A Short Three Nations' Tour of Research University Rankings. (August 20,
2012)
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News & Views item - August 2012 |
A Short Three Nations' Tour of Research University Rankings. (August 20,
2012)
The annual release of university rankings was led off last week with Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities which restricts itself to the planet's top 500 research universities as it sees them.
Here just for the Hell-of-it we tabulate highly selected data from three nations. Note that rankings per se can be misleading as to the differential between institutions.
| Nation | Australia | Switzerland | Israel |
| Population, July 2012 est. | 22,015,576 | 7,655,628 | 7,590,758 |
| Number of Universities in top 50 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Number of Universities in top 100 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
| Rank; Score out of
possible 100 for top 100 Universities [e.g. Harvard ranked 1, was scored 100; University of Freiburg ranked equal 99 was scored 24.3] |
57; 30.1 64: 29.1 90; 25.3 93; 24.6 96; 24.4 |
23; 43.3 59; 29.9 69; 28.5 85; 25.6 |
53; 30.5 78; 26.9 93; 24.6 |
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