The Scientific and Technological Competitiveness Ranking of Global University (STCRGU) is uniquely designed as an international ranking system to rigorously evaluate the scientific competitiveness of global universities. STCRGU specially employs four quantitative indicators focusing on scientific productivity, high-quality research contributions, and international patent applications to analyze and rank the scientific competitiveness. These performance indicators were designed to ensure that the evaluation is rational, objective, accurate and transparent. STCRGU is computed based on the latest scientific performance from October of the previous year to September this year, and is published annually in December by the Institute for the Scientific and Technological Competitiveness of Global University.
STCRGU (2015) presents a list of 200 leading universities around the world based on their scientific research performance between October 2014 and September 2015. Harvard University is ranked as the first global university. Universities positioned in the second to the tenth place are Stanford University, University of Toronto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, University of Michigan, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Washington, and University of Pennsylvania, respectively. Harvard University has the highest score in scientific productivity and high-quality research contributions, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the highest score in international patent applications. A total of 18 Chinese mainland universities are included in the list of STCRGU (2015). Among them, these ranked as the world's top 100 universities are Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Sun Yat-sen University, and Sichuan University. Peking University and Tsinghua University have the top score in high-quality research contributions and international patent applications. Whereas Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Zhejiang University have the top score in scientific productivity.
STCRGU is a useful addition to the present world university ranking systems because of its emphasis on the latest scientific research output, which provides new insights into more targeted evaluation of higher education institutions. With more specific and up-to-date information on scientific competitiveness, STCRGU will be particularly useful for academics, students, governors and industrialist alike. Carrying out scientific competitiveness ranking of world universities can satisfy government and university management needs. Effective development strategy can be intelligently designed to improve the quality of scientific research and innovation, and thus to enhance the core competitiveness of universities. STCRGU will definitely have an important leading role to promote scientific and technological innovation and social development. - kjjz.scu.edu.cn
Scientific and Technological Competitiveness Ranking of Global University 2015
Ranking | University | Total Score |
1 | Harvard University | 93.799 |
2 | Stanford University | 45.791 |
3 | University of Toronto | 39.548 |
4 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 37.936 |
5 | Johns Hopkins University | 37.756 |
6 | University of Michigan | 35.436 |
7 | University College London | 34.397 |
8 | University of Oxford | 33.889 |
9 | University of Washington | 32.340 |
10 | University of Pennsylvania | 32.125 |
11 | Columbia University | 31.421 |
12 | University of Cambridge | 31.232 |
13 | Tsinghua University | 29.792 |
14 | The University of Tokyo | 29.226 |
15 | University of California, Berkeley | 28.990 |
16 | Seoul National University | 28.616 |
17 | Imperial College London | 27.949 |
18 | University of California, Los Angeles | 27.791 |
19 | University of California, San Diego | 27.082 |
20 | Yale University | 26.468 |
21 | Cornell University | 26.334 |
22 | Peking University | 25.215 |
23 | University of Copenhagen | 24.933 |
24 | Duke University | 24.289 |
25 | University of California, San Francisco | 23.733 |
26 | Zhejiang University | 23.021 |
27 | University of Chicago | 22.916 |
28 | University of Sao Paulo | 22.706 |
29 | California Institute of Technology | 22.163 |
30 | University of Minnesota | 22.090 |
31 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 22.021 |
32 | University of Sydney | 21.779 |
33 | University of Pittsburgh | 21.743 |
34 | University of Colorado Boulder | 21.637 |
35 | University of British Columbia | 21.389 |
36 | The University of Texas at Austin | 21.185 |
37 | Northwestern University (US) | 21.099 |
38 | Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6) | 20.970 |
39 | Kyoto University | 20.834 |
40 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 20.475 |
41 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) | 20.437 |
42 | The Ohio State University | 20.355 |
43 | University of Melbourne | 20.182 |
44 | University of Florida | 20.140 |
45 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 19.585 |
46 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 19.230 |
47 | National University of Singapore | 19.198 |
48 | McGill University | 18.971 |
49 | The University of Queensland | 18.834 |
50 | New York University | 18.315 |
51 | University of California, Davis | 18.313 |
52 | Mayo Medical School | 18.265 |
53 | University of Manchester | 17.727 |
54 | Washington University in St Louis | 17.664 |
55 | University of Leuven (KU Leuven) | 17.550 |
