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The top ten best universities in the world, according to Times Higher Education. Image: Times Higher Education. The United States dominates the top of the list – eight of the top 10 universities are in the US with Stanford, Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley all improving their rankings. California Institute of Technology and ...
The Times Higher Education’s (THE) world ranking has become a closely watched barometer of the shifts in the global innovation and knowledge economy, supporting governments policymaking and university leaders’ strategic decisions, as well as supporting millions of internationally-mobile students to decide on who to trust with their education.
The University of Oxford, which led the way in the global search for a Covid-19 vaccine, has been named the world’s number one university for a sixth consecutive year in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings – in a period when the global rush for research into the virus has provided a further boost to mainland China’s rapid rise up the global rankings.
The Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings 2022 is the world’s only list measuring universities’ contributions against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This year, Western Sydney University in Australia topped the list of the most sustainable universities, with Hokkaido University in Japan coming tenth.
This was the stirring message of Safwan Masri, Executive Vice-President for global development at Columbia University at a keynote speech at Times Higher Education's MENA Universities Summit in 2021. Masri lamented that much of the world is grappling with misunderstanding, division, polarization and cynicism.
The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings assess universities based on their contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Impact Rankings include rankings for each one of the UN’s 17 SDGs and an overall ranking on top, highlighting high-impact universities.
The Times Higher Education survey ranks the world’s universities by global reputation. Harvard takes the top spot in 2021 for the 11th consecutive year. US universities dominate the table once more. But China has broken into the top 10 for the first time. Oxford University moved into third place in the year that saw it deliver a COVID-19 vaccine.
Image: Times Higher Education. A record 1,524 institutions from 110 countries and regions have participated across the rankings this year, a 23% increase since last year, reflecting the growing importance of the SDGs within higher education institutions globally. THE Impact rankings include tables for each individual SDG, as well as an overall ...
For two decades, Times Higher Education’s (THE) World University Rankings have demonstrated the extraordinary rising research power and influence of China, with Beijing’s Tsinghua and Peking universities rapidly closing-in on the world top 10 positions – in 12 th and 14 th place respectively in the 2024 edition of the world rankings ...
Below are four higher education trends we see taking shape in 2022. 1. Learning from everywhere. There is recognition that as schools and universities all over the world had to abruptly pivot to online teaching, learning outcomes suffered across the education spectrum. However, the experiment with online teaching did force a reexamination of ...