Academic Ranking of World Universities

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranks the world's top colleges and universities. Every year, this list shows you which universities achieved high scores in the global rankings, helping students just like you decide where they ought to study if they want to attend one of the top universities in the world.

Best Universities According to Academic Ranking of World Universities

If the rank is within a range, we will show the highest place only.

Universities Location 2026 2025 2024
Harvard University Cambridge, United States 1 1 1
Harvard Business School Online Boston, United States 1 - -
Harvard Medical School Online Boston, United States 1 1 1
Stanford University Stanford, United States 2 2 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, United States 3 3 3
University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom 4 4 4
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, United States 5 5 5
Princeton University Princeton, United States 6 7 7
University of Oxford Oxford, United Kingdom 7 6 6
Columbia University New York City, United States 8 8 8
University of Chicago Chicago, United States 9 10 10
California Institute of Technology - Caltech Pasadena, United States 10 9 8
Yale University New Haven, United States 11 11 11
Cornell University Ithaca, United States 12 12 12
Paris-Saclay University Bures-sur-Yvette, France 13 13 12
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, United States 14 14 14
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, United States 14 16 15
University of Washington Seattle, United States 16 17 18
UCL London, United Kingdom 17 14 16
Tsinghua University Beijing, China 18 18 22
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Switzerland 19 22 21
University of California, San Diego San Diego, United States 20 20 18
University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, United States 21 21 20
Peking University Beijing, China 22 23 24

How Academic Ranking of World Universities are Made?

The full ranking is available on Academic Ranking of World Universities .

Academic Ranking of World Universities offered by Shanghai Jiao Tong University focuses on the number of award-winning scientists, most cited researchers from the listed universities, and their contribution to the scientific community. ARWU also considers the number of published articles from international universities and the performance of the universities analysed.

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