Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
Shanghai Ranking 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.
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 Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Shanghai Ranking Consultancy is a fully independent organization on higher education intelligence and not legally subordinated to any universities or government agencies.
Ranking Methodology:
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 Analytics, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university.
In total More than 1200 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published.
ARWU Field: ARWU classify and ranks the universities/Institutions in the fields of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Engineering / Technology and Computer Sciences, Life and Agriculture Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, Social Sciences
Top 10 Universities in the World: 2016
Rank#1:: Harvard University
Rank#2:: Stanford University
Rank#3:: University of California, Berkeley
Rank#4:: University of Cambridge
Rank#5:: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Rank#6:: Princeton University
Rank#7:: University of Oxford
Rank#8:: California Institute of Technology
Rank#9:: Columbia University
Rank#10:: University of Chicago
Indian Universities Listed in the Top 500 World Universities: 2016
Rank#301-400:: Indian Institute of Science
For more information on ranking procedure, other university rankings and additional details please follow the “ARWU Best Universities-2016” button below.
About Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
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 Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Shanghai Ranking Consultancy is a fully independent organization on higher education intelligence and not legally subordinated to any universities or government agencies.
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