<p>“The data, recognised by academics worldwide, is dominated by US universities which get far more money in endowments than UK counterparts. Harvard is top of the list and though Cambridge pushed Stanford into third place, eight out of the top 10 places are filled by US universities.”</p>
<p>Taken from the Guardian.</p>
<p>Unlike THES which heavily relied on 1300 academics in 88 countries, SJTU relied on statistics such as he number of Nobel Prizes and Field Medals of alumni (10%) and staff (20%), highly cited researchers (20%), articles published in Nature and Science (20%), other citations (20%) and relative size of the academic institution (10%).</p>
<p><a href=“http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005Methodology.htm[/url]”>http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005Methodology.htm</a></p>
<p>It should be noted that SJTU indicated that their methodology tends to favout science based universities hence it is a way biased towards english speaking institutions as english is the international language in the academic world.</p>
<p><a href=“http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/file/ARWU-M&P.pdf[/url]”>http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/file/ARWU-M&P.pdf</a></p>
<p>I would not say that THES is better than SJTU. THES may be accurate for the top 25, but beyond that, it’s just too inaccurate.</p>