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Times Higher Education, one of the world’s leading university rankings, launched its 2021 edition today. The USP (University of São Paulo) appears as the best university in Brazil and Latin America, but it is not yet among the 200 best in the world.
In this edition, USP and Unicamp rose in the ranking, another 44 Brazilian universities were located and six entered the ranking.
As in the previous edition, the ranking is led by the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. The top of the list is dominated by the United States, with eight institutions in the top 10. Among them are Stanford University (2nd), Harvard University (3rd) and the California Institute of Technology (4th). ).
For this ranking of the British publication THE, 1,527 universities from 93 countries and regions around the world were evaluated. Criteria such as teaching, research, citations, international vision, and knowledge transfer to industry are used as performance indicators for universities.
For the first time since THE adopted its current methodology for this ranking, in 2011, an Asian institution appears in the top 20. The Tsinghua University of China is ranked 20th in this edition of the ranking.
See which are the 20 best universities in the world, according to THE:
one. University of Oxford – United Kingdom
two. Stanford University – United States
3. Harvard University – United States
Four. California Institute of Technology – USA
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – USA
6. Cambridge University – United Kingdom
7. University of California, Berkeley – USA
8. Yale University – United States
9. Princeton University – United States
10. University of Chicago – USA
eleven. Imperial College London – United Kingdom
12. Johns Hopkins University – United States
13. University of Pennsylvania – USA
14. Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) – Switzerland
fifteen. University of California, Los Angeles – USA
sixteen. University College London – United Kingdom
17. Columbia University – United States
18. University of Toronto – Canada
19. Cornell University – United States
twenty. Tsinghua University – China
twenty. Duke University – United States
