top universities, globally 

The Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University released on August 15 the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), marking its 9th consecutive year of measuring the performance of top universities world- wide. Take a look, it’s an overwhelming dominance of US uni- versities. For instance, in overall ranking of top 20 universities, 17 (85%) are US ! And among them Harvard, the colossus- quality. If you look at main English speaking countries (US + UK + Canada + Australia), the dominance is even more pronounced [ROLLOVER]. There are 12 countries with at least 10 universities in top 500. Russia has only 2, India only 1.

The ranking in special subjects and fields reveals some interesting facts. For instance, the highest Israel’s university in overall ranking is 57^th while Israel has 4 universities in top 30 computer science. Click on the title of a subject or field to see the ranking of the top 100.

The complete lists and detailed methodologies can be found at the Academic Ranking of World Universities website at http://www.ShanghaiRanking.com/.

 2011-08-28 

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