Shanghai Ranking 2016: five subject rankings results announced

Academic Ranking of World Universities reveals its five 2016 subject ranking league tables, known as the ARWU-FIELD ranking

September 7 2016

By Carly Minsky

ShanghaiRanking Consultancy has released the top universities in five broad subject fields, as part of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2016.

The ARWU-FIELD 2016 ranks the best universities for Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences, Life and Agriculture Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and Social Sciences.

Harvard University takes the top spot in three of the five rankings, which are all heavily dominated by American universities in the highest positions.

Although US and UK universities together take between 30 and 60 per cent of each ranking, this year’s results show an increasing presence of Chinese universities.

China overtakes the UK to become the second most represented country in both the natural sciences and the engineering rankings.

Other prominent countries with a high number of universities across the five rankings are Germany, Canada and Australia.

German universities hold a significant proportion of the positions in the naturalsciences, life sciences and medicine rankings, and Canada is particularly well-represented in the social sciences ranking.

Universities in Japan, Switzerland, Singapore and Saudi Arabia feature in the top 10 of some of the rankings, alongside the usual suspects in the UK, and the United States.

See full results for ARWU Shanghai Ranking subject tables 2016

-Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016: main results
-Full results for natural sciences and mathematics
-Full results for life and agriculture sciences
-Full results for engineering, technology and computer sciences
-Full results for clinical medicine and pharmacy
-Full results for social sciences

The ARWU-FIELD rankings have been published annually by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy since 2007.

For each of the five broad subjects, 200 universities are ranked using indicators which include the number of Nobel prize-winning alumni, the number of highly cited researchers and the percentage of articles published in top journals.

Results of ShanghaiRanking’s ARWU-FIELD differ significantly from the Times Higher Education’s subject rankings.

See the top 10 for each of the ARWU-FIELD subjects 2016 below, and click the links for the full list of 200 universities in each subject.

ARWU-FIELD 2016: Natural Sciences and Mathematics

World Rank	Institution	Country
1	University of California, Berkeley	USA
2	Stanford University	USA
3	Princeton University	USA
4	Harvard University	USA
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
6	California Institute of Technology	USA
7	University of Cambridge	UK
8	The University of Tokyo	Japan
9	ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
10	University of California, Los Angeles	USA

ARWU-FIELD 2016: Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences

World Rank	Institution	Country
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
2	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
3	Stanford University	USA
4	Tsinghua University	China
5	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
6	National University of Singapore	Singapore
7	The Imperial College London	UK
8	University of California, Berkeley	USA
9	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
10	University of Texas at Austin	USA

ARWU-FIELD 2016: Life and Agriculture Sciences

World Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University	USA
2	University of Cambridge	UK
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
4	Stanford University	USA
5	University of California, San Francisco	USA
6	University of Washington	USA
7	University of California, Berkeley	USA
8	Yale University	USA
9	University College London	UK
10	University of Oxford	UK

ARWU-FIELD 2016: Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy

World Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University	USA
2	University of Washington	USA
3	Stanford University	USA
4	University of Cambridge	UK
5	Johns Hopkins University	USA
6	University of California, San Francisco	USA
7	Columbia University	USA
8	University College London	UK
9	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	USA
10	Yale University	USA

ARWU-FIELD 2016: Social Sciences

World Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University	USA
2	University of Chicago	USA
3	University of California, Berkeley	USA
4	Princeton University	USA
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
6	Columbia University	USA
7	Stanford University	USA
8	London School of Economics and Political Science	UK
9	New York University	USA
10	University of Oxford	UK