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World University Rankings 2024
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 include 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions.
The table is based on our new WUR 3.0 methodology, which includes 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook.
This year’s ranking analyzed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 68,402 scholars globally. Overall, we collected 411,789 datapoints from more than 2,673 institutions that submitted data.
Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, the 2024 league table reveals how the global higher education landscape is shifting.
View the World University Rankings 2024 methodology
The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the eighth year in a row, but others in the top five have seen shifts in their ranks. Stanford University moves up to second place, pushing Harvard University down to fourth.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) climbs up two places to third this year. The University of Cambridge slips to fifth place, after being in joint third place last year.
The highest new entry is Italy’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, ranked in the 301-350 bracket. However, the majority of the institutions joining the ranking for the first time this year are in Asia.
The US is the most-represented country overall, with 169 institutions, and also the most-represented in the top 200 (56). With 91 institutions, India is now the fourth most-represented nation, overtaking China (86).
Four countries enter the ranking for the first time – all of them in Europe. The addition of Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Armenia is in contrast to last year’s trend when all the new entrants were from Africa.
Stanford University leads the teaching pillar, while the universities of Oxford and Cambridge come top for research environment. The research quality pillar, which is the newly renamed citations pillar, sees MIT in first place.
The University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates scores highest in international outlook, while 28 institutions receive a top score of 100 for the industry pillar.
In addition to the 1,904 ranked institutions, a further 769 universities are listed with “reporter” status, meaning that they provided data but did not meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank, and agreed to be displayed as a reporter in the final table.
注释：
calibrate: v
表示" 校准；"，means "make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring"，如：My watch is faster, and I need calibrate it. 我的表走快了,我得把它校准。
citation: n
表示" 引用；表扬"，means "the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc"，如：Some dictionary writer use citation to show what word means. 有些辞典的编纂者用引文作例证以解释词义
datapoint: n
表示"数据点"，means "an item of factual information derived from measurement or research"，如：It is an estimate because we do not use all data points in the sample.之所以说是个估计值，是因为没有使用样本中全部数据点。
中文简要说明：
英国教育机构泰晤士高等教育（THE）发布最新的2024世界大学排名，英国牛津大学排名第一，美国史坦福大学与麻省理工学院获第2与第3。中国的大学排名进入百名之内的有12所，排名最前的是第12位的清华（中国）大学与第14位的北京大学。
过去曾在教育界颇有影响力的英国泰晤士高等教育（Times Higher Education, THE）机构，每年会发布全球综合与各学科排名评鉴。今年列入2024评鉴的包括全球108个国家和地区的1904所大学。
今年排名进入前10的全数为英美大学，英国除了排名第1的牛津大学外，还有排名第5的剑桥大学与排名第8的伦敦帝国学院。美国除了史丹佛大学排名第2位、麻省理工学院排名第3之外，还有哈佛大学、 普林斯顿大学、加州理工学院、加州大学柏克莱分校、耶鲁大学等校进入前10名。
中国的大学排名状况仍相当突出，其中清华大学排在第12位，北京大学第14位。其次进入100名的还有上海交大（43）、复旦大学（44）、浙江大学（55）、中国科技大学（57）、南京大学（73）；香港则有香港大学（35）、香港中文大学（53）、香港科技大学（64）、香港城市大学（82）、香港理工大学（87）。
亚洲地区其他知名大学如东京大学（29）、京都大学（55），排名有明显上升；韩国首尔大学（62）、延世大学（76）、韩国科学技术高级研究所(83)表现也不错；新坡国立大学（19）、新加坡南洋科技大学（32），皆较台湾、香港与韩的大学排名更优。
据了解，泰晤士高教机构数据调查指针包括：教学声誉调查、生师比、博士生跟学士生比、博士生师比、机构收入、研究声誉调查、研究收入、研究生产力、研究论文被引用、国际学生比例、国际师资比例、国际合作、产学收入等。另外《美国的美国新闻及世界报导》（U.S. News & World Report）也以类似的13项指标进行评舰，并建立排名。
全球类似的大学排名大约有20多种，使用的方法与指标都有些差异。有时也常因为学校提供的讯息不正确，评比结果经常让人跌破眼镜，也引起不少争议，甚至爆发造假丑闻。因此学术界都建议，这类评比只能做为参考，在求学选校的过程中不宜过度依赖相关数据。
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