Differences in Rankings of World Class Universities from Two Different Sources

The table below shows rankings of Educational Institutions worldwide. The first set of rankings are from Times Higher Education based in UK. The second set of rankings are from Academic Ranking of world Universities based in Shanghai, China at Jiao Tong University.

Rank	Times Higher Education Ranking of World Universities source	Country	Academic Ranking of World Universities ( AWRU ) Source	Country
1	Harvard University	US	Harvard University	US
2	University of Cambridge	UK	Stanford University	US
2	University of Oxford	UK	University of California, Berkeley	US
2	Yale University	US	University of Cambridge	UK
5	Imperial College London	UK	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
6	Princeton University	US	California Institute of Technology	US
7	California Institute of Technology	US	Columbia University	US
7	University of Chicago	US	Princeton University	US
9	University College London	UK	University of Chicago	US
10	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US	University of Oxford	UK
11	Columbia University	US	Yale University	US

Both ranking systems rank Harvard University as the top University. UK based ranking place Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial college London very high, at 2nd and third and 5th place respectively and completely omitting University of California, Berkeley and Stanford within their top ranks. The Chinese based ranking agency includes these two within top eleven world class Universities. Other Universities appear on both lists, not exactly at the same ranking.

What is obvious is that Times ranking are biased and favor British institutions over other world class Universities.