Johns Hopkins University is ranked No. 16 in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2025, which were unveiled this week. The rankings compare 2,092 institutions from 115 countries and territories, evaluating them based on 18 key performance indicators designed to assess teaching, research quality, and research influence, among other factors.
Among these key performance indicators, Hopkins was one of 34 universities to receive the maximum score of 100 in the "Industry" categories, which includes measures of innovation, knowledge-transfer, and commercial funding.
Johns Hopkins has regularly been ranked among the world's top universities by Times Higher Education and was 15th overall in each of the previous two years. Out of 174 U.S. schools included in the rankings this year, Hopkins is No. 10, according to THE.
Oxford University topped the Times Higher Education rankings for the ninth year in a row, with MIT, Harvard, Princeton, and Cambridge rounding out the top five.
Times Higher Education measures colleges and universities based on 18 key performance indicators in the following five categories:
- Teaching (where Hopkins ranked No. 22), which considers the overall quality of a university's learning environment, as well as how committed it is to supporting its students. Factors considered include teaching reputation, student-staff ratio, and institutional income.
- Research Environment (where Hopkins ranked No. 18), which examines the productivity, reputation, and income of an institution's research.
- Research Quality (where Hopkins ranked No. 21), which analyzes the strength, excellence, and influence of a university's research, as well as how often that research is cited.
- Industry (where Hopkins ranked No. 1), which weighs a university's ability to support industry and the economy through its innovations, as well as its ability to attract funding from the commercial marketplace. It also includes the number of patents that cite research from the university.
- International Outlook (where Hopkins ranked No. 219), which judges a university's ability to attract students and faculty internationally, as well as the institution's relevance on the world stage. This includes the proportion of international staff, students, and co-authorship at a university.
Earlier this month, Johns Hopkins was ranked No. 6 nationally in U.S. News & World Report's annual undergraduate rankings, the university's highest-ever position in those rankings since they launched in the 1980s.
