Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, founded in 2004, provide the definitive list of the world's best universities, evaluated across teaching, research, international outlook, reputation and more. THE’s data are trusted by governments and universities and are a vital resource for students, helping them choose where to study.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 list the top 1,000 universities in the world, making it our biggest international league table to date.
It is the only global university performance table to judge research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. We use 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
The calculation of the rankings for 2018 has been subject to independent audit by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), making these the only global university rankings to be subjected to full, independent scrutiny of this nature.
This year, we have made a slight improvement to how we handle our papers per academic staff calculation, and expanded the number of broad subject areas that we use. The top 1,000 represents no more than 5 per cent of the 20,000 higher education institutions in the world.
Ranking Methodology:
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings consider Teaching, Research, Knowledge Transfer and International Outlook are the performance measures for ranking.
THE-2018: Top 10 World Universities
Rank#1:: University of Oxford
Rank#2:: University of Cambridge
Rank#3:: California Institute of Technology
Rank#3:: Stanford University
Rank#4:: _____________________
Rank#5:: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rank#6:: Harvard University
Rank#7:: Princeton University
Rank#8:: Imperial College London
Rank#9:: University of Chicago
Rank#10:: ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Rank#10:: University of Pennsylvania
THE-2018: Top 10 Indian Universities
Rank#251-300:: Indian Institute of Science
Rank#351-400:: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Rank#501-600:: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Rank#501-600:: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Rank#501-600:: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Rank#501-600:: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Rank#601-800:: Aligarh Muslim University
Rank#601-800:: Banaras Hindu University
Rank#601-800:: University of Delhi
Rank#601-800:: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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About The Times Higher Education (THE)
Times Higher Education (THE) is the data provider underpinning university excellence in every continent across the world. As the company behind the world’s most influential university ranking, and with almost five decades of experience as a source of analysis and insight on higher education, we have unparalleled expertise on the trends underpinning university performance globally. Our data and benchmarking tools are used by many of the world’s most prestigious universities to help them achieve their strategic goals.
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