The Times Higher Education (THE) university rankings in 2020 evaluated nearly 1,400 global universities from 92 countries.
The rankings are based on surveys relating to the individual universities’ teaching (30%), research (30%), citations (30%), international outlook (7.5%) and industry income (2.5%).
The numbers for each university are standardized and calculated with a cumulative probability function utilizing a version of z-scoring.
THE rankings have been created for 50 years and are utilized by university leaders, industry and governments to evaluate their own performance.
THE also provides data on institutional income per academic with notable changes seen in individual countries. U.K. incomes have risen by 6.5% between 2016 and 2020, while German academia has risen 38%, China’s by 57.1%, and U.S. academic incomes rising by 12.5%. The income gains made by each country’s institutions are in part responsible for the gains or losses in THE rankings.
As shown in the table, 14 of the top 25 research universities reside in the U.S., five are in the U.K., two are in China and one each resides in Japan, Switzerland, Singapore and Canada.
Of the top 200 THE 2020 universities, 60 reside in the U.S., 28 in the U.K., 23 in Germany, 11 each in Australia and the Netherlands, seven each in Canada, China and Switzerland, six in South Korea and five each in France, Hong Kong and Sweden.
Source: electronicweekly
