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INTRODUCTION
“THERE IS NO WORLD
DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION, BUT TIMES
HIGHER EDUCATION IS
DOING A REAL SERVICE
TO UNIVERSITIES BY
DEVELOPING DEFINITIONS
AND DATA THAT CAN BE
USED FOR COMPARISON
AND UNDERSTANDING.”
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SDG IMPACT
DASHBOARD 14
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REPUTATION
DASHBOARD 10
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THE CONSULTANCY
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WHY SUBSCRIBE
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This is product pack 1 of 4 covering THE’s DataPoints products.
You can nd information relating to the rest of our range through
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For 50 years, Times Higher Education (THE) has been a leading
global authority in higher education around the world through
powerful insights, analysis and news. Since launching the World
University Rankings in 2004, THE has collected more than 9 million
individual datapoints from 3,500+ universities in over 100 countries
and regions, creating an unrivalled proprietary dataset and
establishing THE as a world leader in higher education analytics.
Coupled with a website reach of more than 30 million annual users,
THE is best-placed to support you with understanding and achieving
your strategic goals.
Trusted by governments, higher education institutions and
organisations, our solutions have been specically developed
to inform, measure and support your strategic and tactical goals,
from data benchmarking to marketing and recruitment,
both domestically and on the world stage.
LYDIA SNOVER
Director of institutional research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Times Higher Education has a fty-
year heritage of analysing the trends
in worldwide higher education.
WHY
SUBSCRIBE
TO THE
DATAPOINTS
Our award-winning journalism
now sits alongside our data
expertise, where data from our
rankings, supplemented by
extensive additional insight,
provides a unique understanding
of how universities are
responding to the greatest
challenges of society.
Our three rankings series – the
World University Rankings, which
focus on research intensive
institutions, the Teaching Rankings
that explore student engagement
with learning, and the Impact
Rankings that uniquely explore
how universities are responding to
the UN Sustainable Development
Goals, provide a huge and
explorable global dataset.
This data looks at over 2,500
institutions from more than 95
countries. Supported by extensive
numeric and bibliometric data
this now also includes over
110,000 pieces of direct evidence
of university activities. All of
this is gathered in a consistent
and eective way through our
multinational team of data editors,
ensuring that it is consistent
and relevant.
Duncan Ross
Chief Data Ocer
- THE
Our three rankings series
– the World University
Rankings, which focus on
research intensive institutions,
the Teaching Rankings that
explore student engagement
with learning, and the Impact
Rankings that uniquely
explore how universities are
responding to the UN
Sustainable Development
Goals, provide a huge and
explorable global dataset.
Higher Education Institutions
can use this comprehensive
international dataset – through our
DataPoints tool – to explore their
competitive environment, evaluate
strategies for cooperation and
growth, and identify strengths and
weaknesses of their oerings. This
analysis can be further supported
and developed by our dedicated
data scientists and consultants.
The rankings, and their data, are
ideal starting points for institutions,
governments and the wider world
to come to an understanding of
the opportunities in the global
higher education sector. Who are
the strongest universities?
Which universities are
demonstrating their leadership
in sustainability, research, and
teaching? Where can organisations
grow, and who can they work with?
Above all we look forward to
working together with our partners
across higher education as we
develop and expand our work
and data sets, to ensure that
universities can continue to play
their vital roles in society.
2,500
THIS DATA LOOKS AT OVER
INSTITUTIONS
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WORLD UNIVERSITY
RANKING DASHBOARD
Access the full dataset behind
THE’s inuential World University Rankings.
Understanding institutional
performance is essential to
advance in university rankings,
and against strategic goals.
THE DataPoints WUR Dashboard
provides visibility of this
performance in a global context.
Arming you with the right data
and tools WUR Dashboard
helps you identify and analyse
strengths, weaknesses and
critically, areas of opportunity, to
support the strategic development
of your institution and ensure you
remain globally competitive. With
automation of the most time-
consuming tasks and outputs
presented in a user-friendly format,
WUR Dashboard takes the hard
work out of data collection and
analysis, leaving you more time
to focus on strategic success.
FEATURES OF THE WUR
DASHBOARD:
Powerful datasets from
2,000+ institutions around
the world
Benchmark against up to 25
universities at any one time
Global, regional and country-
level distributions
Institutional-level data
across 31-subject areas
Cross-metric comparison
Quarterly bibliometric
analysis
Peer group analysis
Year on Year analysis
Data download capabilities
Access to your WUR ranking
result one week before the
ocial release
93
2,000
COUNTRIES
& REGIONS
UNIVERSITIES
RANKINGS DATA
EXCLUSIVE
TO THE
DATAPOINTS
Identify and analyse strengths, weaknesses and critically,
areas of opportunity, to support the strategic development
of your institution.
