A ranking of the world’s top schools compiled by a Chinese university has put Harvard first for the 10th year, in a list dominated by US institutions.
The rankings of the world’s top 500 universities, released by Shanghai’s Jiaotong University, have provoked controversy for emphasising scientific research.
Harvard has taken top spot every year since the survey started in 2003.
Of the top 20 schools in 2012, only two were outside the US – Britain’s Cambridge in fifth place and Oxford in 10th. The top Asian school was the University of Tokyo in 20th place.
The list uses six indicators, including the number of Nobel prizes and Fields medals won, the number of highly cited researchers on staff and the number of articles by faculty published in Nature and Science magazines.