Ranking: 5 Japanese Universities in top 100 Worldwide

Written By: guyjin on November 4, 2009 2 Comments

The Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has released its latest ranking of the top Universities around the world. This annual ranking is a major competitor of the Times Higher Education ranking, which was published last month.

The top 100 features 5 Japanese universities, but is heavily dominated by the US with 67 universities. 13 are based in Britain. The highest ranked Japanese university is the University of Tokyo, at number 20. Cambridge (4th) and Oxford (10th), are the only other non-US institutions in the top 20. The other Japanese universities in the top 100 are Kyoto University (24th), Osaka University (71st), Nagoya University (82nd) and Tohoku University (84th).

The Shanghai Jiao Tong measures 6 indicators including winners of Nobel Prizes and other awards, the number of published articles, and per capita performance of the institution, giving it a relatively strong research focus.

Top 20 Universities:

1. Harvard	11. Yale
2. Stanford	12. Cornell
3. UC Berkeley	13. UCLA
4. Cambridge	14. UC San Diego
5. MIT	15. Univ. of Pennsylvania
6. California Tech.	16. Univ. of Washington
7. Columbia	17. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
8. Princeton	18. UC San Francisco
9. Chicago	19. Johns Hopkins
10. Oxford	20. Tokyo