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UCLA performs well in all of the national and international rankings of public and private universities, including the most widely known list published by U.S. News & World Report . Below, you’ll find an overview of some of the more significant and well-known national and international rankings.

National Rankings

This year, UCLA joins UC Berkeley as the nation’s No. 1 public university, ranking 20th among all national universities in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. The U.S. News & World Report rankings, despite their popularity, tell only part of the story. They place more emphasis on factors that tend to favor private universities, such as endowment size, rate of alumni giving and student-faculty ratios. Nevertheless, they can be a useful tool that focuses largely on factors related to undergraduate education.

Global Rankings

UCLA ranked 9th out of 100 universities in the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings. Distinct from the annual World University Rankings, these rankings are derived solely from the opinions of senior, published academics from around the globe.

U.S. News introduced a new global ranking of universities in 2014. The methodology for this ranking is very different from the publication’s U.S. ranking system. It gives much more weight to academic research and reputation, as well as graduate and professional school quality.

More than 1,200 institutions are evaluated in this ranking, which is based heavily on faculty publications and citations, as well as the number of alumni and faculty who have won Nobel Prizes.

UCLA was 15th overall among the top 1,102 universities in the world in the respected Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The rankings rely on performance indicators such as the quality of teaching, research and the international mix of staff and students.

Other Rankings

In 2022 (the most recent ranking), Forbes evaluates colleges and universities based on alumni earnings, net price, net student debt, school quality, timely graduation and the number of Pell Grant recipients.

Forbes revised its methodology in 2018 to put more emphasis on the survey’s three financial factors — earnings, price and debt — and the publication switched to net price (which takes into account the impact of students’ financial aid and the costs of room and board) instead of list price.

In 2019 (the most recent ranking), the center placed UCLA among the nation’s top research universities — both public and private. This ranking focuses on nine key measures of university research performance, including competitively awarded research grants and contracts, faculty membership in the National Academies, faculty awards, the number of doctorates awarded and other factors. UCLA was ranked in the top 25 among all research universities in seven of these measures, including:

• 7th in the nation in total research expenditures
• 8th in the nation in faculty awards
• 14th in the nation in national academy memberships

Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021

THE-World University Rankings: 2021

Times higher education world university rankings.

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021 include more than 1,500 universities across 93 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.

The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

This year’s ranking analysed more than 80 million citations across over 13 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.

Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year’s league table provides great insight into the shifting balance of power in global higher education.

Ranking Methodology:

The performance indicators are grouped into five areas: teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff, students and research); and industry income (knowledge transfer).

More about Methodology: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/world-university-rankings-2021-methodology

THE-2021: Top 10 World Universities

Rank#1:: University of Oxford, UK

Rank#2:: Stanford University, USA

Rank#3:: Harvard University, USA

Rank#4:: California Institute of Technology, USA

Rank#5:: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Rank#6:: University of Cambridge, UK

Rank#7:: University of California, Berkeley, US

Rank#8:: Yale University, USA

Rank#9:: Princeton University, USA

Rank#10:: University of Chicago, USA

THE-2021: Top 10 Indian Universities

Rank#301-350:: Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Rank#351-400:: Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Rank#401-500:: Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Rank#601-800:: Banaras Hindu University, UP

Rank#601-800:: Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai

Rank#601-800:: University of Delhi

Rank#601-800:: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune

Rank#601-800:: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata

Rank#601-800:: Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

Rank#601-800:: Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

For more information on ranking procedure, other university rankings and other details for the year 2021 please follow the “THE-WUR: 2021” button below.

About The Times Higher Education (THE)

Times Higher Education (THE) is the data provider underpinning university excellence in every continent across the world. As the company behind the world’s most influential university ranking, and with almost five decades of experience as a source of analysis and insight on higher education, we have unparalleled expertise on the trends underpinning university performance globally. Our data and benchmarking tools are used by many of the world’s most prestigious universities to help them achieve their strategic goals.

Disclaimer: All the above data is gathered from the Times Higher Education, all the logos and titles are belongs to Times Higher Education, EngMorph does not own any part of the data published in this page and EngMorph is not responsible for the correctness of the information presented. For more information, visit the Times Higher Education website.

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The UWI’s Stellar Leadership Confirmed: Times Higher Education 2021 Impact Rankings

For Release Upon Receipt - April 29, 2021

The Times Higher Education (THE) has released its long-anticipated, prestigious 2021 Global University Rankings for the category—national, regional and international “Impact”. The best universities are ranked using “Impact” as the criterion for measuring their performance excellence.

The rankings for 2021 are more competitive than prior years. In 2020, 768 universities were ranked from 85 countries. In 2021, the number increased to 1,115 universities from 98 countries and cities, an increase of 45%.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles made the announcement and discussed the University’s performance in these latest rankings during a media conference held earlier today. Joined by Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs, Dr Luz Longsworth and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic, Industry Partnerships and Planning, Professor Densil Williams, he shared details of how The UWI has consistently top performed in Times Higher Education’s rankings since 2018, as well as the University’s strategy for pursuing advancement of the SDGs in the region.

The  Times Higher Education  Impact Rankings are based on universities’ performance across the spectrum of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Universities that met the merit bar for rankings are assessed using four of the SDGs. They are evaluated using data that highlight their performance in three areas: leadership and stewardship; research output and teaching and advocacy.

Of the four SDGs, only one, SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals, is compulsory, while the three other SDGs are open choices. The UWI chose: SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being); SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 13 (Climate Action). The UWI’s relative performance in these four categories further enhanced its international standing, consolidating its reputation as a global leader. It maintained its status as the only university in the English-speaking Caribbean to make the global elite ranking.

