ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019 revealed

Study International Staff

15 Aug 2019

Academic World University Ranking 2019 — Who came out on top in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019? Source: Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz/Unsplash

The 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was released today by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

Since 2003, ARWU has presented the global Top 500 universities annually based on transparent methodology and objective third-party data. It has been recognised as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy university league table on offer. This year, the Academic Ranking of World Universities named the best 1000 universities on the globe.

Harvard University tops the list for the 17^th consecutive year, while Stanford and the University of Cambridge remain at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively.

Completing the top 10 universities are MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Oxford, Columbia, Caltech and Chicago. In Continental Europe, ETH Zurich (19^th) continues to be the best ranked university, with the University of Copenhagen (26^th) taking second place.

The University of Tokyo (25^th) and Kyoto University (32^nd) keep their leading positions in Asia, while Tsinghua University (43^rd) comes in third among Asian universities. The University of Melbourne (41^st) tops other universities in the Oceania region.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (82^nd) and the University of New South Wales (94^th) make their debut in the Top 100 this year. On top of this, Shenzhen University and another 13 universities enter into the Top 500 for the first time, with more than 50 universities entering the Top 1000 list for the very first time in 2019.

Harvard tops the list for the 17th year in the Academic World University Rankings 2019. Source: Shutterstock

TOP 50 Universities in Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019

Rank 2019	Rank 2018	Institution	Country
1	1	Harvard University	United States
2	2	Stanford University	United States
3	3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
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	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
11	12	Yale University	United States
13	12	Cornell University	United States
14	14	University of Washington	United States
15	17	University College London	United Kingdom
16	18	Johns Hopkins University	United States
17	16	University of Pennsylvania	United States
18	15	University of California, San Diego	United States
19	19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
20	21	University of California, San Francisco	United States
20	27	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
22	20	Washington University in St. Louis	United States
23	24	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
24	23	University of Toronto	Canada
25	22	The University of Tokyo	Japan
26	29	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
27	28	University of Wisconsin – Madison	United States
28	26	Duke University	United States
29	25	Northwestern University	United States
30	32	New York University	United States
31	32	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
32	35	Kyoto University	Japan
33	34	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom
33	30	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
35	30	Rockefeller University	United States
35	43	University of British Columbia	Canada
37	42	University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11)	France
38	44	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
38	38	University of Colorado at Boulder	United States
38	41	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
41	38	The University of Melbourne	Australia
41	37	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	United States
43	45	Tsinghua University	China
44	36	Sorbonne University	France
45	40	The University of Texas at Austin	United States
46	51	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
47	47	Heidelberg University	Germany
48	46	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
49	48	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	United States
49	51	Utrecht University	Netherlands

Universities from the United States dominate this year’s list, with eight institutions among the Top 10, 45 among the Top 100, 137 among the Top 500 and 206 among the Top 1000. China has 154 universities ranked in Top 1000, among which 66 are Top 500 and four are Top 100. The UK has 61 Top 1000 universities, with 36 also listed in the Top 500, and eight listed in the Top 100.

The complete Academic Ranking of World Universities and its detailed methodologies can be found on ShanghaiRanking’s website.