TU Delft has been ranked 40th in the annual Times World Reputation Ranking. This makes it the highest ranked Dutch university, and the shared ninth in Europe.
Times Higher Education establishes the list order based on a survey of established scientists. It is therefore about the image that scholars at universities worldwide have of other institutions, rather than the actual quality of teaching and research.
What is striking, is how different the scores are. The universities in the top six, successively Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge and Berkeley score more than 60 points on a scale of 100, with Harvard even achieving 100 points. After that, the scores decline rapidly. The number 7 has 37.3 points and TU Delft in 40th place has 8.1 points. A total of 204 universities participated.
Naming fifteen universities
Participants in the survey had the task of naming 15 universities that they see as best in research and teaching in their field. 38,796 researchers participated in the survey, which was conducted between October 2022 and January 2023, reports Times Higher Education.
The 40th place in this World Reputation Ranking counted in the overall World University Ranking, which was published as early as September 2023. That ranking is a sum of all kinds of components, such as quality of education, research culture, research quality and reputation. In this general ranking, TU Delft scored 48th place, 22 spots higher than in the previous edition.
Due to ‘dissatisfaction with the way of ranking’, Utrecht University did not provide data to Times Higher Education and therefore cannot be found in the World Reputation Ranking.
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