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UNIVERSITY RANKINGS
Before perusing the rankings, a quick note. All rankings tables are compiled according to a number of parameters determined by the body that commissioned the research. Therefore, dependent on the chosen parameters, some universities that one would not expect to see so highly ranked do appear, and vice versa. However, in the real world there are a number of universities that are always at the top and maintain their high rankings. Furthermore, in the real world everyone knows a Cambridge or MIT whether or not it is first or fifth in the rankings - reputation carries a lot of weight. Thus, when you are reading through the various tables bear the above on mind. There are of course exceptions, or specific courses, which might be particularly good at universities that are not necessarily highly ranked.
General rankings 2005
Top universities overall (worldwide)
Rank Prev. Rank Institution Country Score (out of 100) 1 1 Harvard University USA 100.0 2 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 86.9 3 6 University of Cambridge UK 85.8 4 5 University of Oxford UK 83.9 5 7 Stanford University USA 83.4 6 2 University of California, Berkeley USA 80.6 7 8 Yale University USA 72.7 8 4 California Institute of Technology USA 71.5 9 9 Princeton University USA 64.8 10 27 Ecole Polytechnique France 61.5 11= 52 Duke University USA 59.1 11= 11 London School of Economics UK 59.1 13 14 Imperial College London UK 59.0 14 23 Cornell University USA 58.1 15 17 Beijing University China 56.3 16 12 Tokyo University Japan 55.1 17= 20 University of California, San Francisco USA 54.9 17= 13 University of Chicago USA 54.9 19 22 Melbourne University Australia 54.5 20 19 Columbia University USA 53.9
Top universities overall (Europe only)
Rank World rank Institution Country 1 3 University of Cambridge UK 2 4 University of Oxford UK 3 10 Ecole Polytechnique France 4 11 London School of Economics UK 5 13 Imperial College London UK 6 21 ETH Switzerland 7 24 Ecole Normale Superieure France 8 28 University College London UK 9 30 Edinburgh University UK 10 34 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Switzerland Top universities overall (North America only)
Rank World rank Institution Country 1 1 Harvard University USA 2 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 3 5 Stanford University USA 4 6 University of California, Berkeley USA 5 7 Yale University USA 6 8 California Institute of Technology USA 7 9 Princeton University USA 8 11 Duke University USA 9 14 Cornell University USA 10 17 University of Chicago USA 10 17 University of California, San Francisco USA Top universities overall (outside Europe and North America)
Rank World rank Institution Country 1 15 Beijing University China 2 16 University of Tokyo Japan 3 19 University of Melbourne Australia 4 22 National University of Singapore Singapore 5 23 Australian National University Australia 6 31 Kyoto University Japan 7 33 Monash University Australia 8 38 University of Sydney Australia 9 40 University of New South Wales Australia 10 41 Hong Kong University China Specific rankings 2005
Top universities worldwide for arts and humanities
Rank Prev. Rank Institution Country Peer Score 1 1 Harvard University USA 100 2 2 Oxford University UK 84.7 3 5 Cambridge University UK 81.2 4 3 University of California, Berkeley USA 77.8 5 4 Yale University USA 77.4 6 7 Beijing University China 70.9 7 6 Princeton University USA 69.2 8 49 Melbourne University Australia 60.0 9 10 London School of Economics UK 58.7 Top universities worldwide for biomedicine
Rank Prev. Rank Institution Country Peer Score Citations per Paper 1 1 Harvard University USA 100 28.5 2 2 University of Cambridge UK 95.8 23.0 3 3 University of Oxford UK 84.3 23.0 4 7 Karolinska Institute Sweden 83.8 16.3 5 5 Stanford University USA 81.0 27.2 6 4 Imperial College London UK 80.9 14.2 7 6 Johns Hopkins University USA 77.7 23.6 8 11 Beijing University China 69.5 -- 9 9 University of California, Berkeley USA 69.2 26.5 10 14 University of Melbourne Australia 67.7 12.0 Top universities worldwide for science
