The Times Higher EducationWorld University Rankings 2016-2017 will be launched on 21 September and include almost 1,000 institutions for the first time.
The list of the top universities in the world will rank 980 institutions from 79 countries making itTHE’s biggest rankings to date. It will be published at 9pm (BST) on 21 September, five days before the launch ofTHE’sWorld Academic Summitat theUniversity of California, Berkeley.
For the first time this year, more than 500,000 books and book chapters have beenincluded in the analysis, alongside 11.9 million research papers and 56 million citations, meaning that arts and humanities research will be better represented than ever before.
TheTHEWorld University Rankings are the only global university league tables to judge research-intensive universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
This year’s table will be based on the same 13 indicators used in previous years, drawing fromTHE’s database of university performance metrics, with more than 150 separate data points on each of the 1,313 leading research universities in the world. It also draws on two annual academic reputation surveys, which have received a total of more than 20,000 responses.
Overall, 10 new countries will feature in this year’s ranking: Algeria, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Georgia, Kuwait, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Venezuela.
