World's Best Universities 2021: Where Does Indonesia Rank?

The world university ranking agency, *Times Higher Education* (THE), recently released its 2021 ranking of the world's best universities. Representing the UK, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge made the list of top global universities. The University of Oxford, with a score of 95.6, even held the top spot for five consecutive years. Meanwhile, the University of Cambridge ranked 6th globally with a score of 94.0.

Universities from the United States still dominated the top rankings, with eight universities featured. Stanford University ranked second with a score of 94.9, and Harvard University came in third with a score of 94.4. Other top universities included the California Institute of Technology (92.5), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (94.4), the University of California, Berkeley (92.2), Yale University (91.6), Princeton University (91.5), and the University of Chicago (90.3).

Meanwhile, Indonesian universities dropped to 867th place, occupied by Universitas Indonesia. This is a decline from its 668th ranking in 2020.

The *Times Higher Education World University Rankings* 2021 included over 1,500 universities in 93 countries and regions, making it the largest and most diverse university ranking to date. The ranking is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure institutional performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.

This year's ranking analyzed over 80 million citations across more than 13 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 academics worldwide.