2016 Research Ranking of the Global Universities Announced
Beijing, China, March 1, 2016 (Newswire.com) - Scholarset, the leading academic social network of scientists, engineers and scholars based in China, announced its 2016 Research Ranking of the Global Universities (RRGU) today. Harvard University tops the list of 300 elite research universities, followed by MIT and Stanford. Johns Hopkins and University of California at Berkeley complete the top five.
Scholarset’s list is the first global university ranking of its kind, focusing on research universities worldwide. In contrast to previous ranking systems, Scholarset relies on big data, concentrates in research output, and emphasizes on research quality. As such, its ranking accurately reflects the research performance and impact of world universities.
Universities in the United States continue to dominate the top 25 ranking, with No.7 University of Toronto, No. 8 University of Oxford, No. 10 University College London, and No. 13 University of Cambridge the only exceptions. University of Tokyo is the top Asia Pacific university ranked, listed at No. 33, followed by No. 53 University of Melbourne, No. 68 University of Sydney, and No. 72 National University of Singapore.
China’s elite two, Peking University and Tsinghua University, both rank in top 150, reflecting the growing influence of Chinese academics. Other ranked Mainland’s institutes include Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University, and Sun Yat-Sen University.
Scholarset’s Research Ranking of the Global Universities is based on four key metrics derived from bibliometric databases: (1) total research output; (2) accumulated research impact; (3) research impact per unit research output; and (4) high impact research output. With more emphasis on quality than quantities, different weights are given to these metrics to calculate the overall score for the final ranking.
Scholarset will also release its 2016 Research Ranking of Chinese Universities and Institutes on March 2nd.
The complete list of ranked universities is given below:
World Rank | Institution | Country
1. Harvard University US
2. MIT US
3. Stanford University US
4. Johns Hopkins University US
5. University of California, Berkeley US
6. University of Washington, Seattle US
7. University of Toronto CA
8. University of Oxford UK
9. University of California, Los Angeles US
10. University College London UK
11. University of Michigan US
12. University of Pennsylvania US
13. University of Cambridge UK
14. Columbia University US
15. University of California, San Francisco US
16. University of California, San Diego US
17. Duke University US
18. Yale University US
19. Imperial College London UK
20. University of Chicago US
21. Cornell University US
22. Washington University in St. Louis US
23. California Institute of Technology US
24. Northwestern University US
25. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill US
26. University of Colorado Boulder US
27. University of Pittsburgh US
28. University of Minnesota US
29. University of Wisconsin, Madison US
30. University of British Columbia CA
31. Rockefeller University US
32. University of Copenhagen DK
33. University of Tokyo JP
34. Princeton University US
35. Ohio State University US
36. University of Edinburgh UK
37. Utrecht University NL
38. University of California, Davis US
39. Boston University US
40. Emory University US
41. McGill University CA
42. Karolinska Institute SE
43. New York University US
44. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center US
45. Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6) FR
46. Pennsylvania State University US
47. KU Leuven BE
48. University of California, Santa Barbara US
49. Vanderbilt University US
50. University of Manchester UK
51. ETH Zurich CH
52. University of Munich DE
53. University of Melbourne AU
54. King's College London UK
55. Heidelberg University DE
56. Erasmus University Rotterdam NL
57. University of Zurich CH
58. Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai US
59. University of Texas, Austin US
60. University of Florida US
61. University of Amsterdam NL
62. Baylor College of Medicine US
63. Leiden University NL
64. University of California, Irvine US
65. University of Arizona US
66. University of Helsinki FI
67. University of Southern California US
68. University of Sydney AU
69. University of Groningen NL
70. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign US
71. VU University Amsterdam NL
72. National University of Singapore SG
73. University of Maryland, College Park US
74. Humboldt University of Berlin DE
75. University of Geneva CH
76. Radboud University Nijmegen NL
77. University of Queensland AU
78. Free University of Berlin DE
79. University of Bristol UK
80. EPFL CH
81. University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) FR
82. Lund University SE
83. University of Barcelona ES
84. University of Rochester US
85. McMaster University CA
86. Case Western Reserve University US
87. Kyoto University JP
88. University Paris Diderot (Paris 7) FR
89. University of Utah US
90. Aarhus University DK
91. Ghent University BE
92. Brown University US
93. University of Glasgow UK
94. University of Montreal CA
95. Oregon Health & Science University US
96. Weizmann Institute of Science IL
97. University of Alabama, Birmingham US
98. University of Oslo NO
99. University of Massachusetts Medical School US
100. Seoul National University KR
101. University of Alberta CA
102. University of Virginia US
103. Uppsala University SE
104. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine UK
105. Tufts University US
106. University of Lausanne CH
107. Technical University of Munich DE
108. Georgia Institute of Technology US
109. University of Basel CH
110. Yeshiva University US
111. University of Milan IT
112. Rice University US
113. University of Birmingham UK
114. Peking University CN
115. University of Padova IT
116. Michigan State University US
117. University of Iowa US
118. Aix Marseille University FR
119. Queen Mary University of London UK
120. University of Southampton UK
121. University of Maryland, Baltimore US
122. University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio US
