
加州理工大学已连续第四年在泰晤士报世界大学排名中获得全球第一大学的宝座。哈佛大学和牛津大学分别排名第二和第三(去年这两所大学并列第二)。同时斯坦福大学守住了其去年第四的位置。而剑桥大学则荣升两位,从去年的第七跃至今年的第五名。
接下来麻省理工大学、普林斯顿大学、加州大学伯克利分校、帝国理工和耶鲁大学则分别占领了前十名余下的位置。
而在前100所大学的排名中,西方大学表现不俗。美国大学中,哥伦比亚大学和康奈尔大学等15所知名学府占领了排名前20。英国大学则在100中占有11个席位。享誉国际的伦敦大学排名第22,相比去年下降一位。但其他诸如爱丁堡大学和曼彻斯特大学则有所进步,前者从39名升至36名,后者从58名升至52名。澳洲大学排名同样不错。墨尔本大学相比去年前进一位今年排在第33。澳洲国立大学也上升了三位今年排名第45。而令人惊喜的是,荷兰大学在排名中也占有一席之地。6所荷兰大学稳固在全球大学一百强的位置中。
虽然美国大学和英国大学看起来依旧称霸泰晤士报全球大学排名。可是如果你仔细观察,就会发现英美大学对于排名的统治正在慢慢削弱(虽然是以一个非常缓慢的速度)。60%的美国大学排名与去年相比,今年有所下滑。而英国大学排名则从去年有31所进入前200,跌落至今年的29所。虽然这些看上去并不算是巨大的退步,但以一个长期的角度来看,在未来几年,这个排名上将会发生的变化会非常有趣。
亚洲大学的崛起将是其中一个相当大的变化。现在在此排名的前200所大学中,亚洲大学占到1/8左右,从去年的20所上升至今年的24所。值得一提的是,新加坡大学排名喜人。其中新加坡国立大学位于排名第25位。而新加坡南洋理工大学今年被评为第61名,与去年相比直线上升了15个位置。
对于这个变化,泰晤士报世界大学排名的编辑作者Phil Baty认为,强大的政府资金援助,出色的领导能力,和对于高等教育质量的有力承诺皆是亚洲大学崛起的原因。因为与此同时,许多西方大学因只有部分公共基金作为基础,快要“饿死了”。
泰晤士报世界大学排名是每年最受重视的全球大学排名之一。许多国际学生将此作为重要参考资料,通过这个排名,来决定他们想要前往学习的国家和大学。
这项排名基于13个成绩衡量指标。这13个指标标示着一所大学在研究,知识转移,国际形象和教学环境等方面的表现。
2014-15 排名 |
2013-14 排名 |
大学名称 |
所在国家 |
1 |
1 |
California Institute of Technology |
United States |
2 |
2 |
Harvard University |
United States |
3 |
2 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom |
4 |
4 |
Stanford University |
United States |
5 |
7 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom |
6 |
5 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
United States |
7 |
6 |
Princeton University |
United States |
8 |
8 |
University of California,Berkeley |
United States |
9 |
10 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom |
9 |
11 |
Yale University |
United States |
11 |
9 |
University of Chicago |
United States |
12 |
12 |
University of California,Los Angeles |
United States |
13 |
14 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich |
Switzerland |
14 |
13 |
Columbia University |
United States |
15 |
15 |
Johns Hopkins University |
United States |
16 |
16 |
University of Pennsylvania |
United States |
17 |
18 |
University of Michigan |
United States |
18 |
17 |
Duke University |
United States |
19 |
19 |
Cornell University |
United States |
20 |
20 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
21 |
22 |
Northwestern University |
United States |
22 |
21 |
University College London |
United Kingdom |
23 |
23 |
University of Tokyo |
Japan |
24 |
24 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
United States |
25 |
26 |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
26 |
25 |
University of Washington |
United States |
27 |
28 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
United States |
28 |
27 |
University of Texas at Austin |
United States |
29 |
29 |
University of Illinois - Urbana |
United States |
29 |
55 |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Germany |
29 |
30 |
University of Wisconsin Madison |
United States |
32 |
31 |
University of British Columbia |
Canada |
33 |
34 |
University of Melbourne |
Australia |
34 |
37 |
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Switzerland |
34 |
32 |
London School of Economics and Political Science |
United Kingdom |
36 |
39 |
University of Edinburgh |
United Kingdom |
37 |
33 |
University of California,Santa Barbara |
United States |
38 |
40 |
New York University |
United States |
39 |
35 |
McGill University |
Canada |
40 |
38 |
King's College London |
United Kingdom |
41 |
40 |
University of California,San Diego |
United States |
42 |
42 |
Washington University Saint Louis |
United States |
43 |
43 |
University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
44 |
36 |
Karolinska Institute |
Sweden |
45 |
48 |
Australian National University |
Australia |
46 |
46 |
University of Minnesota |
United States |
46 |
47 |
University of North Carolina |
United States |
48 |
45 |
Peking University |
China |
49 |
50 |
Tsinghua University |
China |
50 |
44 |
Seoul National University |
Korea,Republic of |
51 |
57 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Hong Kong |
52 |
56 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
Korea,Republic of |
52 |
58 |
University of Manchester |
United Kingdom |
54 |
