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Gloomy year for NZ in World University Rankings

Thursday, 3 October 2013, 5:23 pm
Press Release: The Times Higher Education

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION PUBLISHES WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2013-14
- A gloomy year for New Zealand in the prestigious league tables, as Auckland falls further -

California Institute of Technology holds on to the world number one spot for the third consecutive year, while Harvard University – tied with Oxford - regains second place, pushing Stanford University into fourth

Japan cements its position as Asia’s number one nation

Top institutions in China, South Korea, Singapore and Japan make gains - China now has two top 50 universities, but Hong Kong’s flagship loses ground

Improvement for Thailand, with India increasing its representation in the World University Rankings

No place in the top 400 list for Indonesia, Malaysia or the Philippines

Bad news for Australia overall, and for its number one, University of Melbourne

US remains dominant with seven institutions in the world top 10 and 77 in the top 200 – one more than last year

Alarming signs across Europe as the top universities in Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Russia, Belgium, the Republic of Ireland and Austria all fall

SEE BELOW FOR THE FOLLOWING TABLES AND COUNTRY SPECIFIC QUOTES:
• TOP 5 NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITIES
• FULL TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2013-14
• COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REPRESENTATION

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Times Higher Education magazine today publishes its prestigious 2013-14 World University Rankings. It was another strong year in general for East Asian nations.
The California Institute of Technology retains its place at the top for the third consecutive year, with Harvard University regaining second place (up from fourth), a position shared with the UK’s University of Oxford. Stanford University slips from joint second to fourth.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (fifth), Princeton University (sixth), the University of Cambridge (seventh), University of California, Berkeley (up one place to eighth), the University of Chicago (up one place to ninth) and Imperial College London (down two places to 10th) complete the top 10.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are the most comprehensive, carefully calibrated and highly respected global league tables, using 13 separate performance indicators to examine a university’s strengths against all its core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The rankings are powered by Thomson Reuters, which independently collects, analyses and verifies the data.

Japan solidified its position as Asia’s number one nation in the rankings, with a total of five top-200 universities. South Korea has four top 200 institutions, while Hong Kong lost a top 200 institution (City University of Hong Kong) and now has only three representatives.

Japan’s University of Tokyo maintains its status as Asia’s number one and moves up four places to 23rd. The National University of Singapore holds on to second place in the region, moving from 29th to 26th and overtaking Australia’s University of Melbourne in the process.

South Korea’s Seoul National University moves into the top 50 for the first time (44th), followed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (up from 68th to 56th).

Peking University in China creeps up one place to 45th, while its close rival, Tsinghua University, rises two places to joint 50th.

Thailand’s only top-400 representative, King Mongkut’s University of Technology rose from the 351-400 group into the 301-350 band.

The University of Hong Kong is one of the few leading East Asian institutions not to improve its position, falling eight places to 43rd. However, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (57th) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (joint 109th) both make significant gains.

India increased its representation in the overall rankings, although none reached the top 200 list. India has five universities in the group of universities ranked between 200th and 400th. It was led by Panjab University, which made the 226th to 250th group.

Australia lost a top 200 institution with the University of Adelaide slipping out of contention, leaving seven representatives in the list. Of these, four have fallen, with the country’s number one, Melbourne, dropping out of the world top 30 and down to third place in the Asia-Pacific region.

New Zealand’s only top 200 representative, University of Auckland, dropped from 161st last year to 164th.

The US continues to dominate, taking seven of the top 10 places. This year it has 77 institutions in the rankings – one more than in 2012-13. It seems to have largely arrested signs of decline in recent years: of its top 200 institutions, 40 have risen up the tables, 33 have fallen and four have retained their position.

Europe has generally fared badly this year. While the UK’s number one, Oxford, holds on to second place in the table, almost across the board the continent’s top institutions lose ground: ETH Zürich ¬- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, the world number one outside the US and the UK, slips two places to 14th; Germany’s University of Munich falls out of the top 50; and it is a similar tale of woe for Belgium, France, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland and Austria.

Scandinavia is an exception to the trend, with its top institutions strengthening their positions.

