Academic Ranking of World Universities Totally Explained

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The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (10 percent), staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (20 percent), “highly-cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories” (20 percent), articles published in Nature and Science (20 percent), the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (20 percent) and the size of the institution (10 percent). The results have been cited by The Economist magazine . The methodology is set out in an academic article by its originators, C.C. Liu and Y. Cheng. Liu and Cheng explain that the original purpose of doing the ranking was “to find out the gap between Chinese universities and world-class universities, particularly in terms of academic or research performance.” College and university rankings often stimulate controversy (see Criticism of college and university rankings (North America) and Criticism of college and university rankings (2007 United States)) and the ARWU is no exception. A 2007 paper published in the journal Scientometrics found that the results from the Shanghai rankings couldn't be reproduced from raw data using the methodology described by Liu and Cheng.

Rankings

The table below contains the rankings from 2003 to 2007 for all universities which ranked at least 100 in one of the years. The ranking is omitted for years in which the school didn't land within the top 100. Note, the full ranking contains over 500 universities. If you don't see a university listed in this table, it fell below 100 in all five years.

University	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Arizona State University	1000	1000	1000	100	96
Australian National University	49	53	53	54	57
Boston University	98	86	86	81	83
Brown University	49	82	82	85	70
California Institute of Technology	3	6	6	6	6
Carnegie Mellon University	61	62	62	56	60
Case Western Reserve University	51	65	65	70	78
Columbia University	10	9	9	7	7
Cornell University	12	12	12	12	12
Duke University	32	31	31	31	32
École Normale Supérieure - Paris	1000	85	85	99	83
Emory University	99	1000	1000	1000	1000
Free University of Berlin	95	1000	1000	99	83
Harvard University	1	1	1	1	1
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	94	90	90	60	64
Humboldt University of Berlin	1000	95	95	1000	1000
Imperial College London	17	23	23	23	23
Indiana University - Bloomington	1000	1000	1000	97	90
Johns Hopkins University	24	22	22	20	19
Karolinska Institutet	39	46	46	48	53
King's College London	75	77	77	83	83
Kyoto University	30	21	21	22	22
Lund University	93	92	92	90	97
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	6	5	5	5	5
McGill University	79	61	61	62	63
McMaster University	86	88	88	90	87
Michigan State University	87	80	80	80	80
Moscow State University	1000	66	66	70	76
Nagoya University	68	97	97	98	94
New York University	55	32	32	29	30
North Carolina State University	99	1000	1000	1000	1000
Northwestern University	29	30	30	33	29
Ohio State University	81	73	73	66	61
Osaka University	53	54	54	61	67
Pennsylvania State University	40	43	43	42	43
Princeton University	7	7	7	8	8
Purdue University	80	71	71	73	68
Rice University	61	75	75	87	87
Rockefeller University	28	29	29	30	30
Rutgers University	38	44	44	46	47
Stanford University	2	2	2	3	2
Stockholm University	1000	97	97	84	86
ETH Zurich	25	27	27	27	27
Technical University of Munich	60	45	45	54	56
Texas A&M University	70	1000	1000	88	91
Tohoku University	64	69	69	76	76
Tokyo Institute of Technology	1000	1000	1000	89	99
Tokyo University	19	14	14	19	20
Tufts University	83	99	99	1000	1000
University of Arizona	55	76	76	76	74
University of Basel	96	91	91	81	82
University of Birmingham	1000	93	93	90	92
University of Bonn	1000	99	99	1000	99
University of Bristol	55	60	60	62	62
University of British Columbia	35	36	36	36	36
University of California, Berkeley	4	4	4	4	3
University of California, Davis	36	42	42	42	43
University of California, Irvine	44	55	55	44	45
University of California, Los Angeles	15	16	16	14	13
University of California, San Diego	14	13	13	13	14
University of California, San Francisco	13	17	17	18	18
University of California, Santa Barbara	26	35	35	35	35
University of California, Riverside	88	1000	1000	1000	1000
University of Cambridge	5	3	3	2	4
University of Chicago	11	10	10	8	9
University College London	20	25	25	26	25
University of Colorado, Boulder	31	34	34	34	34
University of Copenhagen	65	59	59	56	46
University of Edinburgh	43	47	47	52	53
University of Florida	75	67	67	53	51
University of Freiburg	1000	88	88	93	94
University of Ghent	99	1000	1000	1000	1000
University of Goettingen	91	79	79	85	87
University of Groningen	84	1000	1000	1000	1000
University of Heidelberg	58	64	64	66	65
University of Helsinki	74	72	72	74	73
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	45	25	25	25
University of Illinois at Chicago	96	1000	1000	1000	1000
University of Iowa	90	1000	1000	95	97
University of Leiden	78	63	63	72	71
University of Manchester	89	78	53	50	48
University of Maryland at College Park	75	57	57	37	37
University of Melbourne	92	82	82	78	79
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor	21	19	19	21	21
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities	37	33	33	32	33
University of Munich	48	51	51	51	53
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	52	56	56	59	58
University of Nottingham	1000	80	80	79	81
University of Oslo	63	68	68	68	69
University of Oxford	9	8	8	10	10
University of Paris 6 (Pierre and Marie Curie University)	65	41	41	45	39
University of Paris 11 (Paris-Sud 11 University)	72	48	48	64	52
University of Pennsylvania	18	15	15	15	15
University of Pittsburgh	53	48	48	48	49
University of Rochester	72	52	52	74	75
Sapienza University of Rome	70	93	93	100	1000
University of Sheffield	68	69	69	69	72
University of Southern California	40	48	48	47	50
University of Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur University)	1000	82	82	96	99
University of Texas - Austin	47	40	40	39	38
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	34	36	36	38	39
University of Toronto	23	24	24	24	23
University of Utah	81	95	95	94	93
University of Utrecht	40	39	39	40	42
University of Vienna	84	86	86	1000	1000
University of Virginia	67	1000	1000	1000	1000
University of Washington	16	20	20	17	16
University of Wisconsin - Madison	27	18	18	16	17
University of Zurich	45	57	57	58	58
Uppsala University	59	74	74	65	66
Vanderbilt University	32	38	38	41	41
Washington University in St. Louis	22	28	28	28	28
Yale University	8	11	11	11	11

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