Again not a single university of Bangladesh can be placed among the top 1000 institutions around the globe in the Jeddah; Saudi Arabia based organization Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)-2014.
The list is topped and occupied mostly by the US universities, followed by those in Europe. But 15 Indian Institutes are from South Asia that managed to get a position in the list.
The Center's annual rankings are based on eight criteria: quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, citations, broad impact and patents. Harvard scored perfectly on all categories but patents. The category MIT bagged the top prize for.
CWUR argued that its rankings are purely based on quality of education, training of students, faculty members and the quality of their research instead of surveys and university data submissions.
The United States dominated the world rankings with 229 institutions followed by China (84), Japan (74), United Kingdom (64) and Germany (55), News-Record reports. Among the 229 institutions, seven North Carolina universities are featured among the top 1,000 colleges in the world - Duke University (26th world, 19th local); UNC-Chapel Hill (45th world, 28th local ); Wake Forest University (145th in the world); UNCG (867th in the world); N.C. State (228th in the world), East Carolina (718th in the world) and UNC-Charlotte (727th in the world).
In the Top 10 list, Harvard is joined by seven other universities from the United States, while the rest two - the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford - belong to the United Kingdom. The list, prepared by Center for World University Ranking (CWUR)-2014, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was published recently after scrutinizing more than 1,000 universities.
Source: eduicon.com
