CWUR总部设在沙特阿拉伯的吉达(Jeddah),自称其排名是世界上唯一不依赖调查和各大学提供的数据而进行排名的名单。在2016年度CWUR世界大学排行榜中,哈佛大学、斯坦福大学和麻省理工学院位居前三,排名第四到第十的高校还有剑桥大学、牛津大学、哥伦比亚大学、加州大学伯克利分校、芝加哥大学、普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学。世界排名前十高校中有八所为美国高校,另有两所为英国高校。
CWUR通过以下8项不同的指标对大学进行排名
教育品质:由校友获得主要国际荣誉、奖项、奖章等之人数及比例,占25%。
毕业校友就业情况:毕业校友居于世界重要公司企业执行总裁(CEO)职位之人数及比例,占25%。
师资质量:由教职员获得国际重要荣誉、奖项、奖章等之人数及比例,占25%。
出版物:由研究论文被刊登在著名期刊的数量来评估,占5%。
影响性:依据研究论文被刊登在具有高度影响性(highly-influential)期刊上的数量来评定,占5%。
引用:依据研究论文被高度引用数量来评定,占5%。
整体影响力:依据大学学术统计指数h-index评估,占5%。
专利:依据学校获国际专利数量来评定,占5%。
2016年CWUR世界大学排名TOP50
|
世界排名 |
大学名称 |
国家 |
国内排名 |
得分 |
|
1 |
Harvard University |
USA |
1 |
100 |
|
2 |
Stanford University |
USA |
2 |
98.3 |
|
3 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
USA |
3 |
97.1 |
|
4 |
University of Cambridge |
United Kingdom |
1 |
96.1 |
|
5 |
University of Oxford |
United Kingdom |
2 |
95.4 |
|
6 |
Columbia University |
USA |
4 |
94.1 |
|
7 |
University of California, Berkeley |
USA |
5 |
91.4 |
|
8 |
University of Chicago |
USA |
6 |
90.7 |
|
9 |
Princeton University |
USA |
7 |
88.7 |
|
10 |
Yale University |
USA |
8 |
85.8 |
|
11 |
California Institute of Technology |
USA |
9 |
83.7 |
|
12 |
Cornell University |
USA |
10 |
81.7 |
|
13 |
University of Tokyo |
Japan |
1 |
79.5 |
|
14 |
University of Pennsylvania |
USA |
11 |
77.6 |
|
15 |
University of California, Los Angeles |
USA |
12 |
75.2 |
|
16 |
Johns Hopkins University |
USA |
13 |
70.4 |
|
17 |
University of California, San Diego |
USA |
14 |
67.6 |
|
18 |
University of California, San Francisco |
USA |
15 |
67 |
|
19 |
University of Michigan |
USA |
16 |
66.6 |
|
20 |
Kyoto University |
Japan |
2 |
66.5 |
|
21 |
Northwestern University |
USA |
17 |
66.1 |
|
22 |
New York University |
USA |
18 |
66.1 |
|
23 |
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich |
Switzerland |
1 |
65 |
|
24 |
Seoul National University |
South Korea |
1 |
64.9 |
|
25 |
University of Wisconsin–Madison |
USA |
19 |
64 |
|
26 |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Israel |
1 |
63.5 |
|
27 |
University of Washington |
USA |
20 |
63.4 |
|
28 |
Rockefeller University |
USA |
21 |
61.6 |
|
29 |
Duke University |
USA |
22 |
61.3 |
|
30 |
University of Toronto |
Canada |
1 |
60.8 |
|
31 |
University College London |
United Kingdom |
3 |
60.5 |
|
32 |
University of Texas at Austin |
USA |
23 |
60.2 |
|
33 |
Keio University |
Japan |
3 |
60.1 |
|
34 |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
USA |
24 |
59.8 |
|
35 |
Imperial College London |
United Kingdom |
4 |
59.4 |
|
36 |
École Polytechnique |
France |
1 |
59.1 |
|
37 |
Waseda University |
Japan |
4 |
58 |
|
38 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
USA |
25 |
57.4 |
|
39 |
École normale supérieure - Paris |
France |
2 |
57.3 |
|
40 |
University of Virginia |
USA |
26 |
56.9 |
|
41 |
Weizmann Institute of Science |
Israel |
2 |
56.6 |
|
42 |
McGill University |
Canada |
2 |
56.5 |
|
43 |
Rutgers University |
USA |
27 |
56.1 |
|
44 |
University of Southern California |
USA |
28 |
55.9 |
|
45 |
University of Minnesota |
USA |
29 |
55.9 |
|
46 |
Ohio State University |
USA |
30 |
55.7 |
|
47 |
University of Pittsburgh |
USA |
31 |
55.6 |
|
48 |
Osaka University |
Japan |
5 |
55.5 |
|
49 |
University of California, Davis |
USA |
32 |
55.2 |
|
50 |
Dartmouth College |
USA |
33 |
55.2 |

