Times 100 Under 50 2015 name Warwick best young university in the UK

University of Warwick, the highest ranked UK university in the THE 100 Under 50 rankings 2015

Times Higher Education have published their fourth annual 100 Under 50 rankings, celebrating the best universities in the world who are less than half a century old. The University of Warwick came in at 9^th as the highest ranked British university, ahead of the likes of Dundee, Brunel and Plymouth.

Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne finally topped the rankings, swapping places with South Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology (Postech), now in 2^nd place, and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 3^rd. In all, the top 10 includes universities from 8 countries, while the top 100 includes universities from 28 countries.

Meanwhile Australia is the country with the most universities in the top 100 with sixteen overall. Their highest-ranked university is the University of Konstanz at 19^th. Phil Batty, rankings editor for Times Higher Education, said: ‘The UK has lost its position as top nation in the 100 Under 50 to Australia, a country with a richer and more diverse university mix. While only four of the UK’s 15 representatives were founded after the 1960s, Australia has institutions established in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s among its 16-strong list. While there is no suggestion that the UK’s great 1960s institutions are likely to lose their world-class status any time soon, it must be cause for concern that the fresh waves of universities created since the 1990s have yet to make any mark in the global rankings.’

The rankings aim to look ahead to the future Oxfords and Cambridges which will dominate the World University Rankings in the coming decades, as well as the countries which will serve as the top study destinations for international students.

On the rankings themselves, Batty said: ‘The universities in this unique and pioneering ranking are disrupting the old order. They have proved that world-class teaching and research is not just the preserve of an ancient elite.’

These rankings are based on the same 13 performance indicators used to decide the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, slightly adapted to better critique these younger universities.

Below is the full Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 2015 table:

2015 rank	Founded	Institution	Country / Region
1	1969	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
2	1986	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
3	1971	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
4	1991	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
5	1991	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
6	1976	Maastricht University	Netherlands
7	1965	University of California, Irvine	United States
8	1965	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States
9	1965	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
10	1971	Paris-Sud University	France
11	1971	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
12	1990	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
13	1996	Sabancı University	Turkey
14	1984	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
15	1967	Ulm University	Germany
16	1969	University of Texas at Dallas	United States
17	1970	Paris Diderot University – Paris 7	France
18	1965	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States
19	1967	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
19	1966	University of Konstanz	Germany
21	1988	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia
22	1966	University of Calgary	Canada
23	1994	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
24	1998	University of Milan-Bicocca	Italy
25	1966	Brunel University London	United Kingdom
26	1971	University of Bremen	Germany
27	1965	Simon Fraser University	Canada
28	1984	Bilkent University	Turkey
29	1968	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
30	1965	University of Newcastle	Australia
31	1969	Lappeenranta University of Technology	Finland
31	1975	University of Wollongong	Australia
33	1989	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
34	1977	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden
35	1991	University of South Australia	Australia
36	1970	Montpellier University	France
37	2004	Medical University of Vienna	Austria
37	1992	Plymouth University	United Kingdom
39	1981	University of Macau	Macau
40	1966	Sharif University of Technology	Iran
41	1974	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology	Taiwan
42	1966	University of Bath	United Kingdom
42	1966	State University of Campinas	Brazil
44	1966	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark
45	1974	Deakin University	Australia
46	1968	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain
47	1967	University of Stirling	United Kingdom
48	1989	Charles Darwin University	Australia
49	1980	National Sun Yat-Sen University	Taiwan
50	1973	University of Tsukuba	Japan
51	1973	University of Crete	Greece
51	1993	Koç University	Turkey
51	1965	Umeå University	Sweden
54	1965	Ruhr University Bochum	Germany
55	1969	University of Eastern Finland	Finland
56	1989	University of Western Sydney	Australia
57	1974	Aalborg University	Denmark
57	1969	Bielefeld University	Germany
59	2003	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
59	1972	George Mason University	United States
59	1975	Linköping University	Sweden
59	1978	University of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad	Morocco
63	1977	Isfahan University of Technology	Iran
64	1973	University of Minho	Portugal
65	1971	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France
65	1973	Murdoch University	Australia
65	1966	University of Surrey	United Kingdom
65	1992	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
69	1973	Aveiro University	Portugal
70	1966	Aston University	United Kingdom
71	1992	University of Hertfordshire	United Kingdom
72	1975	University of Bayreuth	Germany
73	1966	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	United States
73	1968	UiT The Arctic University of Norway	Norway
75	1989	Dublin City University	Ireland
75	1967	La Trobe University	Australia
77	1966	Flinders University	Australia
77	1966	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom
79	1972	Florida International University	United States
80	1991	University of Rovira i Virgili	Spain
81	1987	Curtin University	Australia
82	1971	Griffith University	Australia
83	1966	Loughborough University	United Kingdom
84	1992	University of Rome III	Italy
85	1992	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom
85	1969	Université du Québec à Montréal	Canada
87	1966	Johannes Kepler University of Linz	Austria
88	1989	University of Vigo	Spain
89	1973	New University of Lisbon	Portugal
90	1991	Edith Cowan University	Australia
90	1965	Tampere University of Technology	Finland
90	1970	University of Ulsan	South Korea
93	1965	University of Kent	United Kingdom
94	1992	Dublin Institute of Technology	Ireland
95	1984	University of Ulster	United Kingdom
96	1974	Concordia University	Canada
97	1966	City University of London	United Kingdom
97	1992	RMIT University	Australia
97	1968	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain
100	1975	National Yang-Ming University	Taiwan

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