22 German universities make top 200 in THE international ranking 2023
Every autumn Times Higher Education releases its ranking of the best universities across the world. This year, 22 German universities made the top 200.
THE university rankings 2023
The 2023 THE rankings, carried out every year by the UK magazine Times Higher Education, includes 1.799 universities across 104 countries and regions, making it the largest and most diverse university ranking to date. The rankings judged research-intensive universities across 13 performance indicators to create the list.
The performance indicators were:
- Teaching (the learning environment)
- Research (volume, income and reputation)
- Citations (research influence)
- International outlook (staff, students and research)
- Industry income (knowledge transfer)
As usual, the 2023 ranking’s top 10 spots are filled exclusively by institutions from the US and UK. For the sixth year in a row, the University of Oxford has claimed the crown as the best university in the world. Its fellow Brit, the University of Cambridge, takes joint third place with Stanford University, moving up from fifth last year. The other eight top spots in the ranking are dominated by US universities, including the California Institute of Technology, Harvard and Princeton University with Imperial College London taking 10th place.
After the UK and the US dominated the top spots, Switzerland was the third country to appear on the ranking, with the Swiss university ETH Zurich coming joint 11th place with Columbia University.
Best ranked German universities 2023
As has been the case in recent years, Munich was the German city that performed best when it came to rankings. Both LMU and Technical University of Munich were included in the top 10 German universities, swapping places from last year. 2023 sees the Technical University of Munich take 30th in the world and first in Germany, while LMU takes 33rd place internationally and second in Germany. The city in Bavaria is consistently ranked as one of the best student cities in the world. Read More...