ARWU World's top 500 universities in 2010 announced

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<p>World's top 500 universities in 2010 announced </p>

<p>ARWU</a> 2010</p>

<p>The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released Sunday 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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>The best ranked UK universities are Cambridge (5th) and Oxford (10th), other well placed European universities include: ETH Zurich (23rd) and University of Zurich (51st) in Switzerland, Paris 6 (39th) and Paris 11 (45th) in France, Copenhagen (40th) and Aarhus (98th) in Denmark, Karolinska (42nd) and Uppsala (66th) in Sweden, Utrecht (50th) and Leiden (70th) in Netherlands, Munich (52nd) and TU Munich (56th) in Germany, Helsinki (72nd) in Finland, Moscow (74th) in Russia, Oslo (75th) in Norway, and Ghent (90th) in Belgium.</p>

<p>106 universities from Asia-Pacific region are ranked among top 500 in 2010, among them the leaders are: Tokyo (20th) and Kyoto (24th) in Japan, ANU (59th) and Melbourne (62nd) in Australia, and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (72nd) in Israel. While the ranking methodology has been kept the same, the number of top 500 Chinese universities reaches 34 in 2010, which is more than doubled of that in 2004 (16), with National Taiwan University, Peking, Tsinghua, and Chinese University of Hong Kong ranked among top 200. Universities in Middle East countries are making significant progress, King Saud University and King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals of Saudi Arabia first enters into top 400 and top 500 respectively, Istanbul University in Turkey and University of Teheran in Iran are very close to top 400.</p>

<p>The world's top 100 universities on the ARWU</a> 2010 list:</p>

<p>Rank University</p>

<p>1 Harvard University</p>

<p>2 University of California, Berkeley</p>

<p>3 Stanford University</p>

<p>4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)</p>

<p>5 University of Cambridge</p>

<p>6 California Institute of Technology</p>

<p>7 Princeton University</p>

<p>8 Columbia University</p>

<p>9 University of Chicago</p>

<p>10 University of Oxford</p>

<p>11 Yale University</p>

<p>12 Cornell University</p>

<p>13 University of California, Los Angeles</p>

<p>14 University of California, San Diego</p>

<p>15 University of Pennsylvania</p>

<p>16 University of Washington</p>

<p>17 University of Wisconsin - Madison</p>

<p>18 The Johns Hopkins University</p>

<p>18 University of California, San Francisco</p>

<p>20 The University of Tokyo</p>

<p>Top 500 continued: ARWU</a> 2010</p>

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<p>The most objective ranking system I have seen is ARWU.ORG released by Jiaotong University, which uses scientific standards to deliver objective results (although some argue it is too anglo-centric). Also, it's the US academic journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education says that the ARWU "is considered the most influential international ranking."</p>

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<p>The methodology ignores both CPA pass rates among accounting grads and acreage of private forests, both of which are quite important.</p>

<p>If they modify the ranking to include those two factors, I believe Bemidji State could show its true value. Go Beavers!</p>

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<p>Rank - Institution - Total Score
1 - Harvard University - 100
2 - UC Berkeley - 72.4 <– lolwut</p>

<p>Methodology: Harvard is the gold standard by which all other universities are compared. It is awarded a total score of 100 because it is the most preftigious school in the world–all others simply pale in comparison.</p>

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<p>[Bangkok</a> Post : Shanghai rankings rattle European universities](<a href=“http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/190808/shanghai-rankings-rattle-european-universities]Bangkok”>http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/190808/shanghai-rankings-rattle-european-universities)</p>

<p>In France, the Jiaotong rankings spark a surge of articles decrying the poor performance of the country’s universities.</p>

<p>In Rome, not having a university in the top 100 leads to soul searching, but Spain will celebrate a top 200 placement as a national success, said Michaela Saisana, who analysed the rankings’ methodology for the European Commission.</p>

<p>“Germany, France, Italy and Spain are the countries that have been most shaken by this university ranking,” Saisana said.</p>

<p>But she argues the Shanghai rankings should not be a universal benchmark because they fail to account for the specific strengths or missions of the world’s top schools.</p>

<p>“They’re fine for explaining how close the Chinese are to the rest, such as Europe or the US, but not for comparisons amongst universities,” she said.</p>