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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 clinical medicine and pharmacy 2011:

Ranking	Institute	Country	Score	Website
1	Harvard University		100.0	www.harvard.edu
2	University of California, San Francisco		84.7	www.ucsf.edu
3	University of Washington		76.3	www.washington.edu
4	The Johns Hopkins University		74.6	www.jhu.edu
5	Columbia University		68.8	www.columbia.edu
6	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas		67.5	www.swmed.edu
7	University of California, Los Angeles		67.0	www.ucla.edu
8	University of Cambridge		66.3	www.cam.ac.uk
9	Karolinska Institute		63.4	www.ki.se
10	University College London		63.3	www.ucl.ac.uk
11	University of Pittsburgh		62.7	www.pitt.edu
12	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor		62.4	www.umich.edu
13	Stanford University		62.2	www.stanford.edu
14	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities		61.0	http://www1.umn.edu/ twincities/index.php
15	Mayo Medical School		59.6	www.mayo.edu/mms
16	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill		59.2	www.unc.edu
17	Yale University		57.1	www.yale.edu
18	Vanderbilt University		57.0	www.vanderbilt.edu
19	University of Oxford		56.6	www.ox.ac.uk
20	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center		56.5	http://mdanderson.org/
21	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine		54.6	www.imperial.ac.uk
22	University of Wisconsin - Madison		54.5	www.wisc.edu
23	Duke University		53.9	www.duke.edu
24	University of California, San Diego		53.7	www.ucsd.edu
25	University of Pennsylvania		53.3	www.upenn.edu