Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2004

Fascinating look at the top 500 World Universities, from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's perspective (the UW, my alma matter is #18). Criteria and weights are based on:

We rank universities by several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, articles published in Nature and Science, articles in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index, and academic performance with respect to the size of an institution.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 16, 2004 9:54 PM
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