The Times Higher Education has shared its 2023 ranking of the best universities in the world.
The ranking includes 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.
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.
The ranking has 15 of South Africa’s universities including University of Pretoria, Stellenbosch University, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town to name a few.
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.
Here are the Top 10 best South African universities included on this ranking:
See full ranking on Times Higher Education
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