PROVIDENCE – Brown University ranked No. 55 among the world’s Top 200 universities, according to the Times Higher Education’s 2010-2011 World University Rankings, released on Thursday.
The seventh annual listing, compiled by Thomson Reuters, surveyed global institutions based on 13 performance indicators in five different categories, including teaching (30 percent), citation impact (32.5 percent), research (30 percent), international mix (5 percent) and industry income (2.5 percent).
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This year’s survey differs from other years, however, because new methodology places more weight on hard measures of excellence rather than reputation and heritage.
“Because of the change to the methodology, any movement up or down since 2009 cannot be seen as a change in performance by an individual country or institution. We do contend, however, that these tables are realistic, and so in some cases they may deliver an unpleasant wake-up call that the days of trading on reputation alone are coming to an end,” said Phil Baty, editor of Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
The U.S. East Coast was strongly represented, taking four spots among the world’s top 10 institutions.
The five highest-ranked universities in the world are: Harvard University, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and Princeton University.
The only university outside of North America and the United Kingdom that ranked among the Top 20 was the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