According to UNESCO and the International Association of Universities, 20,000 of the 30,586 universities in the world from 196 countries are officially accredited. The UWI was included in the top 1,115 of these universities for world SDG “Impact Ranking”. Using UNESCO’s base data, the Times impact ranking positions The UWI in the top 2.5% of the best universities globally in 2021.

This impressive result confirms that the strategic leadership and stewardship of The UWI, and its scholastic research output and advocacy, were internationally monitored and measured and adjudged to be excellent. They reflect the excellence of UWI researchers in the SDG categories, and support the effectiveness of The UWI’s global partnering strategies.

They also give context to the United Nations’ selection of our Vice-Chancellor as a higher education strategist to provide visioning for the global university sector up to 2030 and beyond.

“THE continues to affirm The UWI’s stellar performance as a reputable higher educational institution on the global stage.   This is a testament that, through the work of our scholars, administrators, and students; and with the support of our governmental partners, plurilateral agencies and the regional private sector, The UWI continues to add significant value to the regional and global community,” stated Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Densil Williams, The UWI’s lead strategic planner.

Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs, Dr Luz Longsworth, noted that “The UWI’s emergence in the global higher education arena is the basis of its future financial sustainability. Without a respected ranking status there will be no competitive success in winning international students, and securing substantial research grants; and critically, international donor funding will be minimal without top class international partnerships.”

These assessments were supported by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, who said that “through international partnerships universities are positioned to develop innovative research, mobilize science, and distribute knowledge in order to impact policies for economic growth, social inclusion and job creation.”

He added further, “The UWI is here to serve the development of our region as its top priority. In a community that is vulnerable to existential threats—climate change, chronic diseases, and COVID-19—the impact of universities such as ours has never been more critical. This global ranking confirms that The UWI is at once excellent and ethical.”

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Note to the Editor

A recorded broadcast of today’s Virtual Media Conference hosted by Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles : A conversation on The UWI’s stellar leadership confirmed by Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings 2021, can be accessed here.

About The UWI

The UWI has been and continues to be a pivotal force in every aspect of Caribbean development; residing at the centre of all efforts to improve the well-being of people across the region.

From a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948, The UWI is today an internationally respected, global university with near 50,000 students and five campuses: Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados, Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda and its Open Campus , and 10 global centres in partnership with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe .

The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Culture, Creative and Performing Arts, Food and Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Sport . As the Caribbean’s leading university, it possesses the largest pool of Caribbean intellect and expertise committed to confronting the critical issues of our region and wider world.

Ranked among the top universities in the world, by the most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education , The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists. In 2020, it earned ‘Triple 1st’ rankings—topping the Caribbean; and in the top in the tables for Latin America and the Caribbean , and global Golden Age universities (between 50 and 80 years old).  The UWI is also featured among the top universities on THE’s Impact Rankings for its response to the world’s biggest concerns, outlined in the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Good Health and Wellbeing; Gender Equality and Climate Action.

For more, visit www.uwi.edu .

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021 evaluated over 1,500 institutions from around the world to create a comprehensive rating for universities. We explore and analyse the results.

The highly anticipated Time Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2021 have been revealed. The 2021 edition represents the most extensive evaluation of higher learning institutions around the world for the THE rankings. With a focus on inclusion and diversity, THE examined over 1,500 universities in 93 countries across the world. Sometimes it can seem challenging to make sense of what it all means, how the rankings are calculated and which study destinations performed best. We’ve got the inside information for you with an analysis of the top performers, the up and comers and how judgement is passed on the institutions. 

Which universities ranked in the top 10?

It was once again a battle of the perennial high achievers in the UK and U.S. with an arm wrestle for first place between the University of Oxford and Stanford University, with the former bagging the top honour for 2021. This is the fifth year in a row that sees the UK institution lead the pack, however, for Stanford University it represents a two-place improvement from 2020, knocking last year's second-placed institution, the California Institute of Technology, out of the runners-up spot.

Third place for 2021 was awarded to another Ivy League institution in the U.S., namely Harvard University, which saw their stock rise considerably from a disappointing 7th spot in 2020. Rounding out the top five were another pair of universities from the U.S., with California Institute of Technology sitting in fourth and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in fifth. 

The 2021 rankings reveal a strong showing for institutions in the U.S. with eight of the top ten institutions being based in the country. The UK also features significantly in the top 20 global universities with four institutions making the list. One of the biggest jumps in the top 20 was for the University of California Berkeley who moved from 15 th in the previous rankings to 7 th for 2021.

Significantly three institutions from Asia remain in the top 25 in 2021 including Tsinghua University (+20), Peking University (23) and National University of Singapore (25). Tsinghua University rose from the 23 rd spot in 2020 to take up a position in the top 20 for the first time, while Peking University improved by one spot. The top ten universities in the world for 2021, according to the THE World University Rankings 2021 are:

1. University of Oxford (UK)

2. Stanford University (US)

3. Harvard University (US) 

4. California Institute of Technology (US)

5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)

6. University of Cambridge (UK)

7. University of California Berkeley (US)

8. Yale University (US)

9. Princeton University (US)

10. University of Chicago (US)

How are the rankings calculated? 

The THE World University Rankings use 13 key indicators by which a university is assessed, judged and evaluated. They are designed to examine a university’s performance in the critical areas of teaching, research, internationalisation and knowledge transfer. The rankings also conduct extensive interviews with students, over 22,000 worldwide, and research university citations, which for the 2021 rankings amounted to over 80 million. 

