them
Where's Harvard? Why are all the British Universities out of the top
five? The Times Higher Education Supplement has published its list of
the top 100 universities in the world - just days after a competing
list was published. See how they compare
- Get the data [#data]
Simon Rogers
Thursday September 16 2010
guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/16/top-100-universities-times-higher-education
Harvard is back at number one [http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/
2010/sep/16/british-sink-in-top-100-universities-league] - and there
is not a British university in the top five. This week's list of the
world's top 100 universities makes very different reading from the
list published by careers advice company QS, in which Cambridge came
top and Harvard second [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/
sep/08/worlds-top-100-universities-2010].
The top 100 is dominated by American institutions, but China and South
Korea have also scored highly after compilers placed less emphasis on
"reputation and heritage" and gave more weight to objective measures
including the influence of universities' research.
The league table published today by the magazine Times Higher
Education (THE) [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-
university-rankings/] is topped by Harvard. American universities take
all five top places and have 72 entries in the global top 200.
Britain has three institutions in the top 10, with Imperial College
London at ninth. But there are just five British universities in the
top 50 ? UCL is rated 22nd and Edinburgh 40th ? and only 14 in the top
100.
Says the THE:
We have completely overhauled the methodology to deliver our most
rigorous, transparent and reliable rankings tables ever. The Times
Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-11 were developed in
concert with our new rankings data provider, Thomson Reuters, with
input from more than 50 leading figures in the sector from 15
countries across every continent, and through 10 months of extensive
consultation
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it?
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