Saturday, February 1, 2014

Number One In World University Rankings Is California Institute of Technology (Caltech)



The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.




Overall score                                                        94.9

Teaching                                                              94.4

International outlook                                             65.8

Industry income                                                    91.2

Research                                                              98.2

Citations                                                               99.8


World rankings - Africa

Rank                  Institution                             Location                Overall score   

126               University of Cape Town          South Africa       50.5

226-250       University of Witwatersrand     South Africa       

301-350       Stellenbosch University            South Africa       




The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a highly focused science and engineering research and education institution located in Pasadena, CA. It is home to approximately 2,300 students and 300 faculties, and boasts 31 Nobel laureates among its past and current faculty and alumni. Caltech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA, and owns and operates a global network of astronomical observatories and research facilities.

This has shown that if the Federal Government should give appropriate funding to our own technological institutes there will be great transformation in our educational system through these institutes in our country Nigeria.

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