"2013 ACADEMIC RANKING OF WORLD'S UNIVERSITIES RELEASED" - TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION

The long-heralded shift of global academic power towards Asia appears to be happening at a glacial pace, if at all, according to this year’s Shanghai Jiao Tong university rankings.

Both the US and the UK have one fewer institution in the top 500 this year, but there was a better performance by some North American and European countries and little evidence of more Asian representation in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2013.

There are now no Asian universities in the top 20 after the University of Tokyo was displaced by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich at number 20.

China (which has 28 in the top 500), Taiwan (9), Hong Kong (5), Singapore (2), India (1) and Malaysia (1) all have the same number of universities in the table as last year.

South Korea (11) had one more institution than in 2012, but Japan (20) has one fewer.

Meanwhile, Canada (23), Germany (38) and Portugal (4) all grew their tally by one each.

There continues to be just a single country representative of Asia in the top 100 – Japan.

In the top 10, positions were largely unchanged, with Harvard University topping the table, theUniversity of Cambridge coming fifth, and the University of Oxford 10th.

However, the University of California, Berkeley, rose from fourth to third, swapping places with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The UK now has 37 universities in the top 500 after Swansea University dropped off the list. It has nine universities in the top 100, the same as last year, with University College London andImperial College London remaining in 21st and 24th place respectively.

Lower down the table, some UK universities managed to improve their positions: theUniversity of Bristol jumped six places to 64th; King’s College London moved up one to 67th; and the University of Nottingham rose three places to 83rd. The US has 149 universities in the top 500, and 52 in the top 100, one fewer than last year.

For the first time the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, founded in Saudi Arabia in 2009 with a $10 billion (£6.5 billion) endowment, has entered the table.

However, in the 401-500 sector of the list, it still has a long way to go to realise its ambition of being among the top 10 science and technology institutions by 2020.

The table is based on six, largely research-based, measures. It comes ahead of the launch of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which will be unveiled at the THEWorld Academic Summit on 3 October in Singapore.

david.matthews@tsleducation.com

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2013 - top 100

World Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University	United States
2	Stanford University	United States
3	University of California, Berkeley	United States
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
5	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
6	California Institute of Technology	United States
7	Princeton University	United States
8	Columbia University	United States
9	University of Chicago	United States
10	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
11	Yale University	United States
12	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
13	Cornell University	United States
14	University of California, San Diego	United States
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States
16	University of Washington	United States
17	The Johns Hopkins University	United States
18	University of California, San Francisco	United States
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
21	The University of Tokyo	Japan
21	University College London	United Kingdom
23	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	United States
24	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	United Kingdom
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
26	Kyoto University	Japan
27	New York University	United States
28	University of Toronto	Canada
29	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States
30	Northwestern University	United States
31	Duke University	United States
32	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
33	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States
34	Rockefeller University	United States
35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
36	The University of Texas at Austin	United States
37	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6	France
38	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
39	University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)	France
40	University of British Columbia	Canada
41	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
42	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
44	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
45	University of California, Irvine	United States
46	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	United States
47	University of California, Davis	United States
47	University of Southern California	United States
49	Vanderbilt University	United States
50	Technical University Munich	Germany
51	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
52	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
52	Utrecht University	Netherlands
54	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	United States
54	University of Heidelberg	Germany
54	University of Melbourne	Australia
57	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States
58	McGill University	Canada
59	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
60	University of Zurich	Switzerland
61	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick	United States
61	University of Munich	Germany
61	University of Pittsburgh	United States
64	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
65	The Ohio State University - Columbus	United States
66	The Australian National University	Australia
67	Brown University	United States
67	King’s College London	United Kingdom
69	University of Geneva	Switzerland
69	University of Oslo	Norway
71	Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris	France
71	University of Florida	United States
73	Uppsala University	Sweden
74	Leiden University	Netherlands
75	Boston University	United States
76	University of Helsinki	Finland
77	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
78	University of Arizona	United States
79	Arizona State University - Tempe	United States
79	Moscow State University	Russia
81	Aarhus University	Denmark
82	Stockholm University	Sweden
83	University of Basel	Switzerland
83	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
85	Ghent University	Belgium
85	Indiana University Bloomington	United States
85	Osaka University	Japan
85	The University of Queensland	Australia
85	University of Utah	United States
90	University of Rochester	United States
91	The University of Western Australia	Australia
92	McMaster University	Canada
92	Michigan State University	United States
92	Rice University	United States
92	University of Groningen	Netherlands
92	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
97	University of Strasbourg	France
97	University of Sydney	Australia
99	Case Western Reserve University	United States
100	University of Freiburg	Germany