The first international rankings, the Academic Ranking of World Universities or Shanghai Rankings, were published in 2003 by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
According to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities rankings, the university ranked 201 300 in the world and 8 17th in Canada.
A robustness analysis, based on a multi-modelling approach, aims to test the validity of the inference about the rankings produced in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and those produced by the UK's Times Higher Education Supplement THESS).
In the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) rankings, the university ranked 201 300th in the world and ranked 8-16 in Canada.
In the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) rankings, the university ranked 92nd in the world and fourth-highest in Canada.
This is only the tenth year of the QS rankings and the earliest global league table, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, produced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was first published in 2003.
All these elements together compose a student's overall academic ranking.
We have moved up the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for the fifth consecutive year.
Both these lists (and the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities) are dominated by UK and US universities.
In 2006, Auburn football was No. 1 among public universities in the academic ranking, alongside private institutions like Duke and Boston College.
King, though only in his fifties, is a "university professor" — Harvard's highest academic ranking, letting him work in any school across the university.