The indicators used by THE are divided into five areas each weighted with a relative percentage:

• Reputation survey (15 per cent)
• Student to staff ratio (4.5 per cent)
• Doctorate to bachelor’s student ratio (2.25 per cent)
• Doctorates awarded to academic staff (6 per cent)
• Institutional income (2.25 per cent)
• Reputation survey (18 per cent)
• Research income (6 per cent)
• Research productivity (6 per cent)
• Citations (influence of research) 30 per cent
• The proportion of international students (2.5 per cent)
• The proportion of international staff (2.5 per cent)
• International collaboration (2.5 per cent)
• Industry income (transfer of knowledge - 2.5 per cent)

It’s clear from the top-ranked institutions that being able to maintain a high academic standard and reputation is essential. Universities that find a balance between teaching and quality, influential research, with a focus on student-centred curricula tend to perform better.

The top three institutions in the world all scored extremely highly in the teaching and research (including citations) categories. What is also notable is that the University of Oxford scored very highly when it came to a positive international outlook.

This is something that marks UK institutions out with both Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge having a significant number of international students. In addition, seven of the top ten institutions boasted student to staff ratios lower than 10:1, underlining the individualised attention students receive at these universities. 

Which universities are in the top 50?

To kick off let’s take a look at the universities that took spots 11 to 25. The rankings feature eight universities from the U.S., two from the UK, two from China and one from Switzerland and Singapore respectively. One of the notable inclusions was Imperial College London that dropped out of the top ten to sit in 11 th spot and a two ranking spot rise for the University of California, Los Angeles to 15 th . Places 11 to 25 went to:

11. Imperial College London (UK)

12. Johns Hopkins University (US)

13. University of Pennsylvania (US)

14. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

15. University of California, Los Angeles (US)

16. UCL (UK)

17. Columbia University (US)

18. University of Toronto (Canada)

19. Cornell University (US)

20. Tsinghua University (China) 

21. Duke University (US) (= 20th)

22. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (US)

23. Peking University (China)

24. Northwestern University (US)

25. National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Looking at the universities that are ranked between 26 and 50 you will notice that there is more diversity in the countries that are represented. Although the institutions in the United States still dominate, with nine universities ranked, there are also universities from the UK, Germany , Australia , Canada , Sweden , Belgium , Japan , Hong Kong , France , Switzerland and Singapore . The universities ranked 26 to 50 are:

26. New York University (US)

27. London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)

28. Carnegie Melon University (US)

29. University of Washington (US)

30. University of Edinburgh (UK)

31. University of Melbourne (Australia)

32. LMU Munich (Germany)

33. University of California, San Diego (US)

34. University of British Columbia (Canada)

35. King’s College London (UK)

36. Karolinska Institute (Sweden)

37. The University of Tokyo (Japan)

38. Georgia Institute of Technology (US)

39. University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

40. McGill University (Canada)

41. Technical University Munich (Germany)

42. Heidelberg University (Germany)

43. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (France)

44. University of Texas , Austin (US)

45. KU Leuven (Belgium)

46. Paris Sciences et Lettres - PSL Research University Paris (France)

47. Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

48. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US)

49. University of Wisconsin, Madison (US)

50. Washington University in St Louis (US)

The 2021 rankings saw a gain for New York University which jumped three spots to 26, while the Hong Kong University of Technology and Australia National University dropped out of the top 50. There were also an additional 141 new entries onto the rankings in 2021, of which Paris-Saclay University in France was the top-rated, sitting at number 178.

If you want to check out what other rankings and league tables have to say be sure to take a look at our articles on the QS World University Rankings , WhatUni Student Choice Awards , Complete University Guide League Tables and U21 Higher Education System rankings . 

Now that you have a better idea of which destinations and universities received the plaudits, as well as how they were judged you’ll have very useful insights to inform your own decision making.

Don’t forget that league tables are not the final authority on whether a university is worth attending, but a useful way of evaluating potential options in combination with other factors. Be sure to check out our guide on how to understand league tables , how to use league tables and reviews to inform your study choices and how to research universities online . 

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Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024

Not sure where to study? The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 can help. Now in its 20th year, the list compares almost 2,000 universities from more than 100 regions and countries, providing you with one of the most respected reviews of higher education institutions around the world. Wherever you are looking to apply, this can be a great support to your decision-making. Find out how as we explore the latest THE Rankings .  

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September 21, 2021

Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education: Purdue tops Big Ten in best value, again among nation's best schools

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — How valuable is a Purdue University education?

In 2020, the average starting pay for immediate Purdue graduates was $62,395. That’s more than 11% better than the U.S. average initial pay of $55,260 for recent grads.

And it’s a direct result of Purdue national academic reputation among prospective students and families — and among employers looking to hire the best and the brightest.

That reputation was reflected on Tuesday (Sept. 21) in yet another highly regarded national ranking. The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings have Purdue at No. 7 in the Best Value, tops in the Big Ten. At No. 10 among public institutions and 48th among about 800 schools overall, this marks the sixth consecutive year that Purdue has been among the nation’s best schools in The WSJ/THE rankings.

Purdue also is No. 4 in Engagement, tied with seven other schools, including the University of Michigan and University of Notre Dame.

The newest ranking follows this month’s U.S. News & World Report undergraduate rankings that positioned Purdue among the top 10 Most Innovative Schools in the nation for the fourth consecutive year. Purdue also is listed in this month’s Forbes analysis of “ The universities with the most graduates working at Fortune 500 companies .”

The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings focus on four key pillars: 40% of the overall score is based on student outcomes, 30% from resources, 20% from engagement with students and 10% from the learning environment.

Specific to engagement, most of the data is gathered through the Times Higher Education student survey, analyzing student engagement, student recommendation, interaction with teachers and students, and number of accredited programs. The ranking includes clear performance indicators designed to answer the question that matters most to students and their families when making one of the most important decisions of their lives – who to trust with their education.

