GLOBAL RANKINGS OF UNIVERSITIES

John O’Leary I Editor I Times Higher Education Supplement

The Times Higher Education Supplement world university rankings

Times Higher criteria

• Students per member of academic staff: 20% weighting

• Research citations per faculty member: 20% weighting

• Proportion of international students: 5% Weighting

• Proportion of international staff: 5% weighting

• QS opinion poll of 1,300 academics in 88 countries: 50% weighting

Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of world universities

Shanghai Jai Tong criteria

• Alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals: 10% weighting

• Staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals: 20% weighting

• Research citations in 21 areas: 20% weighting

• Articles published in Nature and Science: 20% weighting

• Articles in Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index: 20% weighting

Times University Guide criteria

• Teaching quality rating: 2.5 weighting• Research rating: 1.5 weighting• Entry standards• Students per member of academic staff• Library/computing spending• Student facilities spending• Degree classifications• Graduate destinations• Completion rate

Comparing the results

TIMES HIGHER1. Harvard2. Berkeley3. MIT4. Caltec5. Oxford6. Cambridge7. Stanford8. Yale9. Princeton10. ETH Zurich

SHANGHAI JIAO TONG1. Harvard2. Stanford3. Cambridge4. Berkeley5. MIT6. Caltech7. Princeton8. Oxford9. Columbia10. Chicago

Science subjects

SCIENCE1. Cambridge2. Oxford 3. Harvard 4. Berkeley 5. MIT6. Stanford 7. Tokyo8. Princeton9. Caltech10. Imperial

ENGINEERING1. Berkeley2. MIT3. Stanford4. IIT (India)5. Imperial6. Caltech7. Tokyo8. Cambridge9. NUS10. Beijing

BIOMEDICINE1. Harvard2. Cambridge3. Oxford4. Imperial5. Stanford6. Johns

Hopkins7. Karolinska8. Yale9. Berkeley10. UC San

Diego

Arts subjects

HUMANITIES1. Harvard2. Oxford3. Berkeley4. Yale5. Cambridge6. Princeton7. Beijing8. Columbia9. Tokyo10. LSE

SOCIAL SCIENCES1. Harvard2. LSE3. Berkeley4. Oxford5. Chicago6. Stanford7. Yale8. Cambridge9. MIT10. NUS