UA Climbs 7 Spots in World University Rankings
The UA's excellence in citations, teaching and research are highlighted by Times Higher Education.

University Communications
Sept. 21, 2016


The University of Arizona placed 156th out of 980 global higher-education institutions in the 2016-2017 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, rising seven spots from last year. Of the 148 colleges and universities from the United States included in these rankings, the UA ranked 56th.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, released Wednesday, are the only global performance tables that judge research-intensive universities across all of their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The rankings use 13 performance indicators and 150 separate data points grouped into five areas in order to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons:

  • Teaching: the learning environment (30 percent of overall ranking score)
  • Research: volume, income and reputation (30 percent)
  • Citations: research influence (30 percent)
  • Industry income: innovation (2.5 percent)
  • International outlook: staff, students and research (7.5 percent)

The UA earned particularly high marks in citations, ranking 142nd (up 21 spots from last year), teaching (148, an improvement of 34 places) and research (154). For the first time this year, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings included more than 500,000 books and book chapters in the analysis, along with 11.9 million research papers and 56 million citations.

Overall, 10 new countries appeared in this year's ranking: Algeria, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Georgia, Kuwait, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Venezuela, which contributed to the 180-institution increase over last year's rankings.

"The top-980 list represents just 5 percent of the world's higher-education institutions, so we congratulate all universities who have made this year's list," said Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

The calculation of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings has been subject to an independent audit by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, making these the first global university rankings to be subjected to full, independent scrutiny of this nature.

View the complete results at: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings

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