Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023

World University Rankings 2023: One of the popular ranking organisations – Times Higher Education (THE) has recently published its World University Rankings for 2023. The rankings announced by Times Higher Education for 2023 include a total of 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions. The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking methodology includes 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

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Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023 – Highlights

In this section, we will be discussing the Times Higher Education World University Ranking high points. 

• The University of Oxford has topped the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for the seventh consecutive year.
• The US is the most-represented country overall, with 177 institutions and the most represented in the top 200 (58) in the world university ranking list.
• Mainland China now has the fourth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023
• Five countries enter the ranking for the first time – all in Africa (Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe)

Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023

In this section, we have provided the best universities for 2023 as published by ranking aggregators Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2023. We have also provided the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 for candidates to compare university performance year-on-year basis.  

Top Universities	THE World University Ranking 2023	THE World University Ranking 2022
University of Oxford, United Kingdom	1	1
Harvard University, United States	2	=2
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom	=3	=5
Stanford University, United States	=3	4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States	5	=5
California Institute of Technology, United States	6	=2
Princeton University, United States	7	7
University of California, Berkeley, United States	8	8
Yale University, United States	9	9
Imperial College London, United Kingdom	10	12
Columbia University, United States	=11	11
ETH Zurich, Switzerland	=11	15
The University of Chicago, United States	13	10
University of Pennsylvania, United States	14	=13
Johns Hopkins University, United States	15	=13
Tsinghua University, China	16	=16
Peking University, China	17	=16
University of Toronto, Canada	18	=18
National University of Singapore, Singapore	19	21
Cornell University, United States	20	22
University of California, Los Angeles, United States	21	20
University College London (UCL), United Kingdom	22	=18
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States	23	=24
New York University, United States	24	26
Duke University, United States	25	23
Northwestern University, United States	=26	=24
University of Washington, United States	=26	29
Carnegie Mellon University, United States	28	28
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom	29	=30
Technical University of Munich, Germany	30	38
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	31	=30
University of California, San Diego, United States	32	34
LMU Munich, Germany	33	32
University of Melbourne, Australia	34	33
King’s College London, United Kingdom	35	=35
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore	36	46
London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom	37	27
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States	38	45
The University of Tokyo, Japan	39	=35
University of British Columbia, Canada	40	37
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland	41	=40
KU Leuven, Belgium	42	=42
Heidelberg University, Germany	43	=42
Monash University, Australia	44	57
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	45	49
McGill University, Canada	46	44
Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris, France	47	=40
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States	48	48
Karolinska Institute, Sweden	49	39
University of Texas at Austin, United States	50	47
Fudan University, China	51	60
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China	52	84
The University of Queensland, Australia	53	=54
University of Manchester, United Kingdom	=54	50
University of Sydney, Australia	=54	=58
Seoul National University, South Korea	56	=54
Washington University in St Louis, United States	57	51
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong	58	66
Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands	59	53
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands	60	65
Brown University, United States	61	64
Australian National University, Australia	62	=54
University of California, Davis, United States	63	67
University of California, Santa Barbara, United States	64	68
University of Southern California, United States	65	63
Utrecht University, Netherlands	66	69
Zhejiang University, China	67	=75
Kyoto University, Japan	68	61
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States	69	52
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands	70	=75
Boston University, United States	=71	62
UNSW Sydney, Australia	=71	70
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany	73	73
University of Science and Technology of China, China	74	=88
University of Groningen, Netherlands	75	=80
University of Bristol, United Kingdom	76	92
Leiden University, Netherlands	77	71
Yonsei University (Seoul campus), South Korea	78	151
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong	79	=91
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands	80	72
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States	81	=58
Emory University, United States	=82	82
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom	=82	=86
University of Zurich, Switzerland	=82	=75
McMaster University, Canada	85	=80
Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany	=86	74
University of Tübingen, Germany	=86	=78
University of Adelaide, Australia	88	111
University of Bonn, Germany	89	112
Sorbonne University, France	90	=88
Free University of Berlin, Germany	=91	83
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea	=91	=99
Université Paris-Saclay, France	93	=117
University of Bern, Switzerland	94	=101
University of California, Irvine, United States	=95	98
Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France	=95	=91
Nanjing University, China	=95	=105
Vanderbilt University, United States	98	=113
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	=99	=151
RWTH Aachen University, Germany	=99	=108

source: Times Higher Education (THE)

About Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking

Times Higher Education Rankings is an annual affair by the Times Higher Education based in London. Between 2004 and 2009, QS and THE jointly published the rankings, however, once their collaboration ended both adopted different methodologies to determine these rankings. THE started publishing these rankings based on the methodology developed with Thompson Reuters in 2010.

Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking Methodology

Times Higher Education rankings 2023 involve scrutinising research universities on five parameters namely Teaching, Citations, Research, International Outlook, and Industry Income. These are further divided into 13 carefully crafted performance indicators.

Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking Parameters

S. No.	Ranking Parameters	Performance Indicators
1	Teaching	Reputation survey Staff-to-student rat Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio Institutional income
2	Research	Reputation survey Research income Research productivity
3	Citations	Research influence
4	International Outlook	Proportion of international students Proportion of international staff International collaboration
5	Industry Income	Knowledge transfer

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