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The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution's performance
across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
This year's ranking analysed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and
included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally. Overall, we collected over 680,000 datapoints from
more than 2,500 institutions that submitted data.
Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year's league table reveals how
the global higher education landscape is shifting.
The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University remains in
second place, but the University of Cambridge jumps from joint fifth last year to joint third.
The highest new entry is Italy's Humanitas University, ranked in the 201-250 bracket.
The US is the most-represented country overall, with 177 institutions, and also the most represented in the top
200 (58).
Mainland China now has the fourth-highest number of institutions in the top 200 (11, compared with 10 last
year), having overtaken Australia, which has dropped to fifth (joint with the Netherlands).
Five countries enter the ranking for the first time - all of them in Africa (Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique,
Zimbabwe and Mauritius).
Harvard tops the teaching pillar, while Oxford leads the research pillar. Atop the international pillar is the Macau
University of Science and Technology.
Overall, 1,799 universities are ranked. A further 526 universities are listed with "reporter" status, meaning that
they provided data but did not meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank, and agreed to be displayed as a
reporter in the final table.
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