In the area of cooperation with industry, TU/e has for years been among the international frontrunners. With the exception of two and three years ago, when the relative score ended up at a remarkably low 57 of the 100 percent because incorrect data had been submitted, the university always scores highly for this element in the THE ranking. Last year, and similarly from 2011 to 2015, the highest score was achieved. In other years (since 2010), the score has always been higher than 99%.

This year the relative score for ‘industry income’ sits at 99.6%. Purely because no fewer than eleven competitors scored the full 100 percent, this means that TU/e instantly tumbles out of the top 10 and lands in shared seventeenth position, among the more than 1250 universities assessed. TU/e also has a relatively high number of part-time professors connected in some way with industry. For the rest, TU/e scores very well on the number of published papers per academic staff member and the percentage of international students and employees.

That TU/e drops in the general ranking is largely attributable to the diminished citation score (a fall of six points on a maximum score of a hundred) and a lower rating for reputation. The Netherland continues to do well across the board, however, in the THE, as one of the ten countries with more than ten universities in the top 200. In 58th place, Delft is the best Dutch university and this year outstrips the UvA and Wageningen.

Oxford

Last year's top three remains unchanged. University of Oxford again holds the top spot, followed by Cambridge University and Stanford University. As always, the United States continues to be the best represented country, but the striking rise of Chinese universities in recent years continues this year. The highest position for an Asian university is held for the first time by Tsingua University, which occupies 22nd place. China comes in fourth when it comes to best-represented countries.

The ranking produced by ‘Times Higher’ is, together with the QS and ARWU Rankings, the most popular and most consulted indicator worldwide among prospective students, and is highly influential among international policymakers and government authorities. The ranking is compiled based on the reputation of universities (derived from questionnaires submitted by 20,000 respondents) combined with the assessment of their academic research, education, cooperation with industry, and internationalization.

Source:  World University Rankings 2019 Times Higher Education