Top North American universities for 2011-12
- By Lin Liyao
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China.org.cn, October 12, 2011
California Institute of Technology has been ranked the world's best university for 2011-2012 in a list published in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine in early October. It is the first time that CIT has outranked Harvard University on the list, as the latter slipped to joint-second with Stanford after having topped the list since 2004.
In order to capture the full range of university activities across the globe, the rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators which are grouped into five headline categories: teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 percent of the overall ranking score), research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 percent), citations — research influence (worth 30 percent), industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 percent) and international outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 percent).
Apart from an overall ranking of the world's top 400 universities, the magazine also lists the best universities by region and subject.
? Full list: Top 400 universities in the world 2011-12
? Top universities by region: Europe, Asia
The following are the Times Higher Education magazine's top North American universities for 2011-12:
|
Rank |
World Rank |
Institution |
Country / Region |
Overall Score |
|
1 |
1 |
California Institute of Technology |
United States |
94.8 |
|
2 |
2 |
Harvard University |
United States |
93.9 |
|
3 |
2 |
Stanford University |
United States |
93.9 |
|
4 |
5 |
Princeton University |
United States |
92.9 |
|
5 |
7 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
United States |
92.3 |
|
6 |
9 |
University of Chicago |
United States |
90.2 |
|
7 |
10 |
University of California, Berkeley |
United States |
89.8 |
|
8 |
11 |
Yale University |
United States |
89.1 |
|
9 |
12 |
Columbia University |
United States |
87.5 |
|
10 |
13 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
United States |
87.3 |
|
11 |
14 |
Johns Hopkins University |
United States |
85.8 |
|
12 |
16 |
University of Pennsylvania |
United States |
84.9 |
|
13 |
18 |
University of Michigan |
United States |
82.8 |
|
14 |
19 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
81.6 |
|
15 |
20 |
Cornell University |
United States |
80.5 |
|
16 |
21 |
Carnegie Mellon University |
United States |
78.4 |
|
17 |
22 |
University of British Columbia |
Canada |
77.4 |
|
18 |
22 |
Duke University |
United States |
77.4 |
|
19 |
24 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
United States |
77 |
|
20 |
25 |
University of Washington |
United States |
76.5 |
|
21 |
26 |
Northwestern University |
United States |
76.2 |
|
22 |
27 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
United States |
75.8 |
|
23 |
28 |
McGill University |
Canada |
75.5 |
|
24 |
29 |
University of Texas at Austin |
United States |
74.9 |
|
25 |
31 |
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
United States |
74.2 |
|
26 |
33 |
University of California, San Diego |
United States |
73 |
|
27 |
35 |
University of California, Santa Barbara |
United States |
72.1 |
|
28 |
38 |
University of California, Davis |
United States |
71.2 |
|
29 |
41 |
Washington University in St Louis |
United States |
70.5 |
|
30 |
42 |
University of Minnesota |
United States |
70 |
|
31 |
43 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
United States |
69.3 |
|
32 |
44 |
New York University |
United States |
69 |
|
33 |
49 |
Brown University |
United States |
65.6 |
|
34 |
51 |
Pennsylvania State University |
United States |
64.9 |
|
35 |
54 |
Boston University |
United States |
64.2 |
|
36 |
55 |
University of Southern California |
United States |
64 |
|
37 |
57 |
Ohio State University |
United States |
63 |
|
38 |
59 |
University of Pittsburgh |
United States |
62 |
|
39 |
64 |
University of Massachusetts |
United States |
61.1 |
|
40 |
65 |
McMaster University |
Canada |
61 |
|
41 |
70 |
Vanderbilt University |
United States |
59.6 |
|
42 |
72 |
Rice University |
United States |
59 |
|
43 |
75 |
Emory University |
United States |
57.4 |
|
44 |
77 |
University of Colorado Boulder |
United States |
57.3 |
|
45 |
77 |
Tufts University |
United States |
57.3 |
|
46 |
81 |
University of Rochester |
United States |
56.8 |
|
47 |
81 |
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
United States |
56.8 |
|
48 |
86 |
University of California, Irvine |
United States |
55.4 |
|
49 |
89 |
University of Notre Dame |
United States |
55 |
|
50 |
90 |
Dartmouth College |
United States |
54.9 |
