Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 results

China continues to advance, but Japan dips in Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking based on research strength

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Harvard University tops the list for the 13th year in a row

Compare these rankings with the THE World University Rankings 2014-15

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 in the top 200, compared with six last year, now that Sun Yat-sen University has leaped from the 201-300 band to the 151-200 group. The country also still has six of its universities in the 201-300 band, after Jilin University moved up from the 301-400 band in last year’s table, which is based on research prowess and is 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 ranking: the country has one fewer institution in the top 200 (seven, compared with eight last year) and one more in the 401-500 band (six, compared with five last year).

Overall the US dominates the table, claiming more than half (51) 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, comprising Stanford University; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Cambridge; Princeton University; the 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) making its debut in the top fifth of the table. However, many of the top UK institutions have slipped down the list: Imperial College London has dropped one place to 23rd, the 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 that 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 to make sure the UK maximises its economic potential.”

ellie.bothwell@tesglobal.com

Below is a list of the top 100 institutions in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 including links to the profiles of those institutions also featured in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-15.

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015: top 100

Rank   Institution Country
1 Harvard University US
2 Stanford University US
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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 ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
21 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 University of Manchester UK
43 University of Maryland, College Park US
=44 University of Melbourne Australia
=44  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas US
46 Heidelberg University Germany
47 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 École Normale Supérieure 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 VU University Amsterdam Netherlands
99 Michigan State University US
100 Texas A&M University US
Source: TimesHigherEducation

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1 COMMENT

  1. It is a doubtful political list that excludes not just Bangladesh but India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Australia and most of Europe. What ever criteria was used for this league table it is of little use unless related to tangible outcome like employment etc.

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