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SUBJECT AREAS
AVAILABLE
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Northwestern University is one of the leading private
research universities in the US. It can trace its origins
back to 1851. It has campuses in Chicago and
Doha, Qatar and boasts the 9th largest endowment
in the US.
WORLD UNIVERSITY
RANKING DASHBOARD
CASE STUDY
How is DataPoints informing your
planning and strategy?
“DataPoints informs our
strategies as it gives us a
better global perspective of
how the university is perceived
than we had previously.
For both the recruitment of
research sta, and for getting
a better understanding of the
international graduate student
world, it is useful for us to learn
how people outside the US
actually perceive who we are
and what we are strong in.”
Are there any unexpected
benets of the WUR data?
“We have noticed increased
conversation among
colleagues, and a deeper
understanding about how
important the global picture
is. I think the more accessible
this type of information is,
and the more we share it
internally, the more it prompts
questions – and that is a sign
of a healthy organisation.”
How have you utilised the WUR
Dashboard data?
“It gives me the actual values
for Northwestern versus our
peers, so it helps you see really
specic information – like what
their doctorates-awarded-to-
academicsta ratio is, and how
it compares with ours. More
importantly, it allows you to see
how tightly bunched we may be
with certain peers on certain
measures – that is critical
with any kind of assessment:
what is the clustering that is
occurring, and how far away
is the next institution behind
you, and the next one ahead?
DataPoints provides that. The
number-one advantage is time.
The information is there, it is
available. You can pull it up in
a meeting and show in a chart
where Northwestern stands
across its peer group.”
DataPoints has been a
vehicle to help us develop
some strategies for
improving our World
Ranking. It lets us delve
into the areas of research
and teaching reputation
where we can improve,
and also tells us where we
are performing very well...
DataPoints has helped new
management in visualising
that information. It denitely
saves us time.
DataPoints is useful for the
diagnosis of both our
strengths and weaknesses.
It provides potential solutions
as well. We identied a
positive correlation between
citation and international
research collaboration
through our DataPoints
analysis of Yonsei and its
peer institutions. Yonsei’s
leadership has been working
to promote international
research collaboration for the
purpose of strengthening our
internal research ecosystem.
YONSEI UNIVERSITY
Seoul, Korea
1M+
VOTES DATA FROM
OUR ACADEMIC
REPUTATION SURVEY
70,000
DATA FROM
RESPONDENTS IN
OUR SURVEY
BIBLIOMETRIC
INDICATORS
131,000+
RICH KPI DATA FROM
GLOBAL
INSTITUTIONS
1,900+
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Understand the strength of
your university’s brand and
reputation, globally.
THE’s Reputation Dashboard
remains the industry leading
source of intelligence on how
your university is perceived
among leading academics
from around the world,
based on THE’s annual global
academic survey.
With proprietary data from
approximately 70,000 survey
respondents, benets include:
REPUTATION
DASHBOARD
Understanding the strength of
your brand across the globe
Knowing which subjects
you’re best known for
Analysing peer performance
Information to inform
marketing resource and
spend
Insights into inuences on
academics’ voting
Visibility of voter proles
FEATURES OF REPUTATION
DASHBOARD:
Deep dive into data on your
reputation as perceived by
published scholars around
the world
Ascertain your strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities
and threats
Country-level trends: What
factors are important when
voters are considering
universities in particular
countries? And what factors
inuence voters, country-by-
country?
Demographics: How do
voting patterns change
by voter age, role, media
preference and subject?
First-hand experience: How
do voters respond when
asked which institutions
excel in their eld in their
direct experience working
with them?
Raw votes: Weighted and
unweighted reputation
votes, including vote share
percentage.
These features are augmented
with analysis that identies voter
prole, including demographics,
location, discipline and other key
characteristics, allowing you to
tailor your institution’s strategy
more eectively.
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1 MILLION
SURVEY RESPONSES
VOTES CAST
OVER
2,500
INSTITUTIONS
SUBJECT
AREAS
DOWNLOAD
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RAW
DATA
VOTES FOR
NATIONAL
VS.
INTERNATIONAL
ACCESS TO:
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Founded in 1876, the University
of Bristol is a redbrick research
university located in south-west
England. The university boasts
strong connections with
hundreds of employers,
ranging from small businesses
to worldwide organisations.
REPUTATION
DASHBOARD
CASE STUDY
How have the data helped to
inform your strategies?