Purdue boasts a 13:1 student-faculty ratio and has a number of student success programs in place, along with programs to help students graduate early such as Purdue’s Degree in 3 in the College of Liberal Arts and Purdue Polytechnic Institute. In April, the university launched Purdue’s Next Moves , five new distinct strategic initiatives designed to advance the university’s competitive advantage in its continuing quest for leadership among the world’s top research and teaching institutions. The university also has announced a graduation civics literacy requirement beginning with students who enrolled this fall.

Each year, Purdue hosts the largest outdoor collegiate job fair led by a student organization in the country, historically attracting as many as 400 companies and 12,000 students to the Industrial Roundtable.

This fall, Purdue welcomed 10,191 freshmen, its largest class in history, and a record enrollment of 49,639. Student surveys highlight Purdue’s response to the pandemic and its reputation for affordability and high-quality education as key admissions drivers.

The complete WSJ/THE rankings can be found online .

About Purdue University

Purdue University is a top public research institution developing practical solutions to today’s toughest challenges. Ranked in each of the last four years as one of the 10 Most Innovative universities in the United States by U.S. News & World Report, Purdue delivers world-changing research and out-of-this-world discovery. Committed to hands-on and online, real-world learning, Purdue offers a transformative education to all. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue has frozen tuition and most fees at 2012-13 levels, enabling more students than ever to graduate debt-free. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap at  https://purdue.edu/ .

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From the Heart to Higher Education: The 2021 College Essays on Money

Each year, we ask high school seniors to send us college application essays that touch on money, work or social class. Here are five from this year’s incoming college freshmen.

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• June 18, 2021

When the most selective — or, even better, rejective — schools in the United States are accepting under 10 percent of the people pleading for a spot in the next freshman class, it eventually becomes impossible to know why any one person receives an offer, or why a student chooses a particular school.

So in this particularly unpredictable season — as we publish a selection of application essays about money, work or social class for the ninth time — we’ve made one small but permanent change: We (and they) are going to tell you where the writers come from, but not where they are headed.

Our overarching point in publishing their essays isn’t to crack the code on writing one’s way into Yale or Michigan, as if that were even possible. Instead, it’s to celebrate how meaningful it can be to talk openly about money and write about it in a way that makes a reader stop and wonder about someone else’s life and, just maybe, offers a momentary bit of enlightenment and delight.

One writer this year helps her mother find a new way of bringing joy into the world, while another discovers the cost of merely showing up if you’re a female employee. A young man reflects on his own thrift, while a young woman accepts a gift of ice cream and pays a price for it. Finally, caregiving becomes a source of pride for someone young enough to need supervision herself.

Each of the writers will make you smile, eventually. And this year in particular, we — and they — deserve to.

“She began to cry and told me it was too late for her. I could not bear to watch her struggle between ambition and doubt.”

New York — Bronx High School of Science

My mom finds a baffling delight from drinking from glass, hotel-grade water dispensers. Even when three-day-old lemon rinds float in stale water, drinking from the dispenser remains luxurious. Last year for her birthday, I saved enough to buy a water dispenser for our kitchen counter. However, instead of water, I filled it with handwritten notes encouraging her to chase her dreams of a career.

As I grew older, I noticed that my mom yearned to pursue her passions and to make her own money. She spent years as a stay-at-home mom and limited our household chores as much as she could, taking the burden upon herself so that my brothers and I could focus on our education. However, I could tell from her curiosity of and attitudes toward working women that she envied their financial freedom and the self-esteem that must come with it. When I asked her about working again, she would tell me to focus on achieving the American dream that I knew she had once dreamed for herself.

For years, I watched her effortlessly light up conversations with both strangers and family. Her empathy and ability to understand the needs, wants and struggles of a diverse group of people empowered her to reach the hearts of every person at a dinner table, even when the story itself did not apply to them at all. She could make anyone laugh, and I wanted her to be paid for it. “Mom, have you ever thought about being a stand-up comedian?”

She laughed at the idea, but then she started wondering aloud about what she would joke about and how comedy shows were booked. As she began dreaming of a comedy career, the reality of her current life as a stay-at-home mom sank in. She began to cry and told me it was too late for her. I could not bear to watch her struggle between ambition and doubt.

Her birthday was coming up. Although I had already bought her a present, I realized what I actually wanted to give her was the strength to finally put herself first and to take a chance. I placed little notes of encouragement inside the water dispenser. I asked my family and her closest friends to do the same. These friends told her other friends, and eventually I had grown a network of supporters who emailed me their admiration for my mom. From these emails, I hand wrote 146 notes, crediting all of these supporters that also believed in my mom. Some provided me with sentences, others with five-paragraph-long essays. Yet, each note was an iteration of the same sentiment: “You are hilarious, full of life, and ready to take on the stage.”

On the day of her birthday, my mom unwrapped my oddly shaped present and saw the water dispenser I bought her. She was not surprised, as she had hinted at it for many years. But then as she kept unwrapping, she saw that inside the dispenser there were these little notes that filled the whole thing. As she kept picking out and reading the notes, I could tell she was starting to believe what they said. She started to weep with her hands full of notes. She could not believe the support was real, that everyone knew she had a special gift and believed in her.

Within two months, my mom performed her first set in a New York comedy club. Within a year, my mom booked a monthly headlining show at the nation’s premier comedy club.

I am not sure what happened to the water dispenser. But I have read the notes with my mom countless times. They are framed and line the walls of her new office space that she rented with the profits she made from working as a professional comedian . For many parents, their children’s careers are their greatest accomplishment, but for me my mom’s is mine.

