ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023

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LONDON, U.K., August 15, 2023 - 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 universities in Oceania for thirteen consecutive years since 2011.

Two Chinese universities make their first appearance in ARWU Top 100, namely Central South University (93rd) and Nanjing University (94th). 35 universities enter the 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 Institute of Technology (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	University of California, San Francisco	United States
22	26	Tsinghua University	China
23	23	Imperial College London	United States
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	University of North Carolina at 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	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	United States
49	50	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
50	47	The University of Queensland	Australia
51	49	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
51	54	Utrecht University	Netherlands
53	70	Heidelberg University	Germany
54	67	Fudan University	China
55	51	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States
56	53	University of Southern California	United States
57	48	King's College London	United Kingdom
57	56	Technical University of Munich	Germany
57	57	University of Munich	Germany
57	59	University of Zurich	Switzerland
61	62	University of Geneva	Switzerland
62	57	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
63	62	University of Science and Technology of China	China
64	61	University of California, Irvine	United States
65	64	Vanderbilt University	United States
66	76	University of Bonn	Germany
67	83	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
68	78	Université Paris Cité	France
69	73	McGill University	Canada
70	71	National University of Singapore	Singapore
71	64	The University of New South Wales	Australia
72	79	Sun Yat-sen University	China
72	67	University of Oslo	Norway
72	60	University of Sydney	Australia
75	66	University of Groningen	Netherlands
76	75	Monash University	Australia
77	69	Aarhus University	Denmark
78	83	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
79	71	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	United States
80	83	University of Basel	Switzerland
81	89	Uppsala University	Sweden
82	82	University of Pittsburgh	United States
83	74	Ghent University	Belgium
83	79	The Australian National University	Australia
85	95	KU Leuven	Belgium
85	77	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
87	87	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
87	96	The University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong
87	81	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
89	96	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
89	92	University of Alberta	Canada
92	88	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
93	101-150	Central South University	China
94	101-150	Nanjing University	China
94	83	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States
96	99	Brown University	United States
96	90	McMaster University	Canada
96	90	Stockholm University	Sweden
99	99	The University of Western Australia	Australia
99	92	University of Helsinki	Finland

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 with 38 universities in the Top 100, far more than that in Mainland China (10), United Kingdom (8) and Australia (7).

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 methodology can be found at ShanghaiRanking's website http://www.shanghairanking.com/.

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About 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™ in the Web of Science™, and per capita performance of a university. More than 2500 universities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 universities are published.

About 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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