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Ludwig Maximilian University Munich tops Ranking in Germany
improved. The result clearly shows once more that the profile-building process we’ve been pursuing rigorously has been the right way to go,” says LMU Rector Prof. Bernd Huber. The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2005, compiled by the Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, also recently confirmed the Ludwig Maximilian University’s standing as Germany’s top university. Just this week, the Nobel Prize committee acknowledged Munich University’s academic excellence by awarding this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Theodor W. Hänsch from the Department of Physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University. Focus magazine was evaluating the universities using various indicators. The first criterion is the reputation among scholars and businesses. The study questioned 1,200 top scholars and 700 personnel directors at large businesses located in Germany. It also derived the number of times researchers at each university have been cited in renowned scholarly journals. To do this, FOCUS cooperated with the American firm Thomson-Scientific, a virtual monopolist on data for estimating the scholarly publishing success of researchers. Further evaluation criteria included private funding and the patent index. Points for instruction were awarded based on the estimation and reputation of each university among students, the student-faculty ratio and average undergraduate completion time. A further criterion was graduate degree completion time for individual subjects. Each subject was evaluated individually, and each score contributed to the total. |
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