The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), a London-based newspaper, recently released its annual World University Rankings for 2006 in which Hopkins saw a four-spot jump from 27th in 2005 to 23rd this year.
Johns Hopkins received one of the lowest peer review scores -- 49 points compared to 93, 82, and 72 earned by Harvard, Stanford and Yale universities respectively. However, the University earned considerably more points in the student/faculty ratio category -- 65 points compared to 56, 64, and 61 at Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford universities respectively.
The ranking, which has been published since November of 2004, has been typically been dominated by American and British universities -- with Harvard topping the list, followed by Cambridge and Oxford universities.
John O'Leary, editor of THES, shared with the BBC, "The presence of so many American and British universities at the top of the ranking owes something to the dominance of English as a world language in academic life as well as in business, but by every measure these are outstanding institutions."
The positions of American universities differed considerably in the international ranking compared with the U.S. News National Universities ranking.
For example, Princeton University, which topped U.S. News this year, was ranked 10th while the University of California, Berkeley, which was 21st in U.S. News, was ranked eighth in the world by THES.