Adrienne Coleman

“The intense Saturday night crucible of the restaurant, with all the unwanted phone numbers, catcalls and wandering hands, jolted me into an unavoidable reckoning with feminism in a professional world.”

Locust Valley, N.Y. — Friends Academy

“Pull down your mask, sweetheart, so I can see that pretty smile.”

I returned a well-practiced smile with just my eyes, as the eight guys started their sixth bottle of Brunello di Montalcino. Their carefree banter bordered on heckling. Ignoring their comments, I stacked dishes heavy with half-eaten rib-eye steaks and truffle risotto. As I brought their plates to the dish pit, I warned my female co-workers about the increasingly drunken rowdiness at Table 44.

This was not the first time I’d felt uncomfortable at work. When I initially presented my résumé to the restaurant manager, he scanned me up and down, barely glancing at the piece of paper. “Well, you’ve got no restaurant experience, but you know, you package well. When can you start?” I felt his eyes burn through me. That’s it? No pretense of a proper interview? “Great,” I said, thrilled at the prospect of earning good money. At the same time, reduced to the way I “package,” I felt degraded.

I thought back to my impassioned feminist speech that won the eighth-grade speech contest. I lingered on the moments that, as the leader of my high school’s F-Word Club, I had redefined feminism for my friends who initially rejected the word as radical. But in these instances, I realized how my notions of equality had been somewhat theoretical — a passion inspired by the words of Malala and R.B.G. — but not yet lived or compromised.

The restaurant has become my real-world classroom, the pecking order transparent and immutable. All the managers, the decision makers, are men. They set the schedules, determine the tip pool, hire pretty young women to serve and hostess, and brazenly berate those below them. The V.I.P. customers are overwhelmingly men, the high rollers who drop thousands of dollars on drinks, and feel entitled to palm me, a 17-year-old, their phone numbers rolled inside a wad of cash.

Angry customers, furious they had mistakenly received penne instead of pane, initially rattled me. I have since learned to assuage and soothe. I’ve developed the confidence to be firm with those who won’t wear a mask or are breathtakingly rude. I take pride in controlling my tables, working 13-hour shifts and earning my own money. At the same time, I’ve struggled to navigate the boundaries of what to accept and where to draw the line. When a staff member continued to inappropriately touch me, I had to summon the courage to address the issue with my male supervisor. Then, it took weeks for the harasser to get fired, only to return to his job a few days later.

When I received my first paycheck, accompanied by a stack of cash tips, I questioned the compromises I was making. In this physical and mental space, I searched for my identity. It was simple to explore gender roles in a classroom or through complex characters in a Kate Chopin novel. My heroes, trailblazing women such as Simone de Beauvoir and Gloria Steinem, had paved the road for me. In my textbooks, their crusading is history. But the intense Saturday night crucible of the restaurant, with all the unwanted phone numbers, catcalls and wandering hands, jolted me into an unavoidable reckoning with feminism in a professional world.

Often, I’ve felt shame; shame that I wasn’t as vocal as my heroes; shame that I feigned smiles and silently pocketed the cash handed to me. Yet, these experiences have been a catalyst for personal and intellectual growth. I am learning how to set boundaries and to use my professional skills as a means of empowerment.

Constantly re-evaluating my definition of feminism, I am inspired to dive deeply into gender studies and philosophy to better pursue social justice. I want to use politics as a forum for activism. Like my female icons, I want to stop the burden of sexism from falling on young women. In this way, I will smile fully — for myself.

Hoseong Nam

“I feel haunted, cursed by the compulsion to diligently subtract pennies from purchases hoping it will eventually pile up into a mere dollar.”

Hanoi, Vietnam — British Vietnamese International School

Despite the loud busking music, arcade lights and swarms of people, it was hard to be distracted from the corner street stall serving steaming cupfuls of tteokbokki — a medley of rice cake and fish cake covered in a concoction of hot sweet sauce. I gulped when I felt my friend tugging on the sleeve of my jacket, anticipating that he wanted to try it. After all, I promised to treat him out if he visited me in Korea over winter break.

The cups of tteokbokki, garnished with sesame leaves and tempura, was a high-end variant of the street food, nothing like the kind from my childhood. Its price of 3,500 Korean won was also nothing like I recalled, either, simply charged more for being sold on a busy street. If I denied the purchase, I could console my friend and brother by purchasing more substantial meals elsewhere. Or we could spend on overpriced food now to indulge in the immediate gratification of a convenient but ephemeral snack.

At every seemingly inconsequential expenditure, I weigh the pros and cons of possible purchases as if I held my entire fate in my hands. To be generously hospitable, but recklessly drain the travel allowance we needed to stretch across two weeks? Or to be budgetarily shrewd, but possibly risk being classified as stingy? That is the question, and a calculus I so dearly detest.

Unable to secure subsequent employment and saddled by alimony complications, there was no room in my dad’s household to be embarrassed by austerity or scraping for crumbs. Ever since I was taught to dilute shampoo with water, I’ve revised my formula to reduce irritation to the eye. Every visit to a fast-food chain included asking for a sheet of discount coupons — the parameters of all future menu choice — and a past receipt containing the code of a completed survey to redeem for a free cheeseburger. Exploiting combinations of multiple promotions to maximize savings at such establishments felt as thrilling as cracking war cryptography, critical for minimizing cash casualties.

However, while disciplined restriction of expenses may be virtuous in private, at outings, even those amongst friends, spending less — when it comes to status — paradoxically costs more. In Asian family-style eating customs, a dish ordered is typically available to everyone, and the total bill, regardless of what you did or did not consume, is divided evenly. Too ashamed to ask for myself to be excluded from paying for dishes I did not order or partake in, I’ve opted out of invitations to meals altogether. I am wary even of meals where the inviting host has offered to treat everyone, fearful that if I only attended “free meals” I would be pinned as a parasite.

