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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 computer science 2011:

Ranking	Institute	Country	Score	Website
1	Stanford University		100.0	www.stanford.edu
2	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		92.8	www.mit.edu
3	University of California, Berkeley		83.9	berkeley.edu
4	Princeton University		77.2	www.princeton.edu
5	Harvard University		76.1	www.harvard.edu
6	Carnegie Mellon University		71.3	www.cmu.edu
7	Cornell University		67.6	www.cornell.edu
8	The University of Texas at Austin		65.2	www.utexas.edu
9	University of Southern California		63.2	www.usc.edu
10	University of Toronto		62.7	www.utoronto.ca
11	California Institute of Technology		61.4	www.caltech.edu
11	Weizmann Institute of Science		61.4	www.weizmann.ac.il
13	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		61.1	www.uiuc.edu
14	University of Maryland, College Park		60.2	www.umd.edu
15	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology		59.0	www.technion.ac.il
16	University of California, San Diego		57.7	www.ucsd.edu
17	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor		56.7	www.umich.edu
18	Purdue University - West Lafayette		56.0	www.purdue.edu
19	University of Oxford		55.6	www.ox.ac.uk
20	University of Washington		54.8	www.washington.edu
21	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology		54.2	www.ust.hk
22	Columbia University		54.1	www.columbia.edu
22	University of California, Los Angeles		54.1	www.ucla.edu
24	Georgia Institute of Technology		53.2	www.gatech.edu
25	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich		52.7	www.ethz.ch