ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019 results announced

Top universities in the world featured in the ShanghaiRanking ARWU league table for 2019

Seeta Bhardwa

Editor, THE Student

August 15 2019

ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2019

For the 17th year running, Harvard University has topped the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by consultancy ShanghaiRanking.

The top three in the annual ranking remains unchanged from last year, with California Institute of Technology (ninth), and the University of Chicago (10th).

The US has the highest number of institutions in the top 100 with 45 universities present. The second most represented country in the top 100 is the UK with eight universities.

Kyoto University (32nd) are the highest ranked Asian universities.

The ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is an independent organisation dedicated to research on higher education intelligence and consultations. It has been the official publisher of the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2009.

Top five universities in the 2019 ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities

1. Harvard University

Harvard University is the oldest university in the US, having been formed in 1636, and is considered one of the most prestigious in the world.

The museums affiliated with the institution hold more than 28 million works of art, artefacts, specimens and instruments.

Harvard’s alumni include eight US presidents, several foreign heads of state and 62 living billionaires. Some 130 Nobel laureates, 18 Fields Medallists, and 13 Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university as students or staff.

2. Stanford University

Stanford University is known for nurturing an entrepreneurial spirit among its students, a legacy of its founders, Jane and Leland Stanford. It is also renowned for its relationship with Silicon Valley.

The 8,000-acre campus is located in California’s Bay Area. There are more than 625 student associations at the university, including the student newspaper, The Stanford Daily.

3. University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is the only UK university to feature in the top five. Cambridge affiliates have won some 90 Nobel prizes, and are represented in every category.

The list of high-achieving alumni from the institution is endless, but prominent among them are Stephen Hawking, David Attenborough, Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith.

4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Researchers at this specialist science and technology institution invented one of the first large-scale high-speed computers in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1951. The Whirlwind I is still on display at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum.

Some 25,800 active companies have been started or co-founded by living MIT alumni, showing just how much impact MIT has had on innovation.

5. University of California, Berkeley

Rounding off the top five is the University of California, Berkeley. The university is not without its unusual traditions, and students are expected to roll down 4.0 Hill on campus to get good grades. However, if you step on the Berkeley seal nearby, it has been said that you will be cursed for the year.

The tradition obviously works as Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers include 91 Nobel laureates. The institution’s alumni have also achieved 13 Fields Medals, 23 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, 14 Pulitzer Prizes and 117 Olympic gold medals.

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2019 results: top 500 universities

