North American Universities Show Strongest International Online Popularity in 2010 World University Web Rankings, Says 4icu.org
(PRWEB) January 18, 2010 -- For 2010, 4 International Colleges and Universities reports that North American Universities’ websites are the most popular in the world in terms of online international presence and popularity, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) leading the way.
Of the top 200 most popular university websites, 88 belong to North American higher education organizations (44 percent), according to results from the latest release of the 2010 World University Web Rankings.
Following top ranking MIT, Stanford comes in as the second most popular university website in the world, followed by Harvard University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and the University of California, Berkeley to round out the top five positions.
Of all non-North American higher education organizations, Peking University (China) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) are the only two listed in the top ten of the results.
Of the top 200 university websites by continent, Europe comes second with 59 higher education organizations (30 per cent) , followed by Asia with 34 (17 per cent), Latin America with 12 (6 per cent), Oceania with 6 (3 per cent) and Africa with only 1.
The 25 most popular universities featured in the 2010 World University web rankings by 4icu.org are:
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
2. Stanford University (United States)
3. Harvard University (United States)
4. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico)
5. University of California, Berkeley (United States)
6. Peking University (China)
7. University of Pennsylvania (United States)
8. Cornell University (United States)
9. Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
10. Yale University (United States)
11. Tsinghua University (China)
12. University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
13. Duke University (United States)
14. Fudan University (China)
15. University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
16. Xi’an Jiaotong University (China)
17. Indiana University (United States)
18. Keio University (Japan)
19. National University of Singapore (Singapore)
20. Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (Switzerland)
21. California Institute of Technology (United States)
22. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
23. Nanjing University (China)
24. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
25. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
For a full listing of the top 200 universities and colleges in the world, visit www.4icu.org/top200/
About 4icu.org:
Based in Australia, 4 International Colleges and Universities is an international higher education search engine and directory which includes 9,200 universities and colleges in 200 countries.
The 4icu.org web ranking of world universities has been published since 2005 and is based on three independent web metrics and indicators – page rank, traffic rank, and total link popularity – extracted from three leading search engines (Google, Alexa, and Yahoo!).
For additional information, please visit www.4icu.org.
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