Game and Work

The world ranking of 100 best universities by the University of Shanghai is dominated by the United States

In the 2009 rankings released Friday on the website of champions online resources, only British universities Cambridge (4th) and Oxford (10th) slipped in the top ten universities.

The leading trio is American, led Harvard (1st), Stanford (2nd) and Berkeley (3rd), already top three last year.

Seventeen American universities are in the first 19 of this ranking of 100 schools in total.

At the 20th spot, the University of Tokyo is the first ranking non-American, not British. The first university in continental Europe is in 23rd place, the Swiss Institute of Technology, while the first French university is the University Pierre and Marie Curie in the 40th spot.

No other university in continental Europe only falls between these two schools in this ranking. The two other French universities rank in top 100 institutions are the University of Paris South (11) to the 43rd place tie with the University of Copenhagen and the Ecole Normale Superieure in the 70th spot.

This record says based on academic performance or research, but also some articles in journals such as Nature.

Criteria that are very focused on research rather than training, and are challenged in some countries, France in the lead, which they believe encourage American universities de facto, since most scientific journals are Anglo-Saxon and would promote for various reasons, including issues of language, rather the United States or Great Britain, according to critics of the rankings.