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Times Higher Education’s list of the world’s top universities for 2011-2012

Posted: 12 Oct 2011 09:06 AM PDT


Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2011-2012 was recently released by Times.  The ranking is divided into region and top universities by subject.

Unfortunately, none of Malaysia universities listed in the ranking. Malaysian universities have never participated in the World University Rankings managed by the Times Higher Education (Times). The Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Khaled Nordin said this was because local universities, which were made research universities in 2007, had yet to mature to meet Times’ standard of 62.5 per cent for research. "The largest component in the Times’ criteria for ranking is research and citations.

Times Higher Education Top Universities Ranking
By Region By Subject
Europe
 Engineering & Technology
Asia
 Life sciences
North America
 Clinical, Pre-clinical & Health
South America
 Social sciences
Oceania
 Arts & Humanities
Africa
 Physical sciences

Some information about The Times Higher Education World University Rankings

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings were developed in concert with our rankings data provider, Thomson Reuters, with expert input from more than 50 leading figures in the sector from 15 countries across every continent. We believe we have created the gold standard in international university performance comparisons.

Our rankings of the top universities across the globe employ 13 separate performance indicators designed to capture the full range of university activities, from teaching to research to knowledge transfer. These 13 elements are brought together into five headline categories, which are:

  • Teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)
  • Research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
  • Citations — research influence (worth 30 per cent)
  • Industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
  • International outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).

The overall world top 200 rankings, the banded lists of a further 200 “best of the rest” universities, and the six tables showing the top 50 institutions by subject are based on criteria and weightings that were carefully selected after extensive consultation. We recognise that different users have different priorities, so to allow everyone to make the most of our exceptionally rich data and gain a personalised view of global higher education, the tables on this site can be manipulated. Users can rank institutions by their performance in any one of the five broad headline categories to create bespoke tables or make regional comparisons via our area analyses.
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