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Shanghai Rankings or the ARWU for 2023 are released. Harvard University has secured the #1st rank like earlier. This time the university battled with Stanford University and MIT for the position but the overall scores had a huge difference to call it a close win.
Harvard scored a total score of 100, whereas Stanford was at an overall 76.8 score followed by MIT at 70.1. Other universities in the top 10 are the University of Cambridge, the University of California Berkley, Princeton University, Oxford University, Columbia University, California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago.
Moreover, the USA has been the top country with the most number of ranking universities in the top 10 followed by the UK. Besides, there was no other country in the list of top 10.
Top 25 Universities
The list of top 25 universities in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2023 is also dominated by universities from the USA. Apart from the UK following in the 2nd position, countries like France, Switzerland, Canada and China are also represented in the top 25.
Here is the list of the top 25 universities based on the Shanghai Rankings 2023.
| Universities | Ranking | Country and Overall Score |
| Harvard University | 1 | USA (100) |
| Stanford University | 2 | USA (76.8) |
| MIT | 3 | USA (70.1) |
| Cambridge University | 4 | UK (67.9) |
| University of California, Berkely | 5 | USA (63.4) |
| Princeton University | 6 | USA (60.1) |
| University of Oxford | 7 | UK (59.5) |
| Columbia University | 8 | USA (55.3) |
| California Institute of Technology | 9 | USA (54.5) |
| University of Chicago | 10 | USA (53.8) |
| Yale University | 11 | USA (52.2) |
| Cornell University | 12 | USA (50.5) |
| University of California, LA | 13 | USA (48.0) |
| University of Pennsylvania | 14 | USA (47.7) |
| Paris Saclay University | 15 | France (47.0) |
| John Hopkins University | 16 | USA (46.8) |
| University College London | 17 | UK(45.9) |
| University of Washington | 18 | USA (45.4) |
| University of California, San Diego | 19 | USA (44.8) |
| ETH Zurich | 20 | Switzerland (44.1) |
| University of California San Francisco | 21 | USA (44.0) |
| Tsinghua University | 22 | China (40.3) |
| Imperial College London | 23 | UK (39.9) |
| University of Toronto | 24 | Canada (39.7) |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 25 | USA (39.0) |
ARWU Rankings
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) or ShanghaiRanking is one of the topmost and widely considered university ratings in the world. Furthermore, they release annual publications of these rankings based on various factors.
Formerly, Shanghai Jiao Tong University made the first official list which was compiled and issued in 2003. Hence, the name is derived from the university. However, from 2009 onwards, ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, which is an independent body releases this list annually.
Nearly 2500 universities are ranked under this system out of which the top 1000 are published. Whereas to decide the criteria, there are six factors used by the ShanghauRanking consultancy. There are mentioned below.
- The number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals won by alumni and staff.
- Number of Clarivate selected highly cited researchers.
- Number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science.
- The number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index in the Web of Science.
- Per capita performance of a university.
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