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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 results

Saturday, 15. August 2015 - 12:08

Mainland China has continued to improve its performance in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, but the US and Europe still dominate the table.

China has 32 universities in the top 500 table, the same number as last year, but they are edging up the ranks. Seven of these are now in the top 200, up from six last year, after Sun Yat-sen University leaped from the 201-300 band to 151-200. Six of its universities are now in the 201-300 band, up from just two in last year’s table, which is based on research prowess and compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Meanwhile, Japan’s performance has declined this year; the country has 18 institutions represented, down from 19, after Waseda University dropped off the table. Japan's universities are also falling out of the upper echelons of the table; it has one fewer institution in the top 200 (seven compared to eight last year) and one more in the 401-500 band (six compared to five last year).

Overall the US dominates the table, taking more than half (51) of the spots in the top 100. Harvard University is number one for the 13th year in a row. The rest of the top 10 also remains unchanged from last year and is made up of Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford.

The UK has nine universities in the top 100, one more than last year, with the University of Warwick (92nd) entering the top fifth of the table for the first time. However, many of the top UK institutions have fallen down the list: Imperial College London has dropped one placed to 23rd, University of Manchester has dropped three places to 41st, and the University of Edinburgh has dropped two places to 47th.

Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, said if the UK is to stay at the front of the pack it must “fend off fierce competition from countries like China and Germany”.

She added: “Increasing funding in science, research and innovation is essential to keep our leading universities at the top of the table and make sure the UK maximises its economic potential.”

Top 100

1 Harvard University US
2 Stanford University US
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) US
4 University of California, Berkeley US
5 University of Cambridge UK
6 Princeton University US
7 California Institute of Technology US
8 Columbia University US
9 University of Chicago US
10 University of Oxford UK
11 Yale University US
12 University of California, Los Angeles US
13 Cornell University US
14 University of California, San Diego US
15 University of Washington US
16 Johns Hopkins University US
17 University of Pennsylvania US
18 University of California, San Francisco US
18 University College London UK
20 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
21 The University of Tokyo Japan
22 University of Michigan US
23 Imperial College London UK
24 University of Wisconsin-Madison US
25 University of Toronto Canada
26 Kyoto University Japan
27 New York University US
27 Northwestern University US
29 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign US
30 University of Minnesota US
31 Duke University US
32 Washington University in St. Louis US
33 Rockefeller University US
34 University of Colorado at Boulder US
35 University of Copenhagen Denmark
36 Pierre and Marie Curie University France
37 University of Texas at Austin US
38 University of California, Santa Barbara US
39 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill US
40 University of British Columbia Canada
41 Paris-Sud University France
41 The University of Manchester UK
43 University of Maryland, College Park US
44 University of Melbourne Australia
44 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas US
46 Heidelberg University Germany
47 The University of Edinburgh UK
48 Karolinska Institute Sweden
49 University of Southern California US
50 University of California, Irvine US
51 Technical University of Munich Germany
52 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Germany
53 Vanderbilt University US
54 University of Zurich Switzerland
55 King's College London UK
56 Utrecht University Netherlands
57 University of California, Davis US
58 University of Oslo Norway
58 University of Geneva Switzerland
60 Pennsylvania State University US
61 Uppsala University Sweden
61 Carnegie Mellon University US
61 Purdue University US
64 McGill University Canada
64 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey US
66 University of Bristol UK
67 University of Helsinki Finland
67 Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
67 Ohio State University US
70 University of Pittsburgh US
71 Ghent University Belgium
72 Ecole Normale Superieure France
73 Aarhus University Denmark
73 Boston University US
75 University of Groningen Netherlands
75 Brown University US
77 Australian National University Australia
77 University of Queensland Australia
77 Technion Israel Institute of Technology Israel
77 Nagoya University Japan
77 Stockholm University Sweden
82 Leiden University Netherlands
83 University of Florida US
84 Rice University US
85 Osaka University Japan
86 Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia
87 University of Western Australia Australia
87 University of Strasbourg France
87 University of Basel Switzerland
90 KU Leuven Belgium
90 University of Arizona US
92 University of Warwick UK
93 Arizona State University US
93 University of California, Santa Cruz US
93 University of Utah US
96 McMaster University Canada
97 University of Bonn Germany
98 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands
99 Michigan State University US
100 Texas A&M University US

Source: 
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
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