Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley again finished first, second, and third in the Annual Ranking of World Universities, published today by China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University. As in previous years, American universities dominated the ranking, filling out 55 of the top 100 positions. The only non-American institutions in the top 20 were the Universities of Cambridge (4), Oxford (10), and Tokyo (20). The Chinese university’s ratings, which are based on a formula that includes the number of alumni who win Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of papers published in Nature and Science, and scholarly-citation indexes, is part of a growing global obsession with university rankings.
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3 Responses to American Universities Again Dominate Key Global Ranking
barusso1 - October 30, 2009 at 4:44 pm
this is the most ridiculous ranking and should be discounted.
laoshi - October 31, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Any rankings emanating from the Middle Kingdom are likely steeped in guanxi. But yes, the obsession over rankings is extreme here.
gavinmoodie - October 31, 2009 at 9:27 pm
This league table is methodologically robust within its limited parameters and is a far better indicator of what it purports to measure than the US News & World Report rank. The SCImago institutions rankings: 2009 world report includes more higher education institutions (1,527) but considers only various measures of publications taken from Scopus, the database of the huge multinational publisher Elsevier