From 2004 to 2009 the Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Sysmonds ( QS) published annually a joint ranking under the name ” Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) Rankings” . In 2010 these two institutions have stopped their collaboration but continue to publish a separate ranking : QS have kept the 2004-2009 methodology and publishe this ranking as the QS World University Rankings ( which also include the THES rankings from 2004 to 2009 ) and the Times Higher Education produce a new type of ranking : the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
The World University Ranking of the English magazine Times Higher Education ranks the top 400 universities worldwide based on qualitative and quantitative indicators . The methodology differs from QS by increasing the number of indicators taken into account . The Times Higher Education has the ambition to cover the 3 missions of universities : teaching , research and knowledge transfer. To that end it utilizes 13 indicators grouped in 5 categories.
Indicators and Weight in the Times Higher Education World University Ranking
| Criterion | Indicator | Weight |
| Citations – research influence | 1 – Citations impact (normalized average citations per paper) (Database: Thomson Reuter’s Web of Science) | 30% |
| Teaching – the learning enviro nment | 1 – Income per academic 2 – Reputational survey – teaching 3 – PhD awards per academic 4 – PhD awards / bachelor’s awards 5 – Undergraduates admitted per academic | 30% |
| Research – volume, income and reputation | 1- Papers academic and research staff 2 – Research income (scaled) 3 – Reputation survey – research | 30% |
| International mix – staff and students | 1 – Ratio of international to domestic students 2 – Ratio of international to domestic staff 3 – Proportion of internationally co-authored research papers | 7.5% |
| Industry income – innovation | 1 – Research income from industry (per academic staff) | 2.5% |