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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2006 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: 20 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on record, movement...

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2006
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20 of 500 ranked
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Harvard ranked first. Cambridge second, Stanford third; Princeton and Chicago tied for eighth. The published list covered 500 institutions.

The list on record

This page shows the 20 entries on record of 500 published. Top 20 loaded from the publisher's archive page; full list of 500 on shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2006. See the original list.

RankNameLocationSince 2005
1Harvard UniversityUnited StatesNo change
2University of CambridgeUnited KingdomNo change
3Stanford UniversityUnited StatesNo change
4University of California, BerkeleyUnited StatesNo change
5Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United StatesNo change
6California Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesNo change
7Columbia UniversityUnited StatesNo change
=8Princeton UniversityUnited StatesNo change
=8University of ChicagoUnited StatesUp 1
10University of OxfordUnited KingdomNo change
11Yale UniversityUnited StatesNo change
12Cornell UniversityUnited StatesNo change
13University of California, San DiegoUnited StatesNo change
14University of California, Los AngelesUnited StatesNo change
15University of PennsylvaniaUnited StatesNo change
16University of Wisconsin - MadisonUnited StatesNo change
17University of WashingtonUnited StatesNo change
18University of California, San FranciscoUnited StatesNo change
19The University of TokyoJapanUp 1
20The Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited StatesDown 1

This list is reproduced as ShanghaiRanking Consultancy published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

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