2003 Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis. Since 2009 the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been published and copyrighted by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization on higher education intelligence and not legally subordinated to any universities or government agencies. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index in the Web of Science, and per capita performance of a university. More than 2500 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 are published.

Academic Ranking of World Universities

500 Institutions

World Rank	Institution	National/Regional Rank	Total Score
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	1	100.0
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	2	83.5
3	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	3	76.3
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	4	74.0
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	1	73.4
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	5	70.6
7	Princeton University Princeton University United States	6	62.5
8	Yale University Yale University United States	7	61.1
9	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	2	59.5
10	Columbia University Columbia University United States	8	59.1
11	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	9	57.0
12	Cornell University Cornell University United States	10	56.9
13	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	11	55.3
14	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	12	54.4
15	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	13	53.8
16	University of Washington University of Washington United States	14	50.3
17	The Imperial College of Science The Imperial College of Science United Kingdom	3	50.1
18	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	15	50.0
19	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	1	49.4
20	University College London University College London United Kingdom	4	48.9
21	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor University of Michigan - Ann Arbor United States	16	48.8
22	Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis United States	17	47.8
23	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	1	45.8
24	The Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University United States	18	45.7
25	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	1	45.6
26	University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara United States	19	45.3
27	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	20	45.0
28	Rockefeller University Rockefeller University United States	21	44.8
29	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	22	44.4
30	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	2	43.6

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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