World’s 500 best universities: Chinese colleges improve, US declines and only one institution from Pakistan
According to a recent ranking of higher education institutions, the world’s best universities are in the United States and the United Kingdom, but Chinese colleges are also rapidly gaining ground.
According to the ranking of the ‘best universities in the world’ released on Tuesday by the British magazine Times Higher Education, Oxford University is ranked first for the seventh year in a row.
10 Best Universities in the World
University of Oxford, UK
- Harvard University, USA
- University of Cambridge, UK
- Stafford University, USA
- MIT, USA
- California Institute of Technology, USA
- Princeton University, USA
- University of California, USA
- Yale University, USA
- Imperial College London, UK
The top 10 universities in the world in this ranking are in the United Kingdom and the United States. Whereas 1799 educational institutions of 104 countries have been counted in it.
Times Higher Education says the assessment is based on 13 performance indicators including teaching, research, knowledge transfer and global outlook.
In Latin America, educational institutions of 11 countries have been included in this ranking, where Brazil has the most educational institutions among the best universities.
China’s Rise, America’s Decline
The Times Higher Education has said in its assessment that the supremacy of American universities in research is now ending. This is due to the widening yield gap between elite and rest of the universities.
Regarding Chinese universities, he says that the quality of research there is increasing. While America’s score has dropped from 70 to 69.4, China’s score has increased from 55.6 to 58.
According to Times Higher Education, Chinese universities are weak in one thing and that is internationalization.
For example, in this ranking, the score of ‘Qinghua University’, which is considered the best in China, dropped from 50.6 to 40.3 in a global perspective.
In this ranking, the highest number of 177 educational institutions are located in the United States and the United States is also at the forefront of the top 200 universities. While China is at the fourth position and has replaced Australia which is now at the fifth position.
In China, Fudan University is ranked third and Shanghai Jiaotong University is fourth. This year they have shown significant improvement in their scores and this is due to improvement in performance indicators.
Compared to the year 2022, the aggregate score in the US increased by 0.1 in 2023, while China increased by 1.6 during the same period. The average increase worldwide is 0.7.
