2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings

2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings Keep calm. Top 20 follows: 1 Harvard University 2 Stanford University 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 4 University of California, Berkeley 5 University of Cambridge 6 California Institute of Technology 7 Princeton University 8 Columbia University 9 University of Chicago 10 University … Continued

2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings

Keep calm. Top 20 follows:

1	Harvard University
2	Stanford University
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
4	University of California, Berkeley
5	University of Cambridge
6	California Institute of Technology
7	Princeton University
8	Columbia University
9	University of Chicago
10	University of Oxford
11	Yale University
12	University of California, Los Angeles
13	Cornell University
14	University of Pennsylvania
15	University of California, San Diego
16	University of Washington
17	The Johns Hopkins University
18	University of California, San Francisco
19	University of Wisconsin – Madison
20	The University of Tokyo

The rankings have been published and are or will shortly be available at the ARWU website

As last year though there are no surprises and absolutely no movement in the top 20 with Harvard retaining the number 1 spot for the sixth successive year and everyone else unchanged too. They are going to have to think about changing to doing this every five years instead of annually.

In terms of the UK placings, again very little change:

5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	1
10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	2
21	University College London	United Kingdom	3
24	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	United Kingdom	4
40	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	5
51	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	6
68	King’s College London	United Kingdom	7
70	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	8
86	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	9