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Ranking of the Universities is a popular tool to
compare the quality of schools used in many countries.
Typically, such studies are limited only to one or few
countries, like the US News and World Report’s ranking
of US colleges. In the present time of economic
globalization the need for worldwide ranking has
become quite acute. Researchers from the Institute of
Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in
China came up with the first successful ranking of the
top 500 Universities in the world, which was published
last week (August 11, 2004,
http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/2004Main.htm This
highly acclaimed study has been nicknamed the “Fortune
500 Colleges”. The researchers considered such
criteria as the number of winners of prestigious
prizes among alumni and faculty, number of research
publications, citation impact of these publications,
and performance-to-size ratio. These criteria were
weighted in a way to emphasize more recent rather than
historical achievements. Mathematics, Natural
Sciences, Engineering and Social Sciences were covered
in this analysis.


Among the top 20 Universities, 17 are from the United
States, with Harvard and Stanford leading the list.
The only other Universities in this group are from the
UK (Cambridge, #3 and Oxford , #8) and from Japan
(Tokyo University, # 14). The prevalence of the US
colleges (85% among top 20, 51% among top 100%, and
34% among top 500) is without a doubt a result of the
superior research funding situation in this country,
which also allows US colleges to attract many of the
best scientists from abroad.


Other countries, which made the top 100 besides the
USA, UK, and Japan are Germany, Canada, France,
Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Australia, Italy,
Israel, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Norway, and Russia.
All other larger EU countries (both from West and East
Europe) made the cut in the top 500. China follows
Japan in the list of Asian countries. The fact that
the leading Universities in China (Mainland) are
ranked only among top 400, and the fact the National
Taiwan University received a higher score, may be a
good indication that the study was unbiased. South
Korea, Singapore and India were the only other
countries in East and South Asia mentioned in the
report. Among Latin American nations, the ranking
order is Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile. South
Africa is the only country in the African continent
that has word-class colleges (4 of them made it into
world’s top 500). 3 colleges from New Zealand were
also on this list. Not a single University from
predominantly Muslim countries was noted in the report
even though these countries comprise over 20% of the
world’s population.
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