2012 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	Alumni	Award	HiCi	N&S	PUB	PCP
1	Harvard University Harvard University United States	1	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	71.1
2	Stanford University Stanford University United States	2	72.8	38.0	79.7	88.9	71.6	69.6	49.2
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States	3	71.8	69.0	83.2	68.2	69.2	61.6	64.1
4	University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley United States	4	71.6	67.5	80.9	69.7	68.5	68.1	53.4
5	University of Cambridge University of Cambridge United Kingdom	1	69.8	80.3	97.2	54.6	55.0	65.9	52.1
6	California Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology United States	5	64.1	48.5	68.8	57.4	64.8	46.2	100.0
7	Princeton University Princeton University United States	6	62.1	52.3	91.3	62.2	44.4	44.5	66.3
8	Columbia University Columbia University United States	7	60.1	64.2	68.0	57.4	51.2	67.8	31.0
9	University of Chicago University of Chicago United States	8	57.2	61.8	85.3	52.2	40.6	49.2	38.9
10	University of Oxford University of Oxford United Kingdom	2	56.1	51.2	56.6	48.9	52.1	68.9	40.3
11	Yale University Yale University United States	9	54.8	45.7	45.5	59.7	58.0	62.3	35.9
12	University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles United States	10	52.2	27.7	43.4	57.7	51.5	72.2	30.1
13	Cornell University Cornell University United States	11	50.8	38.7	51.3	54.9	47.0	55.5	37.2
14	University of Pennsylvania University of Pennsylvania United States	12	50.5	33.4	34.9	57.9	49.3	67.9	37.0
15	University of California, San Diego University of California, San Diego United States	13	49.6	20.3	36.6	60.3	52.8	64.0	34.1
16	University of Washington University of Washington United States	14	48.4	22.4	32.5	55.1	51.2	71.3	27.2
17	The Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University United States	15	47.4	39.9	34.6	42.2	49.9	69.5	28.3
18	University of California, San Francisco University of California, San Francisco United States	16	46.6	0.0	41.2	53.7	54.1	60.6	33.1
19	University of Wisconsin - Madison University of Wisconsin - Madison United States	17	45.4	32.5	35.9	52.1	39.8	64.2	24.7
20	The University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Japan	1	43.8	32.5	14.6	42.5	52.0	73.7	27.7
21	University College London University College London United Kingdom	3	43.7	29.7	30.4	39.6	44.6	67.1	30.8
22	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor University of Michigan - Ann Arbor United States	18	43.4	33.9	0.0	60.5	44.6	76.2	24.8
23	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland	1	43.3	31.2	36.6	36.7	44.6	53.9	45.6
24	The Imperial College of Science The Imperial College of Science United Kingdom	4	42.4	15.3	36.9	41.6	39.6	62.5	35.6
25	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign United States	19	41.9	31.6	37.4	43.3	36.9	56.1	27.8
26	Kyoto University Kyoto University Japan	2	41.3	31.2	35.1	38.9	36.4	63.0	23.0
27	New York University New York University United States	20	40.8	29.7	32.9	42.2	41.0	55.7	22.6
27	University of Toronto University of Toronto Canada	1	40.8	21.0	17.7	39.0	38.4	79.1	27.0
29	University of Minnesota University of Minnesota United States	21	39.7	27.7	16.8	51.1	33.5	65.0	24.9
30	Northwestern University Northwestern University United States	22	38.8	16.3	22.8	48.5	37.9	58.1	26.4

* Institutions within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

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