Harvard University today retains the top spot in the 2016 edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) – widely known as the Shanghai Ranking – a position it has now occupied for 14 years. Stanford University holds onto second place, while the University of California, Berkeley climbs one position to third. While there is some re-shuffling within the top 10, no universities break into or drop out of this group, in which the United States’ clean sweep is interrupted only by the UK’s Oxbridge institutions.
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2016 | |||
2016 position | 2015 position | Country | |
Harvard University | 1 | 1 | United States |
Stanford University | 2 | 2 | United States |
University of California, Berkeley | 3 | 4 | United States |
University of Cambridge | 4 | 5 | United Kingdom |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | 5 | 3 | United States |
Princeton University | 6 | 6 | United States |
University of Oxford | 7 | 10 | United Kingdom |
California Institute of Technology | 8 | 7 | United States |
Columbia University | 9 | 8 | United States |
University of Chicago | 10 | 9 | United States |
The top tier of the ARWU ranking is strongly dominated by US universities – even more so than the QS World University Rankings® or the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. While only two UK universities feature in the Shanghai Ranking’s top 10, the latest edition of the QS ranking features four UK entries at this level, and THE three.
Both the QS and THE rankings also feature Switzerland’s ETH Zurich within their top 10s. While the prestigious Swiss institution remains continental Europe’s leading entry in the Shanghai Ranking, it does not appear until 19th.
The only other non-US and -UK institution to feature in the Shanghai Ranking’s top 20 is Japan’s University of Tokyo (Todai), which climbs one position this year to rank 20th. This time the result is much higher than in the other rankings; Todai comes 39th in the latest QS ranking, and 43rd in THE.
Canada’s leading representative in the ARWU, the University of Toronto, falls two places this year to rank 27th – higher than its position in the QS table, but lower than its place in the THE list. France’s leader in the Shanghai Ranking, Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6, drops three positions to 39th, but remains much higher here than in either of the other tables.
Nearby in the table, Denmark’s University of Copenhagen strengthens its position, climbing five places to 30th. Australia’s leading entrant, the University of Melbourne, will also be celebrating, having climbed four positions to 40th - similar to its QS position, though lower than it ranks in THE. Meanwhile Sweden’s Karolinska Institute likewise gains four positions, finishing at 44th.
About the Shanghai Ranking
Published annually since 2003, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), or Shanghai Ranking, publishes the world’s top 500 universities based on six indicators. These include the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers, number of articles published in Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, and per capita academic performance of an institution. While there are some similarities with the methodologies used to create the QS World University Rankings® and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, all three apply a different set of indicators and weightings – resulting in lists that while largely correlated, often differ in both individual ranking positions and broader national trends.
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Harvard and Berklee to offer dual degree
Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Science and Berklee College of Musichave established a new dual degree program, offering students the opportunity to earn a bachelor of arts degree at Harvard and a master’s degree at Berklee in five years.
The program, which will welcome its first cohort of students in fall 2017, is designed for musicians who are interested in building a foundation for their artistic careers as well as attaining an elite liberal arts education.
“Institutionally, the partnership represents an understanding of the arts and art-making in the 21st century, especially the growing impact of technology and realities of a globalizing arts landscape,” said Carol J. Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music and chair of the Department Historical Musicology at Harvard. “Berklee’s programs have steadily gained prestige and power, turning the school into a formidable cutting–edge incubator for the newest waves of performance and composition.”
The Harvard-Berklee partnership is modeled after Harvard’s successful joint degree program with New England Conservatory, which began in 2005. In the new program, students must be accepted to both Harvard and Berklee independently, as well as complete an audition and interview at Berklee.
Here’s how the five-year program works: Students pursue their bachelor’s degree at Harvard while taking private lessons and preparatory classes at Berklee during the first three years. In addition, they participate in ensembles at either institution, and pass instrumental proficiency exams at Berklee. In their fourth year, students complete their bachelor’s requirements, including a senior thesis, if desired. They finish their selected master’s program (master of music or master of arts) in the final year.
Berklee offers master’s degrees in scoring for film, television, and video games; music production, technology, and innovation; global entertainment and music business; music therapy; and contemporary performance.
“Joshua Redman, Yo-Yo Ma, Aaron Goldberg, Tom Morello, and a number of other highly accomplished musicians have studied at Harvard,” said Berklee President Roger Brown. “Imagine the possibilities when a world-leading Harvard undergraduate education can be augmented by private lessons, ensembles, and music classes in jazz, production, film scoring, and more at Berklee.”
With recent faculty additions of Vijay Iyer and Yosvany Terry to Harvard’s Music Department, Oja said this new alliance creates a natural framework for music students who desire an extraordinary liberal arts education and a world-class conservatory environment.
“The base is broadening, and as time changes and the department grows, this opens up all sorts of possibilities,” Oja added.
Redman, a Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist who graduated Harvard in 1991, praised the partnership, saying he wished that it had existed when he was in Cambridge 25 years ago.
“One of the most integral and consequential facets of my ‘Harvard experience’ was being so close to the vibrant Berklee scene. It opened my ears and enriched my life. And it laid the seeds for a future I didn’t even know I had,” he said.
Applications for the 2017-18 academic year will be accepted beginning today for Berklee and in early August at Harvard.
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