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An interesting note about the TIMES universities ranking

Submitted by Ehteshami on
opinion

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.

In the website, it is possible to focus on one criterion and then sort the universities. I have tried to rank universities based on the factor (2). The result is really amazing!! None of No.1 to No.43 is not from US! The first US university in this ranking is MIT in the rank of 44 and the second is Columbia University in the rank of 74! Although the weight 7.5% is not very high, however the result is really weird! You can take a look at this here .