ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018 results announced

Top universities in the world featured in the ShanghaiRanking ARWU league table for 2018

August 14 2018

Email: seeta.bhardwa@timeshighereducation.com

For the 16th year running, Harvard University has topped the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by consultancy ShanghaiRanking.

The top three in the annual ranking remains unchanged from last year with Stanford University and the University of Cambridge taking the second and third places respectively. The top 10 is completed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4th), University of California, Berkeley (5th), Princeton University (6th), University of Oxford (7th), Columbia University (8th), California Institute of Technology (9th), and the University of Chicago (10th).

The top 10 is dominated by institutions in the US and UK.

Zhejiang University (67th) and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (96th) make their first ever appearance in the top 100. Northwestern Polytechnical University and 10 other universities enter the top 500 for the first time.

The ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is an independent organisation dedicated to research on higher education intelligence and consultations. It has been the official publisher of the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2009.

Top five universities in the 2018 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities

1. Harvard University

Harvard University is the oldest university in the US, having been formed in 1636, and is considered one of the most prestigious in the world.

The museums affiliated with the institution hold more than 28 million works of art, artefacts, specimens and instruments.

Harvard’s alumni include eight US presidents, several foreign heads of state and 62 living billionaires. Some 130 Nobel laureates, 18 Fields Medallists, and 13 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university as students or staff.

2. Stanford University

Stanford University is known for nurturing an entrepreneurial spirit among its students, a legacy of its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford. It is also renowned for its relationship with Silicon Valley.

The 8,000-acre campus is located in California’s Bay Area. There are more than 625 student associations at the university, including the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily.

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3. University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is the only UK university to feature in the top five. Affiliates of the University of Cambridge have won some 90 Nobel prizes, and are represented in every category.

The list of high-achieving alumni from the institution is endless, but prominent among them are Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough, Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith.

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Researchers at this specialist science and technology institution invented one of the first large-scale high-speed computers in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1951. The Whirlwind I is still on display at the MIT Museum.

Some 25,800 active companies have been started or co-founded by living MIT alumni, showing just how much impact MIT has had on innovation.

5. University of California, Berkeley

Rounding off the top five is the University of California, Berkeley. The university is not without its unusual traditions, and students are expected to roll down 4.0 Hill on campus to get good grades. However, if you step on the Berkeley seal nearby, it has been said that you will be cursed for the year.

The tradition obviously works as Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers include 91 Nobel laureates. The institution’s alumni have also achieved 13 Fields Medals, 23 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, 14 Pulitzer Prizes and 117 Olympic gold medals.

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2018 results: top 500 universities

