Go Blue

This is mainly for Alice's benefit, but I'm sure others might be interested as well.

The ranking of the top 500 universities by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University is out again this year.

"The annual poll published by China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University bases its findings on several criteria of academic and research performance including Nobel prize winners, frequently cited researchers, scholarly articles that appear in Nature and Science, and the per capita performance of the institution. Shanghai Jiao Tong University established the rankings to assess the performance of Chinese universities relative to their global peers. In recent years, it has become a widely followed measure worldwide."

The bottom line is that "The" Ohio State University punches in at a respectible 66th overall ... but The Univeristy of Michigan is #21 baby! Of course, my own school is "only" 90th.

Anyway, if you want to find your school (or not find it ... as the case may be) go here
http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm
your browser might need to download software to translate the Chinese characters.