UW goes up in top 50 World University Rankings

MADISON, Wis. — The University of Wisconsin-Madison has gone up in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, according to a release.

This year, UW was ranked 43, compared to 45th last year, officials said. For the second year in a row, UW ranked 23rd in the United States out of 157 institutions.

Times Higher Ed ranks 1,000 institutions from 77 countries, according to the release. It judges research-intensive universities in five categories: teaching (the learning environment), research (volume, income and reputation), citations (research influence), international outlook (staff, students and research) and industry income (knowledge transfer).

For this year’s ranking, UW-Madison’s research score increased from 71.4 (out of a possible 100) to 73.9, officials said.

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