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 universities in engineering/technology and computer sciences 2011:
Ranking |
Institute |
Country |
Score |
Website |
1 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
|
100.0 |
|
2 |
Stanford University |
|
94.5 |
|
3 |
University of California, Berkeley |
|
88.5 |
|
4 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
|
83.5 |
|
5 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
|
82.3 |
|
6 |
The University of Texas at Austin |
|
81.6 |
|
7 |
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor |
|
80.1 |
|
8 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
|
79.2 |
|
9 |
Pennsylvania State University - University Park |
|
76.8 |
|
10 |
University of California, San Diego |
|
76.3 |
|
11 |
University of Maryland, College Park |
|
75.8 |
|
12 |
Northwestern University |
|
75.3 |
|
12 |
University of Southern California |
|
75.3 |
|
14 |
Purdue University - West Lafayette |
|
75.2 |
|
15 |
Texas A&M University - College Station |
|
73.8 |
|
15 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
|
73.8 |
|
15 |
University of Cambridge |
|
73.8 |
|
18 |
Cornell University |
|
72.7 |
|
19 |
California Institute of Technology |
|
72.4 |
|
20 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne |
|
71.8 |
|
21 |
University of Toronto |
|
71.3 |
|
22 |
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine |
|
70.3 |
|
23 |
Princeton University |
|
70.1 |
|
24 |
Tohoku University |
|
69.8 |
|
25 |
The Ohio State University - Columbus |
|
69.6 |
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