2021 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.(See full Methodology)

Academic Ranking of World Universities

1000 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	National/Regional Rank	Total Score
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	1	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	2	75.9
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	1	70.6
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	3	69.5
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	4	66.0
6	Princeton University Princeton University United States	5	59.7
7	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	2	59.2
8	Columbia University Columbia University United States	6	58.0
9	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	7	57.9
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	8	54.7
11	Yale University Yale University United States	9	53.6
12	Cornell University Cornell University United States	10	50.3
13	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University France	1	49.4
14	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	11	48.9
15	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	12	47.8
16	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University United States	13	47.6
17	University College London University College London United Kingdom	3	47.3
18	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	14	46.3
19	University of Washington University of Washington United States	15	46.2
20	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	16	44.6
21	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich Switzerland	1	44.4
22	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	1	41.3
23	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	17	40.7
24	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	1	40.6
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London United Kingdom	4	40.5
26	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor University of Michigan - Ann Arbor United States	18	40.1
27	New York University New York University United States	19	39.6
28	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University China	1	39.5
29	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States	20	38.1
30	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen Denmark	1	37.7

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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