print email comment close Academic Ranking of World Universities URL: http://www.arwu.org/ Description: Annual ranking of the top 500 universities based on "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." Includes top-100 lists for Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia Pacific universities. Rankings go back to 2003. From the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Publisher: Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Library of Congress Subject Headings: Universities and colleges -- Evaluation LII Database Information: Record 19854 created by Maria Brandt on 11/28/2005 Last modification on 10/29/2009 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 05/01/2007 Charlotte Bagby on 11/14/2006 Published: 12/01/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19854