Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities

Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities is a university ranking by the French Grande École (engineering school) Mines ParisTech.

Methodology

The ranking is based on the number of alumni currently holding the post of CEO in one of the 500 largest companies in the world according to the "Fortune Global 500" ranking established by the American business magazine Fortune.^[1]

Ranking

2011 - University Ranking

These are the highest ranking 37 institutions (out of 392):

Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University	USA
2	Tokyo University	Japan
3	Keio University	Japan
4	HEC Paris	France
5 =	Kyoto University	Japan
5 =	University of Oxford	UK
7	École Polytechnique	France
8	Waseda University	Japan
9	École Nationale d'Administration	France
10	Seoul University	South Korea
11	University of Pennsylvania	USA
12	Columbia University	USA
13 =	Stanford University	USA
13 =	Tohoku University	Japan
13 =	University of Nottingham	UK
16	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	USA
17	Sciences Po Paris	France
18	University of Saint-Gallen	Switzerland
19 =	University of Sao-Paulo	Brazil
19 =	Northwestern University	USA
21 =	INSEAD	France
21 =	University of Chicago	USA
21 =	Mines ParisTech	France
21 =	WU Wien	Austria
25 =	Chuo University	Japan
25 =	Cornell University	USA
25 =	Hitotsubashi University	Japan
25 =	Kobe University	Japan
29	University of California : Berkeley	USA
30 =	Shandong University	China
30 =	Bocconi University	Italy
30 =	University of Cambridge	UK
30 =	University of Cologne	Germany
34	University of Göttingen	Germany
35	Yale University	USA
36	Purdue University	USA
37	University of Cincinnati	USA

Analysis

This ranking is more international than certain other rankings because it uses the Fortune Global 500. It does not concentrate only on English-speaking countries but also includes Asian and European universities.

The Global Companies Rank Universities^[2] by the New York Times is similar to this ranking.

References

1. "Classement 2011 des universités par l’Ecole des Mines : le french ranking par excellence" (in French). Observatoire Bovigny.
2. "Global Companies Rank Universities". New York Times.