Times Higher Education is now working with Thomson Reuters to produce its annual World University Rankings. Thomson Reuters has released details of the data it is collecting under its Global Institutional Profiles Project, which will be used to create the world rankings.
The world rankings will be based on three key data sets:

• The results of a worldwide academic reputation survey
  
  
• Research citations data collected by Thomson Reuters
  
  
• Factual data provided by the universities themselves, including:
  
  
• Number of academic staff, including the proportion who are of international origin
  
  
• Number of research-only staff
  
  
• Number of undergraduate students admitted, including the proportion of international students
  
  
• Number of bachelor’s degrees awarded
  
  
• Number of doctoral students admitted, including the proportion funded by competitive research scholarships
  
  
• Number of doctorates awarded
  
  
• Total institutional income
  
  
• Research grant income from public sources and charities, and research contract income from industry and commerce

An initial group of 600 institutions have been invited to provide these data and rankings results for this group will be published later this year. Many more universities and regions will be invited to participate in the second round of data collection.
For more information on the rankings and to have your say, visit the Times Higher Education (THE) web site. For more information on the Thomson Reuters Global Institutional Profiles Project, visit their web site.

Phil Baty
Deputy Editor, Times Higher Education
Editor, Times Higher Education World University Rankings
phil.baty@tsleducation.com