2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis. Since 2009 the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been published and copyrighted by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization on higher education intelligence and not legally subordinated to any universities or government agencies. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, 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 actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 are published.

Academic Ranking of World Universities

503 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	National/Regional Rank	Total Score	Alumni Award HiCi N&S PUB PCP
1	Harvard University Harvard University	1	100.0	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University	2	73.7	40.0
3	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	3	71.4	69.0
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	1	70.4	90.3
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	4	69.6	71.0
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	5	65.4	52.8
7	Columbia University Columbia University	6	62.5	72.4
8	Princeton University Princeton University	7	58.9	59.3
9	University of Chicago University of Chicago	8	57.1	67.4
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford	2	56.8	59.0
11	Yale University Yale University	9	54.9	48.5
12	Cornell University Cornell University	10	54.1	41.5
13	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	11	52.4	24.4
14	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	12	50.3	15.8
15	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	13	49.0	31.7
16	University of Washington University of Washington	14	48.3	25.7
17	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	15	47.4	38.4
18	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	16	46.6	0.0
19	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	1	46.4	32.2
20	The Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University	17	45.5	45.8
21	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	18	44.2	38.4
22	University College London University College London	3	44.0	31.2
23	Kyoto University Kyoto University	2	43.5	35.4
24	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	1	43.1	35.9
24	University of Toronto University of Toronto	1	43.1	25.0
26	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	19	42.9	37.1
27	The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	4	42.4	18.6
28	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	20	40.4	32.2
29	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	21	40.1	22.4
30	Northwestern University Northwestern University	22	38.1	19.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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