University of California 2011 Accountability Report

Indicator 13.1
Academic Rankings of World Universities, Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, 2006 to 2010

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Berkeley 4 3 3 3 2
Davis 42 43 48 49 46
Irvine 44 45 46 46 46
Los Angeles 14 13 13 13 13
Riverside 102–150 102–150 101–151 101–151 101–150
San Diego 13 14 14 14 14
San Francisco 18 18 18 18 18
Santa Barbara 35 35 36 35 32
Santa Cruz 102–150 102–150 101–151 101–151 101–150
           
Illinois 25 26 26 25 25
Michigan 21 21 21 22 22
SUNY Buffalo 201–300 203–304 201–302 201–302 201–300
Virginia 102–150 102–150 95 91 96
           
Harvard 1 1 1 1 1
MIT 5 5 5 5 4
Stanford 3 2 2 2 3
Yale 11 11 11 11 11

The Academic Rankings of the World's Universities (ARWU) was originally produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China in 2003 to determine the global standing of Chinese research universities. Since 2009, the rankings have been published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. See www.arwu.org/aboutARWU.jsp.

The ARWU ranks the top 1,200 universities worldwide and is based entirely on measures of research strength and faculty honors and awards. English-speaking universities and especially those in the United States tend to dominate these rankings. Further, institutions with strong research programs, especially in the sciences, tend to score higher than those whose major strengths are in the humanities and social sciences.

This ranking system emphasizes research outputs (e.g. total research expenditures) an area where UC does well by comparison to other institutions. Because research outputs are not normalized for example represented on a "per faculty member" basis, larger UC campuses rank more highly than smaller ones.

You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.