Although I can now conduct t-tests to extract correlations between multiple variables, calculate marginal propensities to import and assess whether a developing country elsewhere in the world is at risk of becoming stuck in the middle-income trap, my day-to-day decisions still revolve around elementary arithmetic. I feel haunted, cursed by the compulsion to diligently subtract pennies from purchases hoping it will eventually pile up into a mere dollar, as if the slightest misjudgment in a single buy would tip my family’s balance sheet into irrecoverable poverty.

Will I ever stop stressing over overspending?

I’m not sure I ever will.

But I do know this. As I handed over 7,000 won in exchange for two cups of tteokbokki to share amongst the three of us — my friend, my brother and myself — I am reminded that even if we are not swimming in splendor, we can still uphold our dignity through the generosity of sharing. Restricting one’s conscience only around ruminating which roads will lead to riches risks blindness toward rarer wealth: friends and family who do not measure one’s worth based on their net worth. Maybe one day, such rigorous monitoring of financial activity won’t be necessary, but even if not, this is still enough.

Neeya Hamed

“In America, we possess all the tangible resources. Why is it, then, that we fruitlessly struggle to connect with one another?”

New York — Brooklyn Friends School

Sitting on monobloc chairs of various colors, the Tea Ladies offer healing. Henna-garnished hands deliver four cups of tea, each selling for no more than 10 cents. You may see them as refugees who fled the conflict in western Sudan, passionately working to make ends meet by selling tea. I see them as messengers bearing the secret ingredients necessary to truly welcome others.

On virtually every corner in Sudan, you can find these Tea Ladies. They greet you with open hearts and colorful traditional Sudanese robes while incense fills the air, singing songs of ancient ritual. Their dexterous ability to touch people’s lives starts with the ingredients behind the tea stand: homegrown cardamom, mint and cloves. As they skillfully prepare the best handmade tea in the world, I look around me. Melodies of spirited laughter embrace me, smiles as bright as the afternoon sun. They have a superpower. They create a naturally inviting space where boundless hospitality thrives.

These humble spaces are created by people who do not have much. Meanwhile, in America, we possess all the tangible resources. Why is it, then, that we fruitlessly struggle to connect with one another? On some corners of Mill Basin, Brooklyn, I discovered that some people don’t lead their lives as selflessly.

I never imagined that the monobloc chair in my very own neighborhood would be pulled out from under me. Behind this stand, the ingredients necessary to touch my life were none but one: a friendly encounter gone wrong. While waiting for ice cream, a neighbor offered to pay for me. This deeply offended the shop owner glaring behind the glass; he resented my neighbor’s compassion because his kindness is reserved for those who do not look like me. The encounter was potent enough to extract the resentment brewing within him and compelled him to project that onto me.

“I guess Black lives do matter then,” he snarked.

His unmistakably self-righteous smirk was enough to deny my place in my community. It was enough to turn a beautiful sentiment of kindness into a painfully retentive memory; a constant reminder of what is to come.

Six thousand three hundred and fifty-eight miles away, Sudan suddenly felt closer to me than the ice cream shop around the corner. As I walked home, completely shaken and wondering what I did to provoke him, I struggled to conceptualize the seemingly irrelevant comment. When I walk into spaces, be it my school, the bodega or an ice cream shop, I am conscious of the cardamom mint, and cloves that reside within me; the ingredients, traits and culmination of thoughts that make up who I am, not what I was reduced to by that man. I learned, however, that sometimes the color of my skin speaks before I can.

I realized that the connotations of ignorance in his words weren’t what solely bothered me. My confusion stemmed more from the complete lack of care toward others in his community, a notion completely detached from everything I believe in. For the Tea Ladies and the Sudanese people, it isn’t about whether or not people know their story. It isn’t about solidarity in uniformity, but rather seeing others for who they truly are.

Back in Khartoum, Sudan, I looked at the talents of the Tea Ladies in awe. They didn’t necessarily transform people with their tea, they did something better. Every cup was a silent nod to each person’s dignity.

To the left of me sat a husband and father, complaining about the ridiculous bread prices. To the right of me sat a younger worker who spent his days sweeping the quarters of the water company next door. Independent of who you were or what you knew before you got there, their tea was bridging the gap between lives and empowering true companionship, all within the setting of four chairs and a small plastic table.

Sometimes, that is all it takes.

“I was the memory keeper, privy to the smallest snippets that go forgotten in a lifetime.”

Lafayette, Calif. — Miramonte High School

I was the ultimate day care kid — I never left.

From before I could walk to the start of middle school, Kimmy’s day care was my second home. While my classmates at school went home with stay-at-home moms to swim team and Girl Scouts, I traveled to the town next door where the houses are smaller, the parched lawns crunchy under my feet from the drought.

At school, I stuck out. I was one of the few brown kids on campus. Both of my parents worked full time. We didn’t spend money on tutors when I got a poor test score. I’d never owned a pair of Lululemon leggings, and my mom was not versed in the art of Zumba, Jazzercise or goat yoga. At school, I was a blade of green grass in a California lawn, but at day care, I blended in.

The kids ranged from infants to toddlers. I was the oldest by a long shot, but I liked it that way. As an only child, this was my window into a sibling relationship — well, seven sibling relationships. I played with them till we dropped, held them when they cried, got annoyed when they took my things. And the kids did the same for me. They helped as I sat at the counter drawing, and starred in every play I put on. They watched enviously as I climbed to the top of the plum tree in the backyard.

