January 20, 2005

Academic Listing Cites UCSD As
13th Among 500 Universities Worldwide

By Pat JaCoby

An academic ranking of 500 universities by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University lists the University of California, San Diego as 13th in the world, based on academic and research performance.

Indicators used in the ranking included alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories, articles published in Nature and Science, articles in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index, and academic performance with respect to the size of the institution.

The world ranking of the first 15 universities included Harvard, first; Stanford, second; Cambridge, UK, third; UC Berkeley, fourth; MIT, fifth; Cal Tech, sixth; Princeton, seventh; Oxford, UK, eighth; Columbia, ninth; Chicago, 10th; Yale, 11th; Cornell, 12th; UCSD, 13th; Tokyo, 14th, and Pennsylvania, 15th. The complete listing can be found at http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/methodology.htm

In December, a new global ranking by The (London) Times Higher Education Supplement--based on a survey of 1,300 academics in 88 countries—listed UCSD as 24th in the table of the world’s 200 best universities. This table included such non-academic factors as the ratio of faculty to student numbers and a university’s success in attracting foreign students.

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