The Times Higher Education Young University Rankings apply the same methodology as the THE WUR to assess research-intensive universities across all their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. However, the weightings are recalibrated to reflect the profile of missions of young universities. 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators are used to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments. The rankings include institutions that were founded between 1973 and the present.

The performance indicators are grouped into five areas: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income. 

TEACHING (the learning environment) 30%

Reputation survey (10%) 

Staff-to-student ratio (6%)

Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio (3%)

Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio (8%)

Institutional income (3%) 

RESEARCH (volume, income and reputation) 30%

Reputation survey (12%) 

Research income (9%) 

Research productivity (9%) 

CITATIONS (research influence) 30%

THE examines research influence by capturing the average number of times that a university’s published work is cited by scholars globally. This year, the bibliometric data supplier Elsevier examined more than 121 million citations to 15.5 million journal articles, article reviews, conference proceedings, books and book chapters published over five years. The data include more than 27,100 academic journals indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database and all indexed publications between 2017 and 2021. Citations to these publications made in the six years from 2017 to 2022 are also collected.

INTERNATIONAL OUTLOOK (staff, students, research) 7.5%

Proportion of international students (2.5%)

Proportion of international staff (2.5%)

International collaboration (2.5%)

INDUSTRY INCOME (knowledge transfer) 2.5%

This category seeks to capture knowledge-transfer activity by looking at how much research income an institution earns from industry (adjusted for PPP), scaled against the number of academic staff it employs.