Wuhan University Ranking-Top 500 Universities

The Research Center for Chinese Science Evaluation of the Wuhan university produced a list of top 500 universities in 2007. According to Wikipedia the ranking is "based on Essential Science Indicators (ESI), which provides data of journal article publication counts and citation frequencies in over 11,000 journals around the world in 22 research fields".

Following is the list of Top 100 institutions in the world:

1. HARVARD UNIV
   
2. UNIV TEXAS
   
3. UNIV WASHINGTON
   
4. STANFORD UNIV
   
5. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV
   
6. UNIV CALIF BERKELEY
   
7. UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES
   
8. UNIV TOKYO
   
9. UNIV MICHIGAN
   
10. MIT
    
11. UNIV TORONTO
    
12. UNIV WISCONSIN
    
13. COLUMBIA UNIV
    
14. UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO
    
15. UNIV PENN
    
16. UNIV ILLINOIS
    
17. UNIV CAMBRIDGE
    
18. UNIV MINNESOTA
    
19. YALE UNIV
    
20. CORNELL UNIV
    
21. UNIV CALIF SAN FRANCISCO
    
22. DUKE UNIV
    
23. KYOTO UNIV
    
24. UNIV OXFORD
    
25. UNIV COLORADO
    
26. UNIV N CAROLINA
    
27. UNIV MARYLAND
    
28. PENN STATE UNIV
    
29. UNIV PITTSBURGH
    
30. WASHINGTON UNIV
    
31. OSAKA UNIV
    
32. CALTECH
    
33. UNIV CALIF DAVIS
    
34. OHIO STATE UNIV
    
35. UNIV CHICAGO
    
36. UNIV COLL LONDON
    
37. UNIV FLORIDA
    
38. NORTHWESTERN UNIV
    
39. UNIV LONDON IMPERIAL COLL SCI TECHNOL & MED
    
40. MCGILL UNIV
    
41. UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA
    
42. TOHOKU UNIV
    
43. UNIV ARIZONA
    
44. PRINCETON UNIV
    
45. UNIV HELSINKI
    
46. NEW YORK UNIV
    
47. UNIV MUNICH
    
48. UNIV IOWA
    
49. UNIV SO CALIF
    
50. VANDERBILT UNIV
    
51. TEXAS A&M UNIV
    
52. BOSTON UNIV
    
53. UNIV UTRECHT
    
54. INDIANA UNIV
    
55. UNIV MASSACHUSETTS
    
56. UNIV ALABAMA
    
57. EMORY UNIV
    
58. HEBREW UNIV JERUSALEM
    
59. UNIV LUND
    
60. ETH ZURICH
    
61. UNIV CALIF IRVINE
    
62. UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA
    
63. UNIV ALBERTA
    
64. RUTGERS STATE UNIV
    
65. UNIV EDINBURGH
    
66. UNIV VIRGINIA
    
67. UNIV UTAH
    
68. KAROLINSKA INST
    
69. UNIV MANCHESTER
    
70. MICHIGAN STATE UNIV
    
71. UNIV SYDNEY
    
72. NAGOYA UNIV
    
73. UNIV MILAN
    
74. UNIV HEIDELBERG
    
75. SEOUL NATL UNIV
    
76. PURDUE UNIV
    
77. UNIV AMSTERDAM
    
78. UNIV UPPSALA
    
79. UNIV ROMA LA SAPIENZA
    
80. CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV
    
81. KYUSHU UNIV
    
82. BAYLOR COLL MED
    
83. UNIV SAO PAULO
    
84. UNIV PARIS 6
    
85. SUNY STONY BROOK
    
86. UNIV ZURICH
    
87. TEL AVIV UNIV
    
88. UNIV BRISTOL
    
89. UNIV TENNESSEE
    
90. UNIV MELBOURNE
    
91. UNIV ROCHESTER
    
92. UNIV VIENNA
    
93. LEIDEN UNIV
    
94. UNIV MISSOURI
    
95. MCMASTER UNIV
    
96. TECH UNIV MUNICH
    
97. CATHOLIC UNIV LEUVEN
    
98. UNIV GLASGOW
    
99. UNIV COPENHAGEN
    
100. LOUISIANA STATE UNIV

* Tokyo is the highest ranked uni. in Asia and the only Asian Uni. in the Top 10 list.
Source: Wuhan University Ranking