Rank Prev. Rank Institution Country Peer Score Citations per Paper 1 1 Cambridge University UK 100 12.9 2 2 Oxford University UK 94.6 12.2 3 4 University of California, Berkeley USA 92.7 16.0 4 3 Harvard University USA 89.9 20.6 5 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 87.3 16.6 6 8 Princeton University USA 80.4 17.7 7 6 Stanford University USA 79.1 17.3 8 7 Tokyo University Japan 74.5 9.2 9 9 California Institute of Technology USA 72.4 18.0 10 10 Imperial College London UK 69.5 10.7 Top universities worldwide for social sciences
Rank Prev. Rank Institution Country Peer Score Citations per Paper 1 1 Harvard University USA 100 9.4 2 2 London School of Economics UK 96.3 4.6 3 4 University of Oxford UK 88.4 5.3 4 3 University of California, Berkeley USA 85.3 6.9 5 6 Stanford University USA 80.4 8.5 6 7 Yale University USA 77.3 7.2 7 9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 73.9 8.9 8 8 University of Cambridge UK 73.5 4.6 9 5 University of Chicago USA 73.0 9.9 Top universities worldwide for technology
Rank Prev. Rank Institution Country Peer Score Citations per Paper 1 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 100 6.0 2 1 University of California, Berkeley USA 98.7 6.3 3 4 Indian Institutes of Technology India 86.4 -- 4 3 Stanford University USA 84.9 6.8 5 5 Imperial College London UK 81.3 4.1 6 8 Cambridge University UK 79.4 5.1 7 6 California Institute of Technology USA 78 7.1 8 7 Tokyo University Japan 76.8 -- 9 9 National University of Singapore Singapore 74.1 --
General rankings 2004
Top universities overall (worldwide)
Rank Institution Country Score (out of 1000) 1 Harvard University USA 1000.0 1 University of California, Berkeley USA 1000.0 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 788.9 4 California Institute of Technology USA 738.9 5 University of Oxford UK 731.8 6 University of Cambridge UK 725.4 7 Stanford University USA 688.0 8 Yale University USA 582.8 9 Princeton University USA 557.5 10 ETH Zurich Switzerland 553.7 11 London School of Economics UK 484.4 12 Tokyo University Japan 482.0 13 University of Chicago USA 444.0 14 Imperial College London UK 443.7 15 University of Texas at Austin USA 421.5 16 Australian National University Australia 417.7 17 Beijing University China 391.8 18 National University of Singapore Singapore 385.9 19 Columbia University USA 384.1 20 University of California, San Francisco USA 376.5 Top universities overall (Europe only)
Rank World rank Institution Country Score (out of 1000) 1 5 University of Oxford UK 731.8 2 6 University of Cambridge UK 725.4 3 10 ETH Switzerland 553.7 4 11 London School of Economics UK 484.4 5 14 Imperial College London UK 443.7 6 27 Ecole Polytechnique France 315.5 7 30 Ecole Normale Superieure France 298.4 8 32 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Switzerland 289.4 9 34 University College London UK 284.2 Top universities overall (North America only)
Rank World rank Institution Country Score (out of 1000) 1 1 Harvard University USA 1000.0 1 1 University of California, Berkeley USA 1000.0 3 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 788.9 4 4 California Institute of Technology USA 738.9 5 7 Stanford University USA 688.0 6 8 Yale University USA 582.8 7 9 Princeton University USA 557.5 8 13 University of Chicago USA 444.0 9 15 University of Texas at Austin USA 421.5 10 19 Columbia University USA 384.1 Top universities overall (outside Europe and North America)
Rank World rank Institution Country Score (out of 1000) 1 12 Tokyo University Japan 482.0 2 16 Australian National University Australia 417.7 3 17 Beijing University China 391.8 4 18 National University of Singapore Singapore 385.9 5 22 University of Melbourne Australia 353.2 6 29 Kyoto University Japan 303.7 7 33 Monash University Australia 286.0 8 36 University of New South Wales Australia 275.7 9 39 Hong Kong University China 249.5 10 40 University of Sydney Australia 245.2 Top universities overall (by peer review)
This ordering of universities worldwide was determined by questioning a group of 1,300 academics in 88 countries, who were asked which institutions they thought were best in the fields they felt qualified to comment on (hence the ranking was determined by a sort of peer review). Although subjective, this peer review score was the single most important factor in determining overall university rankings, favoring non-Western institutions.
