The ranking of the best universities in the world Times Higher Education (THE)

Evaluation of criteria and weight

Criteria	Indicator	Code	Weight
Quality of Education	Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals	Alumni	10%
Quality of Faculty	Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals	Award	20%
Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories	HiCi	20%
Research Output	Papers published in Nature and Science*	N&S	20%
Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index	PUB	20%
Per Capita Performance	Per capita academic performance of an institution	PCP	10%
Total			100%
* For institutions specialized in humanities and social sciences such as London School of Economics, N&S is not considered, and the weight of N&S is relocated to other indicators.

World Rank	Institution	Score	Teaching	International Outlook	Research	Citations
1	Оксфордский университет	95.7	91	96.3	99.6	98
2	California Institute of Technology	95	93.6	83.8	96.9	97.8
2	University of Harvard	95	94.5	79.8	98.9	99.2
4	University of Stanford	94.9	92.3	79.7	96.8	99.9
5	University of Cambridge	94.6	90.9	95.8	99.5	96.2
5	MIT	94.6	90.9	89.9	94.4	99.7
7	University of Princeton	93.6	89.5	80.7	96	99
8	University of California Berkeley	92.2	85.7	77.6	96	99.1
9	Йельский университет	90.8	90.7	69.9	93	97
10	University of Chicago	89.8	87.2	74.4	90.6	98.3
11	Columbia University	89.6	87.8	79.8	89.6	97.3
12	Imperial College London	89.3	81.4	97.5	88.3	97.6
13	Johns Hopkins University	88.4	80	74.6	90.8	97.2
13	University of Pennsylvania	88.4	84.5	69.7	89.2	97.1
15	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	88.2	81.3	97.9	92.4	90.7
16	Peking University	87.5	91.4	65.1	94.6	81.7
16	Tsinghua University	87.5	88.1	50.6	95.7	86.8
18	University of Toronto	87.2	77.6	89.1	93	92.6
18	UCL	87.2	76.8	96.7	88.9	96.9
20	UCLA	86.7	82.1	65.1	89.8	96
21	National University of Singapore	85.2	76.3	94.4	90.6	87.3
22	Cornell University	85	78.6	75.4	85.4	97.2
23	Duke University	83.5	79.2	66.6	78.6	95.6
24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	83.1	78.6	59.5	85.4	94
24	Northwestern University	83.1	74.3	65.3	82.1	97.6
26	New York University	82.4	75.4	72.3	83.1	94.7
27	London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London	80.8	68	92.7	80.8	94.4
28	Carnegie Mellon University	80.6	64.7	80.8	80	99
29	University of Washington	79.8	68.8	61.7	78.8	99
30	Edinburgh, University of	78.9	66.1	95.2	74.2	95.6
30	University of Hong Kong	78.9	66.2	98.8	72.2	95
32	LMU Munich	78.6	68.1	69.1	77.9	90.3
33	University of Melbourne	77.8	67.5	94	73.8	88.4
34	UCSD	77.7	60.5	68.1	75.6	97.9
35	King’s College London	76	57.6	95.9	71.2	96.9
35	The University of Tokyo	76	86.9	42	90.3	58.2
37	University of British Columbia	75.8	61.6	94.9	74	89.4
38	Technical University of Munich	75.6	64.5	76.1	74.8	85.5
39	Karolinska Institute	74.3	55.1	86.2	71	94.2
40	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	74.1	63.8	98.3	67	85.5
40	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	74.1	69.1	80.5	71.2	80.1
42	Heidelberg University	73.6	67.9	69.6	59.9	95.5
42	KU Leuven	73.6	59.1	74.2	73.2	86.2
44	McGill University	73.4	63.3	91.5	70.9	83.9
45	Georgia Institute of Technology	73.3	58.2	77.7	69.4	91.4
46	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	73	57.2	93.9	70.3	85.1
47	University of Texas at Austin	72.9	67.9	39.8	71.5	89.4
48	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	72.6	65.7	55.4	77.3	80.9
49	Chinese University of Hong Kong	71.3	55.1	95	58.6	95
50	University of Manchester	71.2	56.4	92.4	65	89.1
51	Washington University in St Louis	70.7	60.5	62.1	57.5	98.5
52	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	70.6	62.2	41.1	63.4	95.6
53	Wageningen University & Research	70.1	50.1	86.4	58.1	95.6
54	Australian National University	70	49.8	96.5	67.7	87.8
54	The University of Queensland	70	55	93.4	62	85.8
54	Seoul National University	70	73.8	36.9	73.8	68.5
57	Monash University	69.9	54.3	91	61.7	87.7
58	The University of Sydney	69.8	51.8	90.9	62.2	90.5
58	University of Wisconsin-Madison	69.8	67.4	50.4	69.5	79.2
60	Fudan University	69.7	66.8	48.6	68.4	79
61	Kyoto University	69.6	78.5	38.2	78.9	58.3
62	Boston University	69.5	57.3	65.5	60.2	93.8
63	University of Southern California	69.3	62.1	65.5	58.8	90.3
64	Brown University	69.1	62.2	61.9	56.6	92.9
65	University of Amsterdam	68.9	49	89.8	63.3	91.6
66	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	68.8	50.9	97.6	62.1	86.6
67	UCD	67.9	58.8	68.9	64.6	81.5
68	UCSB	67.7	45.2	73.6	58.9	96.6
69	UU	67.6	46.6	76.3	63.1	90.1
70	UNSW Sydney	67.4	50.4	95.2	60.4	84.1
71	Leiden University	67.1	44.8	84.1	65.1	86.8
72	Erasmus University Rotterdam	67	40.2	88.5	57.8	97
73	Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin	66.8	48.6	68.1	50.6	98.7
74	Humboldt University of Berlin	66.3	59.9	70.1	66.7	73.5
75	Delft University of Technology	65.8	57.1	93.6	71.1	59.4
75	Zhejiang University	65.8	67.2	61.6	69.9	58.6
75	University of Zurich	65.8	52.2	92.5	49.6	89.4
78	University of Tübingen	65.4	53.3	65.2	58.7	82.9
78	University of Warwick	65.4	46.9	94.5	53	90.7
80	University of Groningen	65.2	42.5	88.7	55.3	90.6
80	McMaster University	65.2	44.3	85.1	50.6	93.1
82	Emory University	65.1	55.1	59.7	44.9	98.1
83	Free University of Berlin	64.8	55.4	75.7	65.2	72.9
84	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	64.7	64.2	47	71.9	59.3
85	Ohio State University (Main campus)	63.8	54.7	60.6	52.2	86.1
86	University of Glasgow	63.7	41.9	93.1	49.9	94
86	University of Minnesota	63.7	55.9	40.8	57.9	81.7
88	University of Montreal	63.6	50.4	85.7	52.9	81.7
88	University of Science and Technology of China	63.6	63.4	34.5	61.5	72.8
88	Sorbonne University	63.6	61	70.4	53.6	76.6
91	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	63.3	45.4	97.1	53.9	83.7
91	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	63.3	57.3	94.5	54.7	69
92	Bristol, University of	63.1	40.6	89.1	49.2	94.7
93	University of Maryland, College Park	63	49.3	42.9	56.8	89.8
93	Michigan State University	63	58.1	62	56.1	77.2
96	The University of Copenhagen	62.7	46.8	86.8	47.1	88.8
96	Ghent University	62.7	48.9	62.4	58.4	79.2
98	University of California, Irvine	62.4	42.5	73.2	49	93.8
99	Dartmouth	62.3	60.1	41.7	40.2	93.6
99	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	62.3	64.1	38	66.5	59.3