2024 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.(Methodology)

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	45.3
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	3	69.5	71.9
4	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge	1	67.8	78.2
5	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley	4	62.0	65.3
6	University of Oxford University of Oxford	2	60.0	49.5
7	Princeton University Princeton University	5	58.8	61.2
8	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology	6-7	55.1	55.7
8	Columbia University Columbia University	6-7	55.1	59.4
10	University of Chicago University of Chicago	8	54.4	59.0
11	Yale University Yale University	9	52.8	50.3
12	Cornell University Cornell University	10	50.8	42.2
12	Paris-Saclay University Paris-Saclay University	1	50.8	36.9
14	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania	11	49.3	32.0
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles	12	48.4	29.8
16	University College London University College London	3	47.1	27.0
17	Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University	13	46.0	34.0
18	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego	14-15	45.9	18.0
18	University of Washington University of Washington	14-15	45.9	22.6
20	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco	16	45.4	0.0
21	ETH Zurich ETH Zurich	1	44.5	26.5
22	Tsinghua University Tsinghua University	1	43.3	9.0
23	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis	17	40.1	20.8
24	Peking University Peking University	2	39.9	10.4
25	Imperial College London Imperial College London	4	39.7	12.7
26	University of Toronto University of Toronto	1	39.6	16.4
27	Zhejiang University Zhejiang University	3	39.0	0.0
28	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo	1	38.6	36.3
29	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University	18	38.2	15.6
30	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	19	38.0	37.1

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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Methodology-ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020