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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 economics / business 2011:

Ranking	Institute	Country	Score	Website
1	Harvard University		100.0	www.harvard.edu
2	University of Chicago		91.2	www.uchicago.edu
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		83.8	www.mit.edu
4	University of California, Berkeley		77.7	http://berkeley.edu/
5	Columbia University		77.0	www.columbia.edu
6	Stanford University		76.2	www.stanford.edu
7	Princeton University		73.5	www.princeton.edu
8	University of Pennsylvania		71.7	www.upenn.edu/
9	Yale University		65.2	www.yale.edu
10	New York University		64.4	www.nyu.edu
11	Northwestern University		62.5	www.northwestern.edu
12	London School of Economics and Political Science		60.3	www.lse.ac.uk
13	Carnegie Mellon University		59.6	www.cmu.edu
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities		58.9	www1.umn.edu/twincities /index.php
15	University of California, Los Angeles		58.4	www.ucla.edu
16	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor		58.2	www.umich.edu
17	University of Maryland, College Park		54.3	www.umd.edu
18	University of Oxford		53.9	www.ox.ac.uk
19	University of Cambridge		53.4	www.cam.ac.uk
20	University of California, San Diego		52.9	www.ucsd.edu
21	Arizona State University - Tempe		52.3	www.asu.edu
22	Duke University		52.0	www.duke.edu
23	The University of Texas at Austin		51.6	www.utexas.edu
24	Cornell University		50.1	www.cornell.edu
25	Indiana University Bloomington		49.9	www.indiana.edu