ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023 Press Release

Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

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
of other universities in Oceania for thirteen consecutive years since 2011.

Two Chinese universities make their first appearance in ARWU Top 100, namely Central South
University (95th) and Nanjing University (96th). There are 35 universities enter into 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

2023 Rank 2022 Rank Institution Country/Region

3 3 Massachusetts Inst Tech (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 Univ California - San Francisco United States

22 26 Tsinghua University China

23 23 Imperial College London United Kingdom

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 Univ North Carolina - 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

2023 Rank 2022 Rank Institution Country/Region

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 Univ Texas Southwestern Med Center United States

49 62 University of Geneva Switzerland

50 50 University of Maryland, College Park United States

51 47 The University of Queensland Australia

52 49 Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign United States

52 54 Utrecht University Netherlands

54 101-150 Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Lausanne Switzerland

55 70 Heidelberg University Germany

56 67 Fudan University China

57 51 University of Colorado at Boulder United States

58 53 University of Southern California United States

59 48 King's College London United Kingdom

59 56 Technical University of Munich Germany

59 57 University of Munich Germany

59 59 University of Zurich Switzerland

63 57 Univ California - Santa Barbara United States

64 62 Univ Sci & Tech China China

65 61 University of California, Irvine United States

66 64 Vanderbilt University United States

67 76 University of Bonn Germany

68 83 Weizmann Institute of Science Israel

2023 Rank 2022 Rank Institution Country/Region

69 78 Université Paris Cité France

70 73 McGill University Canada

71 71 National University of Singapore Singapore

72 64 The University of New South Wales Australia

73 79 Sun Yat-sen University China

73 67 University of Oslo Norway

73 60 University of Sydney Australia

76 66 University of Groningen Netherlands

77 75 Monash University Australia

78 69 Aarhus University Denmark

79 83 Technion Israel Inst Tech Israel

80 71 Univ Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center United States

81 83 University of Basel Switzerland

82 89 Uppsala University Sweden

83 82 University of Pittsburgh United States

84 74 Ghent University Belgium

84 79 The Australian National University Australia

86 95 KU Leuven Belgium

86 77 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel

88 87 Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands

88 96 The University of Hong Kong China-Hong Kong

88 81 University of Bristol United Kingdom

91 96 Huazhong Univ Sci & Tech China

91 92 University of Alberta Canada

93 88 Nanyang Technological University Singapore

94 98 Seoul National University South Korea

95 101-150 Central South University China

96 101-150 Nanjing University China

96 83 Purdue University - West Lafayette United States

98 99 Brown University United States

98 90 McMaster University Canada

98 90 Stockholm University Sweden

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, it holds 38 Top 100 seats, far more than that in
Mainland China (10), United Kingdom (8) and Australia (6).

Number of Top Universities by Country

Country/Region Top 100 Top 500 Top 1000

United States 38 117 187

China 11 100 214

China-Mainland 10 88 191

China-Hong Kong 1 5 7

China-Taiwan 0 5 14

China-Macau 0 2 2

United Kingdom 8 38 64

Australia 6 24 34

Canada 5 18 25

Switzerland 5 7 9

Germany 4 31 45

France 4 18 27

Netherlands 3 12 13

Sweden 3 9 13

Israel 3 5 7

Japan 2 12 32

Belgium 2 7 9

Denmark 2 5 6

Singapore 2 2 4

South Korea 1 12 30

Norway 1 3 7

Italy 0 17 40

Spain 0 9 38

Saudi Arabia 0 7 12

Brazil 0 5 18

Austria 0 5 12
 Country/Region Top 100 Top 500 Top 1000

Portugal 0 5 6

South Africa 0 4 8

New Zealand 0 4 8

Finland 0 4 7

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
 Country/Region Top 100 Top 500 Top 1000

Qatar 0 0 1

Slovakia 0 0 1

Slovenia 0 0 1

Tunisia 0 0 1

The complete list and detailed methodologies can be found at ShanghaiRanking’s website
https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2023.

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 adopts 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, the number of Highly Cited Researchers and articles indexed in
Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index based on data in the Web of
Science, and per capita performance. More than 2500 universities are ranked by ARWU, and the
best 1000 universities are published.

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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