ARWU 2019 rank	Institution	Country/Region
1	Harvard University	United States
2	Stanford University	United States
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States
5	University of California, Berkeley	United States
6	Princeton University	United States
7	University of Oxford	United Kingdom
8	Columbia University	United States
9	California Institute of Technology	United States
10	University of Chicago	United States
=11	University of California, Los Angeles	United States
=11	Yale University	United States
13	Cornell University	United States
14	University of Washington	United States
15	UCL	United Kingdom
16	Johns Hopkins University	United States
17	University of Pennsylvania	United Kingdom
18	University of California, San Diego	United States
19	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
=20	University of California, San Francisco	United States
=20	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States
22	Washington University in St Louis	United States
23	Imperial College London	United Kingdom
24	University of Toronto	Canada
25	The University of Tokyo	Japan
26	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
27	University of Wisconsin	United States
28	Duke University	United States
29	Western University	United States
30	York University	United States
31	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
32	Kyoto University	Japan
=33	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
=33	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
=35	The Rockefeller University	United States
=35	University of British Columbia	Canada
37	Paris-Sud University (Paris 11)	France
=38	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
=38	University of Colorado Boulder	United States
=38	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States
=41	University of Melbourne	Australia
=41	University of Minnesota	United States
43	Tsinghua University	China
44	Sorbonne University	France
45	University of Texas at Austin	United States
46	University of Maryland, College Park	United States
47	Heidelberg University	Germany
48	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States
=49	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	United States
=49	Utrecht University	Netherlands
51	King’s College London	United Kingdom
52	LMU Munich	Germany
53	Peking University	China
54	University of Queensland	Australia
=55	University of Southern California	United States
=55	Vanderbilt University	United States
57	Technical University of Munich	Germany
58	University of Geneva	Switzerland
59	University of Oslo	Norway
60	Aarhus University	Denmark
61	University of Zurich	Switzerland
62	Uppsala University	Sweden
63	University of Helsinki	Finland
64	University of Bristol	United Kingdom
65	University of Groningen	Netherlands
66	Ghent University	Belgium
67	National University of Singapore	Singapore
=68	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands
=68	The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	United States
=70	University of Bonn	Germany
=70	Zhejiang University	China
72	Purdue University	United States
=73	Monash University	Canada
=73	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore	Singapore
=73	Stockholm University	Sweden
=76	Boston University	United States
=76	Australian National University	Australia
78	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
79	École Normale Supérieure	France
=80	University of California, Irvine	United States
=80	University of Sydney	Australia
=82	Leiden University	Netherlands
=82	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China
84	Brown University	United States
=85	KU Leuven	Belgium
=85	Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
=87	Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
=87	University of Basel	Switzerland
=89	University of Pittsburgh	United States
=90	McGill University	Canada
=90	McMaster University	Canada
=90	Nagoya University	Japan
=90	University of California, Davis	United States
94	UNSW Sydney	Australia
=95	Carnegie Mellon University	United States
=95	Rice University	United States
=95	University of Florida	United States
98	Penn State (Main campus)	United States
99	University of Western Australia	Australia
100	Ohio State University (Main campus)	United States
101-150	Aix-Marseille University	France
101-150	Arizona State University	United States
101-150	Baylor College of Medicine	United States
101-150	Cardiff University	United Kingdom
101-150	Case Western Reserve University	United Kingdom
101-150	Emory University	United States
101-150	Fudan University	China
101-150	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States
101-150	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China
101-150	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	United States
101-150	Indiana University (Bloomington)	United States
101-150	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
101-150	Lund University	Sweden
101-150	Mayo Medical School	United States
101-150	Michigan State University	United States
101-150	Norwegian University of Science and Technology	Norway
101-150	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
101-150	Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	United States
101-150	Seoul National University	South Korea
101-150	Sun Yat-sen University	China
101-150	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark
101-150	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
101-150	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
101-150	University of Adelaide	Australia
101-150	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
101-150	University of Sheffield	United Kingdom
101-150	Tohoku University	Japan
101-150	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
101-150	Grenoble Alpes University	France
101-150	University of Alberta	Canada
101-150	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
101-150	University of Arizona	United States
101-150	University of Bern	Switzerland
101-150	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom
101-150	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States
101-150	Goethe University Frankfurt	Germany
101-150	University of Freiburg	Germany
101-150	University of Göttingen	Germany
101-150	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom
101-150	University of São Paulo	Brazil
101-150	University of Science and Technology of China	China
101-150	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
101-150	University of Strasbourg	France
101-150	University of Utah	United States
101-150	University of Warwick	United Kingdom
101-150	Paris Diderot University – Paris 7	France
101-150	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
101-150	Weizmann Institute of Science	Israel
151-200	Université Catholique de Louvain	Belgium
151-200	Central South University	China
151-200	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands
151-200	Harbin Institute of Technology	China
151-200	Hokkaido University	Japan
151-200	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia
