The URAP Ranking


 Another ranking that has been neglected is the University Ranking by Academic Performance [www.urapcenter.org] started by the Middle East Technical University in 2009. This has six indicators: number of articles (21%), citations (21%), total documents (10%), journal impact total (18%), journal citation impact total (15%) and international collaboration (10%).

A distinctive feature is that these rankings provide data for 2000 universities,much more than the current big three.

The top ten are:

1.  Harvard
2.  Toronto
3.  Johns Hopkins
4.  Stanford
5.  UC Berkeley
6.  Michigan Ann Argot
7.  Oxford
8.  Washington Seattle
9.  UCLA
10. Tokyo

 These rankings definitely favour size over quality as shown  by the strong performance of Toronto and Johns Hopkins and the lowly position of Caltech in 51st place and Princeton in 95th. Still, they could be very helpful for countries with few institutions in the major rankings.