The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies has risen in the Times High­er Ed­u­ca­tion World Uni­ver­si­ty Rank­ings 2026, plac­ing it among the top 3.6 per cent of high­er ed­u­ca­tion in­sti­tu­tions world­wide.

Ac­cord­ing to re­lease by The UWI Re­gion­al Head­quar­ters on Thurs­day that, of more than 33,000 uni­ver­si­ties and high­er de­gree-grant­i­ng in­sti­tu­tions glob­al­ly, on­ly 2,191 from 115 coun­tries qual­i­fied for rank­ing in the 2025 year-end as­sess­ment.

The Times High­er Ed­u­ca­tion rank­ings mea­sure per­for­mance across teach­ing, re­search, knowl­edge trans­fer and in­ter­na­tion­al out­look. The re­lease said The UWI con­tin­ues to im­prove its rel­a­tive po­si­tion as the num­ber of ranked uni­ver­si­ties in­creas­es each year.