League table of world universities published: top three from USA
{{date|August 8, 2007}}

The [[w:Academic Ranking of World Universities|Academic Ranking of World Universities]] was published for 2007 by [[w:Shanghai Jiao Tong University|Shanghai Jiao Tong University]] in [[China]].  This year the top four universities are [[w:Harvard University|Harvard]], [[w:Stanford University|Stanford]], [[w:University of California Berkeley|Berkeley]], and [[w:University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], compared to last year Cambridge has slipped from second to fourth place with the order of the top three [[U.S.]] universities unchanged.

The league tables began in 2003 as an effort to measure the gap between Chinese and "World class" universities. In 2007 the highest ranking Chinese University is [[w:Tsinghua University|Tsinghua University]] at equal 151–202nd place, an improvement from 201–250th place in 2003.

The ranking takes account of factors such as the number of [[w:Nobel Prize|Nobel laureates]], highly cited authors and publications in the journals of [[w:Nature_(journal)|''Nature'']] and [[w:Science (journal)|''Science'']]. Its authors admit that the methodology is skewed towards science over arts and humanities and favours English speaking countries.  In the top 19 all are from the U.S. except Oxford and Cambridge from the UK, with [[w:University of Tokyo|Tokyo]] at 20th the first university from a non-English speaking country.

==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm
|title=Top 100 world universities 2006
|author=
|pub=Shanghai Jiao Tong University
|date=accessed August 8, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2007/ARWU2007_Top100.htm
|title=Top 100 world universities 2007
|author=
|pub=Shanghai Jiao Tong University
|date=accessed August 8, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/file/ARWU-M&P.pdf
|title=Academic ranking of world universities - methodologies and problems
|author=N.C. Liu and Y Cheng
|pub=Shanghai Jiao Tong University
|date=unknown}}, '''<small>([[w:Portable Document Format|PDF]])</small>''', also published in ''Higher Education in Europe'', Vol. 30, No 2., 2005 and at the proceedings of "Meeting of the International Rankings Expert Group 2004".

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[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:United States]]
[[Category:North America]]
[[Category:Japan]]
[[Category:Asia]]
[[Category:United Kingdom]]
[[Category:World]]
[[Category:Shanghai]]
[[Category:University of Cambridge]]
[[Category:Harvard University]]
The Academic Ranking of World Universities was published for 2007 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.  This year the top four universities are Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and Cambridge, compared to last year Cambridge has slipped from second to fourth place with the order of the top three U.S. universities unchanged.

The league tables began in 2003 as an effort to measure the gap between Chinese and "World class" universities. In 2007 the highest ranking Chinese University is Tsinghua University at equal 151–202nd place, an improvement from 201–250th place in 2003.

The ranking takes account of factors such as the number of Nobel laureates, highly cited authors and publications in the journals of Nature and Science. Its authors admit that the methodology is skewed towards science over arts and humanities and favours English speaking countries.  In the top 19 all are from the U.S. except Oxford and Cambridge from the UK, with Tokyo at 20th the first university from a non-English speaking country.
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