ARWU 2018 rank	Institution	Country/Region
1	Harvard University	United States
2	Stanford University	United States
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States
6	Princeton University	United States
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
8	Columbia University	United States
9	California Institute of Technology	United States
10	University of Chicago	United States
11	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
=12	Cornell University	United States
=12	Yale University	United States
14	University of Washington	United States
15	University of California, San Diego	United States
16	University of Pennsylvania	United States
17	UCL	United Kingdom
18	Johns Hopkins University	United States
19	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
20	Washington University in St Louis	United States
21	University of California, San Francisco	United States
22	The University of Tokyo	Japan
23	University of Toronto	Canada
24	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
25	Northwestern University	United States
26	Duke University	United States
27	University of Michigan	United States
28	University of Wisconsin	United States
29	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
=30	The Rockefeller University	United States
=30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
=32	New York University	United States
=32	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
34	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
35	Kyoto University	Japan
36	Sorbonne University	France
37	University of Minnesota	United States
=38	University of Melbourne	Australia
=38	University of Colorado Boulder	United States
40	University of Texas at Austin	United States
41	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
42	Paris-Sud University	France
43	University of British Columbia	Canada
44	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
45	Tsinghua University	China
46	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
47	Heidelberg University	Germany
=48	Technical University of Munich	Germany
=48	University of Texas at Dallas	United States
50	Vanderbilt University	United States
=51	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
=51	Utrecht University	Netherlands
53	LMU Munich	Germany
54	University of Zurich	Switzerland
55	University of Queensland	Australia
56	King's College London	United Kingdom
=57	Peking University	China
=57	University of Helsinki	Finland
59	University of Geneva	Switzerland
60	University of Southern California	United States
61	Ghent University	Belgium
62	University of Oslo	Norway
63	Uppsala University	Sweden
64	Ecole Normale Superieure	France
65	Aarhus University	Denmark
66	University of Groningen	Netherlands
67	Zhejiang University	China
68	University of Sydney	Australia
69	Australian National University	Australia
=70	Boston University	United States
=70	McGill University	Canada
=70	Purdue University	United States
=70	Rice University	United States
=74	Leiden University	Netherlands
=74	Pennsylvania State University	United States
=74	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
=77	Stockholm University	Sweden
=77	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
=79	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
=79	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
=81	Mayo Medical School	United States
=81	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
=83	Nagoya University	Japan
=83	University of California, Irvine	United States
85	National University of Singapore	Singapore
=86	KU Leuven	Belgium
=86	McMaster University	Canada
=86	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
=86	University of Florida	United States
90	University of Pittsburgh	United States
=91	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
=91	Monash University	Australia
93	University of Western Australia	Australia
94	Ohio State University	United States
95	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
=96	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore
=96	University of Basel	Switzerland
=96	University of California, Davis	United States
99	University of Göttingen	Germany
100	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	United States
101-150	Aix-Marseille University	France
101-150	Arizona State University	United States
101-150	Baylor College of Medicine	United States
101-150	Brown University	United States
101-150	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
101-150	Case Western Reserve University	United States
101-150	Emory University	United States
101-150	Fudan University	China
101-150	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	United States
101-150	Indiana University	United States
101-150	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
101-150	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
101-150	Lund University	Sweden
101-150	Michigan State University	United States
101-150	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
101-150	Osaka University	Japan
101-150	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
101-150	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States
101-150	Seoul National University	South Korea
101-150	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
101-150	Sun Yat-sen University	China
101-150	University of Adelaide	Australia
101-150	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
101-150	University of New South Wales	Australia
101-150	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
101-150	Tohoku University	Japan
101-150	University of Alberta	Canada
101-150	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
101-150	University of Arizona	United States
101-150	University of Bern	Switzerland
101-150	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Bonn	Germany
101-150	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States
101-150	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany
101-150	University of Freiburg	Germany
101-150	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
101-150	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
101-150	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Montreal	Canada
101-150	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Science and Technology of China	China
101-150	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Strasbourg	France
101-150	University of Utah	United States
101-150	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands
101-150	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
101-150	Paris Diderot University – Paris 7	France
101-150	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
101-150	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
151-200	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
151-200	Curtin University	Australia
151-200	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
151-200	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
151-200	Hokkaido University	Japan
151-200	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
151-200	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
151-200	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom
151-200	Nanjing University	China
151-200	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
151-200	North Carolina State University	United States
151-200	Oregon Health and Science University	United States
151-200	Oregon State University	United States
151-200	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom
151-200	Sichuan University	China
151-200	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea
151-200	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
151-200	Tel Aviv University	Israel
151-200	Texas A&M University	United States
151-200	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
151-200	University of Calgary	Canada
