Aarhus University has moved up forty-two places in the latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.

2011.10.12 | AU Kommunikation

The university thus has a placing as number one hundred and twenty-five in the world and number forty-four in Europe. This is just the second year that the ranking list has appeared in its new format.

The University of Copenhagen has a placing as number one hundred and thirty-five, while the Technical University of Denmark is ranked as number one hundred and seventy-seven in this year’s list.

The Times Higher Education (THE) rankings are the last of the year’s three major ranking lists, and Aarhus University has managed to record progress in all of them. In the Shanghai ranking list, the university moved up twelve places and is now number eighty-six, while it advanced five places in the QS World University Rankings to a position as number seventy-nine.

THE stands out from the other ranking lists by taking into account different academic traditions and geographical conditions. For example, scientific articles are on average more frequently cited by peers in natural science than in social science. The ranking list makes an allowance for this, just as the universities’ research revenues are adjusted in relation to the purchasing power in each university’s home country.