UH Manoa makes high ranking for world university list

UH Manoa was ranked amongst the best universities in the world according to the 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities, popularly known as the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. The rankings are named after the university in China that developed them.

UH Manoa is listed in the second of six tiers, or between 101-150 in its ranking of 500 international universities.

UH Manoa’s American peers in the ranking include the University of Virginia, while its Asian peers include the top university in Korea, Seoul National; the top university in Singapore, National University in Singapore; the top university in Taiwan, National Taiwan University; and the top university in all of Latin America, the University of Sao Paolo.

The flagship campus within the UH System also ranks ahead of schools such as Oregon State University (150-200), the University of Oregon (201-300), and Notre Dame (201-300).

No university in China is ranked in the top 150, and only seven universities in Japan are in the top 150.