151-200	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
151-200	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
151-200	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
151-200	TU Dresden	Germany
151-200	Tufts University	United States
151-200	Grenoble Alpes University	France
151-200	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
151-200	University of Barcelona	Spain
151-200	University of California, Riverside	United States
151-200	University of Cologne	Germany
151-200	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
151-200	University of Hamburg	Germany
151-200	University of Iowa	United States
151-200	Leipzig University	Germany
151-200	University of Lisbon	Portugal
151-200	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States
151-200	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	United States
151-200	University of Milan	Italy
151-200	University of Münster	Germany
151-200	University of Ottawa	Canada
151-200	Paris Descartes University	France
151-200	University of Rochester	United States
151-200	University of São Paulo	Brazil
151-200	University of Tübingen	Germany
151-200	University of Vienna	Austria
151-200	University of Virginia	United States
151-200	University of Waterloo	Canada
151-200	University of Würzburg	Germany
151-200	Xi’an Jiaotong University	China
201-300	Aalborg University	Denmark
201-300	Beihang University	China
201-300	Beijing Normal University	China
201-300	Brandeis University	United States
201-300	Central South University	China
201-300	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
201-300	Charles University in Prague	Czech
201-300	China Medical University, Taiwan	Taiwan
201-300	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
201-300	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France
201-300	Colorado State University	United States
201-300	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain
201-300	Dalian University of Technology	China
201-300	Dartmouth College	United States
201-300	Deakin University	Australia
201-300	Durham University	United Kingdom
201-300	Florida State University	United States
201-300	George Mason University	United States
201-300	Georgetown University	United States
201-300	Hanyang University	South Korea
201-300	Iowa State University	United States
201-300	James Cook University	Australia
201-300	Jilin University	China
201-300	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
201-300	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	Saudi Arabia
201-300	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
201-300	Korea University	South Korea
201-300	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
201-300	Kyushu University	Japan
201-300	Laval University	Canada
201-300	Maastricht University	Netherlands
201-300	Macquarie University	Australia
201-300	Medical University of Vienna	Austria
201-300	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico
201-300	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
201-300	Northeastern University	United States
201-300	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	France
201-300	Polytechnic University of Milan	Italy
201-300	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
201-300	Queen's University	Canada
201-300	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
201-300	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
201-300	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
201-300	Soochow University	China
201-300	South China University of Technology	China
201-300	Southeast University	China
201-300	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden
201-300	George Washington University	United States
201-300	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
201-300	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
201-300	University of Auckland	New Zealand
201-300	University of Georgia	United States
201-300	University of Reading	United Kingdom
201-300	Tianjin University	China
201-300	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
201-300	University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States
201-300	University of Antwerp	Belgium
201-300	University of Bergen	Norway
201-300	University of Bologna	Italy
201-300	University of Bordeaux	France
201-300	University of Buenos Aires	Argentina
201-300	University of Colorado Denver	United States
201-300	University of Delaware	United States
201-300	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
201-300	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China
201-300	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
201-300	University of Granada	Spain
201-300	University of Hawai’i at Mānoa	United States
201-300	University of Houston	United States
201-300	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States
201-300	University of Innsbruck	Austria
201-300	University of Kansas	United States
201-300	University of Kiel	Germany
201-300	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
201-300	University of Lorraine	France
201-300	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	Germany
201-300	University of Maryland, Baltimore	United States
201-300	University of Miami	United States
201-300	University of Missouri	United States
201-300	Montpellier University	France
201-300	University of Naples Federico II	Italy
201-300	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	United States
201-300	University of Notre Dame	United States
201-300	University of Padua	Italy
201-300	University of Pisa	Italy
201-300	University of South Florida	United States
201-300	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
201-300	University of Tasmania	Australia
201-300	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	United States
201-300	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
201-300	University of Toulouse 1	France
201-300	University of Tsukuba	Japan
201-300	University of Turin	Italy
201-300	University of Ulm	Germany
201-300	University of Wollongong	Australia
201-300	Virginia Commonwealth University	United States
201-300	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States
201-300	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Belgium
201-300	Western University	Canada
201-300	Wuhan University	China
301-400	Aalto University	Finland
301-400	Autonomous University of Barcelona	Spain
301-400	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain
301-400	Boston College	United States
301-400	Chiba University	Japan
301-400	China Agricultural University	China
301-400	Dalhousie University	Canada
301-400	Drexel University	United States
301-400	East China University of Science and Technology	China
301-400	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France
301-400	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
301-400	ESPCI ParisTech	France
301-400	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
301-400	Griffith University	Australia
301-400	Hannover Medical School	Germany
301-400	Hunan University	China
301-400	Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis	United States
301-400	Keio University	Japan
301-400	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia
301-400	Kyung Hee University	South Korea
301-400	La Trobe University	Australia
301-400	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
301-400	Lanzhou University	China
301-400	Linköping University	Sweden
301-400	Louisiana State University	United States
301-400	Medical University of South Carolina	United States
301-400	Nanjing Agricultural University	China
301-400	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	China
301-400	Nankai University	China
301-400	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Greece
301-400	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan
301-400	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China