Kimmy called herself “the substitute mother,” but she never gave herself enough credit. She listened while I gushed about my day, held me when I had a fever and came running when I fell out of the tree. From her, I learned to feed a baby a bottle, and recognize when a child was about to walk. I saw dozens of first steps, heard hundreds of first words, celebrated countless birthdays. Most importantly, I learned to let the bottle go when the baby could feed herself.

And I collected all the firsts, all the memories and stories of each kid, spinning elaborate tales to the parents who walked through the door at the end of the day. I was the memory keeper, privy to the smallest snippets that go forgotten in a lifetime.

I remember when Alyssa asked me to put plum tree flowers in her pigtails, and the time Arlo fell into the toilet. I remember the babies we bathed in the kitchen sink, and how Kimmy saved Gussie’s life with the Heimlich maneuver. I remember the tears at “graduation,” when children left for preschool, and each time our broken family mended itself when new kids arrived.

When I got home, I wrote everything down in my pink notebook. Jackson’s first words, the time Lolly fell off the couch belting “Let It Go.” Each page titled with a child’s name and the moments I was afraid they wouldn’t remember.

I don’t go to day care anymore. Children don’t hide under the table, keeping me company while I do homework. Nursing a baby to sleep is no longer part of my everyday routine, and running feet don’t greet me when I return from school. But day care is infused in me. I can clean a room in five minutes, and whip up lunch for seven. I remain calm in the midst of chaos. After taming countless temper tantrums, I can work with anyone. I continue to be a storyteller.

When I look back, I remember peering down from the top of the plum tree. I see a tiny backyard with patches of dead grass. But I also see Kimmy and my seven “siblings.” I see the beginnings of lives, and a place that quietly shapes the children who run across the lawn below. The baby stares curiously up at me from the patio, bouncing in her seat. She will be walking soon, Kimmy says. As will I.

Ron Lieber has been the Your Money columnist since 2008 and has written five books, most recently “The Price You Pay for College.” More about Ron Lieber

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Times Higher Education: UAE universities score highly on Arab league table

125 universities in the arab world were listed in the inaugural regional rankings.

Khalifa University ranked number six in the region in the inaugural Times Higher Education Arab University Rankings.

Two UAE universities have made the top 10 of a regional higher education league table.

The Arab University Rankings, published by Times Higher Education on Tuesday, ranked Abu Dhabi's Khalifa University sixth out of 125 universities, while the United Arab Emirates University in Al Ain took seventh.

King AbdulAziz University in Saudi Arabia claimed the overall top spot to be ranked the region's best higher education institution. Five other Saudi universities also made the top 10.

Four out of the top five higher education institutions are in Saudi Arabia. Universities in Qatar, Lebanon and Egypt also feature in the top 10.

The new Times Higher Education Arab University Rankings ranked universities in 14 countries across the region for the first time based on a methodology including new regional measures on reputation and collaboration.

Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer at Times Higher Education, said: “While Saudi Arabia dominates the top five, to see five countries represented in the top 10 and 11 in the top 50 is testament to the strength of higher education across the Arab world regardless of a university’s size, status or research output.”

One hundred of the 125 ranked institutions are public universities, while the remaining are private.

Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Kuwait, Tunisia and Morocco are represented in the top 50, with Palestine, Iraq and Algeria claiming places in the top 100.

Duncan Ross, chief data officer at Times Higher Education, said: "Saudi Arabia is clearly investing strongly in its Higher Education sector.

"Saudi Arabia is also the second most represented country within the rankings with 22 institutions overall, so it’s perhaps not surprising that they are doing very strongly.

"The Emirati universities are also very strong, as is recognised in last year’s World University Rankings.

"Looking broadly at UAE universities, they tend to have slightly lower average citations than Saudi universities, but have slightly stronger reputation.

"Emirati universities could build stronger research networks, both within and outside the Arab world – this internationalisation will help to support and grow other metrics."

The universities are judged across 16 performance indicators in five areas: teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff, students and research); and society (knowledge transfer and impact).

Universities must supply data to be included in the ranking and need to have published more than 500 research publications between 2016 and 2020.

The new methodology used for this table meant the results included 55 ranked universities that did not meet the criteria to be included in the Times Higher Education's latest World University Rankings, which require institutions to publish a minimum of 1,000 academic papers over a rolling five-year period and teach undergraduates.

In April , a Saudi Arabian university was ranked the best in the world for its efforts to achieve gender equality.

Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, described as the largest women's university in the world, topped the table released by UK magazine Times Higher Education .

Khalifa University was the first university in the UAE to rank among the top 200 of a global higher education league table in the alternative 2022 QS World University Rankings.

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Johns Hopkins No. 13 in 'Times Higher Education' World University Rankings

Publication evaluates more than 1,600 universities from around the world based on teaching, research, citations, knowledge transfer, and international outlook metrics.

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Johns Hopkins University ranks No. 13 in the annual Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2022 , which were published online Wednesday and include 1,662 colleges and universities from around the globe.

Johns Hopkins share the No. 13 ranking this year with Penn. JHU was ranked 12th globally by THE last year and has been 12th or 13th in each of the past five rankings cycles.

Hopkins also ranks No. 10 overall among 183 U.S. schools, according to THE .

The University of Oxford tops this year's world rankings, followed by Harvard, Caltech, and Stanford. MIT and Cambridge are tied for fifth.

