THE World Universities Rankings 2013-2014: Overall

This THE rankings came out not so long ago I believe:

For my HYPMS + CO + CCC formulation (see here), all the 10 schools appear in this list of 13. Only additions are the UCs - Berkeley and UCLA, plus Imperial College London.

Another interesting thing is the brake between Cambridge and Berkeley in terms of scores. That brings us to the scoring methodology, which THE says:

"Our 13 performance indicators are grouped into five areas:

• 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)."

Among the 13 indicators, the most important are, in order:

- Citations (30%)

- Research Excellence (from academic-only reputation survey) (18%)

- Prestige of institutions in teaching (from academic reputation survey) (15%)

These 3 indicators take care of 63% of the total scores. And the results of individual indicators are also published. That is what we will look at next.