ARWU 2014 Rankings

College Search & Selection
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<p>2014 rankings released.
<a href="http://www.shanghairanking.com/"&gt;http://www.shanghairanking.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>The methodology focuses mainly on research and faculty achievements. It's a good proxy for faculty strength, like the USNews Peer Assessment survey, which is much less objective.</p>

<p>Overall Top 10:
1 Harvard University<br>
2 Stanford University<br>
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
4 University of California-Berkeley<br>
5 University of Cambridge<br>
6 Princeton University<br>
7 California Institute of Technology<br>
8 Columbia University<br>
9 University of Chicago<br>
9 University of Oxford </p>

<p>Top 5 Natural Science:
1 University of California-Berkeley<br>
2 Harvard University<br>
3 Princeton University<br>
4 Stanford University<br>
5 California Institute of Technology </p>

<p>Top 5 Engineering/Tech:
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
2 Stanford University<br>
3 University of California-Berkeley<br>
4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br>
5 The University of Texas at Austin </p>

<p>Top 5 Life Science:
1 Harvard University<br>
2 University of Cambridge<br>
3 Stanford University<br>
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
5 University of California, San Francisco </p>

<p>Top 5 Social Science:
1 Harvard University<br>
2 University of Chicago<br>
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
4 University of California-Berkeley<br>
5 Columbia University </p>

<p>Top 5 Math:
1 Princeton University<br>
2 Harvard University<br>
3 University of California-Berkeley<br>
4 Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris
5 Stanford University</p>

<p>Top 5 Physics:
1 University of California-Berkeley<br>
2 Princeton University<br>
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
4 Harvard University<br>
5 California Institute of Technology </p>

<p>Top 5 Chemistry:
1 University of California-Berkeley<br>
2 Harvard University<br>
3 Stanford University<br>
4 Northwestern University<br>
5 University of Cambridge</p>

<p>Top 5 Computer Science:
1 Stanford University<br>
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
3 University of California-Berkeley<br>
4 Harvard University<br>
5 Princeton University</p>

<p>Top 5 Economics:
1 Harvard University<br>
2 University of Chicago<br>
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
4 University of California-Berkeley<br>
5 Princeton University</p>

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<p>These are also graduate school rankings not undergraduate. There is no way in hell Berkeley is better than Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Chicago, and Caltech.</p>

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<p>If it ranks ur school higher then its better</p>

<p>lower = worse</p>

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<p>These kinds of world rankings based on superstar faculty and research are not that helpful for students picking their undergrad school. If anything they perpetuate the prestige insanity that distorts and paralyzes the college search for so many. A critic recently pointed out that any of these universities could completely do away with their undergraduate program and still score the same in these rankings. So this list is more of a graduate student resource. While this list is perhaps some kind of proxy for “faculty strength,” few faculty superstars care very deeply about undergraduates or spend much time, if at all, teaching them.</p>

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<p>Depends on the type of undergrad. For your typical undergrad, I agree. For an undergrad ready and able to engage in grad-level research, superstar faculty could matter.</p>

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<p><em>How college rankings lists are generated</em></p>

<ol>
<li>Open rankings list from previous year.</li>
<li>Change year to current year.</li>
<li>Save list.</li>
<li>Repost online as current year’s rankings.</li>
</ol>

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<p>

Fixed that for you. The ranking focuses on STEM fields with a small bone thrown to the social sciences (especially economics). The humanities in particular are nowhere to be seen. </p>

<p>Methodology:
[ul][li]10% Alumni winning a Nobel in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Econ or a Fields —> all STEM except econ[/li][li]20% Faculty winning a Nobel in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Econ or a Fields —> all STEM except econ[/li][li]20% “Highly Cited” faculty in 21 categories (agriculture, biology and biochemistry, chemistry, clinical medicine, computer science, economics and business, engineering, environment/ecology, geosciences, immunology, materials science, mathematics, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, neuroscience, pharmacology and toxicology, physics, plant and animal science, psychiatry and psychology, “general social sciences” (???), space science) —> all STEM except econ, (arguably) psychiatry and psychology, and the general social sciences (a huge range of disciplines that counts the same as an extremely specialized and grad-only field like immunology - yep, makes sense)[/li][li]20% Papers published in Nature and Science —> self-explanatory[/li][li]20% Papers in Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index —> the broadest criterion, and the SSCI does account for a full range of social science disciplines[/li][*]10% Per capita performance —> simply all of the above divided by the number of faculty[/ul]</p>

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<p>Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014
RankingMethodologyStatistics
World
Rank Institution* Country
/Region National
Rank Total
Score Score on</p>

<p>1 Harvard University<br>
1
100
100
2 Stanford University<br>
2
72.1
41.8
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)<br>
3
70.5
68.4
4 University of California-Berkeley<br>
4
70.1
66.8
5 University of Cambridge<br>
1
69.2
79.1
6 Princeton University<br>
5
60.7
52.1
7 California Institute of Technology<br>
6
60.5
48.5
8 Columbia University<br>
7
59.6
65.1
9 University of Chicago<br>
8
57.4
61.4
9 University of Oxford<br>
2
57.4
51
11 Yale University<br>
9
55.2
48.8
12 University of California, Los Angeles<br>
10
51.9
30.2
13 Cornell University<br>
11
50.6
37.6
14 University of California, San Diego<br>
12
49.3
19.7
15 University of Washington<br>
13
48.1
21.7
16 University of Pennsylvania<br>
14
47.1
32.4
17 The Johns Hopkins University<br>
15
47
38.7
18 University of California, San Francisco<br>
16
45.2
0
19 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich<br>
1
43.9
30.2
20 University College London<br>
3
43.3
28.8
21 The University of Tokyo<br>
1
43.2
31.6
22 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine<br>
4
42.3
14.9
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor<br>
17
42.3
35.3
24 University of Toronto<br>
1
41.8
20.4
24 University of Wisconsin - Madison<br>
18
41.8
31.6</p>

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<p>Well the OP is a Berkeley undergrad so he thought that Berkeley was ranked really high. </p>

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<p>@warblersrule‌, I agree it focuses on STEM. Feel free to add your top humanities faculties. I know you have pretty good insight on that. </p>

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<p>One reason these types of rankings change very little annually is so much influence is given to the universities’ histories. Back when perhaps one or two dozen universities were the best in the world, they all claimed a large number of the top researchers, and from there, Nobel laureates and Fields medal winners. This is a trend which still continues to this day, with Stanford having the first woman to win the Fields medal among its faculty.</p>

<p>UCSD seems to be placed a bit high, but it’s not that surprising for one that knows its faculty’s history. I think it has over a dozen Nobel laureates, and two fields medal winners (which is one less than Berkeley, and one more than UCLA.) Similar things can be said of international powerhouses like ETH Zurich, UCL, ICL, and Toronto.</p>