Rice ranks among world’s top 50 universities

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– September 17, 2010Posted in: Current News

Rice ranks among world’s top 50 universities

BY B.J. ALMOND
Rice News staff

Rice University is among the world’s top 50 universities in rankings released this week by Times Higher Education magazine in London.

Ranked 47th (up from 100th last year), Rice is the only university in Texas that appears on the magazine’s list of 200 schools around the world. Harvard University is No. 1.

In the North America region, Rice is No. 29 among 81 universities from the U.S. and Canada that made the list.

For this year’s rankings, the magazine revised its methodology to place less importance on reputation and heritage than in previous years and to give more weight to measures of excellence in research, teaching and knowledge transfer.
The rankings used data provided by Thomson Reuters and an invitation-only reputation survey of more than 13,000 verified academics.

 

More rankings

Rice University appears on four
lists in the fall 2010 Kaplan/Newsweek ”Finding the Right College for
You” guide published this week:

* Most desirable colleges overall (No.
25).

* Most desirable urban schools (No.
10).

* Best for brainiacs (No.
20).

* Best gay-friendly schools (No.
18).

To read the write-up on Rice,
visit http://www.kaplancollegeguide.com.

  

Criteria covered five broad categories:

* Teaching/the learning environment: school’s income, staff-student ratios, undergraduate-postgraduate student mix, academic reputation for quality of teaching.

* Citations: number of times the university’s published research is cited in other academics’ papers.

* Research: income from research grants, publications in leading peer-reviewed journals and academic reputation for research.

* International mix: ratio of international staff and students to domestic staff and students.

* Industry income/innovation: research income from industry.

“The top 200 universities in the world represent only a tiny fraction of world higher education, and any institution that makes it into this table is truly world-class,” said Ann Mroz, editor of Times Higher Education. “Being ranked 47 in the world’s top 200 is an impressive achievement.”

Times Higher Education magazine covers policy and academic issues in higher education and research. The magazine’s complete 2010-11 World University Rankings are posted at http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings.

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