What we’ve all been waiting for…
Yes, it’s another new world ranking. This time from the previously unheard of Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) from Saudi Arabia. The website offers little information about the organisation but we do know that the US has the lion’s share of the top 100 places:
The distribution of top 100 institutions among countries is as follows: USA (58), England (7), France (5), Japan (5), Israel (4), Switzerland (4), Canada (3), Germany (3), Australia (2), Netherlands (2), Denmark (1), Finland (1), Italy (1), Norway (1), Scotland (1), South Korea (1), and Sweden (1).
The detailed methodology is also available on the CWUR website. Anyway, the Top 10 is as follows:
Top 10
- Harvard
- MIT
- Stanford
- Cambridge
- Caltech
- Princeton
- Oxford
- Yale
- Columbia
- Berkeley
And the UK placings in the Top 100 are:
4 Cambridge
7 Oxford
28 Imperial
31 UCL
60 Edinburgh
76 Manchester
97 Nottingham
98 Bristol
So, overall not that dissimilar from the SJTU Academic Ranking of World Universities or the QS table. Will it gain a niche in the rankings market? Time will tell but at first sight it doesn’t seem to be sufficiently distinctive to attract a major profile.
