In a ranking of the top 2,500 universities in the world, the University of Florida has placed 94th, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Multiple criteria were measured to rank the universities, including the number of staff and alumni that have won Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, and a per capita performance of the universities.
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The top 10 universities in the world are Harvard (1), Stanford (2), MIT (3), Cambridge (4), University of California, Berkley (5), Princeton (6), Oxford (7), Columbia (8), Cal-Tech (9) and University of Chicago (10).
Rankings past 100 are grouped and not listed for a specific rank. For example, Florida State University’s world rank is 201-300.
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Other universities in Florida that were ranked include the University of South Florida in Tampa and the University of Miami, which also came in at 201-300; the University of Central Florida in Orlando, which was ranked 301-400; Florida International University, which was ranked 401-500; and Florida Atlantic University, which was ranked 901-1,000.
The University of North Florida, Jacksonville University, Florida A&M University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida Polytechnic University and the University of West Florida were not ranked.
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