123. Sapienza University of Rome IT
124. Monash University AU
125. University of Bonn DE
126. University of Tübingen DE
127. University of Leeds UK
128. University of Miami US
129. University of California, Riverside US
130. Tsinghua University CN
131. Osaka University JP
132. Texas A&M University, College Station US
133. Purdue University US
134. University of Sheffield UK
135. University of Hamburg DE
136. Stony Brook University US
137. University of Bern CH
138. University of Nottingham UK
139. Stockholm University SE
140. Paris Descartes University (Paris 5) FR
141. Newcastle University UK
142. University of Dundee UK
143. University of Cincinnati US
144. Dartmouth College US
145. University of Göttingen DE
146. Wake Forest University US
147. Goethe University Frankfurt DE
148. University of New South Wales AU
149. University of Würzburg DE
150. University of Freiburg DE
151. Nanyang Technological University SG
152. University of Tennessee US
153. Cardiff University UK
154. Maastricht University NL
155. University of Calgary CA
156. Arizona State University US
157. Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis US
158. Joseph Fourier University FR
159. University of São Paulo BR
160. University of Massachusetts, Amherst US
161. Carnegie Mellon University US
162. University of Münster DE
163. University of Liverpool UK
164. University of Ottawa CA
165. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg DE
166. University of Leicester UK
167. University of Hong Kong CN
168. University of Bologna IT
169. University of Turin IT
170. University of Western Australia AU
171. Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz DE
172. Université libre de Bruxelles BE
173. Durham University UK
174. University of Montpellier FR
175. Tel Aviv University IL
176. Medical University of Vienna AT
177. Hebrew University of Jerusalem IL
178. University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston US
179. University of New Mexico US
180. University of Düsseldorf DE
181. University of Illinois, Chicago US
182. Tohoku University JP
183. Zhejiang University CN
184. Australian National University AU
185. Wayne State University US
186. University of Kiel UK
187. Trinity College Dublin IE
188. Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) FR
189. University of Cologne DE
190. Technical University of Denmark DK
191. Indiana University, Bloomington US
192. Catholic University of Louvain BE
193. Iowa State University US
194. University of Aberdeen UK
195. University of Strasbourg FR
196. Fudan University CN
197. Dresden University of Technology DE
198. University of Gothenburg SE
199. Virginia Commonwealth University US
200. Thomas Jefferson University US
201. RWTH Aachen University DE
202. Medical University of South Carolina US
203. Claude Bernard University (Lyon 1) FR
204. Laval University CA
205. National Taiwan University CN
206. University of East Anglia UK
207. University of Trieste IT
208. Rush University US
209. Shanghai Jiao Tong University CN
210. Autonomous University of Barcelona ES
211. Hannover Medical School DE
212. University of Florence IT
213. University of Bergen NO
214. University of Western Ontario CA
215. University of Kansas US
216. University of Science and Technology of China CN
217. University of Connecticut US
218. University of Ulm DE
219. Florida State University US
220. Medical College of Wisconsin US
221. University College Dublin IE
222. University of Bordeaux FR
223. University of Notre Dame US
224. University of York UK
225. Umeå University SE
226. Colorado State University US
227. University of Exeter UK
228. Nagoya University JP
229. University of South Florida US
230. University of Naples Federico II IT
231. Louisiana State University US
232. University of Sussex UK
233. University of St Andrews UK
234. University of Duisburg-Essen DE
235. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology DE
236. University of Georgia US
237. University of Pisa IT
238. University of Kentucky US
239. Georgetown University US
240. University of Cape Town ZA
241. Oregon State University US
242. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens GR
243. North Carolina State University US
244. University of Regensburg DE
245. University of Adelaide AU
246. Chinese University of Hong Kong CN
247. University of Oregon US
248. University of Genoa IT
249. University of Antwerp BE
250. University of Vienna AT
251. State University of New York, Buffalo US
252. Autonomous University of Madrid ES
253. University of Valencia ES
254. University of Oklahoma US
255. University of Warwick UK
256. University of Auckland NZ
257. University of Pavia IT
258. University of Vermont US
259. University of Southern Denmark DK
260. École Normale Supérieure FR
261. Tulane University US
262. University of Victoria CA
263. Saint Louis University US
264. University of Leipzig DE
265. George Washington University US
266. Medical University of Innsbruck AT
267. University of Rome Tor Vergata IT
268. University of Marburg DE
269. Nanjing University CN
270. Charles University in Prague CZ
271. University of South Carolina, Columbia US
272. University of Delaware US
273. Queen's University CA
274. University of Missouri US
275. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston US
276. University of Eastern Finland FI
277. Drexel University US
278. University of Perugia IT
279. Dalhousie University CA
280. University of Liège BE
281. Friedrich Schiller University of Jena DE
282. University of Manitoba CA
283. University of Innsbruck AT
284. Norwegian University of Science and Technology NO
285. University of Lisbon PT
286. University of Nebraska Medical Center US
287. University of Ferrara IT
288. University of Otago NZ
289. Ruhr University Bochum DE
290. Pompeu Fabra University ES
291. Kyushu University JP
292. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology IL
293. Yonsei University KR
294. University of Reading UK
295. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology CN
296. Tokyo Institute of Technology JP
297. Sun Yat-sen University CN
298. Queen's University Belfast UK
299. Sungkyunkwan University KR
300. University of Turku FI
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