Times Higher Education

The Times Higher Education Supplement, also known as The Times Higher or The THES for short, is a newspaper based in London that reports specifically on issues related to higher education. It is owned by TSL Education, which was, until October 2005, a division of News International. The Times ranking is often criticized for using categories that highly favour British universities.

The paper is edited by John O'Leary, author of The Times Good University Guide. The THES is probably best known for publishing The Times Higher - QS World University Rankings in partnership with QS Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd (see college and university rankings), which first appeared in November 2004, with new rankings published annually. The Literary Editor is Gerard Kelly.

2006 World University Rankings (Top 20)

2006 Rankings	2005 Rankings	2004 Rankings	University	Country	Average Score
1	1	1	Harvard University	US	100.0
2	3	6	University of Cambridge	UK	96.8
3	4	5	University of Oxford	UK	92.7
4=	2	3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	89.2
4=	7	8	Yale University	US	89.2
6	5	7	Stanford University	US	85.4
7	8	4	California Institute of Technology	US	83.8
8	6	2	University of California, Berkeley	US	80.4
9	13	14	Imperial College London	UK	78.6
10	9	9	Princeton University	US	74.2
11	17	13	University of Chicago	US	69.8
12	20	19	Columbia University	US	69.0
13	11=	52	Duke University	US	68.3
14	15	17	Peking University	China	67.9
15	14	23	Cornell University	US	65.9
16	23	16	Australian National University	Australia	64.8
17	11=	11	London School of Economics	UK	63.9
18	24	30	École Normale Supérieure	France	63.3
19=	22	18	National University of Singapore	Singapore	63.1
19=	16	12	Tokyo University	Japan	63.1

The ranking weights are: Peer Review Score (40%), Recruiter Review (10%), International Faculty Score (5%), International Students Score (5%), Faculty/Student Score (20%), Citations/Faculty score (20%).

See also

• Times Educational Supplement

External links

• New THES 2006 rankings released
• THES official website (a subscription is required to access much of the site)
• QS official website (free)
• 2005 THES World University Rankings
• Paked - THES World University Rankings 2006
• Ranking Methodology