The Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University released the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) on August 15, 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.
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.
Along with the overall list, the center also released the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields (ARWU-FIELD) and 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject Field (ARWU-SUBJECT).
? Full list: world's top 100 universities 2011
? Top 100 universities by subject:
? economics/business ? chemistry ? computer science ? physics ? mathematics
? Top 100 universities by field:
? clinical medicine and pharmacy ? engineering/technology and computer sciences
? life and agriculture sciences ? social sciences ? natural sciences and mathematics
Following are the top 100 universities in life and agriculture sciences 2011:
Ranking |
Institute |
Country |
Score |
Website |
1 |
Harvard University |
|
100.0 |
|
2 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
|
77.2 |
|
3 |
University of California, San Francisco |
|
76.7 |
|
4 |
University of Cambridge |
|
75.1 |
|
5 |
University of Washington |
|
72.2 |
|
6 |
Stanford University |
|
71.0 |
|
7 |
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas |
|
67.1 |
|
8 |
Yale University |
|
66.5 |
|
9 |
Cornell University |
|
65.1 |
|
10 |
Columbia University |
|
65.0 |
|
11 |
Rockefeller University |
|
64.6 |
|
11 |
University of Wisconsin - Madison |
|
64.6 |
|
13 |
University of California, San Diego |
|
64.1 |
|
14 |
The Johns Hopkins University |
|
62.5 |
|
15 |
University of California, Berkeley |
|
62.4 |
|
16 |
University of Oxford |
|
62.3 |
|
17 |
Karolinska Institute |
|
60.3 |
|
17 |
University College London |
|
60.3 |
|
19 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
|
60.0 |
|
20 |
University of California, Davis |
|
58.0 |
|
20 |
University of Pennsylvania |
|
58.0 |
|
22 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
|
57.0 |
|
23 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
|
55.7 |
|
24 |
McGill University |
|
54.8 |
|
25 |
California Institute of Technology |
|
54.4 |