Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2010

Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2010

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The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Starting from 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world top 500 universities annually based on a set of objective indicators and third-party data. ARWU has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and one of the most influential lists. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities and the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and then updated on an annual basis. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution. More than 1000 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published on the web. US still dominates 2010 list with 8 universities in the top 10 and 54 universities in the top 100. Harvard University remains the No. 1 in the world for the eighth year, followed by Berkeley and Stanford. MIT, Caltech, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago also appear in top 10 as in 2009. Besides the overall ranking, the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields (ARWU-FIELD) and 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject Field (ARWU-SUBJECT) are also published. These rankings list the world top 100 universities in five broad subject fields and in five selected subject fields, where the top 3 universities are: Natural Sciences and Mathematics – Harvard, Berkeley and Cambridge Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences – MIT, Stanford and Berkeley Life and Agriculture Sciences – Harvard, UC San Francisco and MIT Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy – Harvard, UC San Francisco and John Hopkins Social Sciences – Harvard, Chicago and Stanford Mathematics – Princeton, Berkeley and Harvard Physics – Harvard, MIT and Caltech Chemistry – Berkeley, Harvard and Cambridge Computer Science – Stanford, MIT and Berkeley Economics / Business – Harvard, Chicago and MIT The complete lists and detailed methodology can be found at the Academic Ranking of World Universities website at www.arwu.org