2018 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

1000 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	75.6	44.5
3	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	1	71.8	82.3
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	3	69.9	70.9
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	4	68.3	65.6
6	Princeton University Princeton University	5	61.0	55.8
7	University of Oxford University of Oxford	2	60.0	50.8
8	Columbia University Columbia University	6	58.2	62.8
9	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	7	57.4	53.5
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago	8	55.5	59.2
11	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	9	51.2	29.2
12	Cornell University Cornell University	10-11	50.7	43.1
12	Yale University Yale University	10-11	50.7	47.1
14	University of Washington University of Washington	12	50.0	24.9
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	13	47.8	19.0
16	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	14	46.4	31.3
17	University College London University College London	3	46.1	27.8
18	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	15	45.4	37.3
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	1	43.9	29.2
20	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	16	42.1	22.7
21	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	17	41.9	0.0
22	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	1	41.5	38.3
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto	1	40.9	19.7
24	Imperial College London Imperial College London	4	40.1	14.4
25	Northwestern University Northwestern University	18	39.9	15.2
26	Duke University Duke University	19	39.7	15.2
27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	20	39.4	34.1
28	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison	21	38.9	32.5
29	University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen	1	38.7	21.5
30	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	22-23	37.9	16.8

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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