We purchased this database
because we want to use the data
and insights to help us shape
our strategies and how we run
campaigns. When it comes to
research marketing and how
to share our research with
audiences around the world, we
always want a very bespoke way
to identify a specic market and
identify the way to reach them
as every market is dierent. That
is how this database and in-
depth information helps us on a
project-to-project basis.
Are there any particularly useful
features of this product?
The voter analysis feature is
particularly useful as it provides
insights into the academics,
who are a dicult audience to
market to. Student recruitment
marketing has been ne-tuned
for a long time. However, when
it comes to reaching out to
academics, this is a tougher
stream to tackle and using the
DataPoints [reputation data] has
helped us to inform strategies.
Have there been any surprises
from your use of the database?
It has helped us to identify
smaller countries where our
reputation is good that we may
have otherwise overlooked.
The data then help us to delve
into why this may be the case
and spark conversations and
collaborations with institutions
we wouldn’t have necessarily
worked with.
What was your intended usage
of this product?
Understanding what we need
to do to improve our ranking,
especially our international
ranking, and reputation, has
become strategically very
important for us. THE’s [ranking]
is denitely one that our target
audiences and academic
networks would consult.
Prospective students do rely on
these so that’s a very important
source of information for them,
especially for overseas students.
[Datapoints] is a very powerful tool
and has helped inform strategies.
MIAO HE, Research Marketing Manager
Data help to spark conversations
and collaborations.
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SDG IMPACT
DASHBOARD
Powerful data insights and analytics
to support success in sustainability
THE’s SDG Impact Dashboard
is a new benchmarking
tool designed to support
universities’ sustainability
eorts by decoding and
analysing the data behind
THE’s Impact Rankings, based
on the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals.
Through rich institutional
performance data and insights
into best practice regionally
and globally, understand how
to improve your university’s
position in the rankings, recognise
opportunities and threats, identify
possible collaborators and leaders
in each eld and even inform future
sustainability strategies.
With user-friendly benchmarking
and competitor analysis tools
specically designed for strategic
planners, easily access tactical
guidance and identify priorities at
a global or domestic level, create
summary reports to share with
internal stakeholders or export
data to use in your own analysis
and tools.
FEATURES OF THE SDG
IMPACT DASHBOARD:
Access to all underlying
data behind the THE Impact
Rankings
At-a-glance insights into
global and domestic
institutional performance
Insights into contribution of
individual metrics to scores
in each SDG
At-a-glance performance
analysis versus peers around
the world
Data export functionality
Summary report generation
Access raw data and the
evaluation of policies and
other evidence
1,200
+
PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES
ACCESS ALL
17 SDGS
AND
220
INDIVIDUAL
INDICATORS
EVIDENCE
EVALUATION
INCLUDING LINKS TO PUBLIC EXAMPLES
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Empowering universities around the world to achieve
their sustainability goals.
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SDG IMPACT
DASHBOARD
CASE STUDY
A top-ranked institution in the 2021
THE Impact Rankings has worked
with the THE team using the SDG
Impact Dashboard to continue to
make signicant contributions to
the UN’s Sustainable Development
Goals. It currently ranks rst in the
world for two of the individual SDGs.
How did the SDG Impact
Dashboard help you?
The SDGID was a guiding tool
for us, especially because it
was our rst time submitting
to the Impact Rankings. We
had some situations where we
came across metrics where
we thought we didn’t have the
required evidence, but when
we looked at the Dashboard we
were able to better understand
what was being asked of the
institution for that metric. This
was a very useful feature. The
Dashboard helped to clear up
some of the ambiguity that we
found in some of the metrics,
so it was really helpful.
Has the SDGID promoted
change within your university?
There was a momentum
and excitement around the
rankings process. It was truly
an integrated, cross-campus
learning opportunity and I
think it inspired our senior
administrators to think about
what we can do with these
data. This rankings process is
part of an overall institutional
strategy that will be created to
intertwine alignment with these
global goals into our day-to-
day work.
How have you utilised the
product to inform your own
strategies?
Using the dashboard to
understand best practice,
best-in-class programmes and
approaches to the SDGs will
help to inform how we move
forward in developing our own
SDG initiatives.
Has this product helped to form/
nurture any relationships?
We are part of a global
university network, and there’s
been a lot of interest within
that network around working
more on the SDGs. We are
going to do an analysis of
how these partner universities
have approached the SDGs,
based on the evidence in the
Dashboard, so that within our
network we can strategise on
how to work together. Many
universities are members of
networks, and I think this tool
can be valuable for guring out
how these networks can better
align on eorts.
