AFP: Shanghai rankings rattle European universities: "SHANGHAI — Research fraud and limited academic freedom make China an unlikely arbiter for international university excellence, but a Shanghai school's rankings are making Europe's education ministers sweat.
France's higher education minister travelled to Jiaotong University's suburban campus last month to discuss the rankings, the Norwegian education minister came last year and the Danish minister is due to visit next month.
Dozens of university presidents have also made the trip.
'We believed the results would be of interest to university experts and scholars all around the world but we never imagined the rankings would be so influential,' Ying Cheng, the executive director of Jiaotong's Centre for World-Class Universities, told AFP.
The centre has compiled its annual 'Academic Ranking of World Universities' since 2003, listing what it sees as the 500 best schools in the world."
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