1. Harvard University 2. Stanford University 3. Yale University 4. California Institute of Technology 5. University of California at Berkeley 6. University of Cambridge 7. Massachusetts Institute Technology 8. Oxford University 9. University of California at San Francisco 10. Columbia University 11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 12. University of California at Los Angeles 13. University of Pennsylvania 14. Duke University 15. Princeton Universitty 16. Tokyo University 17. Imperial College London 18. University of Toronto 19. Cornell University 20. University of Chicago 21. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich 22. University of Washington at Seattle 23. University of California at San Diego 24. Johns Hopkins University 25. University College London 26. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne 27. University Texas at Austin 28. University of Wisconsin at Madison 29. Kyoto University 30. University of Minnesota Twin Cities 31. University of British Columbia 32. University of Geneva 33. Washington University in St. Louis 34. London School of Economics 35. Northwestern University 36. National University of Singapore 37. University of Pittsburgh 38. Australian National University 39. New York University 40. Pennsylvania State University 41. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 42. McGill University 43. Ecole Polytechnique 44. University of Basel 45. University of Maryland 46. University of Zurich 47. University of Edinburgh 48. University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 49. University of Bristol 50. University of Sydney 51. University of Colorado at Boulder 52. Utrecht University 53. University of Melbourne 54. University of Southern California 55. University of Alberta 56. Brown University 57. Osaka University 58. University of Manchester 59. University of California at Santa Barbara 60. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 61. Wageningen University 62. Michigan State University 63. University of Munich 64. University of New South Wales 65. Boston University 66. Vanderbilt University 67. University of Rochester 68. Tohoku University 69. University of Hong Kong 70. University of Sheffield 71. Nanyang Technological University 72. University of Vienna 73. Monash University 74. University of Nottingham 75. Carnegie Mellon University 76. Lund University 77. Texas A&M University 78. University of Western Australia 79. Ecole Normale Super Paris 80. University of Virginia 81. Technical University of Munich 82. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 83. Leiden University 84. University of Waterloo 85. King's College London 86. Purdue University 87. University of Birmingham 88. Uppsala University 89. University of Amsterdam 90. University of Heidelberg 91. University of Queensland 92. University of Leuven 93. Emory University 94. Nagoya University 95. Case Western Reserve University 96. Chinese University of Hong Kong 97. University of Newcastle 98. Innsbruck University 99. University of Massachusetts at Amherst 100. Sussex University http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/
世界第1位をどう見るか
その一例として、ドイツのマックス・プランク研究所や、中国の中国科学院があげられます。傘下の研究機関をそれぞれ、Max Planck Society、Chinese Academy of Sciencesという名称の元に集めた結果、これらの研究機関はEssential Science Indicators データベースが集計する多くの分野で世界のトップ1パーセントにランクインすることとなりました。今回の4分野のうち、昨年に続いて今年も、マックス・プランク研究所が化学、物理学の2分野で世界1位、また中国科学院が材料科学分野で世界1位となっています。しかしこれはそれぞれが傘下に擁する研究機関名をひとつに取りまとめた結果であり、2004年まで世界第1位であった東北大学(材料科学)、東京大学(物理学)などの研究パフォーマンスが下がったと見るべきではありません。
こうした典型例として挙げられているのが、傘下の研究機関を「Max Planck Society」、「Chinese Academy ob Science」という名称で一まとめにしているドイツのマックス・プランク研究所と中国科学院。マックス・プランク研究所は、今回併せて公表された「化学」「物理学」の分野ごとランキングで昨年に続き世界1位、中国科学院も「材料科学」分野で昨年に続き世界1位となっている。しかし、これらはこうした理由によるもので、2004年まで「材料科学」、「物理学」分野でそれぞれ世界1位にランクされていた東北大学(ことしは「材料科学」で世界3位)や東京大学(同「物理学」で2位)の研究活動が低下したと見る必要はない、とトムソンサイエンティフィックは言っている。
1. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)
2. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)
3. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.)
4. Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.)
6. California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.)
6. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Penn.)
8. Columbia University (New York, N.Y.)
8. Duke University (Durham, N.C.)
8. University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)
11. Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.)
12. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
12. Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.)
14. Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)
15. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
16. Brown University (Providence, R.I.)
17. Rice University (Houston, Texas)
18. Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.)
