El ranking de Universidades de Jiao Tong

La Universidad Jiao Tong, de Shanghai, elabora desde hace unos años, una evaluación de las mejores universidades del mundo, desde la mejor hasta el puesto quinientos. No es el único ranking existente, pero es suficientemente valioso, considerando que los principales indicadores están basados en la calidad académica de sus educadores, y los logros de sus alumnos:

We rank universities by several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, articles published in Nature and Science, articles indexed in major citation indices, and the per capita academic performance of an institution.
For each indicator, the highest scoring institution is assigned a score of 100, and other institutions are calculated as a percentage of the top score. The distribution of data for each indicator is examined for any significant distorting effect; standard statistical techniques are used to adjust the indicator if necessary.
Scores for each indicator are weighted as shown below to arrive at a final overall score for an institution. The highest scoring institution is assigned a score of 100, and other institutions are calculated as a percentage of the top score. An institution's rank reflects the number of institutions that sit above it.
Esta es la tabla de criterios:

Criteria	Indicator	Code	Weight
Quality of Education	Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals	Alumni	10%
Quality of Faculty	Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals	Award	20%
	Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories	HiCi	20%
Research Output	Articles published in Nature and Science*	N&S	20%
	Articles in Science Citation Index-expanded, Social Science Citation Index	SCI	20%
Size of Institution	Academic performance with respect to the size of an institution	Size	10%
Total			100%

Si bien es conveniente leer todas las listas (las quinientas mejores, las cien mejores por continente), el cuadro que resume la participación de países, asociada con su población y su producto bruto nacional, permite tener una visión global de la distancia que separa al mundo desarrollado del resto de la comunidad internacional. No obstante, en el conjunto aparecen países cuya posición implica sin duda un esfuerzo notable por elevar la calidad de la educación y preparación de sus habitantes, así como la ausencia notable de otros:
Este es el cuadro comparativo:

	Top 100	Top 500	Population*	GDP*
USA	53.5%	33.4%	4.6%	28.4%
UK	10.9%	8.6%	0.9%	5.1%
Japan	5.9%	6.4%	2.0%	11.2%
Germany	5.0%	8.0%	1.3%	6.6%
Canada	4.0%	4.4%	0.5%	2.4%
France	4.0%	4.2%	0.9%	5.0%
Sweden	4.0%	2.2%	0.1%	0.8%
Switzerland	3.0%	1.6%	0.1%	0.9%
Netherlands	2.0%	2.4%	0.3%	1.4%
Australia	2.0%	3.2%	0.3%	1.5%
Italy	1.0%	4.6%	0.9%	4.1%
Israel	1.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.3%
Denmark	1.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.6%
Norway	1.0%	0.8%	0.1%	0.6%
Finland	1.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.5%
Russia	1.0%	0.4%	2.3%	1.4%
Belgium	0.0%	1.4%	0.2%	0.9%
China	0.0%	1.8%	20.4%	4.7%
South Korea	0.0%	1.8%	0.8%	1.6%
Spain	0.0%	1.8%	0.7%	2.5%
Austria	0.0%	1.4%	0.1%	0.7%
China-Hong Kong	0.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.4%
China-Taiwan	0.0%	1.0%	0.4%	0.7%
Brazil	0.0%	0.8%	2.9%	1.5%
Singapore	0.0%	0.4%	0.1%	0.3%
Argentina	0.0%	0.2%	0.6%	0.4%
Mexico	0.0%	0.2%	1.6%	1.6%
New Zealand	0.0%	1.0%	0.1%	0.2%
South Africa	0.0%	0.8%	0.7%	0.5%
Ireland	0.0%	0.6%	0.1%	0.4%
Czech	0.0%	0.2%	0.2%	0.3%
Greece	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.5%
Hungary	0.0%	0.4%	0.2%	0.2%
Poland	0.0%	0.4%	0.6%	0.6%
India	0.0%	0.4%	17.0%	1.7%
Chile	0.0%	0.2%	0.3%	0.2%
Egypt	0.0%	0.2%	1.1%	0.2%

Universia apunta varios de los informes de evaluación existentes a nivel internacional, con mención especial de algunas existentes en el mundo iberoamericano. Puede consultarlos en su sitio.