Shanghai's
Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education Publishes its Sixth Annual
Listing of the World's top 500 Research Universities. |
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News & Views item - August 2008 |
Shanghai's
Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education Publishes its Sixth Annual
Listing of the World's top 500 Research Universities.
(August 15, 2008)
Shanghai's Jiao Tong University's Institute of Higher Education annual ranking of the world's top 500 research universities is generally seen as having overall validity despite the usual criticisms of "meaningless" and "their opinion". In 2003 ANU was placed 49th the last time an Australian university made the top fifty. The University of Melbourne came 92nd. The following year ANU dropped to 53rd while Melbourne rose to joint (3) 82nd place.
Now four years down the track ANU has slipped to 59th Melbourne has risen to 73rd and The University of Sydney has made it into the top 100 occupying 97th together with Rise University and the University of Bonn.
Rankings are based on the six criteria shown in the table below.
The complete analysis for 2008 is now available at http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/EN2008.htm.
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Criteria
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Indicator
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Code
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Weight
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Quality
of Education
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Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals |
Alumni
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10%
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Quality
of Faculty
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Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals |
Award
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20%
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| Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories |
HiCi
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20%
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Research
Output
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Articles published in Nature and Science* |
N&S
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20%
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| Articles indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index |
PUP
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20%
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Per Capita Performance
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Per capita academic performance of an institution |
PCP
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10%
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Total
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100%
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*For institutions specialising in humanities and social sciences such as London School of Economics, N&S is not considered, and the weight of N&S is relocated to other indicators.
The top one-hundred universities and their rankings are given below and Harvard once again ranks well above the rest.
This year Australia's Universities filled 14 of the top 500 places:
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Ranking |
University |
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59 |
Australian National University |
| 73 | University of Melbourne |
| 97 |
University of Sydney |
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101 - 151 |
University of Queensland University of Western Australia |
| 152 - 200 | University of New South Wales |
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201 - 302 |
Macquarie University Monash University University of Adelaide |
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303 - 401 |
Flinders University James Cook University University of Newcastle University of Tasmania University of Wollongong |
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402 - 503 |
La Trobe University |
