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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 StatesGermany 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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