Source: Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Harvard University | United States |
| 2 | 2 | Stanford University | United States |
| 3 | 3 | University of Cambridge | 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 | 7 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
| 8 | 8 | Columbia University | United States |
| 9 | 9 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
| 10 | 10 | University of Chicago | United States |
| 11 | 11 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
| 11 | 12 | Yale University | United States |
| 13 | 12 | Cornell University | United States |
| 14 | 14 | University of Washington | United States |
| 15 | 17 | University College London | United Kingdom |
| 16 | 18 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
| 17 | 16 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
| 18 | 15 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
| 19 | 19 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland |
| 20 | 21 | University of California, San Francisco | United States |
| 20 | 27 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | United States |
| 22 | 20 | Washington University in St. Louis | United States |
| 23 | 24 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
| 24 | 23 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 25 | 22 | The University of Tokyo | Japan |
| 26 | 29 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
| 27 | 28 | University of Wisconsin – Madison | United States |
| 28 | 26 | Duke University | United States |
| 29 | 25 | Northwestern University | United States |
| 30 | 32 | New York University | United States |
| 31 | 32 | The University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| 32 | 35 | Kyoto University | Japan |
| 33 | 34 | The University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
| 33 | 30 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
| 35 | 30 | Rockefeller University | United States |
| 35 | 43 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 37 | 42 | University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) | France |
| 38 | 44 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
| 38 | 38 | University of Colorado at Boulder | United States |
| 38 | 41 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | United States |
| 41 | 38 | The University of Melbourne | Australia |
| 41 | 37 | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | United States |
| 43 | 45 | Tsinghua University | China |
| 44 | 36 | Sorbonne University | France |
| 45 | 40 | The University of Texas at Austin | United States |
| 46 | 51 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
| 47 | 47 | Heidelberg University | Germany |
| 48 | 46 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
| 49 | 48 | The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | United States |
| 49 | 51 | 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.
