The Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University released the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) on August 15, marking its 9th consecutive year of measuring the performance of top universities worldwide.

Harvard University tops the 2011 list; other Top 10 universities are: Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Cambridge, Caltech, Princeton, Columbia, Chicago and Oxford.

The number of Chinese universities in Top 500 increases to 35 in 2011, with National Taiwan University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua University ranked among Top 200.

Along with the overall list, the center also released the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Broad Subject Fields (ARWU-FIELD) and 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities by Subject Field (ARWU-SUBJECT).

? Full list: world's top 100 universities 2011

? Top 100 universities by subject:

? economics/business ? chemistry ? computer science ? physics ? mathematics

? Top 100 universities by field:

? clinical medicine and pharmacy ? engineering/technology and computer sciences

? life and agriculture sciences  ? social sciences ? natural sciences and mathematics

Following are the top 100 univerisities in natural sciences and mathematics 2011:

Ranking	Institute	Country	Score	Website
1	Harvard University		100.0	www.harvard.edu
2	University of California, Berkeley		95.7	http://berkeley.edu
3	Princeton University		92.9	www.princeton.edu
4	California Institute of Technology		91.5	www.caltech.edu
5	University of Cambridge		90.8	www.cam.ac.uk
6	Stanford University		90.6	www.stanford.edu
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		89.5	www.mit.edu
8	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich		73.3	www.ethz.ch
9	University of Oxford		72.6	www.ox.ac.uk
10	The University of Tokyo		71.5	www.u-tokyo.ac.jp
11	Columbia University		71.0	www.columbia.edu
12	University of California, Los Angeles		70.7	www.ucla.edu
13	University of Colorado at Boulder		69.3	www.colorado.edu
14	Cornell University		68.5	www.cornell.edu
15	University of Chicago		67.9	www.uchicago.edu
16	Kyoto University		67.6	http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp /index-e.html
17	University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)		67.4	www.u-psud.fr
18	University of California, Santa Barbara		65.7	www.ucsb.edu
19	University of California, San Diego		65.6	www.ucsd.edu
20	University of Wisconsin - Madison		64.8	www.wisc.edu
21	Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6		63.5	www.upmc.fr
22	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor		62.8	www.umich.edu
23	University of Pennsylvania		61.9	www.upenn.edu
23	University of Washington		61.9	www.washington.edu
25	University of Maryland, College Park		61.6	www.umd.edu