Commentary

"2006 Ranking of World's Top 500 Universities by Shanghai Jiao Tong University"

Da Hsuan Feng
Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Professor of Physics
The University of Texas at Dallas
August 15, 2006

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) ranking for 2006 has just appeared. This ranking has recently been extensively mentioned by Wall Street Journal as well as Newsweek.

Universities in Texas which appeared in this ranking are as follows:

(38)	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
(39)	University of Texas Austin
(87)	Rice University
(88)	Texas A and M University
(151-200)	University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston
(151-200)	University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center
(201-300)	University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio
(201-300)	University of Texas Medical Branch - Galveston
(201-300)	University of Houston
(301-400)	Texas Tech University
(301-400)	University of Texas Dallas
(401-500)	SMU

It is worth mentioning that the top ten are:

1. Harvard University
2. Cambridge University
3. Stanford University
4. University of California Berkeley
5. MIT
6. CalTech
7. Columbia University
8. Princeton
9. University of Chicago
10. Oxford University

The highest ranking universities in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong are:

1. Tokyo University (19)
2. Seoul National University (151-200)
3. Tsing Hua University (151-200)
4. National Taiwan University (151-200)
5. University of Hong Kong (151-200)