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September 2, 2021

Times Higher Education (THE) announces World University Rankings 2022; The University of Oxford tops the List.

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London, September 2, 2021 — 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 ranking table results from 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.

Times Higher Education said this year’s ranking analyzed 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 data points from more than 2,100 institutions that submitted data,” THE added.

The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the sixth consecutive year. At the same time, mainland China has two institutions in the top 20 for the first time: Peking University and Tsinghua University share 16th place.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris is the highest new entry at 95th place, following a merger of five institutions.

The US is the most-represented country overall, with 183 institutions. It is also the most represented in the top 200 (57). However, its share of universities in this elite group is falling.

Mainland China now has the joint fifth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 (up from joint seventh last year), overtaking Canada and on a par with the Netherlands.

Six new countries feature in the table compared with last year: Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Palestine, and Tanzania.

Harvard University tops the teaching pillar, while the University of Oxford is tops in research.

• Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022

TOP 100

1. University of Oxford — United Kingdom
2. California Institute of Technology — United States
3. Harvard University — United States
4. Stanford University — United States
5. University of Cambridge — United Kingdom
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States
7. Princeton University — United States
8. University of California, Berkeley — United States
9. Yale University — United States
10. The University of Chicago — United States
11. Columbia University — United States
12. Imperial College London — United Kingdom
13. Johns Hopkins University — United States
14. University of Pennsylvania — United States
15. ETH Zurich — Switzerland
16. Peking University — China
17. Tsinghua University — China
18. University of Toronto — Canada
19. University College London — United Kingdom
20. University of California, Los Angeles — United States
21. National University of Singapore — Singapore
22. Cornell University — United States
23. Duke University — United States
24. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor — United States
25. Northwestern University — United States
26. New York University — United States
27. London School of Economics and Political Science — United Kingdom
28. Carnegie Mellon University — United States
29. University of Washington — United States
30. University of Edinburgh — United Kingdom
31. University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
32. LMU Munich — Germany
33. University of Melbourne — Australia
34. University of California, San Diego — United States
35. King’s College London — United Kingdom
36. The University of Tokyo — Japan
37. University of British Columbia — Canada
38. Technical University of Munich — Germany
39. Karolinska Institute — Sweden
40. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne — Switzerland
41. Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL Research University Paris — France
42. Heidelberg University — Germany
43. KU Leuven — Belgium
44. McGill University — Canada
45. Georgia Institute of Technology — United States
46. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore — Singapore
47. The University of Texas at Austin — United States
48. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — United States
49. Chinese University of Hong Kong — Hong Kong
50. University of Manchester — United Kingdom
51. Washington University in St Louis — United States
52. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — United States
53. Wageningen University & Research — Netherlands
54. Australian National University — Australia
55. The University of Queensland — Australia
56. Seoul National University — South Korea
57. Monash University — Australia
58. University of Sydney — Australia
59. University of Wisconsin-Madison — United States
60. Fudan University — China
61. Kyoto University — Japan
62. Boston University — United States
63. University of Southern California — United States
64. Brown University — United States
65. University of Amsterdam — Netherlands
66. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology — Hong Kong
67. University of California, Davis — United States
68. University of California, Santa Barbara — United States
69. Utrecht University — Netherlands
70. UNSW Sydney — Australia
71. Leiden University — Netherlands
72. Erasmus University Rotterdam — Netherlands
73. Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin — Germany
74. Humboldt University of Berlin — Germany
75. Delft University of Technology — Netherlands
76. Zhejiang University — China
77. University of Zurich — Switzerland
78. University of Tübingen — Germany
79. University of Warwick — United Kingdom
80. University of Groningen — Netherlands
81. McMaster University — Canada
82. Emory University — United States
83. Free University of Berlin — Germany
84. Shanghai Jiao Tong University — China
85. Ohio State University (Main campus) — United States
86. University of Glasgow — United Kingdom
87. University of Minnesota — United States
88. University of Montreal — Canada
89. University of Science and Technology of China — China
90. Sorbonne University — France
91. Hong Kong Polytechnic University — Hong Kong
92. University of Bristol — United Kingdom
93. University of Maryland, College Park — United States
94. Michigan State University — United States
95. Institut Polytechnique de Paris — France
96. University of Copenhagen — Denmark
97. Ghent University — Belgium
98. University of California, Irvine — United States
99. Dartmouth College — United States
100. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) — South Korea

• The University of Oxford remains at the top of the table, retaining the top spot for an impressive sixth consecutive year.

In a year dominated by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the rankings reflect the vital role of universities in understanding and managing the crisis. Many institutions worldwide saw significant boosts in their citation scores (a measure of a university’s research influence and impact in spreading new knowledge and ideas) from Covid-19 focused research.

Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, said: ‘My colleagues and I are delighted to have achieved the top ranking again. There are many excellent universities around the world, and we are proud to be in their company.

‘This past year has demonstrated to our public, governments, and even ourselves how much universities can contribute to society. For example, 170 countries are using the vaccine Oxford developed.’

Source: Times Higher Education

|GlobalGiants.Com|

— The Editor holds various certifications from several of the above TOP 100 — The University of Oxford, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Cornell University, University of Michigan, Delft University of Technology Netherlands, and Dartmouth College.

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