52 |
Brown University |
United States |
55 |
52 |
University of California Davis |
United States |
55 |
61 |
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Belgium |
57 |
50 |
Boston University |
United States |
58 |
49 |
Pennsylvania State University |
United States |
59 |
52 |
Kyoto University |
Japan |
60 |
72 |
University of Sydney |
Australia |
61 |
70 |
École Polytechnique |
France |
61 |
76 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore |
63 |
Not ranked |
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa |
Italy |
64 |
67 |
Leiden University |
Netherlands |
65 |
63 |
University of Queensland Australia |
Australia |
66 |
60 |
Pohang University of Science and Technology |
Korea,Republic of |
67 |
63 |
University of Göttingen |
Germany |
68 |
59 |
Ohio State University |
United States |
69 |
65 |
Rice University |
United States |
70 |
68 |
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg |
Germany |
71 |
69 |
Delft University of Technology |
Netherlands |
72 |
73 |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Netherlands |
73 |
77 |
Wageningen University and Research Center |
Netherlands |
74 |
79 |
University of Bristol |
United Kingdom |
75 |
74 |
University of Basel |
Switzerland |
75 |
70 |
University of Southern California |
United States |
77 |
83 |
University of Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
78 |
65 |
École Normale Supérieure,Paris |
France |
79 |
74 |
Utrecht University |
Netherlands |
80 |
94 |
Humboldt University of Berlin |
Germany |
81 |
86 |
Free University of Berlin |
Germany |
82 |
83 |
Michigan State University |
United States |
83 |
80 |
Durham University |
United Kingdom |
83 |
91 |
Monash University |
Australia |
85 |
201-225 |
Middle East Technical University |
Turkey |
86 |
103 |
University of Arizona |
United States |
86 |
90 |
University of Notre Dame |
United States |
88 |
93 |
University of California,Irvine |
United States |
88 |
80 |
Tufts University |
United States |
90 |
85 |
Ghent University |
Belgium |
91 |
132 |
University of Massachusetts |
United States |
91 |
78 |
University of Pittsburgh |
United States |
93 |
80 |
Emory University |
United States |
94 |
117 |
University of Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
94 |
92 |
McMaster University |
Canada |
96 |
88 |
Vanderbilt University |
United States |
97 |
97 |
University of Colorado |
United States |
98 |
103 |
Stockholm University |
Sweden |
98 |
87 |
Technical University of Munich |
Germany |
98 |
111 |
Uppsala University |
Sweden |
101 |
98 |
Maastricht University |
Netherlands |
102 |
62 |
Purdue University |
United States |
103 |
100 |
University of Helsinki |
Finland |
103 |
96 |
Pierre and Marie Curie University |
France |
103 |
141 |
University of Warwick |
United Kingdom |
103 |
121 |
University of Zürich |
Switzerland |
107 |
124 |
University of Geneva |
Switzerland |
107 |
114 |
Queen Mary,University of London |
United Kingdom |
109 |
136 |
University of California,Santa Cruz |
United States |
109 |
114 |
University of New South Wales |
Australia |
111 |
117 |
University of St。Andrews |
United Kingdom |
111 |
121 |
University of Sussex |
United Kingdom |
113 |
106 |
Université de Montréal |
Canada |
113 |
201-225 |
Eberhard Karls University,Tübingen |
Germany |
113 |
100 |
University of York |
United Kingdom |
116 |
88 |
Case Western Reserve University |
United States |
117 |
98 |
University of Groningen |
Netherlands |
118 |
102 |
Royal Holloway,University of London |
United Kingdom |
119 |
123 |
Lund University |
Sweden |
120 |
114 |
Université Paris-Sud |
France |
121 |
95 |
University of Rochester |
United States |
121 |
112 |
University of Sheffield |
United Kingdom |
121 |
117 |
Technical University of Denmark |
Denmark |
124 |
109 |
University of Alberta |
Canada |
124 |
126 |
University of Cape Town |
South Africa |
126 |
135 |
Boston College |
United States |
126 |
128 |
University of Florida |
United States |
126 |
117 |
Royal Institute of Technology |
Sweden |
129 |
109 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
