Michigan State University’s global standing as a top-notch research and teaching institution continues to improve in the World University Rankings by Times Higher Education, a London-based publication.
According to the publication’s 2014 assessment, released Oct. 1, MSU ranks 82, up one spot from last year. Times Higher Education developed the World University Rankings in 2010 and MSU has improved each year – climbing a total of 40 spots since its initial ranking of 122.
Times Higher Education ranks some 400 universities around the world on a host of measures related to teaching, research and international presence.
“The Times Higher Education World University Rankings,” the publication says, “are the world’s most comprehensive and carefully calibrated global rankings, using 13 separate performance indicators to examine a university’s strengths against all of its core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.”
This year’s top five universities are California Institute of Technology, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge.
Universities are also ranked strictly on reputation. This spin-off ranking is based on an invitation-only opinion survey designed to provide "the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands."
In the reputation ranking, MSU comes in between 61 and 70 in the world. Harvard tops that list.