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This year sees 141 new entrants in the Times Higher Education rankings. University leaders warn COVID-19 will have a lasting impact on academia. Oxford has been named the world’s best university for the fifth consecutive year.
The Times Higher Education’s (THE) world ranking has become a closely watched barometer of the shifts in the global innovation and knowledge economy, supporting governments policymaking and university leaders’ strategic decisions, as well as supporting millions of internationally-mobile students to decide on who to trust with their education.
Image: Times Higher Education A record 1,524 institutions from 110 countries and regions have participated across the rankings this year, a 23% increase since last year, reflecting the growing importance of the SDGs within higher education institutions globally.
The University of Oxford, which led the way in the global search for a Covid-19 vaccine, has been named the world’s number one university for a sixth consecutive year in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings – in a period when the global rush for research into the virus has provided a further boost to mainland China’s rapid rise up the global rankings.
This was the stirring message of Safwan Masri, Executive Vice-President for global development at Columbia University at a keynote speech at Times Higher Education's MENA Universities Summit in 2021. Masri lamented that much of the world is grappling with misunderstanding, division, polarization and cynicism.
Data from Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings, which ranks almost 2,000 of the world’s leading research-intensive universities, shows: 68% of the research published by Singapore’s ranked universities is published with an international partner – up from just 53% in 2016.
Times Higher Education’s second annual Impact Rankings show which institutions are contributing to the planet’s economic and social well-being. The University of Auckland takes the top spot for the second year running. An interactive map shows what the 100 top-ranked universities are working on.
The Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings 2022 is the world’s only list measuring universities’ contributions against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This year, Western Sydney University in Australia topped the list of the most sustainable universities, with Hokkaido University in Japan coming tenth.
The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings assess universities based on their contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Impact Rankings include rankings for each one of the UN’s 17 SDGs and an overall ranking on top, highlighting high-impact universities.
The Times Higher Education survey ranks the world’s universities by global reputation. Harvard takes the top spot in 2021 for the 11th consecutive year. US universities dominate the table once more. But China has broken into the top 10 for the first time. Oxford University moved into third place in the year that saw it deliver a COVID-19 vaccine.