The Best Universities in the World
The latest global university ranking has been released by Times Higher Education, putting the UK's Oxford University at the top of the pile once again. Institutions are ranked based on five indicators: teaching, research environment, research quality, international outlook and industry income/patents.
On this basis, the United Kingdom and United States completely dominate the top of the list, with no universities from other countries in the top 10 and only around 20 out of the top 50 universities in the world located in other countries. The best-performing among them is Switzerland's ETH Zurich in rank 11, which focuses on STEM subjects. This is followed by two Beijing schools in ranks 12 and 13. Further down, schools from Singapore, Canada, Germany and Hong Kong make appearances in the top 50 of the world's best universities, as well as one school each from Australia, France, Belgium and Japan.
Other countries with many universities present in the ranking only start to appear much lower on the list. Apart from Japan and China, which rank throughout, India has 107 entries starting with Indian Institute of Science in the upper 200s (and the Indian Institute of Technology only in the 500s). Turkey and Iran have 91 and 81 entries each, the highest being Koç University in the lower 300s and Sharif University of Technology in the upper 300s, respectively.