Academic Ranking Of World Universities 2016 Results Announced

The 10 universities ranked at the top of Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) last year have all retained their place in the top 10 for 2016, despite some shuffling up and down.

The 2016 Shanghai Ranking results confirm Harvard University as number one in the world for the 14th year running. Stanford University also retained second place while Berkeley and University of Cambridge both dropped one place.

Eight of the top universities are in the United States, with Oxford and Cambridge completing the list of elite institutions in the top 10. One Swiss and one Japanese university make it in to the top 20.

Asia has broken new ground in this year’s ranking, with universities in China and Singapore in the top 100 for the first time. Tsinghua University in China is the country’s best university in 58^th position, and the National University of Singapore is the country’s top entry at position 83.

ETH Zurich (19^th overall) takes first place in continental Europe, while the University of Copenhagen (31st) in Denmark overtakes Pierre & Marie Curie (39th) in France as the second best European university outside the UK. The University of Melbourne in 40^th place is the highest performing country in Oceania.

In total, 500 universities are ranked from across the world based on six indicators. These include the number of award-winning staff and alumni and the number of articles published in prestigious journals Nature and Science.

Outside the top 100, universities are banded into groups of 50 or 100 to accommodate statistically insignificant variations in scores at this level.

The ARWU has been published annually since 2013 by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.

The highest ranking Indian university features in the 301-400 bracket — Indian Institute Of Science.