Prof. Dr. Nasser Mandour, President of Suez Canal University, announced that the result of the British Times Higher Education classification was issued on Wednesday, 27 September, and Suez Canal University maintained its distinguished appearance in the 2024 Times Higher Education classification, explaining that Suez Canal University appeared among the best 1,200 universities on the list. world level out of 1,904 universities, and ranked 11th among of 28 universities in Egypt.

Suez Canal University also showed remarkable progress in the international standing index, as the university ranked 784th in the world in terms of international cooperation.

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Saad Zaghloul, Vice President of the University for Graduate Studies and Research, noted that the university’s classification in “Times Higher Education for the year 2024” includes 1,904 universities from 108 countries and regions around the world.

The Vice President of the University said that the methodology of the 20th edition of the global classification has been significantly updated, to reflect the outputs of diverse, research-intensive universities around the world, and the classification is based on 18 indicators (instead of 13 indicators last year) of precise performance indicators, which measure the performance of institutions. In five main areas.

Dr. Sameh Saad, Director of the Office of International Cooperation, explained that the Times classification is based on 5 main areas: teaching (learning environment) 30%, research (volume or rate of research productivity, research income, reputation) 30%, and citations (research impact) 30%. international standing (international students, international professors, international cooperation) 7.5%, and application in industry (knowledge transfer) 2.5%. The entry of universities into the classification depends on major criteria, including that the university publish more than 1,000 research papers over the previous five years, and more than 150 research papers in one year, and that the research must be applicable, and that the total figures for the year of the classification be presented, and the university must teach for students at the bachelor’s level, therefore, only graduate institutions are not included in the classification. Universities are also excluded from entering this classification if 80% or more of their research outputs are in one subject area of the 11 specializations known in the classification.

Dr. Elham Ali Al-Khawas, Director of the Classification Unit at the International Cooperation Office, explained that this year’s classification analyzed more than 134 million citations, across 16.5 million research articles, and included survey answers from 68,402 researchers worldwide. 411,789 data points were collected from more than 2,673 universities submitted for this year’s ranking.

1,904 institutions were included in this year’s rankings, while a further 769 universities were listed with “reporter” status, meaning they submitted data but did not meet our eligibility criteria for a rank and agreed to be featured as a correspondent in the final table