Uncover the Occasions Larger Schooling World College Rankings 2025, which ranks greater than 2,000 establishments from 115 international locations and territories.
College rankings 2025: key insights
- Oxford holds on to the highest spot for the ninth consecutive 12 months, bolstered by important enhancements in business engagement and instructing
- MIT rises to second place, overtaking Stanford, which drops to sixth
- China edges nearer to the highest 10, additional boosting its world analysis affect
- Australia’s prime 5 universities all slip down the rankings, as a result of declining repute and worldwide outlook
- Three new international locations be a part of the highest 200 – Brazil, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – highlighting the rise of rising markets in greater schooling
Discover the desk under to find the total rankings and the way universities around the globe are performing this 12 months.
Recognised because the world’s most complete analysis of college efficiency, our newest WUR 3.0 methodology contains 18 fastidiously calibrated indicators to evaluate establishments throughout 5 key areas: instructing, analysis surroundings, analysis high quality, business engagement and worldwide outlook.
The 2025 rankings contains 2,092 ranked universities. There are 185 new entries in comparison with final 12 months.
Total, we collected 472,694 datapoints from 2,860 establishments that submitted knowledge.
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Our detailed methodology, trusted worldwide by college students, lecturers, lecturers, governments and business consultants, is predicated on:
- 157 million citations
- 18 million analysis publications
- survey responses from greater than 93,000 students globally
Our evaluation exhibits that the reputations of the UK and US higher education sectors are declining.
There’s extra evaluation on the outcomes, together with tables, charts and interviews with college leaders in our World University Rankings 2025 digital report.
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