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La France en dixième position du classement 2021 des universités du Times Higher Education

Par Cécile Marchand-Ménard, publié le 02 septembre 2020

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7 min

La France se glisse à la dixième place du classement Times Higher Education 2021, publié ce mercredi 2 septembre 2020. Avec cinq universités dans le top 200, les universités françaises restent cependant loin derrière les géants américains et britanniques.

Qualité de l’enseignement et de la recherche, citations, transfert de connaissances vers l’industrie et rayonnement international. Tels sont les critères évalués par le Times Higher Education (THE) pour son classement des universités, World University Rankings 2021, publié pour la 17e année consécutive ce mercredi 2 septembre 2020. Il ne compte pas moins de 1.527 établissements (plus d’une centaine supplémentaire depuis l’an dernier) situés dans 93 pays ou régions à travers le monde.

Tout comme lors du classement 2020, la France compte cinq établissements parmi les 200 meilleurs. L’Université Paris sciences et lettres, l’École Polytechnique, la Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris et l’Université Paris-Saclay permettent à la France d’atteindre la dixième place des pays les mieux représentés dans le top 200.

L’Université Paris-Saclay : meilleure nouvelle entrée

Remarquée par une entrée à la 14e place du classement de Shanghai à la mi-août 2020, l’Université Paris-Saclay continue sur sa lancée. Le regroupement de 14 établissements et organismes de recherche, créé en janvier 2020 devient la première des 141 nouvelles universités à intégrer le classement en se hissant à la 178e place.

L’Université Paris Sciences et Lettres chute d’une place par rapport à l’année dernière notamment à cause d'un nombre moins important de citations des publications de ses enseignants-chercheurs. Elle reste néanmoins la première université française représentée, à la 46e place du classement.

La Sorbonne Université chute de 7 rangs et s’installe à la 87e place du classement, aux côtés de l’École polytechnique, qui, elle, gagne 6 places. Pour sa deuxième année au sein du classement, Université de Paris perd 6 places pour atteindre la 136e en 2021.

Une forte concurrence internationale

Les universités américaines et britanniques, respectivement au nombre de 59 et 29 dans le top 200, caracolent en tête du classement. Huit des dix premières universités répertoriées sont états-uniennes et deux sont anglaises, dont l’Université d’Oxford, à la première place depuis 2017.

Nouvelle concurrence face aux universités françaises et occidentales, le magazine Times Higher Education note une progression des universités asiatiques. Elles sont désormais 16 dans le top 100. Pour la première fois depuis 2011, une université de Chine continentale, celle de Tsinghua, intègre même le top 20. "Nous observons l’émergence de l’Asie dans le classement mondial depuis plusieurs années maintenant, souligne Phil Baty, Chief Knowledge Officer du THE, dans un communiqué. Ce nouveau classement prouve que les systèmes éducatifs orientaux gagnent en importance face aux systèmes occidentaux, plus établis".

