American universities have again outranked more
than 1,250 other higher education institutions around
the world in the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong listing of
the global top 500 universities. And for the 12th year
running, Harvard was placed number one. The global
Academic Ranking of World Universities , or ARWU,
was released on Friday with the usual long list of
United States universities taking 16 places in the top
20, 52 in the top 100 and 146 in the top 500.
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Caltech,
Columbia and Chicago – in that order – were in the
top 10 while American institutions also occupied the
top five places in four of the five broad subject fields
where Shanghai ranks the top 200 universities.
Britain came second with three of its universities in
the top 20 – Cambridge at number five, Oxford at
number nine and University College London at 20.
The UK also had eight universities in the top 100 and
20 in the top 200 with a total of 38 at the 500 point.
That was one behind Germany, which had 39
universities in total in the top 500 but none in the top
20. France and Italy each had 21 universities in the
top 500, as did Canada, and they were followed by
Australia and Japan with 19 each. Switzerland’s
science and engineering university, ETH Zurich,
joined the elite top 20 group for the first time, in the
19th spot, placing the university first among
European institutions.
ETH was followed by France’s Pierre and Marie Curie
University at number 35, while the University of
Copenhagen, in 39th position, overtook Paris-Sud as
the third top university in Europe.
The Swiss-based École Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne or EPFL made its first appearance in the
top 100, increasing Switzerland’s representation to
five – the third highest of all countries in the ranking
but with seven in total. China, with 44 universities
ranked in the top 500, continues to make rapid
advances up the table even though its institutions
only managed to get as far as having nine in the top
200. Even with 44, though, China still had 102 fewer of
its institutions placed in the rankings than the US.
Elsewhere in Asia, the University of Tokyo at 21 and
Kyoto University at 26 topped all others in Asia while
the University of Melbourne in 44th position became
the highest ranked university in Australasia in the
history of the ARWU.
Overall, 16 countries had at least one university in
the top 100 while 42 nations were represented in the
top 500, with nine managing to have one listed and
six having two. This year, 25 universities broke into
the top 500, including Deakin University in Melbourne
plus another nine that also made their first
appearance. South Africa and Egypt were the only
countries on the African continent to be represented
in the top 500: South Africa with the universities of
Cape Town, the Witwatersrand, KwaZulu-Natal and
Stellenbosch, and Egypt with the University of Cairo.
The ranking The Center for World-Class Universities
at Shanghai Jiao Tong first launched the precursor of
the now too-numerous university ranking systems in
2003. It has been criticised in the past for its heavy
reliance on science-oriented sources, using
indicators such as the number of alumni and staff
winning Nobel prizes and Fields Medals, and the
number of articles published in Nature and Science.
The ranking also uses the Science Citation Index and
the Social Sciences Citation Index, as well as each
university’s ‘per capita performance’ in determining a
university’s place in the rankings.
The latter is calculated by the weighted scores of the
other five indicators divided by the number of full-
time equivalent academic staff. The centre says that if
staff numbers are not available, only the weighted
scores of the five indicators are used.
The centre is certainly correct, however, when it
refers to its “transparent methodology and reliable
data” – unlike some other rankings – and its listings
are still regarded as the most reliable, if not most
prestigious, of all the global university ranking
systems.
Performance by field It also publishes other results
of the vast amount of data the ranking collects, such
as the classification of the top 200 universities in five
broad fields as well as in five selected subject fields.
The following lists the fields and the top five
universities in each, which again shows America’s
domination: Natural Sciences and Mathematics:
Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Caltech.
Engineering-Technology and Computer Sciences:
MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and University of Texas at Austin.
Life and Agriculture Sciences: Harvard, Cambridge,
Stanford, MIT and University of California, San
Francisco. Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy: Harvard,
UC San Francisco, Washington (Seattle), Johns
Hopkins and Stanford.
Social Sciences: Harvard, Chicago, MIT, Berkeley and
Columbia. And in the subject fields: Mathematics:
Princeton, Harvard, Berkeley, Pierre and Marie Curie
and Stanford.

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