Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities explained

Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities is a University ranking by the French Grande école 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):

data-sort-type="number"	Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University	US
2	University of Tokyo	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 National University	South Korea
11	University of Pennsylvania	US
12	Columbia University	US
13 =	Stanford University	US
13 =	Tohoku University	Japan
13 =	University of Nottingham	UK
16	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
17	Sciences Po Paris	France
18	University of Saint-Gallen	Switzerland
19 =	University of Sao-Paulo	Brazil
19 =	Northwestern University	US
21 =	INSEAD	France
21 =	University of Chicago	US
21 =	Mines ParisTech	France
21 =	WU Wien	Austria
25 =	Chuo University	Japan
25 =	Cornell University	US
25 =	Hitotsubashi University	Japan
25 =	Kobe University	Japan
29	University of California, Berkeley	US
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	US
36	Purdue University	US
37	University of Cincinnati	US

Regional ranking

North America

data-sort-type="number"	Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University
2	University of Pennsylvania
3	Columbia University
4	Stanford University
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6	Northwestern University
7	University of Chicago
8	Cornell University
9	University of California, Berkeley
10	Yale University
11	Purdue University
12	University of Cincinnati
13	Baylor University
14	Georgia Institute of Technology
15	Queen's University
16	University of Arizona
17	University of Notre Dame
18	University of Texas at Austin
19	University of Wisconsin–Madison
20	Dartmouth College

Europe

data-sort-type="number"	Rank	Institution	Country
1	HEC Paris
2	University of Oxford
3	École Polytechnique
4	University of Nottingham
5	Sciences Po
6	University of St. Gallen
7	Mines ParisTech
8	Vienna University of Economics and Business
9	Bocconi University
10	University of Cambridge
11	University of Cologne
12	University of Göttingen
13	Chalmers University of Technology
14	École des ponts ParisTech
15	Erasmus University Rotterdam
16	University of Bochum
17	University of Glasgow
18	University of Hamburg
19	University of Manchester
20	Technical University of Madrid

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, Latin American, and European universities.

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

References

1. Web site: Classement 2011 des universités par l'Ecole des Mines : le french ranking par excellence . Observatoire Bovigny . fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150925221025/http://www.boivigny.com/Classement-2011-des-universites-par-l-Ecole-des-Mines-le-french-ranking-par-excellence_a781.html . 2015-09-25 .
2. News: Global Companies Rank Universities. New York Times.