US Universities Ranked Top 10 In Chinese Global List
In a world ranking by a Chinese Research Centre, the US universities were placed in the first 10 spots, even as Harvard topped the list for its 13th year, according to yahoo.
Like the past two years, Stanford and MIT featured in the second and third positions, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities released by a centre under Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Next, the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology followed, with Columbia University and University of Chicago figuring in the eighth and ninth places.
The only two non-American schools were University of Cambridge in the fifth place and the University of Oxford ranked 10th.
Every year, 1,200 schools all over the world are examined, among which the Centre of World-Class Universities under Jiaotong University selects the top 500.
The Chinese organiser calls his list "the most trustworthy", but European officials claim that it is biased against European universities, not giving as much importance to the humanities, and stressing the sciences instead.
The results are based on "transparent methodology" and "third-party data", claim the organizers. Other factors included the number of alumni as well as the staff that won Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals.
Shanghai Jiaotong University in the mainland of China moved up by four places to rank 118th and Peking University ranked 115th, remaining the highest-ranked school.
University of Tokyo was 21st and Kyoto University, both Japanese schools, were on the 26th places, like last year.
