ARWU - Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is a ranking compiled and
managed by the Shanghai Jiaotong University.

Along with THE ranking (about which I wrote in my last post), it's
considered one of the two most important  rankings out there.

Since the original goal of the ranking was "to find out the gap between
Chinese universities and world-class universities, particularly in terms
of academic or research performance.", as it's creators say, this ranking
is mainly concerned with the academic quality of the institutes listed.


With that said, give a round of applause to the top 12 universities
for the year 2010, according to the ARWU:

1	Harvard University	Cambridge	United States (Massachusetts)
2	University of California, Berkeley	Berkeley	United States (California)
3	Stanford University	Stanford, CA	United States (California)
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge	United States (Massachusetts)
5	Cambridge University	Cambridge	United Kingdom (England)
6	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena	United States (California)
7	Princeton University	Princeton	United States (New Jersey)
8	Columbia University	New York City	United States (New York)
9	University of Chicago	Chicago	United States (Illinois)
10	Oxford University	Oxford	United Kingdom (England)
11	Yale University	New Haven	United States (Connecticut)
12	Cornell University	Ithaca	United States (New York)

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You can't go wrong with any of these universities, really, but you still
might want to check the rankings dealing with the specific
discipline you wish to study. I'll deal with that in my next few posts.


For further information, you can check out the ARWU site itself at
www.arwu.org/
Cheers! 

Times Higher Education University Rankings

Times Higher Education University Ranking is a ranking compiled by the Times
Higher Education magazine. The magazine is based in London and deals with topics
involving higher education.

The ranking weights are the following:

• Peer Review Score (40%)
• Recruiter Review (10%)
• International Faculty Score (5%)
• International Students Score (5%)
• Faculty/Student Score (20%)
• Citations/Faculty Score (20%).

With that said, it appears a good ranking for those who are mostly concerned with
the academic quality of their future university/college.

