Thirteen California Universities are included in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2020. We show these rankings and their main components in the table below. We also show the top ten in the rankings, which include CalTech and Stanford, and has seven US universities. California has 9 Universities ranked in the top 100.
Among the top 200 Institutions, the United States leads with 60, or 30%. Next is the United Kingdom with 28, Germany with 23, Australia with 11, Netherlands with 11, and Canada, China, and Switzerland, each with 6.
The rating categories and the overall ranking weightings are: Teaching (30%), Research (30%), Citations (30%), International Outlook (7.5%), and Industry Income (2.5%).
The breakdown of Teaching is: Reputation survey (15%), Staff-to-student ratio (4.5%), Doctorate-to-bachelor’s ratio (2.25%), Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio (6%), and Institutional income (2.25%). Note that 8.25% overall, or 27.5% of the Teaching evaluation is on a doctorate program, so a lower score does not mean that undergraduate teaching is that bad.
Research is broken down to: Reputation survey (18%), Research income (6%), and Research productivity (6%).
International outlook is composed of: Preparation of international students (2.5%), Proportion of International staff (2.5%), and International collaboration (2.5%).
There are 1,000 Universities included in the rankings, so don’t take the low rankings of some as that disappointing. They look much better in other US only rankings, or of US Public University rankings.
The table of rankings has columns: Rank, Institution (Inst), Teaching (T), Research (R), Citations (C), Industry income (Ind), International outlook (Int), and Overall score (Over). Ties in rankings are not designated.
| Rank | Inst. | T | R | C | Ind | Int | Over |
| 1 | U. Oxford | 95.4 | |||||
| 2 | CalTech | 92.1 | 97.2 | 97.9 | 88.0 | 82.5 | 94.5 |
| 3 | Cambridge | 94.4 | |||||
| 4 | Stanford | 92.8 | 96.4 | 99.9 | 66.2 | 79.5 | 94.3 |
| 5 | MIT | 93.6 | |||||
| 6 | Princeton | 93.2 | |||||
| 7 | Harvard | 93.0 | |||||
| 8 | Yale | 91.7 | |||||
| 9 | U Chicago | 90.2 | |||||
| 10 | Imperial College | 89.8 | |||||
| 13 | UC Berkeley | 83.0 | 90.6 | 99.2 | 46.1 | 70.4 | 88.3 |
| 17 | UCLA | 83.1 | 88.6 | 97.3 | 51.3 | 64.1 | 86.8 |
| 31 | UCSD | 62.6 | 78.9 | 97.7 | 90.3 | 63.7 | 78.8 |
| 55 | UC Davis | 62.4 | 66.9 | 83.2 | 51.4 | 62.4 | 69.7 |
| 57 | UCSB | 47.9 | 63.6 | 96.4 | 84.5 | 68.1 | 69.6 |
| 62 | USC | 54.7 | 59.3 | 93.1 | 39.7 | 66.2 | 68.1 |
| 96 | UC Irvine | 43.3 | 46.5 | 94.9 | 58.9 | 71.9 | 62.3 |
| 179 | UCSC | 33.1 | 39.9 | 97.7 | 39.1 | 60.6 | 55.2 |
| 201-250 | UC Riverside | 31.2 | 30.3 | 85.9 | 39.9 | 64.7 | 46.9-50.0 |
| 351-400 | UC Merced | 17.1 | 21.6 | 95.3 | 38.0 | 42.4 | 42.4-44.9 |
| 501-600 | SDSU | 23.7 | 24.4 | 62.0 | 35.1 | 33.9 | 35.3-38.7 |
