THE World University Rankings
The latest edition of THE World University Rankings represents nearly two thousand education institutions around the world. For this year's ranking, Times Higher Education has expanded the range of indicators monitored. The assessment of international student mobility has been introduced. In the area of cooperation with industry, the ranking tracks the institution's patent-cited publications. New bibliometric indicators have also been added. In total, the ranking tracks 18 indicators grouped into five categories.
Masaryk University is ranked 601st–800th in this ranking. It performs best in the category of Research Environment (442nd position) and International Outlook (459th position). Year-on-year, it has improved the most in the Industry category (moving up 323 places, 943rd position), and slightly in the evaluation of Research Quality (moving up 112 places, 1018th position). In the category assessing the field of Teaching, it gained 942nd position.
The University of Oxford retained the top spot in THE WUR ranking for the eighth time in a row, with Stanford University and MIT coming in second and third. From the Czech Republic, 18 universities were ranked, with Charles University in first place (401st-500th overall). Masaryk University is second in the national comparison, followed by Palacký University in Olomouc and the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague at rank 801-1000.
Methodology:
THE World University Rankings focuses primarily on the quality of science and research at a university. A total of 18 ranking indicators are grouped into 5 categories. The results of two reputation surveys, conducted directly by Times Higher Education, have the greatest weight (33% in total) for the overall ranking. Respondents select the best institutions in research and in education. Four of the bibliometric indicators together make up the second third of the ranking (30% in total). Until 2014, the data for the bibliometric indicators were sourced from the Web of Science database; since 2015, the source has been the Scopus database.
For the majority of the indicators, input information is provided directly by the evaluated institutions. These include the numbers of staff, students, and graduates at various levels of disaggregation, as well as some financial indicators such as the institution's total income and industrial research income. Thus, through good quality reporting, an institution can influence up to 27% of the overall assessment.
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THE WUR Indicators
29.5% Teaching
15.0% Teaching reputation
4.5% Student staff ratio
2.0% Doctorate bachelor ration
5.5% Doctorate staff ratio
2.5% Institutional income -
29% Research Environment
18.0% Research reputation
5.5% Research income
5.5% Research productivity -
30% Research Quality
15.0% Citation impact
5.0% Research strength
5.0% Research excellence
5.0% Research influence -
4% Industry
2.0% Industry income
2.0% Patents -
7.5% International Outlook
2.5% International students
2.5% International staff
2.5% International co-authorship
0.0% Studying aproad