UBC ranks 30th in 2013 world university rankings

Dec 19 2017, 3:10 pm

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2012-2013 have been released. The global university performance tables judges world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Three Canadian universities cracked the top 50 list, with UBC coming in at number 30.

As UBC continues to grow as a campus and community (see our in depth post on UBC campus a city in itself), it will continue to climb in the international rankings.

The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

World University Rankings 2013 (Top 50)

1 California Institute of Technology United States
2 Stanford University United States
2 University of Oxford United Kingdom
4 Harvard University United States
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
6 Princeton University United States
7 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
8 Imperial College London United Kingdom
9 University of California, Berkeley United States
10 University of Chicago United States
11 Yale University United States
12 ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich Switzerland
13 University of California, Los Angeles United States
14 Columbia University United States
15 University of Pennsylvania United States
16 Johns Hopkins University United States
17 University College London United Kingdom
18 Cornell University United States
19 Northwestern University United States
20 University of Michigan United States
21 University of Toronto Canada
22 Carnegie Mellon University United States
23 Duke University United States
24 University of Washington United States
25 University of Texas at Austin United States
25 Georgia Institute of Technology United States
27 University of Tokyo Japan
28 University of Melbourne Australia
29 National University of Singapore Singapore
30 University of British Columbia Canada
31 University of Wisconsin-Madison United States
32 University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
33 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign United States
34 McGill University Canada
35 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
35 University of California, Santa Barbara United States
37 Australian National University Australia
38 University of California, San Diego United States
39 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom
40 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland
41 New York University United States
42 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States
42 Karolinska Institute Sweden
44 University of California, Davis United States
44 Washington University in St Louis United States
46 Peking University China
47 University of Minnesota United States
48 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany
49 University of Manchester United Kingdom
50 Pohang University of Science and Technology Republic of Korea

 

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