Clearly VCU has made significant strides in our research mission. Recently, VCU was ranked in the top 200 world universities and the top 100 North American and Latin American Universities by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which ranked the top 500 universities in the world based on academic and research performance.

These rankings place VCU and Virginia Tech in the 153 to 201 range. You can access information about the ranking universities from around the world through VCU's home page, by clicking on the features panel on the left-hand side of the screen, or at:

http://www.vcu.edu/uns/news/vcuview/archives/2005/jan/top_500.html