Rice among world’s top 100 universities in 2011 ranking by Shanghai Jiao Tong University

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Rice University is among the world’s top 100 universities in new rankings released this week by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.

Rice is No. 93 – up from No. 99 last year – in the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Harvard is No. 1. Only three other schools in Texas are among the top 100: the University of Texas at Austin (No. 35), UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (No. 51) and Texas A&M (No. 100).

In ARWU’s comparison of world universities by broad subject fields, Rice ranked No. 47 for natural sciences and mathematics, and it tied for Nos. 52-75 in the social sciences category and the engineering/technology/computer sciences category.

In the rankings by subject fields, Rice was No. 27 for chemistry; it tied for Nos. 51-75 in both computer science and economics/business and Nos. 52-75 for mathematics.

The rankings take into account the number of alumni and faculty winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, the number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per-capita performance with respect to the school’s size.

For more information on the rankings, visit http://www.ShanghaiRanking.com/.

In last year’s world university rankings by Times Higher Education magazine in London, Rice ranked No. 47.