The UK remains Europe’s strongest representative, with 31 universities in the top 200. The Netherlands has 12 players, followed by Germany with 10 (down from 11 last year), France with eight, Switzerland with seven and Belgium with five (one more than last year).

Key facts

• There are 26 countries in the world top 200 list – two more than last year thanks to Turkey, Spain and Norway rejoining the group (Brazil drops out)
• The highest-ranked institution outside the US and the UK is Switzerland’s ETH Zürich ¬- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, which slips two places to 14th
• Asia’s number one is the University of Tokyo, rising four places to 23rd
• After the US and the UK, the Netherlands is the next best represented nation (12 institutions), but its number one, Leiden University, makes it only to 67th
• France has eight representatives
• Belgium has five top 200 institutions
• Switzerland has seven players, maintaining its numbers from 2012-13
• Germany has 10 universities in the top 200 (one fewer than last year). Its highest-ranked player, Munich, has fallen out of the top 50
• The Republic of Ireland has just two top 200 institutions – and neither make the top 100
• Japan has five representatives, more than any other Asian nation. After worrying signs of decline, most improved their positions this year
• Of the so-called “Bric” economies, Brazil, Russia and India are not represented in the top 200
• The Middle East is represented in the list by Turkey and Israel. The latter now has two players, down one from last year
• Saudi Arabia and Iran have no top 200 institutions (although both are represented in the 200-400 group)
• Eight countries now have only one top 200 representative – Austria, Finland, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan and Turkey
• Africa has only a single representative: Cape Town (joint 126th)
• New Zealand’s sole representative, Auckland, loses ground
•
Comments

Phil Baty, the editor of Times Higher Education Rankings, said:

“The power shift from West to East is not as dramatic this year as the US and the UK have both managed to arrest alarming falls at the national level. But the trend is continuing: the vast majority of continental Europe’s leading institutions have slipped, while those leading the East Asian nations have for the most part risen yet again.

“More Asian institutions are nipping at the heels of the best in the West, increasingly occupying world top 50 places and showing no signs of letting up.”

Tables

THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2013-14: NEW ZEALAND TOP 5
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2013-14 rank	2012-13 rank	Institution	Country
164	161	University of Auckland	New Zealand
226-250	226-250	University of Otago	New Zealand
276-300	251-275	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
301-350	301-350	University of Canterbury	New Zealand
301-350	301-350	University of Waikato	New Zealand

THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2013-14: FULL TABLES
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2013-14 rank	2012-13 rank	Institution	Country
1	1	California Institute of Technology	US
2	4	Harvard University	US
2	2	University of Oxford	UK
4	2	Stanford University	US
5	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
6	6	Princeton University	US
7	7	University of Cambridge	UK
8	9	University of California, Berkeley	US
9	10	University of Chicago	US
10	8	Imperial College London	UK
11	11	Yale University	US
12	13	University of California, Los Angeles	US
13	14	Columbia University	US
14	12	ETH Zürich ¬- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland
15	16	Johns Hopkins University	US
16	15	University of Pennsylvania	US
17	23	Duke University	US
18	20	University of Michigan	US
19	18	Cornell University	US
20	21	University of Toronto	Canada
21	17	University College London	UK
22	19	Northwestern University	US
23	27	University of Tokyo	Japan
24	22	Carnegie Mellon University	US
25	24	University of Washington	US
26	29	National University of Singapore	Singapore
27	25	University of Texas at Austin	US
28	25	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
29	33	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
30	31	University of Wisconsin-Madison	US
31	30	University of British Columbia	Canada
32	39	London School of Economics and Political Science	UK
33	35	University of California, Santa Barbara	US
34	28	University of Melbourne	Australia
35	34	McGill University	Canada
36	42	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
37	40	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
38	57	King's College London	UK
39	32	University of Edinburgh	UK
40	41	New York University	US
40	38	University of California, San Diego	US
42	44	Washington University in St Louis	US
43	35	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
44	59	Seoul National University	South Korea
45	46	Peking University	China
46	47	University of Minnesota	US
47	42	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US
48	37	Australian National University	Australia
49	61	Pennsylvania State University	US
50	54	Boston University	US
50	52	Tsinghua University	China
52	51	Brown University	US
52	44	University of California, Davis	US
52	54	Kyoto University	Japan
55	48	University of Munich	Germany
56	68	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
57	65	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
58	49	University of Manchester	UK
59	53	Ohio State University	US
60	50	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
61	58	KU Leuven	Belgium
62	69	Purdue University	US
63	70	University of Gottingen	Germany
63	65	University of Queensland	Australia
65	59	École Normale Supérieure, Paris	France
65	75	Rice University	US
67	64	Leiden University	Netherlands
68	78	University of Heidelberg	Germany
69	77	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
70	62	École Polytechnique	France
70	56	University of Southern California	US
72	62	University of Sydney	Australia
73	72	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
74	142	University of Basel	Switzerland
74	67	Utrecht University	Netherlands
76	86	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
77	70	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands
78	76	University of Pittsburgh	US
79	74	University of Bristol	UK
80	80	Durham University	UK
80	79	Emory University	US
80	87	Tufts University	US
83	83	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
83	94	Michigan State University	US
85	93	Ghent University	Belgium
86	128	Free University of Berlin	Germany
87	105	Technical University of Munich	Germany
88	104	Case Western Reserve University	US
88	106	Vanderbilt University	US
90	94	University of Notre Dame	US
91	99	Monash University	Australia
92	88	McMaster University	Canada
93	96	University of California, Irvine	US
94	99	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
95	102	University of Rochester	US
96	81	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
97	91	University of Colorado Boulder	US
98	89	University of Groningen	Netherlands
98	115	Maastricht University	Netherlands
100	109	University of Helsinki	Finland
100	103	University of York	UK
102	119	Royal Holloway, University of London	UK
103	98	University of Arizona	US
103	99	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	US
103	117	Stockholm University	Sweden
106	114	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
106	84	University of Montreal	Canada
108	97	University of Maryland, College Park	US
109	121	University of Alberta	Canada
109	124	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
111	106	Uppsala University	Sweden
112	110	University of Sheffield	UK
112	118	University of Virginia	US
114	85	University of New South Wales	Australia
114	92	University of Paris-Sud	France
114	145	Queen Mary, University of London	UK
117	139	University of Glasgow	UK
117	140	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
117	108	University of St Andrews	UK
117	149	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
121	110	University of Sussex	UK
121	89	University of Zürich	Switzerland
123	82	Lund University	Sweden
124	133	University of Geneva	Switzerland
125	128	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
126	113	University of Cape Town	South Africa
126	124	Dartmouth College	US
128	122	University of Florida	US
129	154	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
129	110	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland
131	127	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
132	134	Indiana University	US
132	130	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
132	72	University of Massachusetts	US
135	150	Boston College	US
136	122	University of California, Santa Cruz	US
137	145	Lancaster University	UK
138	116	Aarhus University	Denmark
139	184	Colorado School of Mines	US
139	142	University of Leeds	UK
141	124	University of Warwick	UK
142	134	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
143	134	University of Utah	US
144	147	Osaka University	Japan
144	140	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
146	148	Arizona State University	US
146	130	University of Southampton	UK
148	154	University of California, Riverside	US
148	153	University of Exeter	UK
150	130	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
150	137	Tohoku University	Japan
152	144	University of Freiburg	Germany
153	158	University of Birmingham	UK
154	151	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
155	180	Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble 1	France
156	170	ENS Lyon	France
157	151	University of Bern	Switzerland
157	120	University of Nottingham	UK
159	156	Texas A&M University	US
160	174	Georgetown University	US
161	187	University College Dublin	Republic of Ireland
161	169	University of Iowa	US
161	196	University of Leicester	UK
164	192	University of Antwerp	Belgium
164	161	University of Auckland	New Zealand
164	201-225	Brandeis University	US
164	201-225	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
168	190	University of Western Australia	Australia
169	171	University of Liverpool	UK
170	187	University of Twente	Netherlands
170	162	University of Vienna	Austria
172	164	Catholic University of Louvain	Belgium
172	156	Yeshiva University	US
174	165	University of Delaware	US
174	176	University of East Anglia	UK
176	198	University at Buffalo	US
176	226-250	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
178	166	University Paris Diderot - Paris 7	France
178	162	Stony Brook University	US
180	190	Wake Forest University	US
181	171	University of Bonn	Germany
181	174	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	US
183	193	Iowa State University	US
184	201-225	Northeastern University	US
185	193	University of Miami	US
185	201-225	University of Oslo	Norway
185	171	University of Ottawa	Canada
188	176	University of Aberdeen	UK
188	167	University of Texas at Dallas	US
190	183	Yonsei University	South Korea
191	137	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
191	184	University of Illinois at Chicago	US
193	226-250	National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris	France
194	168	George Washington University	US
194	176	University of Reading	UK
196	201-225	University of Dundee	UK
197	226-250	Florida Institute of Technology	US
198	180	Newcastle University	UK
199	276-300	Boğaziçi University	Turkey
199	158	Tel Aviv University	Israel

THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2013-14:
COUNTRY REPRESENTATION IN THE TOP 200
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Country	Number of institutions in top 200	Difference to 2012-13
US	77	1
UK	31	0
Netherlands	12	0
Germany	10	-1
France	8	1
Australia	7	-1
Canada	7	-1
Switzerland	7	0
Belgium	5	1
Japan	5	0
Sweden	5	0
South Korea	4	0
Denmark	3	0
Hong Kong	3	-1
China	2	0
Republic of Ireland	2	0
Israel	2	-1
Singapore	2	0
Austria	1	0
Finland	1	0
New Zealand	1	0
Norway	1	1
South Africa	1	0
Spain	1	1
Taiwan	1	0
Turkey	1	1
Brazil	0	-1

Free iPhone application, 2013-14

The 2013-14 rankings are available via a free Times Higher Education iPhone app, containing full rankings information on the world’s top 400 institutions. Powered by data from Thomson Reuters, the app allows users to change the rankings’ official weighting scheme to create their own personalised lists based on personal preferences. The app is available free on the iTunes store from 9pm on 2 October.

Notes to editors

Methodology key facts

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-14 draw upon:
• The world’s largest academic reputation survey (more than 10,000 academics in 2013, and almost 60,000 since 2010)
• 50 million citations analysed and compared with the world average from the same field
• Arts, humanities and social sciences placed on an equal footing with science
• Thirteen indicators across five areas have been taken into account, making this the ONLY world rankings to examine ALL the core missions of a modern global university: research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity.
The indicators are:
Industry income – innovation
1. Research income from industry/academic staff
Teaching – the learning environment
2. Reputation survey – teaching
3. Staff-to-student ratio
4. PhDs/undergraduate degrees awarded
5. PhDs awarded/academic staff
6. Institutional income/academic staff
Citations – research influence
7. Citation impact (normalised average citations per paper)
Research – volume, income and reputation
8. Reputation survey – research
9. Research income/academic staff
10. Scholarly papers/academic staff and research staff
International outlook – staff, students and research
11. International students/total students
12. International academic staff/total academic staff
13. Scholarly papers with one or more international co-authors/total scholarly papers

Terminology and intellectual property

• The full title of the tables is “Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-14”
• Data for the Times Higher Education World University Rankings were provided by Thomson Reuters from its Global Institutional Profiles Project, a multi-stage process that collects and validates factual data about academic institutional performance across a range of aspects and multiple disciplines. http://science.thomsonreuters.com/globalprofilesproject/
• Any publication of the “Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-14” tables (in full or part) should include full attribution to “Times Higher Education with data supplied by Thomson Reuters”
• YOU MUST include the following link when publishing the “Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-14” tables (in full or in part): http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/

About Times Higher Education magazine

Times Higher Education is the world’s most authoritative source of information about higher education. Designed specifically for professional people working in higher education and research, THE was founded in 1971 and has been online since 1995. It is published by TSL Education Ltd

About Times Higher Education World University Rankings and IDP

Andrew Thompson, Chief Executive of IDP Education said:

“IDP Education, as one of the world’s leading international student placement services and co-owner of the IELTS English test, is delighted to again be the sponsor of THE’s World University Rankings supplement.

“WUR is a powerful resource for international students, helping them choose the university which is the best match for their needs.”

About Thomson Reuters

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