The Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University released the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) on August 15, marking its 9th consecutive year of measuring the performance of top universities worldwide.
Harvard University tops the 2011 list; other Top 10 universities are: Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Cambridge, Caltech, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago and Oxford.
The number of Chinese universities in Top 500 increases to 35 in 2011, with National Taiwan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua University ranked among Top 200.
Along with the overall list, the center also released the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields (ARWU-FIELD) and 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject Field (ARWU-SUBJECT).
• Full list: world's top 100 universities 2011
• Top 100 universities by subject:
• economics/business • chemistry • computer science • physics • mathematics
• Top 100 universities by field:
• clinical medicine and pharmacy • engineering/technology and computer sciences
• life and agriculture sciences • social sciences • natural sciences and mathematics
Following are the top 100 univerisities in natural sciences and mathematics 2011:
Ranking |
Institute |
Country |
Score |
Website |
1 |
Harvard University |
|
100.0 |
|
2 |
University of California, Berkeley |
|
95.7 |
|
3 |
Princeton University |
|
92.9 |
|
4 |
California Institute of Technology |
|
91.5 |
|
5 |
University of Cambridge |
|
90.8 |
|
6 |
Stanford University |
|
90.6 |
|
7 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
|
89.5 |
|
8 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |
|
73.3 |
|
9 |
University of Oxford |
|
72.6 |
|
10 |
The University of Tokyo |
|
71.5 |
|
11 |
Columbia University |
|
71.0 |
|
12 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
|
70.7 |
|
13 |
University of Colorado at Boulder |
|
69.3 |
|
14 |
Cornell University |
|
68.5 |
|
15 |
University of Chicago |
|
67.9 |
|
16 |
Kyoto University |
|
67.6 |
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
17 |
University of Paris Sud (Paris 11) |
|
67.4 |
|
18 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
|
65.7 |
|
19 |
University of California, San Diego |
|
65.6 |
|
20 |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
|
64.8 |
|
21 |
Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 |
|
63.5 |
|
22 |
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
|
62.8 |
|
23 |
University of Pennsylvania |
|
61.9 |
|
23 |
University of Washington |
|
61.9 |
|
25 |
University of Maryland, College Park |
|
61.6 |
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