Dive Brief:
- Harvard University tops the Center for World University Rankings’ 2014 list of the top 1,000 universities in the world, its third annual ranking.
- After Harvard, the top five are Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Oxford.
- The list includes 229 U.S. schools, 84 from China, 74 from Japan, 64 from the United Kingdom, and 55 from Germany.
Dive Insight:
When a top rankings list goes 1,000 names deep, there’s plenty of love to go around. The list is compiled based on eight criteria: quality of education, alumni employment, and quality of faculty each count for 25% of a school’s score, with 5% each allocated to publications, influence, citations, broad impact, and patents filed.