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ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2024 – Clarivate

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Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, August 15, 2024 –  The 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world’s top 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, more than 2,500 institutions were scrutinized, and the best 1,000 universities in the world are published.

Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 22nd year, followed by Stanford and MIT. Other Top 10 universities are Cambridge (4th), Berkeley (5th), Oxford (6th), Princeton (7th), Caltech (8th), Columbia (8th), and Chicago (10th).

In Continental Europe, Paris-Saclay University (12th) rises three positions and remains the best, followed by ETH Zurich (21st). Among Asian universities, Tsinghua University (22nd) maintains its position and once again secures its status as the best in Asia. The University of Melbourne (37th) tops of other universities in Oceania for fourteen consecutive years since 2011.

Six universities advance to the Top 100 in ARWU 2024, including the Ohio State University – Columbus from United States (82nd), King Saud University (90th) from Saudi Arabia, the University of Helsinki (99th) from Finland, and three Chinese universities: Wuhan University (89th), Xi’an Jiaotong University (95th) and Sichuan University (98th). There are 5 new entrants appearing on the Top 500 list, and 32 universities entering the Top 1000 for the first time.

Top 100 Universities in ARWU 2024

2024 Rank 2023 Rank Institution Country/Region
1 1 Harvard University United States
2 2 Stanford University United States
3 3 Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) United States
4 4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
5 5 University of California, Berkeley United States
6 7 University of Oxford United Kingdom
7 6 Princeton University United States
8 9 California Institute of Technology United States
8 8 Columbia University United States
10 10 University of Chicago United States
11 11 Yale University United States
12 12 Cornell University United States
12 15 Paris-Saclay University France
14 14 University of Pennsylvania United States
15 13 University of California, Los Angeles United States
16 17 University College London United Kingdom
17 16 Johns Hopkins University United States
18 19 University of California, San Diego United States
18 18 University of Washington United States
20 21 Univ California – San Francisco United States
21 20 ETH Zurich Switzerland
22 22 Tsinghua University China
23 25 Washington University in St. Louis United States
24 29 Peking University China
25 23 Imperial College London United Kingdom
26 24 University of Toronto Canada
27 24 The University of Tokyo Japan
29 39 Rockefeller University United States
30 26 University Michigan-Ann Arbor United States
31 28 New York University United States
32 32 University of Copenhagen Denmark
33 30 Northwestern University United States
33 41 PSL University France
35 31 Univ North Carolina – Chapel Hill United States
36 35 University of Wisconsin – Madison United States
37 35 The University of Melbourne Australia
38 46 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
39 34 Duke University United States
40 38 The University of Edinburgh United Kingdom
41 46 Sorbonne University France
41 40 PSL University France
41 38 The University of Manchester United Kingdom
43 37 The University of Texas at Austin United States
44 44 University of British Columbia Canada
44 44 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities United States
46 54 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
46 43 Sorbonne University France
42 64 Univ Sci & Tech China China
43 37 Karolinska institute Switzerland
43 59 University of Munich Germany
45 39 Kyoto University Japan
45 43 The University of Texas at Austin United States
47 59 Technical university of Munich Germany
47 44 University of British Columbia Canada
47 44 University of Minnesota, Twin Cites United States
50 56 Fudan University China
50 55 Heidelberg University Germany
52 41 The University of Manchester United Kingdom
53 59 King’s College London United Kingdom
54 48 Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center United States
55 54 Swiss Fed Inst Tech – Lausanne Switzerland
55 52 Univ Illinois – Urbana Champaign United States
55 52 Utrecht University Netherlands
58 49 University of Geneva Switzerland
58 50 University of Maryland, College Park United States
60 69 Université Paris Cité France
61 67 University of Bonn Germany
62 58 University of Southern California United States
63 51 The University of Queensland Australia
64 63 Univ California – Santa Barbara United States
65 57 University of Colorado at Boulder United States
66 66 Vanderbit University United States
67 59 University of Zurich Switzerland
68 71 National University of Singapore Singapore
69 88 The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
69 76 University of Groningen Netherlands
69 68 Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
72 73 Sun Yat-sen University China
72 73 University of Oslo Norway
74 70 McGill University Canada
74 73 University of Sydney Australia
76 65 University of California, Irvine United States
77 72 The University of New South Wales Australia
78 86 KU Leuven Belgium
79 91 Huazhong Univ Sci & Tech China
80 78 Aarhus University Denmark
81 86 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
82 77 Monash University Australia
82 96 Nanjing University China
82 101-150 The Ohio State University – Columbus United states
85 79 Technion Israel Inst Tech Israel
86 94 Seoul National University South Korea
86 80 University Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center United States
88 82 Uppsala University Sweden
89 101-150 Wuhan University China
90 84 Ghent University Belgium
90 101-150 King Saud University Saudi Arabia
90 93 Nanyang Technological University Singapore
90 83 University of Pittsburgh Unites States
94 95 Central South University China
95 81 University of Basel Switzerland
95 101-150 Xian Jiaotong University China
97 88 University of Bristol United Kingdom
98 101-150 Sichuan University China
99 101-150 University of Helsinki Finland
100 96 Purdue University – West Lafayette United States

