For the third year in a row, the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Delaware was listed among the top 100 mathematics departments around the world, according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Center for World-Class Universities. The Center began releasing rankings of Universities and some areas of specialty in 2003.

The index evaluates departments worldwide in five subject fields, including mathematics. For the third straight year, the mathematics department was the only evaluated department at the University to be judged among the top 100 worldwide.

The 2012 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) subject ranking published by the center ranked Mathematical Sciences in the 76-100 range of departments. The same study put UD in the 54-67 range among U.S. institutions and in the range from 100-150 around the globe. (UDaily's article on the subject appeared on August 15th as well; it was used as a source for this article.)

The top 10 mathematics departments were, in descending order, Princeton, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cambridge Stanford, Oxford, Universite Paris Sud (Paris 11), Pierre et Marie Curie Universite Paris 6, UCLA and MIT. UD Mathematical Sciences has active collaboration with several of these departments, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley, the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics and the Oxford Computing Laboratory. The University of Minnesota Twin Cities was ranked 11th; that department is home to the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, in which UD Mathematical Sciences plays an active part.

For mathematics, the rankings are based on five indicators: the number of alumni and staff winning Fields Medals; the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific; the number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index -- Expanded in the Mathematics field; and the percentage of papers published in the top 20% of math journals as cataloged by Science Citation Index. UD Mathematical Sciences does very well in the last three categories.