ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2022 Press Release

Monday, August 15, 2022

From: Shanghai, People's Republic of China

The 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world's top universities annually based on transparent methodology and objective third-party data. It has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy one. This year, more than 2500 institutions were scrutinized, and the best 1000 universities in the world are published.

Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 20th year. Stanford University remains at the No. 2 seat. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rises one position to the No. 3. Other Top 10 universities are Cambridge (4th), Berkeley (5th), Princeton (6th), Oxford (7th), Columbia (8th), Caltech (9th), and Chicago (10th).

In Continental Europe, Paris-Saclay University (16th) remains at the best position, followed by ETH Zurich (20th). Among Asian universities, The University of Tokyo (24th) keeps its leading position. Tsinghua University (26th) moves up two position, holding on to the second-best place in Asia. The University of Melbourne (32th) tops of other universities in Oceania for twelve consecutive years since 2011.

Four universities move up into the Top 50. Zhejiang University from Chinese Mainland ranked 36th, up from 52st last year. The University of Queensland from Australia rises four places to 47th. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (49th) and University of Maryland, College Park (50th) from United States both rise six places. Seven universities enter into the Top 100 list, including University of Pittsburgh (82th) and Brown University (99th) from United States, Erasmus University Rotterdam (87th) from Netherlands, University of Alberta (92th) from Canada, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (96th) from Chinese Mainland, The University of Hong Kong (96th) from China-Hong Kong, and Seoul National University (98th) from South Korea. There are eight new entrants appearing on the Top 500 list, 25 universities enter into Top 1000 for the first time.

TOP 100 Universities in ARWU 2022

2022 Rank	2021 Rank	Institution	Country/Region
1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	2	Stanford University	United States
3	4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
4	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
5	5	University of California, Berkeley	United States
6	6	Princeton University	United States
7	7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
8	8	Columbia University	United States
9	9	California Institute of Technology	United States
10	10	University of Chicago	United States
11	11	Yale University	United States
12	12	Cornell University	United States
13	14	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
14	16	Johns Hopkins University	United States
15	15	University of Pennsylvania	United States
16	13	Paris-Saclay University	France
17	19	University of Washington	United States
18	17	University College London	United Kingdom
19	20	University of California, San Francisco	United States
20	21	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
21	18	University of California, San Diego	United States
22	22	University of Toronto	Canada
23	25	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
24	24	The University of Tokyo	Japan
25	27	New York University	United States
26	28	Tsinghua University	China
27	23	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
28	26	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
29	29	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
30	34	Northwestern University	United States
31	32	Duke University	United States
32	33	The University of Melbourne	Australia
33	31	University of Wisconsin - Madison	United States
34	45	Peking University	China
35	38	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
36	52	Zhejiang University	China
37	41	The University of Texas at Austin	United States
38	35	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
39	30	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
40	38	PSL University	France
41	42	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
41	37	Kyoto University	Japan
43	35	Sorbonne University	France
44	42	Rockefeller University	United States
44	42	University of British Columbia	Canada
44	40	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States
47	51	The University of Queensland	Australia
48	47	King's College London	United Kingdom
49	55	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
50	56	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
51	46	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States
52	48	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	United States
53	61	University of Southern California	United States
54	59	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
54	50	Utrecht University	Netherlands
56	52	Technical University of Munich	Germany
57	57	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
57	48	University of Munich	Germany
59	54	University of Zurich	Switzerland
60	69	University of Sydney	Australia
61	70	University of California, Irvine	United States
62	60	University of Geneva	Switzerland
62	63	University of Science and Technology of China	China
64	65	The University of New South Wales	Australia
64	65	Vanderbilt University	United States
66	64	University of Groningen	Netherlands
67	77	Fudan University	China
67	61	University of Oslo	Norway
69	71	Aarhus University	Denmark
70	57	Heidelberg University	Germany
71	75	National University of Singapore	Singapore
71	67	The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center	United States
73	67	McGill University	Canada
74	71	Ghent University	Belgium
75	80	Monash University	Australia
76	84	University of Bonn	Germany
77	90	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
78	73	Université Paris Cité	France
79	89	Sun Yat-sen University	China
79	76	The Australian National University	Australia
81	78	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
82	101-150	University of Pittsburgh	United States
83	86	Purdue University - West Lafayette	United States
83	94	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
83	87	University of Basel	Switzerland
83	92	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
87	101-150	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
88	81	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
89	78	Uppsala University	Sweden
90	92	McMaster University	Canada
90	74	Stockholm University	Sweden
92	101-150	University of Alberta	Canada
92	82	University of Helsinki	Finland
94	97	University of Florida	United States
95	87	KU Leuven	Belgium
96	101-150	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
96	101-150	The University of Hong Kong	China-Hong Kong
98	101-150	Seoul National University	South Korea
99	101-150	Brown University	United States
99	96	The University of Western Australia	Australia

Universities from the United States dominate this year’s Top 1000 list with 39 universities among the Top 100, 127 among the Top 500, and 196 among the Top 1000. The United Kingdom has 63 Top 1000 universities, and 38 of them are listed in the Top 500, 8 are listed in the Top 100.

Germany has four universities ranked in the Top 100, namely Technical University of Munich (TUM, 56th), the University of Munich (LMU Munich, 57th),Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, 70th), and University of Bonn (Bonn, 76th). It is worth mentioning that LMU Munich, TUM, and Heidelberg have been selected as Universities of Excellence under the Excellence Initiative since 2006/2007, and Bonn was selected first time as Universities of Excellence in 2019.

French universities maintain their competitive performance in this year’s league table, 28 of which are ranked in the Top 1000, 16 universities are ranked in the Top 500. Under the Initiatives of Excellence (Initiatives D’Excellence), Paris-Saclay (16th) , PSL (40th), Sorbonne (43th), and Université Paris Cité (78th) hold four positions in the Top 100.

China has 186 universities ranked in the Top 1000, including 83 Top 500 universities, 9 Top 100 universities. The number of universities from Chinese Mainland continues to grow. Most of the listed universities are supported by the “Double World-Class Project” (World-Class Universities and World-Class Subjects Project).

The complete list and detailed methodologies can be found at ShanghaiRanking’s website www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2022.

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU): Starting from 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world's top universities annually based on a set of objective indicators and third-party data. ARWU has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy league table. 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.

ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization dedicating to research on higher education intelligence and consultation. It has been the official publisher of the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2009.

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