Ranking Universities 2010 published Friday by the Shanghai Communication University this year is still dominated overwhelmingly by the Americans and mark a rise of Germany and stagnation of France.
Top 500, posted by Jiaotong University, is widely followed in Europe, where he is also highly contested, and sees the enthroned first place for the 8th consecutive year, the American University of Harvard. Like last year, the U.S. ranks 17 out of 19 first places. The trio is the same as last year, but behind Harvard, Berkeley breath in second place this year at Stanford.
For Europe, only British rival universities of Cambridge (5th) and Oxford (10th) slip in the top 10 along with all American universities.
In 20th place, the University of Tokyo is the first non-US institution and non-European top ranking. The highest ranking of Switzerland: 23rd place of the Institute of Technology Zurich to Canada's 27th place at the University of Toronto and Belgium: 90th place at the University of Ghent (Gent).
Among the top 500, Germany reached this year in second place with 39 universities ranked far behind the United States (154) but ahead of the United Kingdom (38) and Japan (25 ).
France, who was fifth in 2009 with 23 universities, is sixth with 22 institutions this year, tied with Italy and China. It only three institutions in the first 100: Pierre et Marie Curie in the 39th place (40th in 2009), Paris-Sud in the 45th (43th) and Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS-Ulm) in the 71st (70th).
The idea of this ranking released since 2003 was born when Beijing decided to adopt internationally renowned universities. Was to define the criteria for a university to be considered world class and see how Chinese universities were located. Today Jiaotong seems a bit overwhelmed by the interest in his classification, and the criticism it wipes in Europe, and particularly in France.
Europe - which hopes to establish its own ranking next year - believes that the criteria discriminate against its universities and the ranking is almost exclusively scientific. These criteria essentially retain the research performance at the expense of training: the number of Nobel prizes, Fields medals (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in mathematics) and articles published in journals such only Anglo-Saxon "Nature "or" Science. " Francophones are not taken into account.
Valerie Pécresse, French Minister Higher Education, visited July Jiaotong promote the ongoing reform of French universities, told AFP Ying Cheng, executive director of the center Jiaotong which compiles the rankings.
Evidence of their concern, Norway has also sent a minister on the campus of Jiaotong and Denmark is about to do the same.
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