What is the Academic Ranking of World Universities?
Q: What is the Academic Ranking of World Universities?
A: The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), commonly called Shanghai ranking, is a list of the world's best universities made by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Q: How long have the rankings been made and how often are they updated?
A: The rankings have been made since 2003 and they are updated each year.
Q: What is the top university on the list as of 2012?
A: Harvard University remains top as of 2012.
Q: Who uses this ranking and why?
A: The ranking is used by the Chinese to compare other colleges and universities to their own universities.
Q: What kind of formula does the ranking use to determine the rankings of the universities?
A: The ranking uses a special formula to determine how to rank universities.
Q: What are some parameters that the formula uses to rank the universities?
A: It uses such things as how many Nobel Prizes university people have won and how many papers university scientists have published in the journals Science and Nature.
Q: How many universities are ranked in this list as of now?
A: Over 1,200 universities are ranked in this list.
