GLOBAL RANKINGS OF UNIVERSITIES John O’Leary I Editor I Times Higher Education Supplement

The Times Higher Education Supplement world university rankings

Times Higher criteria Students per member of academic staff: 20% weighting Research citations per faculty member: 20% weighting Proportion of international students: 5% Weighting Proportion of international staff: 5% weighting QS opinion poll of 1,300 academics in 88 countries: 50% weighting

Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of world universities

Shanghai Jai Tong criteria Alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals: 10% weighting Staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals: 20% weighting Research citations in 21 areas: 20% weighting Articles published in Nature and Science: 20% weighting Articles in Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index: 20% weighting

Times University Guide criteria Teaching quality rating: 2.5 weighting Research rating: 1.5 weighting Entry standards Students per member of academic staff Library/computing spending Student facilities spending Degree classifications Graduate destinations Completion rate

Comparing the results TIMES HIGHER 1.Harvard 2.Berkeley 3.MIT 4.Caltec 5.Oxford 6.Cambridge 7.Stanford 8.Yale 9.Princeton 10.ETH Zurich SHANGHAI JIAO TONG 1.Harvard 2.Stanford 3.Cambridge 4.Berkeley 5.MIT 6.Caltech 7.Princeton 8.Oxford 9.Columbia 10.Chicago

Science subjects SCIENCE 1.Cambridge 2.Oxford 3.Harvard 4.Berkeley 5.MIT 6.Stanford 7.Tokyo 8.Princeton 9.Caltech 10.Imperial ENGINEERING 1.Berkeley 2.MIT 3.Stanford 4.IIT (India) 5.Imperial 6.Caltech 7.Tokyo 8.Cambridge 9.NUS 10.Beijing BIOMEDICINE 1.Harvard 2.Cambridge 3.Oxford 4.Imperial 5.Stanford 6.Johns Hopkins 7.Karolinska 8.Yale 9.Berkeley 10.UC San Diego

Arts subjects HUMANITIES 1.Harvard 2.Oxford 3.Berkeley 4.Yale 5.Cambridge 6.Princeton 7.Beijing 8.Columbia 9.Tokyo 10.LSE SOCIAL SCIENCES 1.Harvard 2.LSE 3.Berkeley 4.Oxford 5.Chicago 6.Stanford 7.Yale 8.Cambridge 9.MIT 10.NUS