The Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China has released its Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), one of the top university rankings in the world. The ranking uses six indicators to rank universities, including the number of Nobel Prize winners, and the number of publications in Nature and Science. Throw in a few other metrics, some adjustment for size, and you get a rank of the top universities in the world. Without further adieu ado:

1. Harvard

2. University of California, Berkeley

3. Stanford University

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

5. University of Cambridge

6. California Institute of Technology

7. Princeton University

8. Columbia University

9. University of Chicago

10. University of Oxford

Fans of the ARWU won’t be surprised by the top of the list: Harvard has been ranked number one for the full seven years of the survey, and Berkley, Stanford, MIT and Cambridge have all been in the top five since 2004 (note: the AWRU’s website has been patchy this afternoon, so the historical data was drawn from the survey’s Wikipedia entry).

Harvard scored top of the charts on five out of six indicators, including the Science and Nature metric. It also headed up the lists for both life and natural science rankings, and for physics. But the venerable Cambridge-based university didn’t clean up completely: Princeton University took the top spot for Mathematics and UC Berkeley won top points for chemistry.

Overall American universities dominated the list, with British, Japanese and German institutions also making a strong showing in the top 100.

But one list isn’t everything. As my colleague Declan Butler recently reported, there are many other ranking systems, each with their advantages and drawbacks.