Academic Ranking of World Universities

ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019 Press Release

Thursday, August 15, 2019
Shanghai, People's Republic of China

The 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world Top 500 universities annually based on transparent methodology and objective third-party data. It has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy one. This year, the best 1000 universities in the world are published.

Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 17th year. Stanford University and University of Cambridge remain to be the No. 2 and No. 3 respectively. Other Top 10 universities are MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Oxford, Columbia, Caltech and Chicago. In Continental Europe, ETH Zurich (19th) continues to be the best ranked university, and University of Copenhagen (26th) takes the second place. The University of Tokyo (25th) and Kyoto University (32nd) keep their leading positions in Asia. Tsinghua University (43rd) is ranked the third among Asian universities. The University of Melbourne (41st) tops other universities in Oceania.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (82nd) and The University of New South Wales (94th) make their first ever appearance in the Top 100. Shenzhen University and other 13 universities enter into the Top 500 list for the first time. More than 50 universities enter into Top 1000 list for the first time.

TOP 50 Universities in ARWU 2019

Rank 2019 Rank 2018 Institution Country
11
Harvard University
United States
22
Stanford University
United States
33
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
44
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
United States
55
University of California, Berkeley
United States
66
Princeton University
United States
77
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
88
Columbia University
United States
99
California Institute of Technology
United States
1010
University of Chicago
United States
1111
University of California, Los Angeles
United States
1112
Yale University
United States
1312
Cornell University
United States
1414
University of Washington
United States
1517
University College London
United Kingdom
1618
Johns Hopkins University
United States
1716
University of Pennsylvania
United States
1815
University of California, San Diego
United States
1919
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
2021
University of California, San Francisco
United States
2027
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
United States
2220
Washington University in St. Louis
United States
2324
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
2423
University of Toronto
Canada
2522
The University of Tokyo
Japan
2629
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
2728
University of Wisconsin - Madison
United States
2826
Duke University
United States
2925
Northwestern University
United States
3032
New York University
United States
3132
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
3235
Kyoto University
Japan
3334
The University of Manchester
United Kingdom
3330
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
United States
3530
Rockefeller University
United States
3543
University of British Columbia
Canada
3742
University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)
France
3844
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
3838
University of Colorado at Boulder
United States
3841
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
4138
The University of Melbourne
Australia
4137
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
United States
4345
Tsinghua University
China
4436
Sorbonne University
France
4540
The University of Texas at Austin
United States
4651
University of Maryland, College Park
United States
4747
Heidelberg University
Germany
4846
University of California, Santa Barbara
United States
4948
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
United States
4951
Utrecht University
Netherlands

Universities from the United States dominates this year’s Top 1000 list with 8 universities among the Top 10, 45 among the Top 100, 137 among the Top 500 and 206 among the Top 1000. China has 154 universities ranked in Top 1000, among which 66 are in Top 500, 4 are in Top 100. United Kingdom has 61 Top 1000 universities, and 36 of them are listed in Top 500, 8 are listed in Top 100.

The complete list and detailed methodologies can be found at ShanghaiRanking’s website http://www.ShanghaiRanking.com/.

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU): Starting from 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world Top 500 universities annually based on a set of objective indicators and third-party data. ARWU has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy league table. ARWU adopts six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, the number of Highly Cited Researchers and the number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index produced by Web of Science Group, and per capita performance. About 1800 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 universities are published.

ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization dedicating to research on higher education intelligence and consultation. It has been the official publisher of the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2009.

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