Times Higher Education World University Rankings have also been translated into World University Rankings and published by Times Higher Education.

The ranking is updated once a year, ranking the best universities in the world (involving nearly 90 countries and regions) with five categories of 13 indicators, including teaching, research, paper citation, internationalization and industrial income.

Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings, U.S. News World University Rankings and Soft Science academic ranking of world universities are recognized as the four authoritative world university rankings, but they are also controversial because of commercial factors and bias towards English-speaking countries.

It is worth noting that before June 2009 10, Times Higher Education had been cooperating with QS to jointly publish the world university ranking, which was called "THE-QS World University Ranking"; After that, they gave up cooperation and began to publish independent world university rankings from 20 10.

In 20 10, Times Higher Education began to cooperate with Thomson Reuters Group (now known as Kelweian) to launch the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.