A new survey published in the Jan. 24th issue of The Economist in London ranked the University of Colorado at Boulder the 11th best public academic university in the world and the 31st best academic university globally in 2003.
Also published by the European Commission and the European Union, the two-year study, which was completed at the end of December 2003, was undertaken by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The study weighted five category indicators at 20 percent each for the study. They included: Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics; highly cited researchers in 21 broad categories; articles published in the world's top two weekly science journals (Science and Nature); number of articles in the Science Citations Index Expanded and Social Sciences Index; and academic performance per faculty.
Twenty-four CU-Boulder faculty members were singled out as "highly cited researchers" for their publications noted by other researchers around the world. The list includes, among others, seven space scientists, four chemists and microbiologists, three plant and animal scientists, three geoscientists, three chemists, an economist and a behavioral scientist.
"Once again, our faculty have been recognized for their outstanding accomplishments in the sciences," said CU-Boulder Provost Phil DiStefano. "Our undergraduate and graduate students benefit greatly from the faculty's many accomplishments."
The top five universities in the world as ranked by the study were Harvard University, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"This survey appears to be a comprehensive study, and we are pleased to be ranked among the world's best," said CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard L. Byyny. "We have an extremely productive faculty whose work has been recognized in a number of similar studies."
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