The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, often referred to as the THE Rankings or just THE, is the annual publication of university rankings by the Times Higher Education magazine.
The publication includes global rankings of universities, including by subject and reputation. It also has begun publishing three regional tables for universities in Asia, Latin America, and BRICS and emerging economies, which are ranked with separate criteria and weightings.
The THE Rankings is often considered one of the most widely observed university. It is praised for having a new, improved ranking methodology since 2010.
Criteria and weighting:
Overall indicator | Individual indicator | Percentage weighting |
Industry Income – innovation | · Research income from industry (per academic staff) | · 2.5% |
International diversity (currently: International outlook (staff, students, research)) | · Ratio of international to domestic staff · Ratio of international to domestic students · International Collaboration (as for 2022–23) | · 3% (2.5% as for 2022–23) · 2% (2.5% as for 2022–23) · 2.5% (as for 2022–23) |
Teaching – the learning environment | · Reputational survey (teaching) · PhDs awards per academic · Undergrad. admitted per academic · Income per academic · PhDs/undergraduate degrees awarded | · 15% · 6% · 4.5% · 2.25% · 2.25% |
Research – volume, income and reputation | · Reputational survey (research) · Research income (scaled) · Papers per research and academic staff · Public research income/ total research income (currently cancelled) | · 19.5% (18% as for 2022–23) · 5.25% (6% as for 2022–23) · 4.5% (6% as for 2022–23) · /(currently cancelled, previously weighted 0.75%) |
Citations – research influence | · Citation impact (normalised average citation per paper) | · 32.5% (30% as for 2022–23) |
