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THE Young University Rankings 2018: distinguished youth stand out

<ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ class="standfirst">Because the passing of a year is an arbitrary measure of maturity, we have added more gradation into our rankings, says Phil Baty
June 6, 2018
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What is ¡°young¡± when it comes to the universities of the world?

Although officially founded in 1832, Durham University in the UK traces its traditions in scholarship back to the work of the Venerable Bede in the 7th century. Italy¡¯s University of Bologna, often described as the first Western university, was founded about 400 years later, in 1088.

Clark Kerr, the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote that ¡°about eighty-five institutions in the Western world established by 1520 still exist in recognizable forms, with similar functions and with unbroken histories, including the Catholic Church, the parliaments of the Isle of Man, of Ireland and of Great Britain, several Swiss cantons, and seventy universities.

¡°Kings that rule, feudal lords with vassals, and guilds with monopolies are all gone. These seventy universities, however, are still in the same locations with some of the same buildings, with professors and students doing much the same things, and with governance carried on in much the same ways.¡±

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Times Higher Education?has grappled with the issues of age and university development over its own five-decades-long history as it has reported on new waves of universities created around the world ¨C in 1992 in the UK, for example, when dozens of universities were created from former polytechnic institutions, and in the late 1980s and into the 1990s in Australia.

In 2013, we turned to the data behind our World University Rankings to help us better understand the issue, inventing the ¡°100 Under 50¡± ranking. This looked at those universities under the age of 50, which the UK economist Andrew Oswald described as the ¡°likely future Harvards and Berkeleys¡±. But as that ranking evolved and expanded, and as universities previously in our ¡°under 50¡± list matured and dropped out through the arbitrary nature of passing time, more nuance was needed.

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Can universities aged just 51 suddenly be considered ¡°old¡± in the context of centuries of university traditions? How can we monitor their maturation? Is it right to compare a 50-year-old university with one created de?novo this millennium?

For finer gradation, we now take a generational approach, with multiple ranking tables focusing on different generations of ¡°young¡± universities. The first of the tables in this supplement is the ¡°Golden Age¡± universities. These are the maturing young institutions, founded, often as part of national renewal programmes, after the end of the Second World War in 1945. Next we have our more traditional ¡°under 50¡± ¨C now extending to 250 universities. But we also consider the real minnows of global higher education ¨C Generation X universities, founded between 1968 and 1985, Generation Y universities, founded between 1986 and 1999, and Millennial universities, founded since the year 2000.

We are delighted that the lists and the underlying data and analyses provide rich insights into the challenges of building great research universities, help us to track the progress of exciting and dynamic institutions created in modern times, and allow us to identify the likely next generation of future global university superstars, and the emerging regional powerhouses of higher education.?

Phil Baty is?editorial director, global rankings, Times Higher Education.

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Countries/regions represented in the Golden Age Rankings 2018

Country/region??? Number of institutions in Golden Age rankings Top institution Rank
Japan 28 Hiroshima University 97
United Kingdom 23 University of Warwick 8
China 17 University of Science and Technology of China 13
United States 14 University of California, San Diego 1
India 11 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 57
South Korea 10 Seoul National University 4
Brazil 8 State University of Campinas 67
Australia 7 Australian National University 2
Iran 7 Sharif University of Technology 92
Taiwan 7 National Chiao Tung University 68
Canada 6 University of Waterloo 27
Germany 5 Free University of Berlin 7
Thailand 5 King Mongkut¡¯s University of Technology Thonburi 101¨C150
Egypt 3 Ain Shams University 151¨C200
? ? Alexandria University 151¨C200
? ? Assiut University 151¨C200
France 3 University of Nantes 83
Israel 3 Tel Aviv University 30
Italy 3 University of Trento 38
Russian Federation 3 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology 35
Saudi Arabia 3 King Abdulaziz University 32
Chile 2 Austral University of Chile 101¨C150
Czech Republic 2 University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague 101¨C150
Finland 2 University of Oulu 42
Greece 2 University of Ioannina 75
Hong Kong 2 Chinese University of Hong Kong 3
Netherlands 2 Eindhoven University of Technology 15
New Zealand 2 University of Waikato 60
Sweden 2 University of Gothenburg 24
Turkey 2 Hacettepe University 101¨C150
? ? Middle East Technical University 101¨C150
Austria 1 Johannes Kepler University of Linz 80
Colombia 1 University of the Andes, Colombia 91
Denmark 1 University of Southern Denmark 43
Ghana 1 University of Ghana 101¨C150
Indonesia 1 Universitas Gadjah Mada 151¨C200
Jordan 1 University of Jordan 151¨C200
Kuwait 1 Kuwait University 101¨C150
Morocco 1 Mohammed V University of Rabat 151¨C200
Nigeria 1 University of Ibadan 151¨C200
Norway 1 University of Bergen 26
Pakistan 1 Quaid-i-azam University 73
Poland 1 Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru¨½ 151¨C200
Slovakia 1 Technical University of Ko?ice 151¨C200
South Africa 1 University of the Western Cape 101¨C150
Spain 1 University of Navarra 50
Venezuela 1 Sim¨®n Bol¨ªvar University 151¨C200
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