THE Overall World Ranking

THE World Rankings Overview

University of Galway partakes annually in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Ranking along with over a 1,500 other universities.  The Times Higher Education (THE) investigates five key areas known as the performance indicators, using rigorous standards and global benchmarks across all University's key missions.

Five key areas; 

 - Teaching (the learning environment); 

 - Research (volume, income and reputation); 

 - Citations (research influence);  

 - International outlook (staff, students and research); and 

 - Industry income (knowledge transfer).

University of Galway was ranked in the 301-350 band in the results published September 2022, in THE World University Rankings for the year 2023.

See more on the weighing of the key areas here.

 Overview Workshop on the World Rankings

THE Methodology

The Times Higher Education (THE) methodology is explained in detail on the THE website.

See a breakdown of the metrics in figure 1 & 2 below.   The Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings are heavily weighted on the research metrics with a total of 60% weighting between the Citations and Research metrics.

 Figure 1: Pie Chart of each metrics in the THE Ranking. 
 

Figure 2: Detailed breakdown of each metric in the THE Ranking

THE Results

See University of Galway's results in the Times Higher Education Ranking.

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THE Press Releases

See press releases relating to the Times Higher Education (THE) University rankings.

Published 2021

Irish Times 2021

Published 2020

Irish Times 2020

Published 2019

• Gains for NUI Galway in THE World University Rankings 2019
• Irish Times 2019

Published 2018

• RTE News 2018
• Irish Examiner 2018
• Irish Independent 2018

Published 2017

NUI Galway maintains position in the Times Higher Education (THE) University Rankings 2017

Published 2016

• Read NUI Galway's news archive on the university rankings 2016.
• Read more on the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking results, in the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, The Journal.ie and the Galway Advertiser.
• President Dr. Jim Browne's Interview on News Talk, 24/09/2016

Find out more on the Times Higher Education  Ranking on the:

• THE World University Rankings website.