2022 Times Higher Education
World University Rankings
Times Higher Education released the 2022 World University Rankings at 7 am Beijing time on September 2, 2021.
THE World University Rankings has been in its 18th year since 2004. This time, a total of 1,662 universities from 99 countries/regions were counted, an increase of 136 from last year.
ranking indicator
This ranking is the only global performance table in the world that judges all core tasks of research-intensive universities, including teaching, scientific research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. (Graduate applicants should pay attention!)
uses 13 performance indicators . The performance indicators evaluated include 5 aspects:
Teaching (learning environment): 30%
Research (quantity, income and reputation): 30%
Citations (research influence): 30%
International Outlook (employees, students and research): 7.5%
Industry Revenue (Knowledge Transfer): 2.5%
Check the rankings this year!
Top 10 in the world
The University of Oxford ranked first in the UK this year, and last year's top 4 Caltech , followed closely this year, winning the Tanhua, and tied for second place is the old American prestigious university Harvard . The United States and the United Kingdom continue to maintain an absolute leading position in global higher education and continue to rank in the top ten in the world (US 8 and UK 2).
U.S. ranking
Top10 in the world, the United States occupies 8 seats;
Top20 in the world, the United States occupies 12 seats;
3 Top 30 in the world, the United States occupies 19 seats;
Top 50 in the world, the United States occupies 23 seats;
Top 10 universities in the United States are relatively concentrated in the overall rankings, among which, except for Columbia University (11), Johns Hopkins University and Pennsylvania University (tied to be 13th), the other eight American universities are in the top 10 in the world in the overall rankings.
American universities continue to dominate the THE rankings.
Mainland universities perform
Mainland universities perform overall , becoming the fourth largest country and region with the fourth largest number of colleges and universities on the list, second only to the United States (183), Japan (118) and the United Kingdom (101).
Tsinghua University and Peking University tied for 16th, which is the highest ranking of mainland universities in history on this list. In addition to Tsinghua University, there are 8 mainland universities that have ranked among the top 200 this year, setting a new historical record! Including: Wuhan University (No. 157), Southern University of Science and Technology (No. 162) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No. 181). Nine of the top 200 universities in mainland China ranked higher than in previous years.
Other countries and regions
According to the ranking method of this year, universities in Japan, South Korea, Russia, Singapore and Hong Kong, China all achieved the best rankings in history. The rankings of the University of Tokyo in Japan (35th), Hong Kong University (30th), Seoul University in Korea (54th), National University of Singapore (21st), and Lomonosov National University in Moscow (158th) have all risen.
2022 THE World University Ranking Top 200 List
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THE World University Ranking is regarded as one of the four largest universities in the world, and the other three rankings are QS World University Ranking and US News World University Rankings and ARWU World University Academic Rankings. Major ranking institutions rank world universities based on their respective evaluation indicators, and the results of the list are also different.
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