Johns Hopkins University sits at No. 17 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2027, which were released today and compare 2,297 colleges and universities in 118 countries and territories around the globe.
Times Higher Education measures colleges and universities based on 18 key performance indicators in the following five categories:
- Teaching (where Hopkins ranks No. 22), which considers the overall quality of a university's learning environment and its commitment to supporting its students. Factors considered include teaching reputation, student-staff ratio, and institutional income.
- Research Environment (where Hopkins ranks No. 20), which examines the productivity, reputation, and income of an institution's research.
- Research Quality (where Hopkins ranks No. 34), which analyzes the strength, excellence, and influence of a university's research, as well as how often that research is cited.
- Industry (where Hopkins is tied at No. 1), which weighs a university's ability to support industry and the economy through its innovations, as well as its ability to attract funding from the commercial marketplace. It also includes the number of patents that cite research from the university.
- International Outlook, which judges a university's ability to attract students and faculty internationally, as well as the institution's relevance on the world stage. This includes the proportion of international staff, students, and co-authorship at a university.
Among these key performance indicators, Hopkins was one of 41 universities to receive the maximum score of 100 in the Industry category, which includes measures of innovation, knowledge-transfer, and commercial funding. JHU also earned high marks in the categories of medical and health (tied at No. 5), life sciences (tied at No. 9), and social sciences (No. 23).
Johns Hopkins has regularly been ranked among the world's top universities by Times Higher Education. Out of 171 United States schools included in the rankings this year, Hopkins is No. 10, the same spot it held the past two years.
The University of Oxford topped the Times Higher Education rankings for the 11th year in a row, with MIT at No. 2, Princeton and Stanford tied at No. 3, and Cambridge at No. 5.
Earlier this month, Johns Hopkins was ranked No. 9 nationally in U.S. News & World Report's annual undergraduate rankings, where it has claimed a top-10 spot each year since 2019.
