General information on ranking

Name of the ranking	THE World University Rankings
Geographical scope	Global
Name of person in charge of ranking	Phil Baty
E-mail of person in charge of ranking	phil.baty@timeshighereducation.com
Website of the ranking	https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univers...
Publication frequency	annual
First year of publication	2004
Most recent year of publication	2024
Date of last update	2024-05-06
Ranking organization	Times Higher Education
Website of the methodology	https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/world-university-rankings-2024-methodology
Methodology	THE World University Rankings judges research-intensive universities across all of their core missions. The table is based on performance indicators grouped into five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, international outlook and industry. Teaching (the learning environment): 29.5% Teaching reputation: 15% Staff-to-student ratio: 4.5% Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio: 2% Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio: 5.5% Institutional income: 2.5%   Research environment: 29% Research reputation: 18% Research income: 5.5% Research productivity: 5.5%   Research quality: 30% Citation impact: 15% Research strength: 5% Research excellence: 5% Research influence: 5%   International outlook: 7.5% Proportion of international students: 2.5% Proportion of international staff: 2.5% International collaboration: 2.5%   Industry: 4% Industry income: 2% Patents: 2%   Universities can be excluded from the World University Rankings if they do not teach undergraduates, or if their research output amounted to fewer than 1,000 relevant publications between 2018 and 2022 (with a minimum of 150 a year). Universities can also be excluded if 80 per cent or more of their research output is exclusively in one of our 11 subject areas.

Additional information

• Type of publication: internet, mobile application, print - magazine, newspaper
• Internet users access to ranking: open access
• Language of publication: English
• Main target groups: higher education institutions, policymakers, governments and funding agencies, students and parents
• Level of comparison: institutional: 1906
• Major dimensions covered: internationalization, knowledge transfer, reputation, research, teaching
• Structure of presentation: ordinary presentation (league tables)
• Data sources: data collected from HEIs by ranking organization, survey conducted exclusively by ranking organization, third-party database (data not provided by HEI)
• Quality assurance of ranking: certification (e.g. IREG Audit)
• Website of the ranking organization: http://www.timeshighereducation.com
• Types of the ranking organization: commercial/for-profit (incl. media)
• Types of rankings: global