Global ranking recognises our ‘academic reputation and prestige’
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Goldsmiths has been named as a top university "for academic reputation and prestige globally".
Ben Pimlott Building on our campus.
It is the first time we have made the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings 2025 which reflects the status of institutions based on the opinions of senior academics from across the world.
The ranking is the world’s largest invitation-only academic opinion survey, with responses from more than 55,000 scholars globally. It uses vote counts, pairwise comparison and voter diversity as its three core pillars of evaluation.
We are proud of our rich and diverse academic culture, and this is welcome recognition of the efforts of all of our staff and students in continually developing and nurturing our scholarship. Running through this work is our commitment to co-creating solutions to enduring global problems, where we draw on our history of creative practice for societal wellbeing.
Professor David Oswell, Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange
With 300 universities ranked, including 39 UK institutions, Goldsmiths is in the 201-300 category. The ranking is topped by Harvard, with UK institutions Oxford at joint-second and Cambridge joint-fourth.
Now in its 14th year, the 2025 edition of the ranking is based on six performance indicators for the first time, to provide a more robust assessment of reputation and reflect the fact that the subject of reputation is gaining a wider audience among the academic community. A full explanation of its methodology is available on the THE website.