UTSA makes world list of top universities

The University of Texas at San Antonio is on the list of the world's top 400 universities compiled by the London-based Times Higher Education, the school announced Thursday.

For the 2012-2013 rankings, organization evaluated schools using 13 performance indicators that measured five general areas: teaching; research including volume, income and reputation; citations of its faculty's work, an indicator of research influence; industry income in terms of innovation; and international outlook, according to the rankings website.

The top five schools were the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Of the Texas schools that made the list, the University of Texas at Austin ranked 25, Rice University ranked 75, Texas A&M University ranked 156, the University of Texas at Dallas ranked 167. Ranking between 351 and 400 were the University of Houston, Southern Methodist University in Dallas and UTSA, but none in that range got a specific numerical ranking.

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