Times Higher Education

Times Higher Education
Area of ​​Expertise	Higher education
language	English
publishing company	TSL Education Ltd. (United Kingdom (UK))
First edition	1971 (as Times Higher Education Supplement )
Frequency of publication	weekly
Web link	www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
ISSN	0049-3929
ZDB	2407306-4

Times Higher Education (THE) is a London -based magazine that provides information on topics related to higher education . Previous names were The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) and The Times Higher (THES). THE is part of the Tes Global Group. This is owned (as of December 17, 2018) by the US investment firm Providence Equity Partners LLC, which manages capital of $ 18 billion. In November 2018, the company announced plans to sell the THE division.

Publishing history

Times Higher Education was created out of The Times . The first edition appeared in 1971 under the name Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in newspaper format .

It has been published as a magazine under its current name since January 10, 2008. The editor-in-chief is John Gill , with Phil Baty as Editor-at-Large . Baty is also responsible for the university rankings.

Times Higher Education Ranking

THE is mainly for The Times Higher World University Rankings known a method performed annually university ranking . The assessment was carried out between 2004 and 2009 with partner Quacquarelli Symonds . The evaluation methodology was changed after criticism. 2010–2014 the ranking was carried out in cooperation with Thomson Reuters , since 2015 after renewed criticism with Elsevier.

method

There are two lists for THE. The reputation ranking lists which institutions worldwide consider respondents to be the best, and the second list is the “World University Ranking”, which supplements reputations with key figures such as the ratio of students to lecturers, citations in specialist databases or income from industry per researcher.

According to the company's own statements (as of 2017–2018) 13 criteria are taken into account for the establishment of the ranking. The data were collected through surveys of academics and also consist of statistics from universities and the counting of the citation of articles in professional journals. The criteria are weighted: the area of ​​teaching with 30%, research and the frequency of citation also with 27.5% and 32.8%, internationality with 5% and the economic influence with 2.5%. 15% of the results of the survey are used for teaching and 18% for the research reputation of a university. Statistical ratios such as staff per student or the proportion of doctoral students are also evaluated in order to measure the quality of teaching.

Ranking

University	country	Rank 2019-20	Rank 2018-19	Rank 2017-18	Rank 2016-17	Rank 2015-16	Rank 2014–15	Rank 2013-14	Rank 2012–13
University of Oxford	United Kingdom	1	1	1	1	2	3	2	2
California Institute of Technology	United States	2	5	3 =	2	1	1	1	1
University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	3	2	2	4th	4th	5	7th	7th
Stanford University	United States	4th	3	3 =	3	3	4th	4th	3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	5	4th	5	5	5	6th	5	5
Princeton University	United States	6th	7th	7th	7th	7th	7th	6th	6th
Harvard University	United States	7th	6th	6th	6th	6th	2	2	4th
Yale University	United States	8th	8th	12	12	12	9	10	11
University of Chicago	United States	9	10	9	10 =	10	11	9	10
Imperial College London	United Kingdom	10	9	8th	8th	8th	9	10	8th
University of Pennsylvania	United States	11	12 =	10 =	13	17th	16	16	15th
Johns Hopkins University	United States	12	12 =	13	17th	11	15th	15th	16
University of California, Berkeley	United States	13 =	15th	18th	10 =	13	8th	8th	9
ETH Zurich	Switzerland	13 =	11	10 =	10	9	13	14th	12
University College London	United Kingdom	15th	14th	16	15th	14th	22nd	21st	14th
Columbia University	United States	16	16	14th	16	15th	14th	13	14th
University of California, Los Angeles	United States	17th	17th	15th	14th	16	12	12	13
University of Toronto	Canada	18th	21st	22 =	22nd	19th	20th	20th	21st
Cornell University	United States	19th	19th	19th	19th	18th	19th	19th	18th
Duke University	United States	20th	18th	17th	18th	20th	18th	17th	23
University of Michigan	United States	21st	20th	21st	21st	21st	17th	18th	20th
Northwestern University	United States	22nd	25th	20th	20th	25th	21st	22nd	19th
Tsinghua University	People's Republic of China	23	22nd	30th	35	47 =	49	50	52
Peking University	People's Republic of China	24	31	27 =	29	42	48	45	46
National University of Singapore	Singapore	25th	23	22 =	26th	24	25th	26th	29
University of Washington	United States	26th	28	25 =	25 =	32	26th	25th	24
Carnegie Mellon University	United States	27 =	24	24	22nd	23	24	24	22nd
London School of Economics	United Kingdom	27 =	26th	25 =	25 =	13	34	32	39
New York University	United States	29	27	27 =	32	30th	38	40	41
University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	30th	29	27 =	27	24	36	39	32
University of California, San Diego	United States	31	30th	31	41	39 =	41	40	38
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich	Germany	32 =	32 =	34 =	30 =	29	29	55	48
University of Melbourne	Australia	32 =	32 =	32	33 =	33	33	34	28
University of British Columbia	Canada	34	37	34 =	36 =	34	32	31	30th
Hong Kong University	Hong Kong	35	36	40	43 =	44 =	43	43	35
King's College London	United Kingdom	36 =	38	36	36 =	27	40	38	57
Tokyo University	Japan	36 =	42	46	39	43	23	23	27
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	38 =	35	38 =	30 =	31	34	37	40
Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	38 =	34	33	33 =	41	27	28	25th
University of Texas at Austin	United States	38 =	39	49	50	46	28	27	25th
Karolinska Institute	Sweden	41	40	38 =	28	28	44	36	42
McGill University	Canada	42	44	42	42	38	39	35	34
Technical University of Munich	Germany	43	44	41	46	53	98	87	105
Heidelberg University	Germany	44	47	45	43 =	37	70	68	78
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	45 =	48	47	40	35	55	61	58
Université PSL	France	45 =	41
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	47	41	44	49	59	51	57	65
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	48 =	50	37	36 =	36	29	29	33
Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	48 =	51	52	54	55	61	76	86
Australian National University	Australia	50	49	48	47	52	45	48	37

