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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 chemistry 2011:

Ranking	Institute	Country	Score	Website
1	Harvard University		100.0	www.harvard.edu
2	University of California, Berkeley		99.9	berkeley.edu
3	Stanford University		95.1	www.stanford.edu
4	University of Cambridge		94.9	www.cam.ac.uk
5	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich		87.6	www.ethz.ch
6	California Institute of Technology		84.9	www.caltech.edu
7	Kyoto University		81.8	www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ index-e.html
8	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		79.0	www.mit.edu
9	Northwestern University		77.4	www.northwestern.edu
10	University of Oxford		77.1	www.ox.ac.uk
11	Columbia University		75.6	www.columbia.edu
12	The University of Tokyo		74.7	www.u-tokyo.ac.jp
13	Technical University Munich		73.4	www.tum.de
14	University of Strasbourg		71.5	www.unistra.fr
15	University of California, Los Angeles		71.3	www.ucla.edu
16	University of California, San Diego		71.2	www.ucsd.edu
17	University of Pennsylvania		70.1	www.upenn.edu
18	University of California, Santa Barbara		68.7	www.ucsb.edu
19	Purdue University - West Lafayette		67.5	www.purdue.edu
20	Yale University		67.2	www.yale.edu
21	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		65.6	www.uiuc.edu
22	University of California, Irvine		65.4	www.uci.edu
23	The University of Texas at Austin		65.2	www.utexas.edu
23	University of Toronto		65.2	www.utoronto.ca
25	Cornell University		64.9	www.cornell.edu