Tbilisi State University remains in 5% of world’s best universities

Georgia’s Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), the oldest university in Georgia and in the Caucasus region, has been named among world’s and Europe’s best universities by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018.

TSU is the only university in the region on the list, ranking 301+ place among Europe’s 400 best universities.

In the world ranking, the university takes the 1001+ place among the world’s more than 1,500 best universities.

The calculation of the rankings for 2018 has been subject to independent audit by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), making these the only global university rankings to be subjected to full, independent scrutiny of this nature.

This year, we have made a slight improvement to how we handle our papers per academic staff calculation, and expanded the number of broad subject areas that we use. The top 1,000 represents no more than 5 per cent of the 20,000 higher education institutions in the world,”  THE reads. 

University of Harvard, University of Cambridge, California Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where top five in the world ranking.  

THE, which drafts the surveys, is the leading provider of higher education data for the world's research-led institutions.

THE’s in-house data team ranks 2,150 institutions worldwide, with 1 million data points analysed across 2,600 institutions in 93 countries. In 2016, the global media reach of the rankings was almost 700 million.

TSU was founded in 1918 in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi by famous Georgian scientist Ivane Javakhishvili and other professionals.