Academic ranking of world universities - 2012
Harvard University remains the number one in the world for the tenth year. The University of Melbourne continues to be the highest ranked Australian University at no. 57.
The Top 10 universities are: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Cambridge, Caltech, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago and Oxford. University of Tokyo in Japan is back to Top 20 (20th) and tops other Asian universities. ETH Zurich (23rd) in Switzerland takes first place in Continent Europe, followed by Paris-Sud (37th) and Pierre and Marie Curie (42nd) in France.
Israel and Australia have increased the number of Top 100 universities this year. With Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (78th) and Weizmann Institute of Science (93rd) entering the Top 100 for the very first time, three Israeli universities are listed among Top 100. The University of Western Australia’s first appearance in Top 100 (96th) increases the number of Top 100 universities in Australia to 5, which is the 3rd highest number across all countries.
Five universities in China and four in other countries move into the Top 500 for the first time. As a result, China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) now has 42 universities in the Top 500, overtaking the UK which has 38 universities in the Top 500 - second in the world. However, none of the Chinese universities are ranked among the Top 100 yet. With the University of Belgrade now in the Top 500, Serbia becomes the 43rd country on the ARWU list.
The Center for World-Class Universities also released the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields (ARWU-FIELD) and 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject Field (ARWU-SUBJECT). This year the ranking lists include 200 universities instead of 100. The best five universities in each ranked FIELD and SUBJECT are:
Natural Sciences and Mathematics – Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, Caltech and MIT
Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences – MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UIUC and UT Austin
Life and Agriculture Sciences – Harvard, MIT, UC San Francisco, Cambridge and Washington (Seattle)
Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy – Harvard, UC San Francisco, Washington (Seattle), Johns Hopkins and Columbia
Social Sciences – Harvard, Chicago, Berkeley, MIT and Columbia
Mathematics – Princeton, Harvard, Berkeley, Cambridge and Stanford
Physics – Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton and Caltech
Chemistry – Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge and ETH Zurich
Computer Science – Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton and Harvard
Economics/Business – Harvard, Chicago, MIT, Berkeley and Columbia
The complete lists and detailed methodologies can be found at the Academic Ranking of World Universities website at http://www.ShanghaiRanking.com/.