As we all know, the four authoritative world university rankings are the Times Higher Education World University rankings, QS World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of Global Universities, and US. News World University Rankings.
Previously, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the QS World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of Shanghai Rankings of World Universities announced one after another the latest World University Rankings. Finally, on October 25, the long-awaited US News announced the latest US News of 2023. World University Rankings, which is the ninth time USNews has published global university rankings.
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This ranking covers universities from 95 countries and a total of 2000 institutions. Both the number of countries and the number of schools have increased compared to last year. Furthermore, in the disciplinary area rankings, four disciplinary area rankings have been included, for a total of 47 specific professional rankings.
1. Ranking indicators
The USNews World University Rankings pays special attention to the school’s overall academic research and reputation, rather than individual undergraduate or graduate programs, so it can help students comprehensively and accurately compare higher education institutions around the world .
This ranking is calculated through 13 indicators and weights.The specific ranking indicators are as follows:
Global academic research reputation: 12.5%
Regional academic research reputation: 12.5%
Publication index: 10%
Book Publishing Index: 2.5%
Seminar and Conference Discussion Rate: 2.5%
Standardized impact index of paper citations: 10%
Total citation index of academic articles: 7.5%
Number of articles published in the top 10% cited: 12.5%
Ratio between publications and 10% most cited: 10%
International collaboration: 5%
Percentage of total publications with international collaborations: 5%
The number of articles cited in the “Top 1% Most Cited Publications” in the representative field: 5%
Percentage of publications in the “top 1% of most cited publications”: 5%
2. The TOP10 universities are essentially unchanged
The top 10 universities on this list haven’t changed much from last year and are still dominated by the two countries with the most abundant higher education resources in the world, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The position of the top 5 universities in the world is exactly the same as last year. Harvard holds the top spot, followed by MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and Oxford.
The sixth to tenth universities are: University of Washington, Columbia University, Cambridge University, Caltech and Johns Hopkins University.
3. Strengthen the strength of Chinese universities
In this world university ranking, Chinese universities have also made significant progress.
Tsinghua University still ranks first in China, up 3 places from last year, to 23rd place in the world, to first place in China and first in Asia.
Peking University ranked second in China, ranking 39th in the world, an improvement of 6 places from last year’s 45th place.
Shanghai Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University entered the world’s TOP 100 for the first time, and Shanghai Jiaotong University was ranked 89th, an improvement of 16 places from last year’s 105th! Zhejiang University moved up 22 places from last year’s 115th to 93rd.
Universities in Hong Kong, China also performed well.
The University of Hong Kong climbed 23 places to 53rd place.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has climbed 27 places from 82 last year to 55 this year.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic University are both in the Top100 ranking, ranking 95th and 100th respectively.
How is it, is it the result that everyone expected? The World University Rankings can show you the strengths of colleges and universities in all aspects. We can see the differences in the emphasis of colleges and universities from the data; it can also give you a college choice reference and pick the ideal college in your mind; at the same time, it can also give you employment support.
For example, one of the talent settlement optimization policies announced by Shanghai clearly states that those who have graduated from the world’s top 50 universities can settle directly in Shanghai. Those who have graduated from universities ranked 51-100 in the world can apply for liquidation after 6 months of social security payment.
According to the official explanation provided by the Shanghai People’s Association: the top 50 institutions in the world and the top 100 institutions are listed by the relevant authorities according to Times Higher Education, US News & World Report. , QS World University Rankings (Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings), Shanghai World Universities Academic Ranking (Shanghai World Universities Academic Ranking)
Not only Shanghai, but also the talent policies of many locations, and even company recruitment, will use world university rankings as one of the selection criteria.
Therefore, even if we should be wary of “ranking theory”, we must also realize that world university rankings still occupy an important position in the world.
Finally, let’s take a look at the performance of Chinese universities in this world university ranking.
