The world��s top 30 universities for teaching

January 1, 1990

World’s top 30 universities for teaching (World University Rankings)

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings use 13 separate performance indicators to judge world class universities against all their core missions, including research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. But uniquely among global rankings, the THE rankings also examine a university��s teaching environment.

The rankings employ five separate indicators to cover teaching, which are collectively given a weight of 30 per cent towards the overall ranking score.

The indicators are designed to provide a clear sense of the teaching and learning environment of each institution from both the student and the academic perspective, and they include a faculty-student ratio, an institution��s total resources scaled for its size, the doctorate-to-bachelor��s ratio and the results of the world��s largest invitation-only survey of global academic opinion. You can read the full methodology here.

Below we list the world��s top 30 universities based on their scores under our teaching category. You can view the teaching scores for all 400 universities in the THE World University Rankings 2013-2014 by clicking on the 'Change criteria' icon on the main rankings table and selecting 'Teaching �C the learning environment'.

Teaching rank	World rank	Institution	Country	Teaching score
1	2	Harvard University	United States	95.3
2	4	Stanford University	United States	94.7
3	1	California Institute of Technology	United States	94.4
4	5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.9
5	7	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	90.6
6	6	Princeton University	United States	89.9
7	11	Yale University	United States	89.5
8	2	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	89.0
9	13	Columbia University	United States	86.6
10	9	University of Chicago	United States	85.6
11	12	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	84.8
12	23	University of Tokyo	Japan	84.7
13	10	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	84.5
14	8	University of California, Berkeley	United States	83.2
15	16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	79.8
16	14	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Z��rich	Switzerland	77.6
17	44	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea	76.4
18	15	Johns Hopkins University	United States	75.7
19	17	Duke University	United States	73.9
20	20	University of Toronto	Canada	73.6
21	45	Peking University	China	72.3
22	19	Cornell University	United States	72.1
23	21	University College London	United Kingdom	70.5
24	22	Northwestern University	United States	70.2
25	18	University of Michigan	United States	70.0
26	30	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	69.8
27	52	Kyoto University	Japan	69.5
28	26	National University of Singapore	Singapore	68.0
29	50	Tsinghua University	China	66.8
30	29	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	66.0