151-200	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom
151-200	Nanjing University	China
151-200	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
151-200	Osaka University	Japan
151-200	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom
151-200	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy
151-200	Sichuan University	China
151-200	Soochow University	China
151-300	Southeast University	China
151-200	Sungkyunkwan University	South Korea
151-200	Tel Aviv University	Israel
151-200	Texas A&M University	United States
151-200	University of Calgary	Canada
151-200	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom
151-200	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
151-200	Tufts University	United States
151-200	Université Libre de Bruxelles	Belgium
151-200	University of Barcelona	Spain
151-200	University of California, Riverside	United States
151-200	University of Cologne	Germany
151-200	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China
151-200	University of Exeter	United Kingdom
151-200	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
151-200	University of Lausanne	Switzerland
151-200	University of Lisbon	Portugal
151-200	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States
151-200	University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester	United States
151-200	University of Milan	Italy
151-200	University of Missouri-Columbia	United States
151-200	Montpellier University	France
151-200	University of Montreal	Canada
151-200	University of Münster	Germany
151-200	University of Ottawa	Canada
151-200	Paris Descartes University	France
151-200	University of Pisa	Italy
151-200	University of Rochester	United States
151-200	University of Sussex	United Kingdom
151-200	University of Tübingen	Germany
151-200	University of Vienna	Austria
151-200	University of Virginia (Main campus)	United States
151-200	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands
151-200	University of Waterloo	Canada
151-200	Wuhan University	China
151-200	Xi’an Jiaotong University	China
201-300	Aalborg University	Denmark
201-300	University of Barcelona	Spain
201-300	Beihang University	China
201-300	Beijing Normal University	China
201-300	Charles University in Prague	Czech
201-300	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
201-300	Claude Bernard University Lyon 1	France
201-300	Colorado State University	United States
201-300	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain
201-300	Curtin University	Australia
201-300	Dalhousie University	Canada
201-300	Dalian University of Technology	China
201-300	Deakin University	Australia
201-300	Durham University	United Kingdom
201-300	Florida State University	United States
201-300	George Mason University	United States
201-300	Iowa State University	United States
201-300	James Cook University	Australia
201-300	Jilin University	China
201-300	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
201-300	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)	Saudi Arabia
201-300	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	South Korea
201-300	Korea University	South Korea
201-300	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden
201-300	Kyushu University	Japan
201-300	Laval University	Canada
201-300	London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom
201-300	Maastricht University	Netherlands
201-300	Macquarie University	Australia
201-300	Medical University of Vienna	Austria
201-300	Nankai University	China
201-300	National Autonomous University of Mexico	Mexico
201-300	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
201-300	North Carolina State University
201-300	Northeastern University	United States
201-300	Oregon Health and Science University	United States
201-300	Oregon State University	United States
201-300	Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3)	France
201-300	Polytechnic University of Milan	Italy
201-300	RWTH Aachen University	Germany
201-300	Shandong University	China
201-300	South China University of Technology	China
201-300	Stony Brook University	United States
201-300	George Washington University	United States
201-300	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
201-300	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
201-300	University of Auckland	New Zealand
201-300	University of Georgia	United States
201-300	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	United States
201-300	Tianjin University	China
201-300	Tongji University	China
201-300	TU Dresden	Germany
201-300	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom
201-300	University of Alabama at Birmingham	United States
201-300	University of Antwerp	Belgium
201-300	University of Bologna	Italy
201-300	University of Bordeaux	France
201-300	University of Buenos Aires	Argentina
201-300	University of Cape Town	South Africa
201-300	University of Connecticut	United States
201-300	University of Delaware	United States
201-300	University of Düsseldorf	Germany
201-300	University of East Anglia	United Kingdom
201-300	University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Germany
201-300	University of Florence	Italy
201-300	University of Granada	Spain
201-300	University of Hamburg	Germany
201-300	University of Hawai’i at Mānoa	United States
201-300	University of Houston	United States
201-300	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States
201-300	University of Innsbruck	Austria
201-300	University of Iowa	United States
201-300	University of Kansas	United States
201-300	University of Kiel	Germany
201-300	Leipzig University	Germany
201-300	University of Liège	Belgium
201-300	Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz	Germany
201-300	University of Maryland, Baltimore	United States
201-300	University of Miami	United States
201-300	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	United States
201-300	University of Padua	Italy
201-300	University of South Florida	United States
201-300	University of Tasmania	Australia
201-300	University of Technology Sydney	Australia
201-300	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	United States
201-300	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
201-300	University of Toulouse 1	France
201-300	University of Tsukuba	Japan
201-300	University of Turin	Italy
201-300	University of Ulm	Germany
201-300	University of Valencia	Spain
201-300	University of Wollongong	Australia
201-300	University of Würzburg	Germany
201-300	Virginia Commonwealth University	United States
201-300	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States
201-300	Vrije Universiteit Brussel	Belgium
201-300	Western University	Canada
201-300	Xiamen University	China
201-300	Yeshiva University	United States
201-300	Yonsei University	South Korea
301-400	Aalto University	Finland
301-400	Autonomous University of Madrid	Spain
301-400	Beijing Institute of Technology	China
301-400	Brandeis University	United States
301-400	Cairo University	Egypt
301-400	Capital Medical University	China
301-400	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden
