The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023 have been published. The first place is held by the University of Oxford, UK, for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA follows on second place, and Stanford University, CA, USA, and University of Cambridge, UK, share the third place.

As in last year’s ranking, the top 20 are mostly dominated by North American and UK universities. The top institution based in continental Europe is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, in 11th place, and the top Asian universities is Tsinghua University, China, in 16th place.

 

Top 20 Universities

Rank	Institution	Country	Score
1	University of Oxford	UK	96.4
2	Harvard University	USA	95.2
3	University of Cambridge	UK	94.8
3	Stanford University	USA	94.8
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	94.2
6	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	USA	94.1
7	Princeton University	USA	92.4
8	University of California, Berkeley	USA	92.1
9	Yale University	USA	91.4
10	Imperial College London	UK	90.4
11	Columbia University	USA	89.4
11	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich	Switzerland	89.1
13	The University of Chicago	USA	88.9
14	University of Pennsylvania	USA	88.8
15	Johns Hopkins University	USA	88.3
16	Tsinghua University	China	88.2
17	Peking University	China	88.1
18	University of Toronto	Canada	87.4
19	National University of Singapore	Singapore	87.1
20	Cornell University	USA	85.9

 

Methodology

The Times Higher Education ranking uses 13 performance indicators, grouped into five areas:

• Teaching: the learning environment (30 % of the overall ranking score)
• Research: volume, income, and reputation (30 %)
• Citations: research influence (30 %)
• International outlook: staff, students, and research (7.5 %)
• Industry income: knowledge transfer (2.5 %)

Institutions provide and sign off their institutional data for use in the rankings. Bibliometric data is supplied by Elsevier. The perceived prestige of institutions in teaching and research is evaluated using an annual reputation survey. 

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• Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023
  (accessed October 12, 2022)

 

Also of Interest

• World University Rankings 2022,
  ChemistryViews 2021.
• CWTS Leiden University Ranking 2021,
  ChemistryViews 2021.
  Scientific performance of over 1200 universities assessed based on bibliometric indicators