130 |
112 |
University of Virginia |
United States |
131 |
137 |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom |
132 |
157 |
University of Bern |
Switzerland |
132 |
108 |
University of Maryland,College Park |
United States |
132 |
146 |
University of Southampton |
United Kingdom |
135 |
251-275 |
Dresden University of Technology |
Germany |
136 |
132 |
University of Lausanne |
Switzerland |
136 |
144 |
VU University Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
138 |
129 |
Trinity College Dublin |
Ireland |
139 |
199 |
Boğaziçi University |
Turkey |
140 |
131 |
Radboud University Nijmegen |
Netherlands |
141 |
139 |
Colorado School of Mines |
United States |
141 |
159 |
Texas A&M University |
United States |
141 |
125 |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan |
144 |
106 |
Eindhoven University of Technology |
Netherlands |
144 |
103 |
Rutgers,the State University of New Jersey |
United States |
146 |
139 |
University of Leeds |
United Kingdom |
147 |
164 |
Brandeis University |
United States |
148 |
153 |
University of Birmingham |
United Kingdom |
148 |
201-225 |
Sungkyunkwan University |
Korea,Republic of |
150 |
148 |
University of California,Riverside |
United States |
150 |
132 |
Indiana University |
United States |
152 |
126 |
Dartmouth College |
United States |
153 |
138 |
Aarhus University |
Denmark |
154 |
148 |
University of Exeter |
United Kingdom |
155 |
142 |
National Taiwan University |
Taiwan |
156 |
129 |
RWTH Aachen University |
Germany |
157 |
169 |
University of Liverpool |
United Kingdom |
157 |
144 |
Osaka University |
Japan |
157 |
168 |
University of Western Australia |
Australia |
160 |
150 |
University of Copenhagen |
Denmark |
160 |
156 |
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon |
France |
162 |
143 |
University of Utah |
United States |
163 |
152 |
University of Freiburg |
Germany |
164 |
201-225 |
University of Adelaide |
Australia |
165 |
201-225 |
Istanbul Technical University |
Turkey |
165 |
154 |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Germany |
165 |
164 |
Pompeu Fabra University |
Spain |
165 |
150 |
Tohoku University |
Japan |
169 |
185 |
University of Miami |
United States |
170 |
164 |
University of Antwerp |
Belgium |
171 |
172 |
Université Catholique de Louvain |
Belgium |
171 |
157 |
University of Nottingham |
United Kingdom |
173 |
160 |
Georgetown University |
United States |
173 |
201-225 |
University of Victoria |
Canada |
175 |
164 |
University of Auckland |
New Zealand |
175 |
161 |
University of Iowa |
United States |
177 |
Not ranked |
Syracuse University |
United States |
178 |
188 |
University of Aberdeen |
United Kingdom |
178 |
155 |
Joseph Fourier University - Grenoble 1 |
France |
180 |
174 |
University of Delaware |
United States |
180 |
178 |
University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 |
France |
182 |
146 |
Arizona State University |
United States |
182 |
Not ranked |
Sabanci University |
Turkey |
182 |
170 |
University of Vienna |
Austria |
185 |
184 |
Northeastern University |
United States |
186 |
185 |
University of Oslo |
Norway |
186 |
172 |
Yeshiva University |
United States |
188 |
185 |
University of Ottawa |
Canada |
188 |
178 |
Stony Brook University |
United States |
188 |
199 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
191 |
176 |
State University of New York Buffalo |
United States |
192 |
201-225 |
City University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong |
193 |
201-225 |
Fudan University |
China |
193 |
183 |
Iowa State University |
United States |
195 |
181 |
University of Bonn |
Germany |
196 |
226-250 |
Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Russian Federation |
196 |
201-225 |
St George's,University of London |
United Kingdom |
198 |
174 |
University of East Anglia |
United Kingdom |
199 |
161 |
University of Leicester |
United Kingdom |
200 |
197 |
Florida Institute of Technology |
United States |
200 |
194 |
George Washington University |
United States |
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