Brown Named in Top 50 Universities Worldwide
Monday, October 17, 2011
Brown University does it again, and better than last year.
Not only does Rhode Island's popular Ivy League school continue to hold its own in the latest national rankings from US News and World Report, Forbes, and the Princeton Review, but Brown places among the 50 top universities in the world, according to the latest World University Rankings, 2011-2012, released by Times Higher Education in the UK.
The new listing places Brown at #49 in world, up 6 spots from its still-outstanding performance in the 2010-2011 rankings at #55. Brown is the only Rhode Island-based institution to make the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
What makes a university world-class?
The annual rankings, which were developed with data provider Thomson Reuters, utilizes "expert input" from more than 50 leading figures in the sector from 15 countries across every continent to develop and assess 13 separate performance indicators, from teaching to research to knowledge transfer.
The indicators fall under five headline categories:
• Teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)
• Research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
• Citations — research influence (worth 30 per cent)
• Industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
• International outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).
The Big Winners
It turns out the top three universities in this year's rankings are all in the US: California Institute of Technology took the top laurel, followed by Harvard and Stanford Universities, tied for second place. The University of Oxford took the #4 spot, Princeton ranked #5, the University of Cambridge snagged #6, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took the #7 spot, followed by Imperial College London at #8 and the University of Chicago at #9. The University of California, Berkeley, rounded out the top 10 internationally.
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With an overall score of 65.6 out of 100, Brown's highest marks came in the area of citations, or research influence. On this indicator, Brown received a top-flight score of 93.9 out of 100. On these rest of the indicators, Brown scored as follows
Teaching: 59.8
International outlook: 33.4
Industry income: 34.9
Research: 53.6
For the entire rankings, go here.
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