The Peradeniya University has been ranked among the top 500Universities in the world according to The Times Higher EducationWorld University Rankings 2022.This is the third consecutive year that the University was rankedamong the top 500. The Peradeniya University has been ranked in thegroup of 401 – 500.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 include morethan 1,600 universities across 99 countries and territories, makingthem the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicatorsthat measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching,research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
This year’s ranking analysed more than 108 million citations acrossover 14.4 million research publications and included survey responsesfrom almost 22,000 scholars globally. Overall, we collected over430,000 datapoints from more than 2,100 institutions that submitteddata.
Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industryexperts, this year’s league table reveals how the Covid-19 pandemichas started to shift global higher education performance.
This year the University of Oxford tops the ranking for the sixthconsecutive year, while mainland China has two institutions in the top20 for the first time: Peking University and Tsinghua University share16th place.
Institut Polytechnique de Paris is the highest new entry at 95thplace, following a merger of five institutions.
The US is the most-represented country overall with 183 institutions,and also the most represented in the top 200 (57), although its shareof universities in this elite group is falling.
Mainland China now has the joint fifth highest number of institutionsin the top 200 (up from joint seventh last year), overtaking Canadaand on a par with the Netherlands.
Six new countries feature in the table compared with last year:Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Palestine and Tanzania.
Harvard University tops the teaching pillar, while the University ofOxford tops the research pillar and Macau University of Science andTechnology leads the international pillar.
Overall, 1,662 universities are ranked. A further 452 universities arelisted with “reporter” status, meaning that they provided data but didnot meet our eligibility criteria to receive a rank.