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  Today@UCI: Quick Facts: Rankings & Distinctions
UCI is one of 62 universities in the U.S. and Canada elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities.
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2005 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Higher Education, UCI is ranked 35th in the U.S., 37th in the Americas and 47th in the world.
The rankings are based on data submitted by institutions of higher education to the U.S. Department of Education.
today.uci.edu /facts/rankings_distinctions.asp   (1078 words)

  
  University of Budapest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The University of Budapest or ELTE is the oldest and biggest university in Hungary, located in Budapest.
After the dissolution of the Jesuit order, the university was moved to Buda (a part of Budapest today) in 1777, in accordance with the intention of the founder.
According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2005), it was qualified as the second best university in Hungary (301-400th in the complete list), after the University of Szeged (203-300th).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Budapest   (409 words)

  
 PRELAW HANDBOOK - Best Graduate Schools   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The four universities are Johns Hopkins University, the University of Texas, the University of Southern California, and the University of North Carolina.
These six universities are the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington, Washington University (St. Louis), the University of Southern California, the Pennsylvania State University, and the University of North Carolina.
Thirty-eight universities did well enough on all three of the rankings so that their points were stated by all three of these rankings.
www.prelawhandbook.com /best_graduate_schools   (1249 words)

  
 Research - Headlines - Chinese study ranks world’s top 500 universities
European universities scrape by with a pass mark, according to a new academic ranking of the world’s best schools of higher learning released by researchers from Shanghai’s institute of higher education.
Oxford and Cambridge Universities are conspicuous as the only two European centres of higher learning to be in the top ten ranking of the world’s best universities compiled by a prestigious Chinese institute.
The universities were carefully evaluated using several indicators of research performance, including the number of highly cited researchers, academic performance, the prevalence of articles published in the scientific journals Science and Nature, and the number of Nobel laureates produced within the hallowed halls of these centres of learning.
ec.europa.eu /research/headlines/news/article_03_12_31_en.html   (515 words)

  
 news:ETH Life - ETH Zurich's weekly web journal
The universities of Zurich and Basle are also under the top 100 of the world's universities, at place 57 and 91, respectively.
In a ranking based on the web domains of universities, used by the authors of the Shanghai ranking as a source (2), while ETH Zurich, for example, still appears at place 28, in this "webometric" approach the University of Oxford falls from place 10 to place 27.
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2005 from the Jiao Tong University at Shanghai: http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005Main.htm
www.ethlife.ethz.ch /e/articles/news/shanghairank05.html   (341 words)

  
 University of Heidelberg
The ranking is a further confirmation of the status of Heidelberg as an academic location based on an international study.
The transparency of the methods used to measure quantifiable achievement is one of the major assets of the "Academic Ranking of World Universities — 2003".
The ranking is thus bound to furnish new material in the discussion on elite universities.
www.uni-heidelberg.de /press/news/press324_e.html   (495 words)

  
 College Rankings: International (Non-U.S.)
University programs in a variety of subjects were awarded a ranking from 1 to 5 based solely on research quality.
Rankings are provided for three groups of institutions: medical-doctoral (broad range of PhD programs and focus on research), comprehensive (significant research activity and wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs), and those focusing primarily on undergraduate education.
The ranking is based on a combined indicator that takes into consideration the volume of the published material on the web, and the visibility and impact of these webpages measured by the sitations (site citations) or links they received (inlinks).
www.library.uiuc.edu /edx/rankint.htm   (1276 words)

  
 EUROPA - Research - Headlines - Chinese study ranks world’s top 500 universities
European universities scrape by with a pass mark, according to a new academic ranking of the world’s best schools of higher learning released by researchers from Shanghai’s institute of higher education.
Oxford and Cambridge Universities are conspicuous as the only two European centres of higher learning to be in the top ten ranking of the world’s best universities compiled by a prestigious Chinese institute.
The universities were carefully evaluated using several indicators of research performance, including the number of highly cited researchers, academic performance, the prevalence of articles published in the scientific journals Science and Nature, and the number of Nobel laureates produced within the hallowed halls of these centres of learning.
europa.eu.int /comm/research/headlines/news/article_03_12_31_en.html   (525 words)

