The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) ranked as one of the top 500 universities worldwide according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2015 report published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CWCU) over the weekend.
The UBA was the only Argentine university to make the list, where it placed in the 151-200 class, which made it the second highest-ranked university in the report across Latin America. Only Brazil’s Sao Paulo University, which placed only slightly higher in the 100-151 category, was ahead of the UBA in Latin America.
In total, just 10 universities from Latin America made the top 500, including the UBA from Argentina, Sao Paulo University and five others from Brazil, plus two from Chile and one from Mexico.
Worldwide, the list was dominated by institutions from the global north, with the United States contributing by far the most universities with 140 different institutions placing in the top 500.
The US also dominated the elite top ten, with eight universities including first placed Harvard, second placed Stanford and MIT in third. Only Cambridge (5th) and Oxford (10th) from the UK made the top ten from outside the US.
The UK contributed 37 universities in total, next to Germany (39), France (22) and Italy (20) as the best performing European countries.
The three regional powers in East Asia, People’s Republic of China, Japan and South Korea, dominated that continent’s contribution with 37, 18 and 12 making the grade respectively, while heavily populated India featured just one university (the Indian Institute of Science) in the top 500.
The methodology of university ranking systems has long been the subject of debate, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities is no different, since it chooses to prioritize sciences as the basis of academic excellence, though most disciplines are considered.
Overall, just over 1200 universities across the world are eligible for the list, which mandates that to qualify as a contender they must fulfil a set of stringent criteria, as stipulated by the guidelines. To be eligible, a university must have produced “Nobel Laureates, Fields Medallists, Highly Cited Researchers, or papers published in Nature or Science. In addition, universities with significant amount of papers indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) are also included,” according to the ARWU guidelines.
Herald staff
The UBA was the only Argentine university to make the list, where it placed in the 151-200 class, which made it the second highest-ranked university in the report across Latin America. Only Brazil’s Sao Paulo University, which placed only slightly higher in the 100-151 category, was ahead of the UBA in Latin America.
In total, just 10 universities from Latin America made the top 500, including the UBA from Argentina, Sao Paulo University and five others from Brazil, plus two from Chile and one from Mexico.
Worldwide, the list was dominated by institutions from the global north, with the United States contributing by far the most universities with 140 different institutions placing in the top 500.
The US also dominated the elite top ten, with eight universities including first placed Harvard, second placed Stanford and MIT in third. Only Cambridge (5th) and Oxford (10th) from the UK made the top ten from outside the US.
The UK contributed 37 universities in total, next to Germany (39), France (22) and Italy (20) as the best performing European countries.
The three regional powers in East Asia, People’s Republic of China, Japan and South Korea, dominated that continent’s contribution with 37, 18 and 12 making the grade respectively, while heavily populated India featured just one university (the Indian Institute of Science) in the top 500.
The methodology of university ranking systems has long been the subject of debate, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities is no different, since it chooses to prioritize sciences as the basis of academic excellence, though most disciplines are considered.
Overall, just over 1200 universities across the world are eligible for the list, which mandates that to qualify as a contender they must fulfil a set of stringent criteria, as stipulated by the guidelines. To be eligible, a university must have produced “Nobel Laureates, Fields Medallists, Highly Cited Researchers, or papers published in Nature or Science. In addition, universities with significant amount of papers indexed by Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) are also included,” according to the ARWU guidelines.
Herald staff
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