18. University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Ind.)
18. Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.)
21. University of California-Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.)
22. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Penn.)
23. Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)
23. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.)
25. University of California-Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
26. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
27. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, Calif.)
28. Tufts University (Medford, Mass.)
28. Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
30. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
31. Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.)
32. College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Va.)
33. New York University (New York, N.Y.)
34. Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)
35. Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, Ga.)
35. Lehigh University (Bethlehem, Penn.)
35. University of California-San Diego (La Jolla, Calif.)
35. University of Rochester (Rochester, N.Y.)
35. University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wis.)
40. University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, Ill.)
41. Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
41. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.)
41. University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.)
44. University of California-Davis (Davis, Calif.)
44. University of California-Irvine (Irvine, Calif.)
44. University of California-Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
47. Pennsylvania State University-University Park (University Park, Penn.)
47. University of Texas-Austin (Austin, Texas)
49. University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)
50. Yeshiva University (New York, N.Y.)
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15 Univ Pennsylvania
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19 Tokyo Univ
20 Johns Hopkins Univ
21 Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor
22 Univ Coll London
23 Kyoto Univ
24 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich
24 Univ Toronto
26 Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign
27 Imperial Coll London
28 Univ Minnesota - Twin Cities
29 Washington Univ - St. Louis
30 Northwestern Univ
31 New York Univ
32 Duke Univ
32 Rockefeller Univ
34 Univ Colorado - Boulder
35 Univ British Columbia
36 Univ California - Santa Barbara
37 Univ Maryland - Coll Park
38 Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill
39 Univ Texas - Austin
40 Univ Manchester
41 Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center
42 Pennsylvania State Univ - Univ Park
42 Univ Paris 06
42 Vanderbilt Univ
45 Univ Copenhagen
46 Univ California - Irvine
47 Univ Utrecht
48 Univ California - Davis
49 Univ Paris 11
50 Univ Southern California
51 Karolinska Inst Stockholm
52 Univ Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh
53 Univ Zurich
54 Rutgers State Univ - New Brunswick
55 Univ Edinburgh
55 Univ Munich
57 Tech Univ Munich
58 Univ Florida
59 Australian Natl Univ
60 McGill Univ
61 Univ Bristol
62 Carnegie Mellon Univ
62 Ohio State Univ - Columbus
64 Univ Oslo
65 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem
65 Purdue Univ - West Lafayette
67 Univ Heidelberg
68 Osaka Univ
68 Univ Helsinki
70 Moscow State Univ
71 Brown Univ
71 Uppsala Univ
73 Ecole Normale Super Paris
73 Univ Melbourne
73 Univ Rochester
76 Univ Leiden
77 Univ Arizona
77 Univ Sheffield
79 Tohoku Univ
79 Univ Utah
81 King's Coll London
82 Univ Nottingham
83 Boston Univ
83 Case Western Reserve Univ
83 Michigan State Univ
86 Stockholm Univ
87 Univ Basel
88 Texas A&M Univ - Coll Station
89 McMaster Univ
90 Univ Goettingen
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2009年 世界大学ランキング TOP25
1位(1) HARVARD University ■United States
2 位(3) University of CAMBRIDGE ■United Kingdom
3 位(2) YALE University ■United States
4 位(7) UCL (University College London) ■United Kingdom
5 位(6) IMPERIAL College London ■United Kingdom
5 位(4) University of OXFORD ■United Kingdom
7 位(8) University of CHICAGO ■United States
8 位(12) PRINCETON University ■United States
9 位(9) MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT) ■United States
10位(5) CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech) ■United States
11位(10) COLUMBIAUniversity ■United States
12位(11) University of PENNSYLVANIA ■United States
13位(13) JOHNS HOPKINS University ■United States
14位(13) DUKE University ■United States
15位(15) CORNELL University ■United States
16位(17) STANFORD University ■United States
17位(16) AUSTRALIAN National University ■Australia
18位(20) MCGILL University ■Canada
19位(18) University of MICHIGAN ■United States
20位(23 ) University of EDINBURGH ■United Kingdom
20位(24) ETH Zurich(Swiss FederalInstitute ofTechnology)■Switzerland
22位(19) University of TOKYO ■Japan
23位(22) KING'S College London ■United Kingdom
24位(26) University of HONG KONG ■Hong Kong
25位(25) KYOTO University ■Japan