{"581261":{"#nid":"581261","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Climbs in World University Rankings","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe World University Rankings released today by Times Higher Education show the Georgia Institute of Technology has moved from No. 41 to No. 33, the highest ranking among Georgia\u2019s academic institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Institute was 20th among U.S. institutions and fifth\u0026nbsp;among public universities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2016-2017 World University Rankings list the best global universities and are the only international university performance tables to judge world-class universities across all of their core missions \u2014 teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe top universities rankings use 13 performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available. This year\u0027s rankings include 980 universities from 79 countries, compared with 800 universities from 70 countries in last year\u0027s ranking.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0027s list of the best universities in the world features 148 of the top universities in the U.S. with 63 American universities making the top 200, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as the world\u2019s No. 2 university, followed by Stanford University in third place, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in fifth, and Harvard University in sixth. \u0026nbsp;Oxford University in England was No. 1 overall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETimes Higher Education global rankings feature many performance indicators directly relevant to students and their families to help them choose where to study. This information includes faculty-student ratios, global reputation, total resources, the international mix on campus, and links to business.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThis is the first year the rankings data and methodology were subject to an independent audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe World University Rankings released today by Times Higher Education show the Georgia Institute of Technology has moved from No. 41 to No. 33,\u0026nbsp;highest among Georgia\u2019s academic institutions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech moves up eight spots to No. 33 on the World University Rankings from Times Higher Education."}],"uid":"28797","created_gmt":"2016-09-22 11:33:26","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:22:45","author":"Lance Wallace","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"365201":{"id":"365201","type":"image","title":"Tech Tower close up","body":null,"created":"1449245805","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:45","changed":"1475895100","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:40","alt":"Tech Tower close up","file":{"fid":"201663","name":"08c1004-p4-066_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08c1004-p4-066_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/08c1004-p4-066_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":833349,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/08c1004-p4-066_0_0.jpg?itok=nrpGz199"}}},"media_ids":["365201"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/2017\/world-ranking#!\/page\/0\/length\/25\/sort_by\/rank_label\/sort_order\/asc\/cols\/rank_only","title":"Complete 2016-2017 Rankings"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/methodology-world-university-rankings-2016-2017","title":"Ranking Methodology"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"60831","name":"Times Higher Education World Rankings"},{"id":"75671","name":"World University Rankings"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELance Wallace\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["lance.wallace@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}