The development of world’s best universities -Visual analysis of TIMES university rankings based on Tableau

Abstract

With the stable and gradual development of the world economy, people have lived a better life than in the previous decade. In order to allow children to receive better education, studying abroad has become a very popular choice for students. The rapid increase in the number of international students also provides sufficient research motivation significance for how to screen the work of world universities. The Times Higher Education World University rankings, as a well-recognized basis for world university rankings, has become the research focus of this paper. In addition, the methodology of THE world university rankings and the original database (from kaggle) of the research on the 2023 university rankings are emphasized, and the analysis and research work are mainly carried out from the three aspects of teaching; research and citations. Enter the data into Tableau to get an intuitive visual chart to illustrate the ranking of world-class universities and the relationship between the above three aspects. At the same time, it intuitively shows the ranking of the world's top universities’ distribution, also the number and popularity of international students. Give international students objective advice on studying abroad to help students choose the universities they are interested in more intuitively.