released Oct. 8, the ranking of top 200 universities worldwide by the Times Higher Education (THE), a British weekly that specializes in higher education, gives pride to American universities. The newspaper reports a rise of Asian institutions, but the top ten positions are still occupied by Ivy League universities and, particularly, Cambridge and Oxford, worthy representatives of the Old Continent.
A total of 58 U.S. universities are ranked in the top 200. There are also 29 British universities, 11 Dutch and 11 German. France, for its part, has only three schools and a university, UPMC, in this top-200. France is thus less than Switzerland (7 ranked universities) and Belgium (5).
Details on Methodology: The ranking by agency Quacquarelli Symonds (which competes with that achieved by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University) draws on the views of 9386 academics (40% of total score) and 3280 employers in the world. It also takes into account the quality of supervision and the image of the institution abroad. Finally, the number of citations in scientific journals over five years (from the Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar), based on the number of faculty and research staff account for 20% of the total score.
Source: Bovigny Observatory (October 2009)
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