近日，THE使用数据统计发布了2018年的Golden Age universities排名，旨在找出建校时间50年以上但不足80年的大学中表现最好的。
由于这些大学的年龄(50岁以上但小于80岁)，《THE》没有把他们算在“Best young universities in the world 2017”之内，而是组成了一个独特的高等教育机构群体，嵌入了他们的学术实践，只是未达数百年。
THE用“黄金时代”来形容这些大学，因为他们的特点就是大学的迅速扩张和对研究的投入增加。今年的排名囊括了更广泛的处在“黄金时代”的大学，扩大到世界前200名。
加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)连续第二年荣登泰晤士高等教育世界“黄金时代”大学排名首位，除了牢牢占据榜首，也获得了最高的研究环境得分。除此之外，英国共有23所高校入围，其中华威大学在这些入围高校中排名第一。
完整榜单如下：
| Golden Age Ranking 2018 | Golden Age Ranking 2017 | University | Country/Region | Foundation year |
| 1 | 1 | University of California, San Diego | United States | 1960 |
| 2 | 2 | Australian National University | Australia | 1946 |
| 3 | 6 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 1963 |
| 4 | 3 | Seoul National University | South Korea | 1946 |
| 5 | 4 | Monash University | Australia | 1958 |
| 6 | 7 | University of New South Wales | Australia | 1949 |
| 7 | 5 | Free University of Berlin | Germany | 1948 |
| 8 | 8 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom | 1965 |
| 9 | 9 | University of California, Irvine | United States | 1965 |
| 10 | 10 | University of Mannheim | Germany | 1946 |
| 11 | 11 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom | 1952 |
| 12 | 12 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom | 1955 |
| 13 | 17 | University of Science and Technology of China | China | 1958 |
| 14 | 13 | University of York | United Kingdom | 1963 |
| 15 | 23 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands | 1956 |
| 16 | 16 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom | 1961 |
| 17 | 14 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom | 1964 |
| 18 | NR | Ulm University | Germany | 1967 |
| 19 | 15 | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States | 1965 |
| 20 | 24 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom | 1963 |
| 21 | 17 | University of Twente | Netherlands | 1962 |
| 22 | NR | University of Dundee | United Kingdom | 1967 |
| 23 | 19 | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom | 1963 |
| 24 | 19 | University of California, Riverside | United States | 1954 |
| 24 | 21 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden | 1954 |
| 26 | 29 | University of Bergen | Norway | 1946 |
| 27 | 22 | University of Waterloo | Canada | 1957 |
| 28 | 26 | University of Calgary | Canada | 1966 |
| 29 | 25 | University of Konstanz | Germany | 1966 |
| 30 | 30 | Tel Aviv University | Israel | 1956 |
| 31 | 27 | Brandeis University | United States | 1948 |
| 32 | NR | King Abdulaziz University | Saudi Arabia | 1967 |
| 33 | 42 | Ruhr University Bochum | Germany | 1965 |
| 34 | 32 | Simon Fraser University | Canada | 1965 |
| 35 | 46 | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology | Russian Federation | 1946 |
| 36 | 28 | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States | 1965 |
| 36 | 34 | University of South Florida | United States | 1956 |
| 38 | 31 | Stony Brook University | United States | 1957 |
| 38 | 33 | University of Trento | Italy | 1962 |
| 40 | 37 | Macquarie University | Australia | 1964 |
| 41 | 38 | University of Bath | United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 42 | 36 | University of Oulu | Finland | 1958 |
| 43 | 39 | University of Southern Denmark | Denmark | 1966 |
| 44 | 44 | University of Essex | United Kingdom | 1964 |
| 44 | 40 | University of Surrey | United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 46 | 41 | Umeå University | Sweden | 1965 |
| 47 | 35 | University of Newcastle | Australia | 1965 |
| 48 | 51-100 | Flinders University | Australia | 1966 |
| 49 | NR | University of Stirling | United Kingdom | 1967 |
| 50 | 50 | University of Navarra | Spain | 1952 |
| 51 | 48 | University of Kent | United Kingdom | 1965 |
| 52 | 44 | Loughborough University | United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 52 | 43 | University of Victoria | Canada | 1963 |
| 54 | 47 | York University | Canada | 1959 |
| 55 | 51-100 | Aston University | United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 55 | 51-100 | Heriot-Watt University | United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 57 | 51-100 | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay | India | 1958 |
| 58 | 51-100 | City, University of London | United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 59 | NR | La Trobe University | Australia | 1967 |
| 60 | 51-100 | University of Waikato | New Zealand | 1964 |
| 61 | 49 | Brunel University London | United Kingdom | 1966 |
| 62 | 51-100 | Kyung Hee University | South Korea | 1949 |
| 63 | 51-100 | Marche Polytechnic University | Italy | 1959 |
| 64 | 51-100 | Hong Kong Baptist University | Hong Kong | 1956 |
| 65 | 51-100 | Binghamton University, State University of New York | United States | 1946 |
| 65 | 51-100 | University of Strathclyde | United Kingdom | 1964 |
| 67 | 51-100 | State University of Campinas | Brazil | 1966 |
| 68 | 51-100 | National Chiao Tung University | Taiwan | 1958 |
| 69 | 51-100 | Bar-Ilan University | Israel | 1955 |
| 70 | 51-100 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | United States | 1966 |
| 71 | 51-100 | Novosibirsk State University | Russian Federation | 1959 |
| 72 | 51-100 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | China | 1952 |
| 73 | NR | Quaid-i-azam University | Pakistan | 1965 |
| 74 | 51-100 | Massey University | New Zealand | 1964 |
| 75 | 51-100 | University of Ioannina | Greece | 1964 |
| 76 | 51-100 | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | India | 1951 |
| 77 | 51-100 | Keele University | United Kingdom | 1949 |
| 77 | 51-100 | Tampere University of Technology | Finland | 1965 |
| 79 | 51-100 | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi | India | 1961 |
| 80 | 51-100 | Johannes Kepler University of Linz | Austria | 1966 |
| 80 | 51-100 | Université de Sherbrooke | Canada | 1954 |
| 82 | 51-100 | King Saud University | Saudi Arabia | 1957 |
| 83 | 51-100 | University of Nantes | France | 1961 |
| 84 | 51-100 | East China Normal University | China | 1951 |
| 85 | 51-100 | China Medical University, Taiwan | Taiwan | 1958 |
| 86 | 51-100 | National Taiwan Normal University | Taiwan | 1946 |
| 87 | NR | South China University of Technology | China | 1952 |
| 88 | 51-100 | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur | India | 1959 |
| 89 | 51-100 | University of Salento | Italy | 1955 |
| 90 | 51-100 | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | Saudi Arabia | 1963 |
| 91 | 51-100 | University of the Andes, Colombia | Colombia | 1948 |
| 92 | 51-100 | Sharif University of Technology | Iran | 1966 |
| 93 | 51-100 | National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon (INSA Lyon) | France | 1957 |
| 94 | NR | University of Haifa | Israel | 1963 |
| 95 | NR | Amirkabir University of Technology | Iran | 1958 |
| 96 | 51-100 | Taipei Medical University | Taiwan | 1960 |
| 97 | 51-100 | Hiroshima University | Japan | 1949 |
| 98 | 51-100 | East China University of Science and Technology | China | 1952 |
| 98 | 51-100 | Indian Institute of Technology Madras | India | 1959 |
| 100 | 51-100 | Pusan National University | South Korea | 1946 |
