ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 Press Release

The 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, ARWU annually presents the best universities in the world based on a transparent methodology and objective third-party data. He has been recognized as the forerunner of world university rankings and the most trusted. This year, the 1000 best universities in the world are published.

Harvard University tops the ranking for the 18  th  year. Stanford University and the University of Cambridge are respectively No. 2 and No. 3. The other universities in the top 10 are MIT (4  th  ), Berkeley (5  th  ), Princeton (6  th  ), Columbia (7  e  ), Caltech (8  th  ), Oxford (9  th  ) and Chicago (10  th  ). In continental Europe, the University of Paris-Saclay (14  th  ) becomes the best in his first appearance at the ARWU followed by ETH Zurich (20  th  ). The University of Tokyo (26  th ) Maintains its leading position in Asia, and Tsinghua University (29  th) ) exceeds Kyoto University (34  th  ), becoming the second best among Asian universities. The University of Melbourne (35  th  ) leads other universities in Oceania.

Six universities make their first appearances in the Top 100, four French, namely the University of Paris-Saclay (14  th  ), the University PSL (36  th  ), the University of Paris (65  th  ) and the University Grenoble Alpes (99  th  ) and two Chinese, namely the University of science and technology of China (73  th  ) and Fudan University (100  th  ). Beijing Jiaotong University and 14 other universities enter the Top 500 for the first time. More than 40 universities enter the Top 1000 for the first time.

TOP 50 Universities in ARWU 2020

Ranking 2020 Ranking 2019 Institution Country
1 1
Harvard University
United States
2 2
Stanford University
United States
3 3
Cambridge University
United Kingdom
4 4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
5 5
University of California, Berkeley
United States
6 6
Princeton University
United States
7 8
Columbia university
United States
8 9
California Institute of Technology
United States
9 7
Oxford University
United Kingdom
ten ten
University of Chicago
United States
11 11
Yale University
United States
12 13
Cornell University
United States
13 11
University of California, Los Angeles
United States
14
Paris-Saclay University
France
15 16
Johns Hopkins University
United States
16 15
University College London
United Kingdom
16 14
Washington University
United States
18 18
University of California, San Diego
United States
19 17
University of Pennsylvania
United States
20 19
ETH Zurich
Swiss
21 20
University of California, San Francisco
United States
22 20
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States
23 24
University of Toronto
Canada
23 22
Washington University at St. Louis
United States
25 23
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
26 25
The University of Tokyo
Japan
27 28
duke university
United States
27 30
New York University
United States
29 43
Tsinghua University
China
30 29
Northwestern University
United States
30 33
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States
32 27
University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
33 26
University of copenhagen
Denmark
34 32
Kyoto University
Japan
35 41
University of Melbourne
Australia
36
PSL University
France
36 33
Manchester University
United Kingdom
38 35
University of British Columbia
Canada
39 44
Sorbonne University
France
40 41
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
United States
41 45
The University of Texas at Austin
United States
42 31
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
43 35
Rockefeller University
United States
44 38
University of Colorado at Boulder
United States
45 38
Karolinska Institutet
Sweden
45 38
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
47 51
King’s College London
United Kingdom
48 49
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
United States
49 53
Peking University
China
49 48
University of California, Santa Barbara
United States

Universities in the United States dominate this year’s Top 1000 with 8 universities in the Top 10, 41 in the Top 100, 133 in the Top 500 and 206 in the Top 1000. China has 168 universities in the Top 1000, of which 81 are in the Top 500, 6 are in the Top 100. The UK has 65 Top 1000 universities, and 36 of them are listed in the Top 500, 8 are listed in the Top 100.

The full list and detailed methodologies can be found on the ShanghaiRanking website  http://www.ShanghaiRanking.com/  .

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) : Since 2003, the ARWU presents annually the best universities in the world on the basis of a set of objective indicators and third-party data. The ARWU has been recognized as the forerunner of world university rankings and the most reliable leaderboard. The ARWU adopts six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff who have won Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of articles published in Nature and Science journals, the number of from highly-cited researchers and articles indexed in the Science Citation Index – Extended Citation Index and Social Sciences based on Web of Science data and per capita performance.

ShanghaiRanking Consultancy  : ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization dedicated to higher education intelligence research and consulting. It has been the official publisher of the academic ranking of world universities since 2009.

Website:  http://www.shanghairanking.com/

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