ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023 Press Release

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

From: Shanghai, People's Republic of China

The 2023 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 2500 institutions were scrutinized, and the best 1000 universities in the world are published.

Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 21st year, followed by Stanford and MIT. Other Top 10 universities are Cambridge (4th), Berkeley (5th), Princeton (6th), Oxford (7th), Columbia (8th), Caltech (9th), and Chicago (10th).

In Continental Europe, Paris-Saclay University (15th) rises one position and remains the best, followed by ETH Zurich (20th). Among Asian universities, Tsinghua University (22nd) moves up four positions and holds the best place in Asia for the first time. The University of Melbourne (35th) tops of other universities in Oceania for thirteen consecutive years since 2011.

Two Chinese universities make their first appearance in ARWU Top 100, namely Central South University (95th) and Nanjing University (96th). There are 35 universities enter into Top 1000 for the first time.

Top 100 Universities in ARWU 2023

2023 Rank	2022 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	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	Yale University	United States
12	12	Cornell University	United States
13	13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
14	15	University of Pennsylvania	United States
15	16	Paris-Saclay University	France
16	14	Johns Hopkins University	United States
17	18	University College London	United Kingdom
18	17	University of Washington	United States
19	21	University of California, San Diego	United States
20	20	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
21	19	Univ California - San Francisco	United States
22	26	Tsinghua University	China
23	23	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
24	22	University of Toronto	Canada
25	27	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
26	28	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
27	24	The University of Tokyo	Japan
28	25	New York University	United States
29	34	Peking University	China
30	30	Northwestern University	United States
31	29	Univ North Carolina - Chapel Hill	United States
32	39	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
33	36	Zhejiang University	China
34	31	Duke University	United States
35	32	The University of Melbourne	Australia
35	33	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States
37	41	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
38	35	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
39	41	Kyoto University	Japan
39	44	Rockefeller University	United States
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
48	52	Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center	United States
49	62	University of Geneva	Switzerland
50	50	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
51	47	The University of Queensland	Australia
52	49	Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign	United States
52	54	Utrecht University	Netherlands
54	101-150	Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne	Switzerland
55	70	Heidelberg University	Germany
56	67	Fudan University	China
57	51	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States
58	53	University of Southern California	United States
59	48	King's College London	United Kingdom
59	56	Technical University of Munich	Germany
59	57	University of Munich	Germany
59	59	University of Zurich	Switzerland
63	57	Univ California - Santa Barbara	United States
64	62	Univ Sci & Tech China	China
65	61	University of California, Irvine	United States
66	64	Vanderbilt University	United States
67	76	University of Bonn	Germany
68	83	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
69	78	Université Paris Cité	France
70	73	McGill University	Canada
71	71	National University of Singapore	Singapore
72	64	The University of New South Wales	Australia
73	79	Sun Yat-sen University	China
73	67	University of Oslo	Norway
73	60	University of Sydney	Australia
76	66	University of Groningen	Netherlands
77	75	Monash University	Australia
78	69	Aarhus University	Denmark
79	83	Technion Israel Inst Tech	Israel
80	71	Univ Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center	United States
81	83	University of Basel	Switzerland
82	89	Uppsala University	Sweden
83	82	University of Pittsburgh	United States
84	74	Ghent University	Belgium
84	79	The Australian National University	Australia
86	95	KU Leuven	Belgium
86	77	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
88	87	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
88	96	The University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong
88	81	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
91	96	Huazhong Univ Sci & Tech	China
91	92	University of Alberta	Canada
93	88	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
94	98	Seoul National University	South Korea
95	101-150	Central South University	China
96	101-150	Nanjing University	China
96	83	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States
98	99	Brown University	United States
98	90	McMaster University	Canada
98	90	Stockholm University	Sweden

Chinese Mainland universities dominate the ARWU list for the first time, with 191 universities ranked in the Top 1000, outnumbering 187 universities in United States. However, United States maintains an overwhelming advantage at the Top 100 level, it holds 38 Top 100 seats, far more than that in Mainland China (10), United Kingdom (8) and Australia (6).

Number of Top Universities by Country

Country/Region	Top 100	Top 500	Top 1000
United States	38	120	187
China	11	98	214
China-Mainland	10	86	191
China-Hong Kong	1	5	7
China-Taiwan	0	5	14
China-Macau	0	2	2
United Kingdom	8	38	64
Australia	7	24	34
Canada	5	18	25
Germany	4	31	45
France	4	18	27
Switzerland	4	7	9
Netherlands	3	12	13
Sweden	3	10	13
Israel	3	5	7
Japan	2	12	32
Belgium	2	7	9
Denmark	2	5	6
Singapore	2	2	4
Finland	1	5	7
Norway	1	3	7
Italy	0	16	40
South Korea	0	11	30
Spain	0	9	38
Saudi Arabia	0	6	12
Austria	0	6	12
Brazil	0	5	18
South Africa	0	4	8
New Zealand	0	4	8
Portugal	0	4	6
Ireland	0	3	7
Russia	0	2	9
Poland	0	2	9
Czech Republic	0	2	6
India	0	1	15
Iran	0	1	10
Turkey	0	1	8
Egypt	0	1	7
Greece	0	1	6
Malaysia	0	1	5
Chile	0	1	4
Mexico	0	1	3
Serbia	0	1	2
Argentina	0	1	1
Croatia	0	1	1
Pakistan	0	0	6
Thailand	0	0	5
Hungary	0	0	4
United Arab Emirates	0	0	3
Colombia	0	0	1
Cyprus	0	0	1
Estonia	0	0	1
Ethiopia	0	0	1
Ghana	0	0	1
Iceland	0	0	1
Jordan	0	0	1
Lebanon	0	0	1
Lithuania	0	0	1
Luxembourg	0	0	1
Qatar	0	0	1
Slovakia	0	0	1
Slovenia	0	0	1
Tunisia	0	0	1

The complete list and detailed methodologies can be found at ShanghaiRanking’s website 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 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 articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index based on data in the Web of Science, and per capita performance. 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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