Rang	Universités	Pays
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
2	Stanford University	United States
3	Harvard University	United States
4	California Institute of Technology	United States
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
7	University of California, Berkeley	United States
8	Yale University	United States
9	Princeton University	United States
10	University of Chicago	United States
11	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
12	Johns Hopkins University	United States
13	University of Pennsylvania	United States
14	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
15	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
16	UCL	United Kingdom
17	Columbia University	United States
18	University of Toronto	Canada
19	Cornell University	United States
=20	Tsinghua University	China
=20	Duke University	United States
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
23	Peking University	China
24	Northwestern University	United States
25	National University of Singapore	Singapore
26	New York University	United States
27	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
28	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
29	University of Washington	United States
30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
31	University of Melbourne	Australia
32	LMU Munich	Germany
33	University of California, San Diego	United States
34	University of British Columbia	Canada
35	King’s College London	United Kingdom
=36	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
=36	The University of Tokyo	Japan
38	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
39	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
40	McGill University	Canada
41	Technical University of Munich	Germany
42	Heidelberg University	Germany
43	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
44	University of Texas at Austin	United States
45	KU Leuven	Belgium
46	Paris Sciences et Lettres – PSL Research University Paris	France
47	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore
48	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
49	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States
50	Washington University in St Louis	United States
=51	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
=51	University of Sydney	Australia
53	University of Southern California	United States
=54	Kyoto University	Japan
=54	Boston University	United States
=56	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
=56	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
=56	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
59	Australian National University	Australia
60	Seoul National University	South Korea
61	Brown University	United States
=62	The University of Queensland	Australia
=62	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands
=64	University of California, Davis	United States
=64	Monash University	Australia
66	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
67	UNSW Sydney	Australia
68	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
69	McMaster University	Canada
=70	Fudan University	China
=70	Leiden University	Netherlands
72	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
=73	University of Montreal	Canada
=73	University of Zurich	Switzerland
=75	Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin	Germany
=75	Utrecht University	Netherlands
77	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
=78	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
=78	University of Tübingen	Germany
=80	University of Groningen	Netherlands
=80	Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
=80	Ohio State University (Main campus)	United States
83	University of Freiburg	Germany
84	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
=85	Emory University	United States
=85	University of Minnesota	United States
=87	École Polytechnique	France
=87	University of Science and Technology of China	China
=87	Sorbonne University	France
90	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
91	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
=92	University of Basel	Switzerland
=92	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
=94	Purdue University West Lafayette	United States
=94	Zhejiang University	China
96	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
97	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
=98	University of California, Irvine	United States
=98	University of Helsinki	Finland
100	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
=101	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	South Korea
=101	Dartmouth College	United States
=103	Ghent University	Belgium
=103	Lund University	Sweden
105	Michigan State University	United States
106	Aarhus University	Denmark
=107	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
=107	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
109	University of Bern	Switzerland
110	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom
=111	Nanjing University	China
=111	Uppsala University	Sweden
=111	Vanderbilt University	United States
=114	University of Bonn	Germany
=114	Penn State (Main campus)	United States
116	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
117	University of Virginia (Main campus)	United States
=118	University of Adelaide	Australia
=118	Free University of Berlin	Germany
120	Georgetown University	United States
=121	Maastricht University	Netherlands
=121	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
=121	Case Western Reserve University	United States
=124	Rice University	United States
=124	University of Arizona	United States
126	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
=127	University of Oslo	Norway
=127	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
129	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
130	University of Göttingen	Germany
=131	University of Alberta	Canada
=131	University of Colorado Boulder	United States
=133	University of York	United Kingdom
=133	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus	United States
135	University of Hamburg	Germany
=136	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
=136	University of Paris	France
=136	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
139	The University of Western Australia	Australia
=140	University of Mannheim	Germany
=140	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
=140	Ulm University	Germany
=140	University of Würzburg	Germany
=140	Indiana University	United States
=145	University of Cologne	Germany
=145	University of Ottawa	Canada
=147	University of Rochester	United States
=147	University of Auckland	New Zealand
=149	Durham University	United Kingdom
=149	University of Geneva	Switzerland
151	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea
=152	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
=152	TU Dresden	Germany
=152	University of Florida	United States
=155	University of Cape Town	South Africa
=155	Trinity College Dublin	Republic of Ireland
=155	Tufts University	United States
=158	Bielefeld University	Germany
=158	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
=160	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
=160	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
=160	University of Technology Sydney	Australia
163	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
=164	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
=164	University of Vienna	Austria
166	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	United States
=167	University of Bologna	Italy
=167	Korea University	South Korea
169	University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States
=170	University of Notre Dame	United States
=170	University of Antwerp	Belgium
=170	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
=170	Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies – Pisa	Italy
=174	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
=174	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russian Federation
=176	Northeastern University	United States
=176	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea
=178	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
=178	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
=178	Paris-Saclay University	France
181	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
182	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
183	Stockholm University	Sweden
=184	Arizona State University (Tempe)	United States
=184	University of Canberra	Australia
186	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
=187	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
=187	George Washington University	United States
=187	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
=187	Yonsei University (Seoul campus)	South Korea
=191	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
=191	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
=191	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
=191	Tel Aviv University	Israel
=195	Macquarie University	Australia
=195	University of Münster	Germany
197	Texas A&M University	United States
=198	University of Barcelona	Spain
=198	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
=200	University of Calgary	Canada
=200	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
=200	Queen’s University Belfast	United Kingdom