University of Warwick receives another top 100 ranking
The University of Warwick has been ranked amongst the top 100 universities in a major league table.
On the 21 September, The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17 were released. Warwick was placed 82nd top university in the world.
The ranking also places Warwick as 10th best university in the UK, up from 12th place in the last THE rankings. However, Warwick is in total two places down from last year when it was ranked as 80th in the world.
The THE World University Rankings list the top 980 universities globally and has been doing so for 12 years. It judges universities based on their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
In the ranking, Warwick scored most highly for International Outlook, at 91.4%.
The University of Warwick’s ranking in the top 100 of both the THE and the QS World University tables reflects our global reputation for research, teaching and academic excellence, our ground-breaking international collaborations and our community of staff and students from around the globe.
Professor Stuart Croft, Warwick’s Vice-Chancellor
12 UK universities feature in THE top 100 with 32 making it into the top 200. This means the UK has the second highest number of universities to make it into the ranking, after the United States.
The University of Oxford has been ranked as 1st in the world whilst more Asian universities have made their way onto the list than in previous years.
Professor Stuart Croft, Warwick’s Vice-Chancellor, said: “The University of Warwick’s ranking in the top 100 of both the THE and the QS World University tables reflects our global reputation for research, teaching and academic excellence, our ground-breaking international collaborations and our community of staff and students from around the globe.”
Natalie Stafford-Johnson, a second-year Economics student, commented: “It is impressive that Warwick has reached this ranking in just 51 years.”
Natalie added: “Rankings matter when job hunting. Employers will look more favourably on a university that’s so high up in the league tables.”
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