順位着けに以下のメトリックを導入している。そしてはっきりしているのは、20番以内に香港の大学を含め中国の大学が２つ入っている。しかし日本はゼロ。30番まで広げると、日本は東大のみ1校、中国は3つも入っている。
研究成果をメトリックに入れれば、又、順位は変わる。研究成果とかで分類すれば全く変わるが、若い人から見た場合、日本の存在、中国の影になり始めた！
the following six metrics:
- Academic Reputation
- Employer Reputation
- Faculty/Student Ratio
- Citations per faculty
- International Faculty Ratio
- International Student Ratio
上記メトリックでの順位：：：：：：：：：：：：：：：
1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge,United States
2 University of Oxford Oxford,United Kingdom
3 Stanford University Stanford,United States
4 University of Cambridge Cambridge,United Kingdom
5 Harvard University Cambridge,United States
6 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Pasadena,United States
7 Imperial College London London,United Kingdom
8 ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich,Switzerland
9 UCL London,United Kingdom
10 University of Chicago Chicago,United States
11 National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore,Singapore
12 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) Singapore,Singapore
13 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia,United States
14 EPFL Lausanne,Switzerland
15 Yale University New Haven,United States
16 The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh,United Kingdom
17 Tsinghua University Beijing,China (Mainland)
18 Peking University Beijing,China (Mainland)
19 Columbia University New York City,United States
20 Princeton University Princeton,United States
21 Cornell University Ithaca,United States
22 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong,Hong Kong SAR
23 The University of Tokyo Tokyo,Japan
24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor,United States
25 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore,United States
26 University of Toronto Toronto,Canada
27 McGill University Montreal,Canada
28 The Australian National University Canberra,Australia
29 The University of Manchester Manchester,United Kingdom
30 Northwestern University Evanston,United States