1		Harvard University	US
2		University of Cambridge	UK
3		Yale University	US
4		University College London	UK
5=		Imperial College London	UK
5=		University of Oxford	UK
7		University of Chicago	US
8		Princeton University	US
9		Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
10		California Institute of Technology	US
11		Columbia University	US
12		University of Pennsylvania	US
13		Johns Hopkins University	US
14		Duke University	US
15		Cornell University	US
16		Stanford University	US
17		Australian National University	Australia
18		McGill University	Canada
19		University of Michigan	US
20=		University of Edinburgh	UK
20=		ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
22		University of Tokyo	Japan
23		King’s College London	UK
24		University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
25		Kyoto University	Japan
26		University of Manchester	UK
27		Carnegie Mellon University	US
28		Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris	France
29		University of Toronto	Canada
30		National University of Singapore	Singapore
31		Brown University	US
32=		University of California, Los Angeles	US
32=		Northwestern University	US
34		University of Bristol	UK
35		Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
36=		Ecole Polytechnique	France
36=		University of Melbourne	Australia
36=		University of Sydney	Australia
39		University of California, Berkeley	US
40		University of British Columbia	Canada
41		University of Queensland	Australia
42		Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
43=		Osaka University	Japan
43=		Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
45		Monash University	Australia
46		Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
47=		University of New South Wales	Australia
47=		Seoul National University	South Korea
49=		University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
49=		Tsinghua University	China
51		University of Copenhagen	Denmark
52=		New York University	US
52=		Peking University	China
54		Boston University	US
55=		Technical University of Munich	Germany
55=		Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
57		Heidelberg University	Germany
58		University of Warwick	UK
59		University of Alberta	Canada
60		Leiden University	Netherlands
61=		University of Auckland	New Zealand
61=		University of Wisconsin-Madison	US
63=		Aarhus University	Denmark
63=		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
65		Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium
66		University of Birmingham	UK
67=		London School of Economics	UK
67=		Lund University	Sweden
69		Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
70=		Utrecht University	Netherlands
70=		University of York	UK
72		University of Geneva	Switzerland
73=		Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
73=		Washington University in St Louis	US
75		Uppsala University	Sweden
76=		University of California, San Diego	US
76=		University of Texas at Austin	US
78		University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	US
79		University of Glasgow	UK
80		University of Washington	US
81		University of Adelaide	Australia
82		University of Sheffield	UK
83		Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
84		University of Western Australia	Australia
85		Dartmouth College	US
86		Georgia Institute of Technology	US
87=		Purdue University	US
87=		University of St Andrews	UK
89		University College Dublin	Ireland
90		Emory University	US
91		University of Nottingham	UK
92=		Nagoya University	Japan
92=		University of Zurich	Switzerland
94		Free University of Berlin	Germany
95=		University of Southampton	UK
95=		National Taiwan University	Taiwan
97		Tohoku University	Japan
98		Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich	Germany
99		University of Leeds	UK
100		Rice University	US
101		University of Oslo	Norway
102		Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
103=		Durham University	UK
103=		Fudan University	China
105		University of Minnesota	US
106		University of California, Santa Barbara	US
107		Université de Montréal	Canada
108=		University of Basel	Switzerland
108=		University of California, Davis	US
108=		Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
108=		University of Helsinki	Finland
112		University of Southern California	US
113		University of Waterloo	Canada
114=		University of Pittsburgh	US
114=		Tel Aviv University	Israel
116		Maastricht University	Netherlands
117		Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris VI	France
118		Queen’s University	Canada
119		Case Western Reserve University	US
120=		Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
120=		Pennsylvania State University	US
122=		Freiburg University	Germany
122=		University of Maryland, College Park	US
124		City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
125		University of Otago	New Zealand
126=		Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
126=		Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France
128		University of Virginia	US
129=		University of Aberdeen	UK
129=		Georgetown University	US
129=		Ohio State University	US
132=		Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
132=		University of Vienna	Austria
134		Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
135		Cardiff University	UK
136		University of Ghent	Belgium
137		University of Liverpool	UK
138=		Chulalongkorn University	Thailand
138=		University of Groningen	Netherlands
140		Vanderbilt University	US
141		University of Rochester	US
142		Keio University	Japan
143		McMaster University	Canada
144=		University of Bath	UK
144=		University of Bergen	Norway
146=		University of Cape Town	South Africa
146=		Humboldt University of Berlin	Germany
148		Waseda University	Japan
149=		University of Calgary	Canada
149=		Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen	Germany
151=		University of Western Ontario	Canada
151=		Yonsei University	South Korea
153		Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
154		University of Science and Technology of China	China
155=		Kyushu University	Japan
155=		Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
155=		Wageningen University	Netherlands
158		Newcastle University	UK
159		Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
160		Tufts University	US
161		University of California, Irvine	US
162		Lancaster University	UK
163		Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India
164		Queen Mary, University of London	UK
165		VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
166=		University of Arizona	US
166=		University of Sussex	UK
168=		University of Lausanne	Switzerland
168=		Nanjing University	China
168=		Saint-Petersburg State University	Russia
171=		University of Barcelona	Spain
171=		Hokkaido University	Japan
173		Stony Brook University	US
174=		University of Bologna	Italy
174=		KTH, Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
174=		University of Tsukuba	Japan
177=		University of Antwerp	Belgium
177=		University of Athens	Greece
179		Texas A&M University	US
180		Universiti Malaya	Malaysia
181		Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India
182		Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany
183		Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	US
184		University of Karlsruhe	Germany
185		University of Gothenburg	Sweden
186=		University of Colorado at Boulder	US
186=		University of Göttingen	Germany
188		University of Canterbury	New Zealand
189		Macquarie University	Australia
190		National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico
191=		Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
191=		University of Reading	UK
193=		University of Bern	Switzerland
193=		Indiana University Bloomington	US
195		Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
196=		University of Leicester	UK
196=		Simon Fraser University	Canada
198		Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
199		University of Notre Dame	US
200		University of Twente	Netherlands