Ranking by country

The USA dominates all other nations. They alone account for 7 of the top 10 placements. The USA has more than twice as many places as its fiercest rival, the United Kingdom, the second most successful country in the ranking, which has three places in the top 10. The third most successful country in terms of placements in the top 100 is Germany in 3rd place and the Netherlands in 4th place. In terms of placements in the top 200, Germany also ranks 3rd.

2018 Rankings Top 100	country	number
1	United States	43
2	United Kingdom	12
3	Germany	10
4th	Netherlands	7th
5	Australia	6th
6th	Canada	4th
7th	Hong Kong	3
7th	Switzerland	3
7th	Sweden	3
10	People's Republic of China	2
10	Japan	2
10	Singapore	2
10	South Korea	2
14th	Belgium	1
14th	Finland	1
14th	France	1

2018 Rankings Top 200	country	number
1	United States	62
2	United Kingdom	31
3	Germany	20th
4th	Netherlands	13
5	Australia	8th
6th	Switzerland	7th
7th	People's Republic of China	6th
7th	France	6th
7th	Canada	6th
7th	Sweden	6th
11	Hong Kong	5
12	Belgium	4th
12	South Korea	4th
14th	Denmark	3
15th	Finland	2
15th	Italy	2
15th	Japan	2
15th	Singapore	2
15th	Spain	2
20th	Austria	1
20th	Ireland	1
20th	Luxembourg	1
20th	New Zealand	1
20th	Norway	1
20th	Russia	1
20th	South Africa	1
20th	Taiwan	1

German universities

Germany provides 20 of the best 200 universities (as of 2017/2018).

2018 rankings	university	state	score
34	Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich	Bavaria	76.2
41	Technical University of Munich	Bavaria	73.5
45	Heidelberg University	Baden-Württemberg	72.3
62	Humboldt University of Berlin	Berlin	67.4
79	RWTH Aachen	North Rhine-Westphalia	63.3
82	Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg	Baden-Württemberg	62.9
88	Free University of Berlin	Berlin	62.1
92	Technical University Berlin	Berlin	61.5
94	University of Tübingen	Baden-Württemberg	61.2
100	University of Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia	60.5
113 =	Georg-August-University Goettingen	Lower Saxony	59.2
125	University of Mannheim	Baden-Württemberg	58.2
126 =	Charité - University Medicine Berlin	Berlin	58.1
133	Karlsruher Institute for Technology	Baden-Württemberg	57.6
145	University of Cologne	North Rhine-Westphalia	56.4
155 =	Technical University Dresden	Saxony	55.5
155 =	Ulm University	Baden-Württemberg	55.5
162 =	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Bavaria	54.8
165 =	Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg	Bavaria	54.7
173 =	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster	North Rhine-Westphalia	54.2

Swiss universities

Switzerland has 7 of the best 200 universities (as of 2017/18).

2018 rankings	university	Canton	score
10 =	ETH Zurich	Zurich	87.7
38 =	École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne	Vaud	75.3
95 =	University of Basel	Basel city	60.9
105 =	University of Bern	Bern	60.0
130 =	University of Geneva	Geneva	57.8
136	University of Zurich	Zurich	57.4
152	University of Lausanne	Vaud	55.7

Austrian universities

Austria is one of the best 200 universities (as of 2017/18).

2018 rankings	university	place	score
165 =	University of Vienna	Vienna	54.7

Prices

The magazine awards two classes of prizes each year. On the one hand, since 2005, the " Times Higher Education Awards", with which people and institutions from different areas of higher education are honored in several categories (in 2018 there were 18 different). In addition, since 2009 the " Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards" (Thelmas) have been given to honor employees from the administrative sector of higher education.

Web links

• www.timeshighereducation.co.uk Official Times Higher Education website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Schleim: New university ranking: Germany still mediocre from August 15, 2019. Accessed on August 15, 2019
2. ^ Spiegel Online : Globales Uni-Ranking-Uni ​​Göttingen rushes forward from September 16, 2010. Accessed on March 6, 2011
3. ↑ https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/news/academics-invited-to-shape-results-of-world-university-rankings-2015-2016
4. ↑ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ranking-methodology-2016
5. ↑ ^{a b} World University Rankings . In: Times Higher Education (THE) . August 18, 2017 ( timeshighereducation.com [accessed April 15, 2018]).
6. ↑ About the THE Awards. THE World Universities Insights Limited, accessed October 30, 2018 . 
7. ^ University of Hertfordshire shortlisted in the 'Oscars of higher education'. In: whtimes.co.uk. September 8, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018 . 
8. ^ About the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards. THE World Universities Insights Limited, accessed October 30, 2018 .