Heriot-Watt has risen eleven places, to 349th from 360th, in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Heriot-Watt is 44th in the UK out of 49 institutions and sixth in Scotland, overtaking Stirling.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings use 13 performance indicators to examine universities across all of their core missions- teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
For full details, including the methodology, see the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014.