<p>research in both social science and natural science are weighted high, which is why University of Chicago is so high. The effective size not the real size matter, which is why Caltech rank so high. The Chinese pay a lot attention to the foundamental role of a univesity: learning and discovery!
I turn to like the Shanghai ranking better than the US News and World report ranking which is based on the polling and polling is influenced by how many journalists are promoting the schools.</p>