The Times Higher Education list, published each year since 2004, is among the world's most influential rankings of colleges and universities, which are judged based on 13 key performance indicators grouped into five thematic areas:

• Teaching, which examines the reputation of the school's academic instruction as well as student-to-teacher ratios, the ratio of doctoral degrees to bachelor degrees awarded, the number of faculty who hold doctorates, and the income of academic staff
• Research, which analyzes the number of publications per staff member at an institution, the research income of the school, and the reputation of that research
• Citations, which examines the school's research influence
• Industry income, which measures knowledge transfer by quantifying the income generated by research partnerships with private industries
• International outlook, which weighs the percentage of international staff, students, and co-authorship to determine a school's ability to attract students, faculty, and staff from around the world

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World University Rankings 2024 by subject: business and economics

The business and economics subject table uses the same trusted and rigorous performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024, but the methodology has been recalibrated to suit the individual fields.

The ranking assesses universities by their performance in the following disciplines: business and management, accounting and finance, and economics and econometrics.

This year’s table includes 909 universities, up from 870 last year.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University hold on to the top two spots, as they did last year. China’s Peking University moves up five places to 10th position and is the only new entrant in the top 10.

Meanwhile, the US’ Cornell University is the only new addition to the top 20.

The top 50 sees the highest representation from the US (19). The UK’s institutions are next in line with six, but China follows closely with five institutions.

Fudan University, which ranks joint 42nd, is the country’s newest addition to this group.

Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia and Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan, in the 301-400 band, are the highest-ranking new entrants in this table.

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The UWI’s Stellar Leadership Confirmed: Times Higher Education 2021 Impact Rankings

The UWI’s Stellar Leadership Confirmed:

Times Higher Education 2021 Impact Rankings.

The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica W.I. Tuesday, April 27, 2021. — The Times Higher Education (THE) has released its long-anticipated, prestigious 2021 Global University Rankings for the category—national, regional and international “Impact”. The best universities are ranked using “Impact” as the criterion for measuring their performance excellence.

The rankings for 2021 are more competitive than prior years. In 2020, 768 universities were ranked from 85 countries. In 2021, the number increased to 1,115 universities from 98 countries and cities, an increase of 45%.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles made the announcement and discussed the University’s performance in these latest rankings during a media conference held earlier today. Joined by Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs, Dr Luz Longsworth and Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic, Industry Partnerships and Planning, Professor Densil Williams, he shared details of how The UWI has consistently top performed in Times Higher Education’s rankings since 2018, as well as the University’s strategy for pursuing advancement of the SDGs in the region.

The  Times Higher Education  Impact Rankings are based on universities’ performance across the spectrum of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Universities that met the merit bar for rankings are assessed using four of the SDGs. They are evaluated using data that highlight their performance in three areas: leadership and stewardship; research output and teaching and advocacy.

Of the four SDGs, only one, SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals, is compulsory, while the three other SDGs are open choices. The UWI chose: SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being); SDG 5 (Gender Equality) and SDG 13 (Climate Action). The UWI’s relative performance in these four categories further enhanced its international standing, consolidating its reputation as a global leader. It maintained its status as the only university in the English-speaking Caribbean to make the global elite ranking.

According to UNESCO and the International Association of Universities, 20,000 of the 30,586 universities in the world from 196 countries are officially accredited. The UWI was included in the top 1,115 of these universities for world SDG “Impact Ranking”. Using UNESCO’s base data, the Times impact ranking positions The UWI in the top 2.5% of the best universities globally in 2021.

This impressive result confirms that the strategic leadership and stewardship of The UWI, and its scholastic research output and advocacy, were internationally monitored and measured and adjudged to be excellent. They reflect the excellence of UWI researchers in the SDG categories, and support the effectiveness of The UWI’s global partnering strategies.

They also give context to the United Nations’ selection of our Vice-Chancellor as a higher education strategist to provide visioning for the global university sector up to 2030 and beyond.

“THE continues to affirm The UWI’s stellar performance as a reputable higher educational institution on the global stage.   This is a testament that, through the work of our scholars, administrators, and students; and with the support of our governmental partners, plurilateral agencies and the regional private sector, The UWI continues to add significant value to the regional and global community,” stated Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Densil Williams, The UWI’s lead strategic planner.

Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs, Dr Luz Longsworth, noted that “The UWI’s emergence in the global higher education arena is the basis of its future financial sustainability. Without a respected ranking status there will be no competitive success in winning international students, and securing substantial research grants; and critically, international donor funding will be minimal without top class international partnerships.”

These assessments were supported by Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, who said that “through international partnerships universities are positioned to develop innovative research, mobilize science, and distribute knowledge in order to impact policies for economic growth, social inclusion and job creation.”

He added further, “The UWI is here to serve the development of our region as its top priority. In a community that is vulnerable to existential threats—climate change, chronic diseases, and COVID-19—the impact of universities such as ours has never been more critical. This global ranking confirms that The UWI is at once excellent and ethical.”

A recorded broadcast of today’s Virtual Media Conference hosted by Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles : A conversation on The UWI’s stellar leadership confirmed by Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings 2021, can be accessed here.

About The UWI

The UWI has been and continues to be a pivotal force in every aspect of Caribbean development; residing at the centre of all efforts to improve the well-being of people across the region.

From a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948, The UWI is today an internationally respected, global university with near 50,000 students and five campuses: Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados, Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda and its Open Campus , and 10 global centres in partnership with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe .

The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Culture, Creative and Performing Arts, Food and Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Sport . As the Caribbean’s leading university, it possesses the largest pool of Caribbean intellect and expertise committed to confronting the critical issues of our region and wider world.

Ranked among the top universities in the world, by the most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education , The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists. In 2020, it earned ‘Triple 1st’ rankings—topping the Caribbean; and in the top in the tables for Latin America and the Caribbean , and global Golden Age universities (between 50 and 80 years old).  The UWI is also featured among the top universities on THE’s Impact Rankings for its response to the world’s biggest concerns, outlined in the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Good Health and Wellbeing; Gender Equality and Climate Action.

For more, visit www.uwi.edu .

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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