, China
24. Peking University, China
25. National University of Singapore, Singapore
26. University of Washington, United States
27. Carnegie Mellon University, United States
28. London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
29. New York University, United States
30. University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Source: Times Higher Education

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