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 universities in Physics 2011:

Ranking	Institute	Country	Score	Website
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)		100.0	www.mit.edu
2	Harvard University		99.2	www.harvard.edu
3	California Institute of Technology		97.7	www.caltech.edu
4	Princeton University		97.0	www.princeton.edu
5	University of California, Berkeley		95.8	http://berkeley.edu
6	Stanford University		92.9	www.stanford.edu
7	The University of Tokyo		82.0	www.u-tokyo.ac.jp
8	University of Cambridge		81.8	www.cam.ac.uk
9	University of Chicago		76.6	www.uchicago.edu
10	Cornell University		76.2	www.cornell.edu
11	University of California, Santa Barbara		71.9	www.ucsb.edu
12	University of Colorado at Boulder		69.7	www.colorado.edu
13	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine		68.5	www.imperial.ac.uk
14	The University of Manchester		66.9	www.manchester.ac.uk
15	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign		66.5	www.uiuc.edu
16	Columbia University		64.6	www.columbia.edu
17	University of Pennsylvania		64.3	www.upenn.edu
18	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich		64.2	www.ethz.ch
18	University of Maryland, College Park		64.2	www.umd.edu
20	University of Paris Sud (Paris 11)		64.0	www.u-psud.fr
21	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor		63.5	www.umich.edu
22	University of California, San Diego		61.2	www.ucsd.edu
23	University of Wisconsin - Madison		60.1	www.wisc.edu
24	University of California, Los Angeles		59.8	www.ucla.edu
25	University of Munich		59.6	www.uni-muenchen.de