[Among domestic peers], a
lot of us are submitting to the
Impact Rankings. The question
has been raised about whether
we can use these data to see
where we can build bridges
and even in some of the
reporting that universities do
to the government, in terms of
contributing and alignment to
the SDGs.
40,000+
LINKS TO EVIDENCE
ON BEST PRACTICE
IN SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
30,000+
BIBLIOMETRIC
INDICATORS
ACROSS
17 SDGS
220 KPIS
INSIGHT INTO
PERFORMANCE DATA
FROM
GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS
1,300+
It was truly an
integrated,
cross-campus
learning
opportunity.
The SDGID
was a guiding
tool for us.
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Supporting global higher education
leaders to achieve sustainable
growth and strategic impact.
THE Consultancy provides
strategic, data-driven
guidance to universities and
governments globally. Building
on our vast sector expertise
and long history, we support
our partners to build eective
and sustainable strategies
aligned to their unique mission.
Understanding that all
organisations are unique, we
combine proprietary and primary
data to design customised
solutions. Our consultancy practice
harnesses THE’s strong network
in the global higher education
sector, combining engagement
of global stakeholders within our
analyses. Oering both short-term
and long-term solutions, our expert
consultants diagnose areas of
strength, and provide evidence-
based guidance on implementation
of recommendations
for improvement.
THE is a trusted authority on higher education. This is why
the University of Wollongong engaged THE to work with us
to gain insights into strategies that will build global visibility
and awareness for our research, education and brand.
Our consultant added value to our strategy development
through his ability to present clear and insightful data about
our current positioning and recommended practical
strategies to take to market. THE is a great business
partner and can be trusted to bounce o ideas in a
respected and considered way. I recommend THE
to anyone needing strategic marketing advice.
THE
CONSULTANCY
SERVICES
Elizabeth Shepherd
Managing Director
– THE Consultancy
Contact [email protected] for more information
INSTITUTIONAL
RANKINGS
PERFORMANCE
ANALYSIS
GLOBAL
ACADEMIC
REPUTATION ANALYSIS
WHAT WE DO:
COMPETITOR
ANALYSIS
STRATEGY
EVALUATION
INTERNATIONALISATION
STRATEGY
RESEARCH
NETWORK
ANALYSIS
STAKEHOLDER
PERCEPTIONS
ANALYSIS
BRAND
HEALTH
CHECK
EMILY OSBORNE
Director, Strategic Marketing and Communications
University Of Wollongong, Australia
Contact [email protected] for more information
Some of our valued THE DataPoints
clients around the world:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins University
University of Toronto
University of Hong Kong
University of Melbourne
The University of Tokyo
University of British Columbia
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Australian National University
The University of Queensland
Seoul National University
Monash University
Fudan University
Kyoto University
The Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology
UNSW Sydney
Zhejiang University
McMaster University
University of Glasgow
University of Montreal
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology (KAIST)
Arizona State University
Radboud University Nijmegen
University of Auckland
University of Exeter
Trinity College Dublin
City University of Hong Kong
Yonsei University
University of Ottawa
SUSTech
Northeastern University
University of East Anglia
POSTECH
King Abdulaziz University
Queensland University of Technology
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Aalborg University
Alfaisal University
University of Calgary
University of Dundee
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Korea University
Queen’s University Belfast
RCSI University of Medicine and
Health Sciences
University of Reading
Simon Fraser University
University of Surrey
Taipei Medical University
Tilburg University
Tohoku University
Western University
Dalhousie University
University of Southern Denmark
Stellenbosch University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University
China Medical University, Taiwan
University of Essex
HSE University
Indian Institute of Science
Nankai University
Osaka University
Peter the Great St Petersburg
Polytechnic University
Qatar University
Brunel University London
Hanyang University
Khalifa University
King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals
University of KwaZulu-Natal
United Arab Emirates University
University of Cyprus
Hong Kong Baptist University
University of Ibadan
Southern Medical University
Ton Duc Thang University
University of Waikato
Bucharest University of Economic
Studies
Dublin City University
Florida International University
Hokkaido University
University of Lagos
Plekhanov Russian University of
Economics
Sabancı University
Victoria University of Wellington
Covenant University
Eötvös Loránd University
Istanbul Technical University
University of Latvia
Mae Fah Luang University
Mahidol University
Makerere University
Monterrey Institute of Technology
National Cheng Kung University
(NCKU)
National Taiwan Normal University
University of Nicosia
Open University of Catalonia
Tallinn University of Technology
