Thursday, August 23, 2007

Where Does Your University Rank?

The new 2007 Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings are out.

  • Harvard tops again (miles ahead of its nearest competitor)
  • 17 of the Top 20 are American, 2 are English (Cambridge and Oxford) and 1 is Japanese
  • 39 of the Top 50 are American
  • The highest placed Aussie Unis are the Australian National University (57) and the Univ of Melbourne (79)
The criteria are
  • Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals
  • Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals
  • Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories
  • Articles published in Nature and Science
  • Articles in Science Citation Index-expanded, Social Science Citation Index
  • Academic performance with respect to the size of an institution