The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2022 was officially released at 7 a.m. (Beijing time) on September 2. The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the sixth consecutive year, while Chinese mainland has two institutions in the top 20 for the first time: Peking University and Tsinghua University share 16th place. Guangdong’s five universities, including Southern University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen University, South China University of Technology, Southern Medical University are among the top 500.

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The Rankings 2022 include more than 1,600 universities across 99 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date. Universities from Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji and Palestine are listed for the first time.

This year's ranking analyzed more than 108 million citations across over 14.4 million research publications and included survey responses from almost 22,000 scholars globally. The final table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching; research; knowledge transfer and international outlook. Additionally, according to the official website of the THE, this year’s league table also reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic has started to shift global higher education performance.

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