  
 News Releases
An academic ranking of world universities published on the web Aug. 12 by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, lists the University of California, San Diego as 13th among 1,000 international institutions ranked.
This latest academic ranking follows rankings announced earlier this week by Newsweek/Kaplan in which UCSD was named the “hottest university for science,” and an annual survey just issued by US News and World Report which rated UCSD as the 7th best public university in the nation.
The top 20 of the top 1,000 in the academic ranking, in order, were Harvard, Cambridge, Stanford, UC Berkeley, MIT, Cal Tech, Columbia, Princeton, University of Chicago, Oxford, Yale, Cornell, UCSD, UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Washington, UC San Francisco, Johns Hopkins, and Tokyo University.
ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/general/WorldRankings0805.asp   (326 words)

  
 campuslife:ETH Life - ETH Zurich's weekly web journal
According to the study, Harvard University in Cambridge, Boston is the best in the world, followed by further institutions in English speaking countries, such as MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at position 6.
The 500 universities included in the study were assessed according to five different criteria.
In their commentary to "Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2003" the authors admit that a university's quality and reputation cannot be measured by mere numbers.
www.ethlife.ethz.ch /e/articles/campuslife/ranking2003.html   (408 words)

  
 World Universities' ranking on the Web: Home
This Ranking is being published since 2004 on a regular basis using the web data as indicator of the visibility and impact of the activities of the universities, colleges and research institutions worldwide.
The Ranking's original aim was to show the commitment of these organizations to the electronic publication, the open access to scientific results and the internationalization of their activities.
Aspects as academic freedom, level of funding, access to new technologies, relationships with the community, links with companies and industry, open access and sharing policies, students' participation, interdisciplinary, maturity, prestige, leadership or solidarity are considered in the Web as well as the number of research papers, scientific projects or international awards.
www.webometrics.info   (484 words)

  
 Rankings of World Universities and Departments
The 2004 edition of the world university rankings edited by the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The ranking of science and technology Schools edited by Asiaweek is based on indicators of the academic reputation, student selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources and research output.
The ranking is based on "webometrics" indicators like size, visibility, popularity and number of rich files, which aim to quantify the quality of universities' web sites.
www.socialcapitalgateway.org /eng-rankings.htm   (1245 words)

  
 auGGIS - The Australian Universities Weblog: 01/01/2004 - 01/31/2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
University 'doesn't suit all' - High drop out rate at Australian Universities: "The Federal Government said yesterday not all young people should be 'culturally drilled' into going to university, as it defended the number of students who missed out on first-round offers this year.
Uni places for first year reduced: "Curtin University is cutting the number of places to try to rein in over-enrolments, which are funded mostly by the university.
Muticultural Sydney attracts most international students: "Sydney's international city status is helping NSW universities push ahead of the rest of the country in the lucrative race for foreign students, bagging the most of any state and recording the fastest growth in enrolments.
www.auggis.org /weblog/archives/2004_01_01_auggis_archive.html   (2486 words)

  
 Academic Ranking of World Universities — 2004
Following is the ranking of world's top 20 based on "Quality of Education", which reflects the number of Nobel laureates and Fields medallists that the institution has produced (i.e.
It is not a ranking of universities, but rather a ranking of the "research facilities" of these universities as perceived by the Shanghai university.
Then, each top-200 university in Europe can get an annual fund about $2 billion from its goverment, in about the same level as (maybe even more than) the University of Tokyo, whose annual fund from the government is the largest among all universities in the world currently.
www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/4/93183.html   (3876 words)

  
 UW-Madison: University Communications: News Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Academic Ranking of World Universities (project by Shangai Jiao Tong University)
The World and the University, John Muir, 1913
Presidents and Chancellors of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
www.news.wisc.edu /library/WebResources.html   (205 words)

  
 McMaster Daily News
McMaster University has been named one of the Top 100 universities in the world, one of only four Canadian universities to make the list.
A high ranking in the survey is considered a huge boost to a university because it draws the attention of potential faculty and student recruits the world over.
McMaster is listed 90th in the world ranking, and 55th in the regional ranking (which includes North and Latin American universities).
dailynews.mcmaster.ca /story.cfm?id=3158   (239 words)

  
 UNSW: The University of New South Wales - Sydney Australia - The University
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is one of the leading teaching and research universities in Australia – renowned for the quality of its graduates and its commitment to new and creative approaches to education and research.
Located in Sydney, the University of New South Wales is situated near the business hub of Australia's largest city, providing easy access to a wide range of academic, cultural and social activities, and is less than 5km from some of the most famous beaches in the world.
In the THES league table the Faculty of Engineering was ranked 18th in the world and in the world’s top 100 by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities.
www.unsw.edu.au /about/pad/about.html   (1469 words)

