2011 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 10 and UK placings
The rankings have been published and are available at the ARWU site I believe but there seem to be problems with access at time of writing. Am therefore going with second hand accounts of the positions (which I hope are accurate).
As last year though there are no surprises and very little movement in the top 10 with Harvard retaining the number 1 spot for the fifth successive year (last year’s position in brackets):
1 Harvard University (1)
2 Stanford University (3)
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (4)
4 University of California, Berkeley (2)
5 University of Cambridge (5)
6 California Institute of Technology (6)
7 Princeton University (7)
8 Columbia University (8)
9 University of Chicago (9)
10 University of Oxford (10)
The Times Higher (which clearly has managed to access the ARWU site) has the UK’s top performers (ie in the Top 100) as follows (last year’s position in brackets):
5 Cambridge (5)
10 Oxford (10)
20 University College London (21)
24 Imperial College London (26)
38 University of Manchester (44)
53 University of Edinburgh (54)
68 King’s College London (63)
70 University of Bristol (66)
85 University of Nottingham (84)
97 University of Sheffield (88)
So, very little change at all to report apart from Birmingham dropping out of the top 100. Perhaps there will be more excitement with the Times Higher and QS tables.