301-400	Okayama University	Japan
301-400	Paris Dauphine University	France
301-400	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom
301-400	RMIT University	Australia
301-400	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia
301-400	Shandong University	China
301-400	Simon Fraser University	Canada
301-400	Stony Brook University	United States
301-400	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
301-400	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
301-400	Temple University	United States
301-400	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
301-400	University of New Mexico	United States
301-400	University of Newcastle	Australia
301-400	University of Texas at Dallas	United States
301-400	The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	United States
301-400	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	United States
301-400	Tongji University	China
301-400	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea
301-400	São Paulo State University (UNESP)	Brazil
301-400	University at Buffalo	United States
301-400	University College Dublin	Ireland
301-400	University of Belgrade	Serbia
301-400	Ruhr University Bochum	Germany
301-400	State University of Campinas	Brazil
301-400	University of Cape Town	South Africa
301-400	University of Central Florida	United States
301-400	University of Chile	Chile
301-400	University of Cincinnati	United States
301-400	University of Connecticut	United States
301-400	University of Düsseldorf	Germany
301-400	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
301-400	University of Florence	Italy
301-400	University of Fribourg	Switzerland
301-400	University of Guelph	Canada
301-400	University of Jena	Germany
301-400	University of Kentucky	United States
301-400	University of Liège	Belgium
301-400	University of Malaya	Malaysia
301-400	University of Manitoba	Canada
301-400	University of Marburg	Germany
301-400	University of North Texas	United States
301-400	University of Oregon	United States
301-400	University of Otago	New Zealand
301-400	University of Pavia	Italy
301-400	University of Porto	Portugal
301-400	University of Saskatchewan	Canada
301-400	University of South Carolina	United States
301-400	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark
301-400	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
301-400	University of Stuttgart	Germany
301-400	University of Surrey	United Kingdom
301-400	University of Tartu	Estonia
301-400	University of Technology, Sydney	Australia
301-400	University of Tehran	Iran
301-400	University of the Basque Country	Spain
301-400	University of Turku	Finland
301-400	University of Vermont	United States
301-400	University of Victoria	Canada
301-400	University of Warsaw	Poland
301-400	University of York	United Kingdom
301-400	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
301-400	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
301-400	Washington State University	United States
301-400	Wuhan University of Technology	China
301-400	Xiamen University	China
301-400	Yeshiva University	United States
301-400	Yonsei University	South Korea
401-500	Amirkabir University of Technology	Iran
401-500	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece
401-500	Bar-Ilan University	Israel
401-500	Beijing Institute of Technology	China
401-500	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	China
401-500	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Israel
401-500	Bielefeld University	Germany
401-500	Brigham Young University	United States
401-500	Brunel University London	United Kingdom
401-500	Cairo University	Egypt
401-500	Capital Medical University	China
401-500	Pontifical Catholic University of Chile	Chile
401-500	Chang Gung University	Taiwan
401-500	China University of Geosciences, Wuhan	China
401-500	Chongqing University	China
401-500	City University of New York	United States
401-500	East China Normal University	China
401-500	École Polytechnique	France
401-500	Federal University of Minas Gerais	Brazil
401-500	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil
401-500	Flinders University	Australia
401-500	Florida International University	United States
401-500	Harbin Engineering University	China
401-500	Heriot-Watt University	United Kingdom
401-500	Huazhong Agricultural University	China
401-500	Indian Institute of Science	India
401-500	Istanbul University	Turkey
401-500	Jagiellonian University	Poland
401-500	Kansas State University	United States
401-500	Kaohsiung Medical University	Taiwan
401-500	Kent State University	United States
401-500	Kobe University	Japan
401-500	Medical University of Innsbruck	Austria
401-500	Mines ParisTech	France
401-500	Mississippi State University	United States
401-500	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	Russia
401-500	Nanjing Medical University	China
401-500	Nanjing Tech University	China
401-500	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China
401-500	Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology	China
401-500	National Technical University of Athens	Greece
401-500	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan
401-500	National University of Ireland, Galway	Ireland
401-500	Northeastern University	China
401-500	Novosibirsk State University	Russia
401-500	Oklahoma State University	United States
401-500	Peking Union Medical College	China
401-500	Pohang University of Science and Technology	South Korea
401-500	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain
401-500	Rush University	United States
401-500	Saint Louis University	United States
401-500	Shanghai University	China
401-500	St George's, University of London	United Kingdom
401-500	Stellenbosch University	South Africa
401-500	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden
401-500	Technical University of Darmstadt	Germany
401-500	Texas Tech University	United States
401-500	The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	United States
401-500	Tokushima University	Japan
401-500	Thomas Jefferson University	United States
401-500	Tokyo University of Science	Japan
401-500	Umeå University	Sweden
401-500	State University of New York	United States
401-500	University College Cork	Ireland
401-500	University of Aveiro	Portugal
401-500	University of Bath	United Kingdom
401-500	University of Bayreuth	Germany
401-500	University of Bremen	Germany
401-500	University of Canterbury	New Zealand
401-500	University of Eastern Finland	Finland
401-500	University of Ferrara	Italy
401-500	University of Graz	Austria
401-500	University of Halle-Wittenberg	Germany
401-500	University of Hannover	Germany
401-500	University of Kent	United Kingdom
401-500	University of Konstanz	Germany
401-500	University of Ljubljana	Slovenia
401-500	University of Maine	United States
401-500	University of Milan	Italy
401-500	University of Minho	Portugal
401-500	University of Montana	United States
401-500	University of New Hampshire	United States
401-500	University of Oklahoma	United States
401-500	University of Palermo	Italy
401-500	University of Parma	Italy
401-500	University of Pretoria	South Africa
401-500	University of Rostock	Germany
401-500	University of Santiago de Compostela	Spain
401-500	University of Science and Technology Beijing	China
401-500	University of Science, Malaysia	Malaysia
401-500	University of Ulsan	South Korea
401-500	University of Valencia	Spain
401-500	University of Western Sydney	Australia
401-500	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	United States
401-500	University of Wyoming	United States
401-500	Utah State University	United States
401-500	Vita-Salute San Raffaele University	Italy
401-500	Waseda University	Japan
401-500	Wayne State University	United States
401-500	West Virginia University	United States