University Rankings
US Universities Hold Strong
15/03/12 13:31 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Times Higher Education released its compilation of the top universities by reputation for 2012, which was led by Harvard University, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge in the UK, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley. Among the top 50 universities ranked by reputation, 30 are in the US, 6 are in the UK, 3 each are in Australia and Canada, 2 each are in China and Japan, and one each are in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Switzerland. S. Pelech notes that this survey is based on the opinions of only 50 people in 15 countries around the world with 90% of the scoring based equally on the quality of teaching, research and publication citation - industry income as a measure of innovation only counted for 2.5%. Read More...