Digital editions

Monocular vision: Do search engines narrow scholarship?

Are exams finished? Assessment in the digital age

Throughout the disruption and privations of the pandemic, Latin America’s institutions have gone the extra mile to support their students, while remaining focused on improving standards

Intelligence test: is AI in the academy a cheating machine or just a super-calculator?    

Sustainability is an urgent and high-profile priority for universities worldwide, as evidenced by this ranking, which testifies to the many ways institutions are tackling today’s great challenges

Best foot forward: can South-east Asia’s universities meet sky-high aspirations?

Young universities have openness to innovation, youthful agility and collegiate attitudes on their side. They will need all these qualities to emerge stronger and wiser into the post-Covid world

To the stratosphere: will the UK hit its £22 billion research funding target?

Unlike their Western counterparts, many East Asian institutions have escaped the pandemic fallout from the absence of international students, and are flourishing with state investment and support

Biting back: misunderstood disciplines put the record straight

Higher walls? How the pandemic has impacted access for disadvantaged students

Influential dollars: is philanthropy worth the cost to HE?

Viral revolution: how has Covid-19 changed research culture?

Off the rails: has Australia’s international gravy train run out of steam?

Splashing the cash: how far can EU universities ride the post-Covid spending wave?

The coronavirus has forced institutions in emerging economies to make creative use of technology to cooperate and continue their work, but it has also exposed the huge hurdles to equality that remain  

Long-haul problem: will international recruitment take off again post-Covid?

Great leaps: if universities can move online overnight, what else could they do?

Digital Teaching Survey: faculty and staff weigh up the positives and the perils of the great online migration

Leading the way: can universities make the Rust Belt shine again?

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Rising in the East: what heights will China reach?

Comfort and joy: consolations of a difficult year

In tandem: will Covid solve the trailing-spouse problem?

Refashioning the canon: How should universities approach decolonisation?

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In hindsight: what scholars wish they had known earlier

The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings are created using the world’s largest invitation-only academic opinion survey

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The blueprint: would a Biden win ease HE troubles?

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Out of bounds: is academic freedom really in danger?

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Dutch masters: do the Netherlands’ campus reopenings offer a model for the world?

Edge of the rainbow: has South African higher education made enough progress on equality?

World University Rankings 2021: results announced

Universities everywhere continue to join our effort to map excellence in higher education worldwide, adding more colour and depth to our sweeping global survey. In these pages, we showcase a wealth of institutions that have charted their own course to success

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Tools of the trade: the nuts and bolts of digital teaching and learning

All for one or one for all? Scholarly prizes and the fixation on lone genius

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Wrecking ball: Could the coronavirus destroy the student housing market? 

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals are our guide for these rankings, and this year we have expanded our analysis to include all 17 SDGs

Blown off course: Women in Asia’s academy fear lockdowns will halt hard-won advances

The challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic have hit Latin America hard. But the region’s universities are stepping up to the mark and finding innovative solutions to difficult situations

University Leaders Survey: Will the pandemic leave universities in intensive care?

Much is made of the speed and flexibility that young universities enjoy, but often overlooked is their closeness and commitment to the communities in which they are located. And as we see in this year’s rankings, that mission can be a key driver of a success

Peak performance: Do university excellence initiatives work?

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A world coloured by Trump: How should schools of government operate in a polarised age?

To thrive, not just survive: Is the coronavirus crisis a chance to radically remake higher education?

Embracing the future? What academics trapped in the Zoomiverse miss about the physical campus

Viral effects: Will Covid-19 transform teaching and research?

World on fire: Universities in the wake of the Australian bushfire disaster

Seeking a remedy: Researchers on the front line of the fight against Covid-19

Questionable pedigree: How do you sniff out ‘low-quality’ courses?

Code blue: Will mass online teaching outlive the coronavirus?

Soaring ambitions: Can Mena universities help realise the region’s potential?

The jet set: Scholars offer tips on moving overseas