News & Views item - October 2005 |
Those University Rankings -- Melbourne Scores in Top 20. (October 28, 2005)
London's The Times has released its list of the world's top 200 universities "based on surveys of more than 2300 academics, and examines the research produced, student-to-staff ratios, international students and the number of internationally recognised academics." .
Australia scored 17 places in the top 200 and 5 within the top 50:
There are some significant differences from those issued earlier this year by Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education (see below for their criteria).
Here is a comparison table for the two sets of rankings of The Times top 20 for 2005.
University |
The Times Ranking | Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harvard University US | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Massachusetts Institute of Technology US | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cambridge University UK | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oxford University UK | 4 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stanford University US | 5 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University of California, Berkeley US | 6 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yale University US | 7 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
California Institute of Technology US | 8 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Princeton University US | 9 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ecole Polytechnique France | 10 | 203 - 300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duke University US | 11 | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
London School of Economics UK | 12 | 203 - 300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Imperial College London UK | 13 | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cornell University US | 14 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beijing University China | 15 | 203 - 300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tokyo University Japan | 16 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University of California, San Francisco US | 17 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University of Chicago US | 18 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Melbourne University Australia | 19 | 82 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbia University US | 20 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education's criteria for ranking of research universities
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