The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) has published the 2009 World University Rankings. The methodology is:
- Academic Peer Reputation: 40%
- Employer Reputation: 10%
- Student/Faculty Ratio: 20%
- Citations per Faculty Member: 20%
- Proportion of International Faculty: 5%
- Proportion of International Students: 5%
Here are the Top 50:
- 1. Harvard (U.S.)
- 2. Cambridge (U.K.)
- 3. Yale (U.S.)
- 4. University College London (U.K.)
- 5. Imperial College London (U.K.)
- 5. Oxford (U.K.)
- 7. Chicago (U.S.)
- 8. Princeton (U.S.)
- 9. MIT (U.S.)
- 10. Cal-Tech (U.S.)
- 11. Columbia (U.S.)
- 12. Pennsylvania (U.S.)
- 13. Johns Hopkins (U.S.)
- 14. Duke (U.S.)
- 15. Cornell (U.S.)
- 16. Stanford (U.S.)
- 17. Australian National (Australia)
- 18. McGill (Canada)
- 19. Michigan (U.S.)
- 20. Edinburgh (U.K.)
- 20. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland)
- 22. Tokyo (Japan)
- 23. King's College London (U.K.)
- 24. Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
- 25. Kyoto (Japan)
- 26. Manchester (U.K.)
- 27. Carnegie Mellon (U.S.)
- 28. Ecole Normale Supérieur, Paris (France)
- 29. Toronto (Canada)
- 30. National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- 31. Brown (U.S.)
- 32. UCLA (U.S.)
- 32. Northwestern (U.S.)
- 34. Bristol (U.K.)
- 35. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
- 36. Ecole Polytechnique (France)
- 36. Melbourne (Australia)
- 38. Sydney (Australia)
- 39. UC-Berkeley (U.S.)
- 40. British Columbia (Canada)
- 41. Queensland (Australia)
- 42. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
- 43. Osaka (Japan)
- 43. Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
- 45. Monash (Australia)
- 46. Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
- 47. New South Wales (Australia)
- 47. Seoul National University (South Korea)
- 49. Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- 49. Tsinghua (China)
For a critical view of these rankings, see:
