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WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS NOVEMBER 5 2004 Aachen RWTH Aarhus University Aberdeen University Adelaide University Alabama University Alberta University Amsterdam University Arizona University Auckland University Australian National University Bath University Beijing University Birmingham University Bologna University Bonn University Boston University Brandeis University Bremen University Bristol University Brown University Brussels Free University California Institute of Technology Cambridge University Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University Chalmers University of Technology Chicago University University of Science and Technology of China Chinese University of Hong Kong City University of Hong Kong Colorado University Columbia University Copenhagen University Cornell University Curtin University of Technology Dartmouth College Delft University of Technology Dublin University, Trinity College Duke University Dundee University Durham University Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne Ecole Polytechnique Edinburgh University Eindhoven University of Technology Emory University Erasmus University Rotterdam ETH Zurich Frankfurt University Freiburg University Fudan University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Glasgow University Gottingen University Hamburg University Harvard University Hebrew University of Jerusalem Heidelberg University Helsinki University Helsinki University of Technology Hong Kong University Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Humboldt University Berlin Illinois University Imperial College London Indian Institute of Technology Indiana University Innsbruck University Iowa University Johns Hopkins University Karlsruhe University Kiel University King’s College London Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Kyoto University La Sapienza University La Trobe University Lancaster University Leeds University Leicester University Leiden University Liverpool University Lomonosov Moscow State University London School of Economics Lund University Maastricht University Macquarie University Madrid Autonomous University Malaya University Manchester University and Umist Maryland University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts University Massey University McGill University McMaster University Melbourne University Michigan State University Michigan University Minnesota University Monash University Montpellier University Munich University Nagoya University Nanjing University Nanyang University National Autonomous University of Mexico National Taiwan University National University of Singapore New South Wales University New York University Newcastle upon Tyne University Nijmegen University North Carolina University Northwestern University Norwegian University of Science and Technology Nottingham University Osaka University Oslo University Otago University Oxford University Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie University Paris XI, Université Paris-Sud Penn State University Pennsylvania University Pohang University of Science and Technology Princeton University Purdue University Queen Mary University of London Queen’s University Belfast Queensland University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rice University RMIT University Rochester University Royal Institute of Technology Rutgers State University Sains Malaysia University School of Oriental and African Studies Seoul National University Sheffield University Sorbonne Paris Southampton University St Andrews University Stanford University Stockholm University Stony Brook, State University of New York StrasbourgWHO University Stuttgart University Sussex University Sydney University Tasmania University Technical University Berlin Technical University Munich Technical University of Denmark Technical University of Munich Technion –IS Israel Institute of Technology Texas A&M University TH Darmstadt Tohoku University Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo University Toronto University Toulouse University Trinity College Dublin Tsing Hua UniversityNUMBER Tufts University Tulane University Université Catholique de Louvain Université de Montréal University College London University of British Columbia University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University ofONE California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego University of California, San Francisco University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz University of Southern California University of Technology, Sydney University of Texas at Austin University of Washington Uppsala University Utah University Utrecht University Vanderbilt University Vienna Technical University Vienna University Virginia Polytechnic Institute Virginia University Warwick University Washington University in St Louis Waterloo University Western Australia University Wisconsin University Würzburg University Yale University Yeshiva University York University Aachen RWTH Aarhus University Aberdeen University Adelaide University WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS EDITORIAL Topperformers onthe global stage take a bow Students, academics and companies placing research contracts all need to know which are the best universities in the world. And the measures used to identify them are crucial, explains John O’Leary igher education has become so be revisited in future but produced too staffing levels helps institutions dominated international that it is no longer limited a response to be reliable. Others, by the sciences, but the measures are as enough for the leading universities such as spending on libraries, were too neutral as possible. When the next rankings to know that they are ahead of the closely linked to national prosperity. Some are published in 2005, more improvements Hpack in their own country. proved impossible to compile because of a will no doubt have been made. Students are prepared to look abroad for lack of comparable data. It will take a big change to shift Harvard the best course, even at undergraduate level; Alan Gilbert, Manchester University’s University from top place, however. Strong firms scour the world to place president — a prime example performances on all five measures confirm research contracts; and academics ‘The greatest of the globalisation of higher what most observers have long suspected: are more mobile than ever. When influence has education, having been that Harvard is in the position to which all the newly merged Manchester been exerted headhunted from Melbourne leading universities aspire. The riches of its University was launched last by those in University — identified the endowment will make the university hard to month, among the goals in its first the best recruitment of Nobel laureates challenge, but its performance is not simply strategic plan was to become one as one indication of international a matter of money. A reputation for being of the top 25 universities in the position to excellence for his institution. But the best in the world acts as a magnet for the world. But who is to say which judge: the the leading academic prizes were most talented students and staff. those are and — crucially — how academics’ another factor omitted from our Other positions in the table are less they should be identified? tables to make them as predictable, and no doubt some are the result Domestic league tables are controversial contemporaneous and consistent as possible. of quirks in the methodology or the different enough, but there are extra pitfalls associated Nobel prizes and Fields medals account for ways statistics are compiled worldwide. But with international comparisons. The almost a third of the points in the list of top despite taking seven of the top ten places, US rankings that start on the page opposite universities compiled this year by Shanghai institutions are certainly less dominant than represent a first attempt to compare the Jiao Tong University. But why count only most would have predicted. The strong world’s top universities in the round. The these prizes? And why credit the universities showing by the University of California, process has been kept simple, partly because where prizewinners studied, some at the turn Berkeley will encourage other public so few indicators of quality in higher of the century before last? Why, indeed, universities but, across the Atlantic, so will education translate reliably across borders, credit universities where winners the presence of Oxford and but also to avoid any suggestion that the carried out their research, often at ‘Despite taking Cambridge universities and ETH data have been manipulated to produce a least 20 years previously, rather seven top ten Zurich in the top ten. The peer particular outcome. The five indicators than the institution that now places, US review, in particular, demonstrates have been chosen to reflect strength in benefits from their presence? universities that there are highly regarded teaching, research and international The Shanghai list also awards a are less domi- universities in many parts of the reputation, with the greatest influence fifth of its points on the basis of world. Japan, Australia, China and exerted by those in the best position to judge: articles published in Science and nant than most Singapore all have representatives the academics. University staff from every Nature, thereby conferring a big would have in the top 20. And even continent have given their verdict on the top advantage on universities with predicted’ Australians may be surprised to institutions in their field, rather than strengths

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