Trinity College, Cambridge University, U.K.
According to the most recent World University Rankings by Times Higher Education (THE), the global higher-education landscape is shifting as institutions from around the world appear atop lists that traditionally favored Americans.
For the last seven years, the overall THE rankings have set Britain’s Oxford University as #1 in the world. The 2023 results place Harvard at #2 while another Brit, the University of Cambridge, jumps from fifth in 2022 to third this year, above both Stanford University and MIT.
The popular listing published annually includes 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions and is based on four criteria: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
Bodleian Library and All Souls College at Oxford University
In the 2023 rankings, 36 of the Global Top 100 universities are in Europe — with 15 among the world’s top 50. That represents a significant increase from 28 universities since 2011, when the World University Rankings report was released.
Among the first 20 places, the Imperial College London is #10 and ETH Zurich in Switzerland #11.
Aside from Oxford, Cambridge, ICL and ETH Zurich, the 50 first places include University College London (#22), University of Edinburgh (#29), Technical University of Munich (#31), Germany’s LMU Munich (#33), King’s College London (#35), London School of Economics and Political Science (#37), Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (#41), Belgium’s KU Leuven (#42), Germany’s Universität Heidelberg (#43), Paris Sciences et Lettres (#47) and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute (#49).
Students after a lecture at a Spanish university
Notable rises
One notable change in the 2023 list is the rise of China’s universities within the Top 100, rising from three institutions on the list to seven between 2019 and 2023. Australia also has seven, Hong Kong five and Canada four.
China’s Tsinghua University and Peking University are #16 and #17 respectively, University of Toronto #18, Canada’s University of British Columbia #40 and McGill University #46, Singapore’s National University #19 and Nanyang Technological University #36, University of Hong Kong #32 and Chinese University of Hong Kong #45, Australia’s University of Melbourne #34 and Monash University #44 and the University of Tokyo #3.
The complete list can be consulted here.
Other worldwide rankings
This year “it’s not just iconic institutions that take the top spots,” reports QS World University Rankings, an annual publication by Quacquarelli Symonds that grades almost 1,500 institutions worldwide. “This year’s highest rankings include universities from diverse locations across Europe, Asia and North America.”
In its 2023 edition, just under half of the top 100 universities in the world are located in the U.S. (with 27 ) and the U.K. (17).
The 20 first places in that survey include Cambridge University (#2), Oxford University (#4), Imperial College London (#6), University College London (#8), ETH Zurich/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (#9), National University of Singapore (311), Peking University (#12), China’s Tsinghua University (#14), University of Edinburgh (#15), Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (#16) and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (#19).
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Just in Europe
Although the practice of university rankings is relatively crowded, with new agencies competing with the best-known and most influential rating bodies — and they use various methodology and criteria for their calculations — most listings seem to have similar results with a few variations in placement.
Although American universities continue to dominate the Top 100, international colleges from different countries appear in greater numbers and better positions than ever before.
The U.S. News 2022-2023 Best Global Universities in Europe starts its rankings with five British Universities topping its list: Oxford, Cambridge, University College of London, Imperial College and King’s College.
ETH Zurich, University of Edinburgh, University of Amsterdam, University of Copenhagen and Utrecht University also in the Netherlands complete the best 10.
“Currently, there are university rankings publishers such as Webometrics that incorporate factors into their algorithms that are related to an institution’s digital presence, the impact of the quality of their online content, and their connections with other networks of external institutions,” explains Universityguru.com which offers data on more than 11,000 universities worldwide.
UniRank University Ranking also provides information on the visibility of universities on social networks.
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