Top 100 ranking for University of Warwick in third league table

Harvard University, established in 1636, is the United States’ oldest institution of higher learning.

However, after attracting a great deal of attention from universities, governments, and public media worldwide, it began to take into account higher education institutions from across the globe and The Economist hailed it as being “the most widely used annual ranking of the world’s research universities”.

“The UK simply can not afford to be complacent while the best universities in our competitor countries are rewarded with significant investment”. In the Asia-Pacific region, the University of Tokyo was 21st and Kyoto University, also in Japan, remained in the same place as last year to come in 26th. Tel Aviv University is ranked 151-200. It said the result was calculated based on several parameters, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals.

The prestigious list of 500 universities is prepared annually by the researchers at Jiaotong University in Shanghai.

The Rehovot-based institute was the only non-US research body to make it to the top ten on the list, which was published by the Center for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, otherwise known by its Dutch acronym CWTS.

“The Shanghai ranking is recognized as the leading academic ranking of world universities and it continues to acknowledge Israeli scientific achievements, and Technion in particular”, stated Tachnion President Prof.

According to UC Berkeley’s Office of Planning and Analysis, the ARWU methodology uses four criteria to assess a university’s ranking: quality of education (worth 10 percent of the total), quality of faculty (40 percent), research output (40 percent) and per capita academic performance (10 percent ).

Beginning in 2003, the ARWU’s original intent was to find the global standing of top Chinese universities.