The World University Rankings

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Recently, The Times Higher Education (THE) released the World University Rankings 2022.

The ranking includes 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories.
It is based on 13 indicators that measure four broad areas: Teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

The University of Oxford, United Kingdom continues to be the top-ranked university in the world for the sixth consecutive year.
The top 20 ranks were dominated by the United States universities.
The top 200 ranks were dominated by 4 countries—United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Australia.
Rise of Chinese university: A decade ago, there were 3 universities in the ranking while today the country has 10 universities in top 200.

Rank	University	Country
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom (UK)
2	California Institute of Technology	United States of America (USA)
3	Harvard University	United States of America (USA)
4	Stanford University	United States of America (USA)
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom (UK)
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States of America (USA)
7	Princeton University	United States of America (USA)
8	University of California, Berkeley	United States of America (USA)
9	Yale University	United States of America (USA)
10	The University of Chicago	United States of America (USA)

No Indian university is in the top 200, IISc Bengaluru continues to be the highest-ranked Indian institution in the top 350.
A record 71 institutes have qualified for this year’s rankings

IITs in Mumbai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati, Madras, Roorkee and Kharagpur have not participated in the THE global rankings.
The institutes announced their boycott in April 2020, citing concerns over transparency after none of them found a place among the world’s best 300 universities.

IITs objected to the THE for allowing participating institutions to use collaborative research projects to increase their score on the citation metric.
- Such research papers have high citation by virtue of multiple authors associated with it.
- Hence, an institution that is part of such a project ends up having a disproportionate advantage over others because of one paper that is cited multiple times globally