  
 Calcutta University World's Top 500
Repeating the last year’s feat, the Calcutta University has, in 2005, secured its place in the list of world’s top 500 institution of higher learning, prepared by the Institution of Higher Education, Sanghai Jian Tong University, China.
In this year also, University of Calcutta is the only University from India (indeed the only University from the SAARC region) to appear on the list.
This certainly shows that the Calcutta University is successfully maintaining its glorious heritage in achieving laurels from the world’s academia.
www.caluniv.ac.in /world.htm   (142 words)

  
 fuckfrance.com - Oh dear oh dear. Academic Ranking of World Universities - 2005.... (1439520) - Read article:
It would be impossible to have a comprehensive ranking of universities worldwide, because of the huge differences of universities in the large variety of countries and the technical difficulties in obtaining internationally comparable data.
This is because both universities claimed to be the successor of Berlin University before World War II, and they could not agree on how to divide the Nobel prizes won by the old Berlin University.
We rank universities by several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, articles published in Nature and Science, articles indexed in major citation indices, and the per capita academic performance of an institution.
www.fuckfrance.com /read.html?postid=1439520&replies=71&page=1   (1884 words)

  
 field
Since the first publication of Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2003, we have received numerous requests to provide ranking of world universities by broad subject fields/schools/colleges and by subject fields/programs/departments.
In addition, many top Chinese universities are interested in learning their positions in the world by subjects.
In response to the requests, we have been studying the possibility of ranking world universities by broad subject fields.
ed.sjtu.edu.cn /ARWU-FIELD.htm   (161 words)

  
 Rankings
The econphd.net rankings are among the most substantial in scope (covering 63 journals over roughly ten years, 1993-2003) and they are unique in detail (the only consistent rankings at the subdiscipline level).
Purpose: This ranking deviates from many conventional ones in that an author's entire publication history is attributed to the current affiliation, rather than the affiliation at time of publication.
Hence this ranking is not a measure of department productivity over a period of time.
www.econphd.net /rankings.htm   (545 words)

  
 Newspaper League Tables - links and commentaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Commentary on the 2005 Shanghai University ranking methodology
Commentary on the 2004 Shanghai University ranking methodology
A detailed explanation from Universities Scotland on why the treatment of Teaching Quality Assurance scores in newspaper league tables results in consistent bias against Scottish HEIs.
www.planning.ed.ac.uk /Pub/Tables.htm   (473 words)

  
 NT Gateway Weblog: Mark Goodacre's Academic New Testament Blog
Mark Goodacre's blog for academic New Testament studies and related material; sister of The New Testament Gateway.
UK university continue to perform well against the European competition - Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and University College London take the top four places in Europe, with Edinburgh in ninth position.
But of course we are all going to use this list to see where our universities figure, those where we studied and those where we work.
www.ntgateway.com /weblog/2005/08/top-500-world-universities.html   (385 words)

  
 Imperial College London - Imperial 17th in world universities ranking, 3rd in Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A list of the world's top 500 universities, published by researchers from China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ranks Imperial 17th best in the world and third in Europe.
Only four European universities make the top 20; Cambridge is fifth, Oxford ninth and UCL is 20th, and just one Asian university, Tokyo University in Japan, is in the top 20.
Imperial's IDEA league partner, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, is ranked at number 25, and is the only other European university in the global top 30.
www.ic.ac.uk /p4887.htm   (308 words)

  
 Learning and Education Resource
How do developing countries handle education amid the more pressing everyday challenges imposed by economic pressures and threats to security, law and order?Certainly, there are more serious problems to face, but it is significant to note that education is not forgot...
Harvard University is the oldest and, arguably, the most prestigious university in the United States.
In 2005, the Times Higher Education Supplement and the Academic Ranking of World Universities both ranked Harvard University first among the universities of the world.
theeducationstop.net   (366 words)

  
 Improve Ranking: Google Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The official World Fan Ranking honours with the favorite player, keeper and coach of all continents.
The best you could get was the ranking for your host, blogspot.com, but not for your own blog.
Official World Golf Ranking as of 12/5/2005 in the World.
www.newsfeed.web.com /Improve-Ranking/2005/12/google-technology.html   (211 words)

  
 MBA B Schools Ranking : top listing of Business Schools, Colleges, Programs
Best University of 2000 Asiaweek Country Listing All Schools
Business Today Ranking 2003 for MBA in India
Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006 Top 100
mba4india.com /rankings   (122 words)

  
 Improve Ranking: 2006-01-15   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Academic Ranking of World Universities - Methodologies and Problems andmiddot; Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
University of Washington students will study ways to improve health in the world's poorest nations in a new Department of Global Health, beginning next fall.
Your ranking and the ranking of other sites may be influenced by the link "popularity" of the site...
www.newsfeed.web.com /Improve-Ranking/2006_01_15_archive.html   (7869 words)

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