World University Rankings. The Times Higher Education

“World University Rankings” presents global university performance tables to judge world class universities on the basis of teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. The rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons. The top 10 universities for 2012–2013 are as shown in the following table.

Rank Institution score 1 California Institute of Technology 95.5 2 Stanford University 93.7 2 University of Oxford 93.7 4 Harvard University 93.6 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 93.1 6 Princeton University 92.7 7 University of Cambridge 92.6 8 Imperial College London 90.6 9 University of California, Berkeley 90.5 10 University of Chicago 90.4 What type of data is presented in the

a. first column of the table?

b. second column of the table?

c. third column of the table?