THES World University Ranking - 2010

anonamous
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:31:34 +0000

In my opinion, THES and ARWU are credible rankings. Of course not perfect, but trustworthy. Unlike the QS though; stanford & berkeley not in top 10, and UCL at number 4.

At least for the THES and ARWU, the top 10 universities are roughly the same but in different order. Probably it is better to rank universities into their corresponding groups. For international reputation:

Tier 1:
Harvard

Tier 2:
Oxbridge
MIT
Caltech
Stanford
Berkeley
Yale
Princeton

Tier 3:
Columbia
Chicago
Cornell
UCLA
UMich
UPenn
Imperial
LSE
Toronto
Melbourne

etc… so on

Interestingly in this THES ranking, each of the toppers for each criteria:

Teaching: Harvard
Research: UC Berkeley
Citation: MIT/Caltech/Princeton tie

Criteria of international mix of staff/student, I think, is relevant (diversity). At least its weighing is only 5%.