Rank Institution Country Score (out of 1000) 1 University of California, Berkeley USA 665 2 Harvard University USA 643 3 University of Oxford UK 560 4 University of Cambridge UK 541 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 484 6 Stanford University USA 420 7 University of Tokyo Japan 371 8 Princeton University USA 353 9 Yale University USA 347
Specific rankings 2004
Top universities worldwide for arts and humanities
Rank Institution Country Score (maximum score unknown) 1 Harvard University USA 41.83 2 University of Oxford UK 30.99 3 University of California, Berkeley USA 29.86 4 Yale University USA 27.68 5 University of Cambridge UK 26.04 6 Princeton University USA 22.14 7 Beijing University China 18.32 8 Columbia University USA 17.70 9 University of Tokyo Japan 14.42 10 London School of Economics UK 12.94 Top universities worldwide for biomedicine
Rank Institution Country Score (out of 200) 1 Harvard University USA 200.00 2 University of Cambridge UK 179.39 3 University of Oxford UK 165.32 4 Imperial College London UK 139.28 5 Stanford University USA 133.05 6 Johns Hopkins University USA 116.48 7 Karolinska Institute Sweden 112.18 8 Yale University USA 90.95 9 University of California, Berkeley USA 84.70 10 University of California, San Diego USA 78.84 Top universities worldwide for engineering and IT
Rank Institution Country Score (out of 200) 1 University of California, Berkeley USA 200.00 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 191.15 3 Stanford University USA 150.71 4 Indian Institutes of Technology India 149.34 5 Imperial College London UK 137.87 6 California Institute of Technology USA 123.99 7 University of Tokyo Japan 121.46 8 University of Cambridge UK 116.46 9 National University of Singapore Singapore 106.50 Top universities worldwide by research impact
This ranking was determined by the number of citations per faculty member that universities received.
Rank Institution Country Score (out of 400) 1 California Institute of Technology USA 400 2 University of California, San Francisco USA 300 3 ETH Zurich Switzerland 266 4 Harvard University USA 243 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 221 6 University of California, San Diego USA 208 7 University of Texas at Austin USA 202 8 Stanford University USA 197 9 University of California, Berkeley USA 169 10 Princeton University USA 133
Top universities worldwide for science
Rank Institution Country Score (out of 200) 1 University of Cambridge UK 200.0 2 University of Oxford UK 169.8 3 Harvard University USA 159.8 4 University of California, Berkeley USA 159.0 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 135.1 6 Stanford University USA 118.7 7 Tokyo University Japan 118.5 8 Princeton University USA 115.6 9 California Institute of Technology USA 99.3 10 Imperial College London UK 89.8
Top universities worldwide for social sciences
Rank Institution Country Score (out of 200) 1 Harvard University USA 200.00 2 London School of Economics UK 185.25 3 University of California, Berkeley USA 163.26 4 University of Oxford UK 157.00 5 University of Chicago USA 131.96 6 Stanford University USA 122.99 7 Yale University USA 110.10 8 University of Cambridge UK 100.37 9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 100.02 10 National University of Singapore Singapore 82.14
Top universities worldwide by staffing level
This ranking was determined by the level of attention that students receive from university faculty members (as measured by the ratio of faculty members to students), as well as the number of international faculty staff and students.
Rank Institution Country International Faculty Score International Students Score Student/Faculty Score 1 Ecole Normale Superieure France 11 22 100 2 Johns Hopkins University USA 16 13 68 3 Yale University USA 53 20 65 4 University of Chicago USA 31 18 58 5 Duke University USA 12 11 56 6 Columbia University USA 10 18 56 7 Imperial College London UK 60 51 55 8 Harvard University USA 17 17 50 9 Case Western Reserve University USA 4 11 49 10 University of Rochester USA 10 8 49 The meaning of the above ranking is unclear. For example, Duke scores higher than Columbia in the Faculty category, but lower in the Students category, with both universities equal in the Student/Faculty category. Duke is placed above Columbia, which might make it sensible to assume that the Faculty category carries more weight. However, Case Western Reserve scores lower on the Faculty category and higher on the Students category than Rochester, but is placed above it.
See also
External links
- Offical THES Website (subscription is required to access much of the site)
- THES World University Rankings
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