<p>I think Shanghai Jiao Tong’s rankings give more weight to science fields and research. That’s why UCSD is up there.</p>
<p>Personally, I find THES rankings a better assessment of schools in general. The following are the rankings for the first 50 universities in the world.</p>
<p>2005 2004
rank rank Name
1 1 Harvard University
2 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 6 Cambridge University
4 5 Oxford University
5 7 Stanford University
6 2 University of California, Berkeley
7 8 Yale University
8 4 California Institute of Technology
9 9 Princeton University
10 27 Ecole Polytechnique
11= 52 Duke University
11= 11 London School of Economics
13 14 Imperial College London
14 23 Cornell University
15 17 Beijing University
16 12 Tokyo University
17= 20 University of California, San Francisco
17= 13 University of Chicago
19 22 Melbourne University
20 19 Columbia University
21 10 ETH Zurich
22 18 National University of Singapore
23 16 Australian National University
24= 30 Ecole Normale Sup</p>