On October 12, Times Higher Education in the UK announced the 2023 World University Rankings. In this ranking, there are 1,799 colleges and universities around the world on the list, an increase of 137 from last year, making it THE's largest and most diverse ranking so far.

On October 12, Times Higher Education (THE) in the UK announced the 2023 world university rankings.

This ranking, there are 11,799 html universities in the world, an increase of 137 from last year, which is THE largest and most diverse ranking so far.

Let’s take a look at the fresh and popular rankings!

Ranking of British and American colleges and universities

The top 10 rankings this time are still covered by British and American universities, but compared with last year, there are one more universities in the UK that have entered the top 10 in the UK.

Oxford University , it has ranked first in the world for the seventh consecutive year.

Cambridge University continues to rise 2 places this year, tied for third place with Stanford, and Imperial College of Technology ranks 10th.

There are 10 universities in the UK that have entered the top 100, including University College London (22), University of Edinburgh (29), King's College London (35), London School of Political Science and Economics (37), University of Manchester (54), University of Bristol (76) and University of Glasgow (82).

In terms of American colleges and universities, there are 7 universities that have entered the top 10.

Harvard ranked second, followed by Stanford (tied 3), MIT (fifth), Californ (fifth), Californ (fifth), Princeton (fifth), Berkeley (fifth), Yale (fifth).

In addition, there are Columbia University (11), Chicago University (13), Pennsylvania University (14), Johns Hopkins University (15), and Cornell University (20).

University of Chicago failed to enter the TOP10 this year, and California Polytechnic also dropped 4 places.

But in terms of overall performance, American universities continue to dominate the THE rankings. The top 20 universities on the list include 2 , and the top 100 have 4 .

Australia and Canadian college rankings

Australia, a total of universities have entered the TOP100, of which Melbourne University ranks 34th in the world.

The remaining six universities are: Monash University (44), University of Queensland (53), University of Sydney (54), Australia National University (62), University of New South Wales (71), and University of Adelaide (88).

Canada, a total of universities have entered the top 100. The best-ranked university is still University of Toronto , ranking 18th, the same as last year.

Other universities are University of British Columbia (40), McGill University (46), and McMaster University (85).

Asian college rankings

In this ranking, Asian universities also performed outstandingly.

Among the 179 universities that were on the list for the first time, Asia accounts for 4 . At the same time, Asia is the region with the largest number of participation, with 69 universities participating.

Among them, Japan was ranked with 117 universities, ranking first among Asian countries in terms of number, followed by mainland China with 95 universities.

Among Asian universities, the highest ranking is Tsinghua University , ranking 16th, Peking University and National University of Singapore , ranking 17th and 19th.

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There are universities in Hong Kong in China. Compared with last year, except for Hong Kong University ranking slightly fell by 1 (31), the rankings of other colleges and universities have all risen:

Chinese University of Hong Kong (45), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (58), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (79), and Hong Kong City University (99), all rose to varying degrees. Among them, the rankings of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong have the fastest rise, from 151 to 99, and entered the TOP100 list for the first time.

There are universities in Macau, China, listed, namely University of Macau (201–250), and University of Science and Technology (201–250).

Mainland universities performed well

In this ranking, a total of 95 universities in mainland China were on the list, ranking fourth in the world, second only to the United States (177), Japan (117) and the United Kingdom (103).

Mainland Chinese universities set another record, with entering the TOP100, and 1 entering the TOP200, setting a new high.

Nanjing University ranked among the top 100 for the first time, ranking 95th. Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University rankings both rose from last year, further approaching the top 50 in the world.

In addition, there are 13 universities on the list for the first time, including Changsha University of Science and Technology (No. 501-600), which is the highest-ranked new university on the list this year in mainland China.

Chinese universities are rising

THE The ranking basis for the world universities is to analyze 15.5 million research publications and 121 million related citations, plus more than 40,000 annual academic reputation questionnaires, and hundreds of thousands of data covering teaching environment, international prospects and industry links. A total of 3 performance indicators were used.

This year's ranking is still the best in the US and British universities and has always dominated the top 10 lists, but it is worth noting that the United States' leading position among the world's top research universities has loosened.

China's universities are rising, and the number and quality of research are higher than before.

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Among the top 100, American universities occupy 34 seats, which is already a decrease from the number in 2018 (43), while China's universities that squeeze into the top 100 have increased from two to seven. Phil Baty, editor of

THE, noted that the available data have clearly shown that the United States can no longer take the dominance of higher education and research for decades.

Now China is taking the lead in launching challenges. If the current trend remains the same, maybe in a few years we will see China surpass the United States.

The number of academic publications in China has been growing steadily since the mid-1990s.

In the eyes of the outside world, especially the Western academic community, it is still generally believed that the quality of Chinese academic papers lags behind Western countries.

However, a paper published in the journal Scientometrics this spring sharply pointed out a fact- China's "high-influence" scientific research output has surpassed the United States .

co-author of the paper and Professor at Ohio State University said that China's high-quality research surpassed Europe in 2015 and the United States in 2019, and Chinese studies account for a higher proportion of 1% of the papers with the most cited worldwide.

Wagner and her colleagues found that China now has the ability to carry out high-quality research work, and they are doing this work on a large scale, " This is really surprising ".

Wagner said that China's research focuses on materials science, chemistry, engineering and mathematics, while the United States is more prolific in clinical medicine , basic life sciences and physics.

According to National Science Foundation data, China spent $526 billion in R&D in 2019, while the total R&D expenditure in the United States in the same year was $656 billion.

China still lags behind the United States, but has been narrowing the gap in . From 2010 to 2019, China's R&D expenditure increased by an average of 10.6% per year.

Data from the National Science Foundation of America shows that China's share of international patent also rose from 16% 10 years ago to 49% in 2020, while the share of the United States fell from 15% to 10% during the same period.

Dunis Simon, a professor at Duke University's School of Business, said that China is a rising star, and the engineers trained by Tsinghua University are almost no different from those of MIT graduates.

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But he also pointed out that the problem in China is that there are not many top universities in , and there is a huge gap between rankings.

is one of the top 300 universities in the United States, and in China, there is a significant gap after ranking in the top 50, and the reserve strength of China's top universities is insufficient.

Last let’s take a look at the complete list of TOP200

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