Germany has three universities ranked in the Top 50 for the first time, namely the University of Munich (43rd), Technical University of Munich (47th), and Heidelberg University (50th). Along with the University of Bonn (61st), Germany now has four universities in the ARWU Top 100, and 51 universities in the Top 1000.

French universities show enhanced competitiveness in the latest league table, with 25 universities ranked in the Top 1000 and 18 of them in the Top 500. Among these, Paris-Saclay University (12th), PSL University (33th), Sorbonne University (41th), and Université Paris Cité (60th) each achieve a higher ranking within the Top 100.

Chinese Mainland universities continue their strong presence on the ARWU list, with 203 universities ranked in the Top 1000, outnumbering the United States’s 183 universities. However, United States maintains a significant lead at the Top 100 level, holding 38 of Top 100 seats, a figure that greatly exceeds those of Mainland China (13) and the United Kingdom (8).

Number of Top Universities by Country

 

Country/Region Top 100 Top 500 Top 1000
United States 38 114 183
China 14 103 225
        China-Mainland 13 91 203
        China-Hong Kong 1 5 7
        China-Taiwan 0 5 13
        China-Macau 0 2 2
United Kingdom 8 35 62
Australia 5 24 31
Switzerland 5 7 9
Germany 4 35 51
France 4 18 25
Canada 3 18 27
Israel 3 6 7
Netherlands 2 12 13
Japan 2 11 30
Sweden 2 9 13
Belgium 2 7 8
Denmark 2 5 6
Singapore 2 2 4
South Korea 1 12 29
Saudi Arabia 1 6 12
Finland 1 4 7
Norway 1 3 6
Italy 0 18 42
Spain 0 10 36
Brazil 0 4 18
Austria 0 4 11
South Africa 0 4 8
New Zealand 0 4 7
Ireland 0 3 7
Portugal 0 3 4
Iran 0 2 9
Poland 0 2 8
Russia 0 2 7
Czech Republic 0 2 6
India 0 1 15
Turkey 0 1 10
Egypt 0 1 8
Greece 0 1 6
Malaysia 0 1 5
Chile 0 1 4
Hungary 0 1 4
Mexico 0 1 2
Argentina 0 1 2
Serbia 0 1 2
Croatia 0 1 1
Pakistan 0 0 5
Thailand 0 0 3
United Arab Emirates 0 0 3
Lebanon 0 0 2
Qatar 0 0 1
Slovenia 0 0 1
Lithuania 0 0 1
Ethiopia 0 0 1
Iceland 0 0 1
Luxembourg 0 0 1
Estonia 0 0 1
Cyprus 0 0 1
Colombia 0 0 1
Jordan 0 0 1
Slovakia 0 0 1
Morocco 0 0 1
Ukraine 0 0 1
Tunisia 0 0 1
Ghana 0 0 1

 

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’s top 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 uses 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, number of Highly Cited Researchers™ selected by   Clarivate™, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index – Expanded™ and Social Sciences Citation Index™ from the Web of Science™, and per capita performance of a university. More than 2500 universities are ranked by ARWU 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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