Stanford placed second in a popular college ranking list published annually by China’s Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Stanford was behind top-ranked Harvard University and ahead of the University of California, Berkeley, which earned third place, in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Although the Chinese-produced ranking system doesn’t draw as much domestic attention as the U.S. News and World Report rankings, it has sparked a flurry of attention abroad.

Several foreign nations, notably France, have lamented that their top national universities are not well represented on the list. Only three non-American universities rank in the top 20, and American schools take up 54 of the top 100 spots.