World's top 500 universities in 2011
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China.org.cn, August 16, 2011
The Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Monday released the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), 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. In Continental Europe, ETH Zurich (23rd) in Switzerland takes first place, followed by Paris-Sud (40th) and Pierre and Marie Curie (41st) in France. The best ranked universities in Asia are University of Tokyo (21st) and Kyoto University (27th) in Japan.
Three universities are ranked among Top 100 for the first time in the history of ARWU: University of Geneva (73rd), University of Queensland (88th) and University of Frankfurt (100th). As a result, the number of Top 100 universities in Switzerland, Australia and Germany increases to 4, 4 and 6 respectively.
Ten universities first enter into Top 500, among them University of Malaya in Malaysia and University of Zagreb in Croatia enable their home countries to be represented, together with other 40 countries, in the 2011 ARWU list.
Progress of universities in Middle East countries is remarkable. King Saud University in Saudi Arabia first appears in Top 300; King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Saudi Arabia, Istanbul University in Turkey and University of Teheran in Iran move up in Top 400 for the first time; Cairo University in Egypt is back to Top 500 after five years of staggering outside.
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.
World's top 100 universities on the ARWU 2010 list:
Rank University
1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4. University of California, Berkeley
5. University of Cambridge
6. California Institute of Technology
7. Princeton University
8. Columbia University
9. University of Chicago
10. University of Oxford
11. Yale University
12. University of California, Los Angeles
13. Cornell University
14. University of Pennsylvania
15. University of California, San Diego
16. University of Washington
17. University of California, San Francisco
18. The Johns Hopkins University
19. University of Wisconsin - Madison
20. University College London
21. The University of Tokyo
22. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
23. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
24. The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
25. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
26. University of Toronto
27. Kyoto University
28. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
29. New York University
30. Northwestern University
31. Washington University in St. Louis
32. University of Colorado at Boulder
33. Rockefeller University
33. University of California, Santa Barbara
35. Duke University
35. The University of Texas at Austin
37. University of British Columbia
38. The University of Manchester
38. University of Maryland, College Park
40. University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)
41. Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6
42. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
43. University of Copenhagen
44. Karolinska Institute
45. Pennsylvania State University - University Park
46. University of Southern California
47. Technical University Munich
48. University of California, Davis
48. University of California, Irvine
48. Utrecht University
51. The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
52. Vanderbilt University
53. The University of Edinburgh
54. University of Munich
55. Carnegie Mellon University
56. University of Zurich
57. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
57. University of Pittsburgh
59. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
60. University of Melbourne
61. Purdue University - West Lafayette
62. University of Heidelberg
63. The Ohio State University - Columbus
64. McGill University
65. Brown University
65. Leiden University
67. Uppsala University
68. King's College London
69. Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris
70. The Australian National University
70. University of Bristol
72. University of Florida
73. University of Geneva
74. University of Helsinki
75. University of Oslo
76. Boston University
77. Moscow State University
78. Arizona State University - Tempe
79. University of Utah
80. University of Arizona
81. Stockholm University
82. Indiana University Bloomington
82. Osaka University
84. University of Rochester
85. University of Nottingham
86. Aarhus University
86. The University of Queensland
86. University of Goettingen
89. Ghent University
89. McMaster University
89. University of Basel
92. Michigan State University
93. Rice University
94. Nagoya University
94. University of Bonn
96. University of Sydney
97. Case Western Reserve University
97. The University of Sheffield
97. Tohoku University
100. Texas A&M University - College Station
100. University of Frankfurt
