One of the most influential rating, which determines the best universities of the world, a list compiled by the British weekly Times Higher Education.Determining the best universities, called the publication takes into account the following factors:
- the quality of teaching (30% of the total evaluation);
- volume of research conducted institution of higher education (30%);
- citation published in the university works by other researchers (32.5%);
- income from research (2.5%);
- level of international cooperation (5%).
And now look at a list of the best universities in the world for the 2012/2013 academic year.In particular, the top five.The first position was taken by the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, USA).This university specializing in engineering and the hard sciences.The most famous of its faculty - physical.It is worth noting that the university laboratory is working on the launch of NASA spacecraft.In addition, the Institute has developed a network of observatories.In the Caltech trained only 1,200 graduate students and 900 students.
In second place is the old University of Oxford (Oxford, UK).He is known not only ancient history (taught here already in the 11th century), but also a unique system of mentoring.Thus, each student is under the personal care of a specialist in the chosen specialty.It is worth noting that the university graduated from 25 prime ministers of Britain, including Margaret Thatcher.
the third position in the list the best universities of the world is located Stanford University (Palo Alto, USA).It is divided into the following parts: the faculty of law, business, technical and medical.At the same time Stanford famous interdisciplinary approach to learning.Quite often, students are taught a number of specialties, using the dual degree program.In addition, the auditorium of the University known around the world as the most highly technical.
list of "the best universities of the world" would be incomplete without at Harvard University (Boston, USA), who finished fourth.But to call the university occupies the first position in the US in the number of graduates of billionaires.Interestingly, when the Harvard alumni functions, helps students to find high-paying jobs.In addition, it teaches 43 Nobel Prize winners.
In fifth place in the list of "the best universities of the world" is located Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA).This institute is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and its educational programs in economics, engineering, information technology, physics, mathematics and chemistry are among the best in the United States.Currently, graduates and employees of the Massachusetts Institute there are 77 Nobel Prize winners.
As can be seen, the United States continues to lead the field of quality of higher education.For example, the top ten American universities belongs to 7 positions in the ranking of two hundred and - 76 positions.Also significantly grown ranking Chinese universities.For example, Beijing University this year took the 46th stage.As for the Russian universities, the list of "Best Colleges" entered the Moscow State University.However, in the overall ranking, he took only 216 th place.
