An interesting note about the TIMES universities ranking
TIMES has a ranking for top 400 universities (+). This ranking has five factors to rank universities which are:
(1) Teaching: the learning environment-30% of overall score.
(2) International outlook: staff and students-7.5% of overall score.
(3) Industry income: innovation-2.5% of overall score.
(4) Research: volume, income and reputation-30% of overall score.
(5) Citations: research influence-30% of overall score.