56 | Fudan University | 17.159 |
57 | Emory University | 17.044 |
58 | King's College London | 16.971 |
59 | Heidelberg University | 16.958 |
60 | Karolinska Institutet | 16.883 |
61 | Osaka University | 16.732 |
62 | National Taiwan University | 16.717 |
63 | University of Munich (LMU Munich) | 16.549 |
64 | Pennsylvania State University | 16.504 |
65 | Monash University | 16.499 |
66 | University of Southern California | 16.297 |
67 | Vanderbilt University | 16.260 |
68 | Utrecht University | 16.207 |
69 | Humboldt University of Berlin | 15.624 |
70 | Tohoku University | 15.541 |
71 | Yonsei University | 15.438 |
72 | Free University of Berlin | 15.234 |
73 | University of Alberta | 15.228 |
74 | University of Barcelona | 15.181 |
75 | University of Utah | 15.128 |
76 | Princeton University | 15.003 |
77 | Nanjing University | 14.903 |
78 | University of Edinburgh | 14.810 |
79 | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | 14.768 |
80 | Sun Yat-sen University | 14.766 |
81 | University of Maryland, College Park | 14.570 |
82 | University of Zurich | 14.567 |
83 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | 14.500 |
84 | Aarhus University | 14.485 |
85 | Texas A&M University | 14.469 |
86 | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | 14.399 |
87 | University of Rome | 14.393 |
88 | University of Groningen | 14.389 |
89 | Ghent University | 14.216 |
90 | Tel Aviv University | 13.988 |
91 | University of New South Wales | 13.973 |
92 | University of Amsterdam | 13.858 |
93 | The University of Arizona | 13.703 |
94 | Baylor College of Medicine | 13.639 |
95 | Sichuan University | 13.528 |
96 | Nanyang Technological University | 13.286 |
97 | Aix-Marseille University | 12.944 |
98 | Boston University | 12.830 |
99 | Technical University of Munich | 12.735 |
100 | University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) | 12.681 |
101 | University of Bristol | 12.612 |
102 | University of Paris Diderot (Paris 7) | 12.441 |
103 | Uppsala University | 12.422 |
104 | University of Science and Technology of China | 12.369 |
105 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 12.164 |
106 | Jilin University | 12.136 |
107 | Shandong University | 12.135 |
108 | Leiden University | 12.092 |
109 | University of Montreal | 12.091 |
110 | Sungkyunkwan University | 12.086 |
111 | VU University Amsterdam | 12.064 |
112 | University of Helsinki | 11.981 |
113 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne | 11.772 |
114 | Radboud University Nijmegen | 11.733 |
115 | University of California, Irvine | 11.644 |
116 | University of Oslo | 11.619 |
117 | Lund University | 11.592 |
118 | Nagoya University | 11.537 |
119 | University of Milan | 11.527 |
120 | University of Southampton | 11.474 |
121 | University of Western Australia | 11.455 |
122 | Xi'an Jiaotong University | 11.136 |
123 | University of Padua | 11.103 |
124 | Michigan State University | 11.092 |
125 | University of Geneva | 11.073 |
126 | Korea University | 11.039 |
127 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | 10.976 |
128 | Case Western Reserve University | 10.975 |
129 | University of Hamburg | 10.950 |
130 | Kyushu University | 10.864 |
131 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 10.856 |
132 | Purdue University | 10.824 |
133 | Arizona State University | 10.563 |
134 | University of Bern | 10.521 |
135 | The University of Virginia | 10.445 |
136 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | 10.437 |
137 | University of Bonn | 10.310 |
138 | Hokkaido University | 10.280 |
139 | University of Tubingen | 10.259 |
140 | University of Basel | 10.169 |
141 | The University of Hong Kong | 10.165 |
142 | Wuhan University | 10.152 |
143 | University of Glasgow | 10.135 |
144 | University of Bologna | 10.063 |
145 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 10.054 |
146 | McMaster University | 10.044 |
147 | Central South University | 10.001 |
148 | University of Rochester | 9.992 |
149 | University of Birmingham | 9.920 |
150 | University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | 9.916 |
151 | University of Ottawa | 9.907 |
152 | University of Nottingham | 9.875 |
153 | Harbin Institute of Technology | 9.803 |
154 | Australian National University | 9.780 |
155 | University of Gottingen | 9.727 |
156 | University of South Florida | 9.637 |
157 | University of Calgary | 9.549 |
158 | University of Freiburg | 9.534 |
159 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 9.443 |
160 | King Abdulaziz University | 9.436 |
161 | University of Leeds | 9.373 |
162 | King Saud University | 9.333 |
163 | University of Sheffield | 9.301 |
164 | Brown University | 9.267 |
165 | University of Liverpool | 9.228 |
166 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 9.188 |
167 | Tongji University | 9.184 |
168 | Paris Descartes University (Paris 5) | 9.083 |
169 | Joseph Fourier University | 9.044 |
170 | University of Maryland, Baltimore | 8.999 |
171 | Dresden University of Technology | 8.986 |
172 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | 8.871 |
173 | Soochow University | 8.848 |
174 | University of Iowa | 8.817 |
175 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 8.801 |
176 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 8.769 |
177 | University of Lisbon | 8.757 |
178 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | 8.730 |
179 | University of Georgia | 8.672&
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