301-400	China Agricultural University	China
301-400	China Medical University, Taiwan	Taiwan
301-400	Chongqing University	China
301-400	Dartmouth College	United States
301-400	Drexel University	United States
301-400	East China University of Science and Technology	China
301-400	École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	France
301-400	École Polytechnique	France
301-400	Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
301-400	ESPCI ParisTech	France
301-400	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
301-400	Georgetown University	United States
301-400	Griffith University	Australia
301-400	Hannover Medical School	Germany
301-400	Hanyang University	South Korea
301-400	Hunan University	China
301-400	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	United States
301-400	Jagiellonian University	Poland
301-400	Kansas State University	United States
301-400	Keio University	Japan
301-400	Kyung Hee University	South Korea
301-400	La Trobe University	Australia
301-400	Lancaster University	United Kingdom
301-400	Lanzhou University	China
301-400	Linköping University	Sweden
301-400	Louisiana State University	United States
301-400	Nanjing University of Science and Technology	China
301-400	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	Greece
301-400	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan
301-400	Northwestern Polytechnical University	China
301-400	Paris Dauphine University	France
301-400	Pompeu Fabra University	Spain
301-400	Queen’s University	Canada
301-400	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom
301-400	Queensland University of Technology	Australia
301-400	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	United States
301-400	RMIT University	Australia
301-400	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia
301-400	Shenzhen University	China
301-400	Simon Fraser University	Canada
301-400	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences	Sweden
301-400	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia
301-400	Technical University of Berlin	Germany
301-400	Temple University	United States
301-400	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
301-400	University of New Mexico (Main campus)	United States
301-400	University of Reading	United Kingdom
301-400	University of Texas at Dallas	United States
301-400	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	United States
301-400	Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)	South Korea
301-400	São Paulo State University (UNESP)	Brazil
301-400	University at Buffalo	United States
301-400	University College Dublin	Ireland
301-400	University of Bergen	Norway
301-400	Ruhr University Bochum	Germany
301-400	University of Campinas	Brazil
301-400	University of Central Florida	United States
301-400	University of Cincinnati	United States
301-400	University of Colorado Denver	United States
301-400	University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
301-400	University of Guelph	Canada
301-400	University of Jena	Germany
301-400	University of Kentucky	United States
301-400	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
301-400	University of Lille	France
301-400	University of Lorraine	France
301-400	University of Malaya	Malaysia
301-400	University of Manitoba	Canada
301-400	University of Naples Federico II	Italy
301-400	University of Notre Dame	United States
301-400	University of Oregon	United States
301-400	University of Otago	New Zealand
301-400	University of Oulu	Finland
301-400	University of Pavia	Italy
301-400	University of Porto	Portugal
301-400	University of Saskatchewan	Canada
301-400	University of Science and Technology Beijing	China
301-400	University of South Carolina-Columbia	United States
301-400	University of Southern Denmark	Denmark
301-400	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom
301-400	University of Stuttgart	Germany
301-400	University of Surrey	United Kingdom
301-400	University of Tartu	Estonia
301-400	University of Tehran	Iran
301-400	University of Turku	Finland
301-400	University of Vermont	United States
301-400	University of Victoria	Canada
301-400	Western Sydney University	Australia
301-400	University of York	United Kingdom
301-400	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
301-400	Vienna University of Technology	Austria
301-400	Washington State University	United States
301-400	Wuhan University of Technology	China
401-500	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	Greece
401-500	Bar-Ilan University	Israel
401-500	Beijing University of Chemical Technology	China
401-500	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Israel
401-500	Boston College	United States
401-500	Brigham Young University	United States
401-500	Catholic University of the Sacred Heart	Italy
401-500	Chiba University	Japan
401-500	China University of Geosciences, Wuhan	China
401-500	City University of New York	United States
401-500	Clemson University	United States
401-500	CUNY Graduate School and University Center	United States
401-500	Federal University of Minas Gerais	Brazil
401-500	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul	Brazil
401-500	Flinders University	Australia
401-500	Florida International University	United States
401-500	Fuzhou University	CHina
401-500	Harbin Engineering University	China
401-500	Huazhong Agricultural University	China
401-500	Indian Institute of Science	India
401-500	Istanbul University	Turkey
401-500	Jiangsu University	China
401-500	Jinan University	China
401-500	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia
401-500	Kobe University	Japan
401-500	Kyungpook National University	South Korea
401-500	Mahidol University	Thailand
401-500	Medical University of Innsbruck	Austria
401-500	Medical University of South Carolina	United States
401-500	Mines ParisTech	France
401-500	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	Russia
401-500	Nanchang University	China
401-500	Nanjing Agricultural University	China
401-500	Nanjing Medical University	China
401-500	Nanjing Tech University	China
401-500	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics	China
401-500	Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology	China
401-500	University of Lisbon	Portugal
401-500	Northeastern University	China
401-500	Novosibirsk State University	Russia
401-500	Okayama University	Japan
401-500	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Peking Union Medical College	China
401-500	Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)	South Korea
401-500	Polytechnic University of Valencia	Spain
401-500	Pusan National University	South Korea
401-500	Qingdao University	China
401-500	Saint Louis University	United States
401-500	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa	Italy
401-500	Shanghai University	China
401-500	Sharif University of Technology	Iran
401-500	Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)	China
401-500	Stellenbosch University	South Africa
401-500	Stockholm School of Economics	Sweden
401-500	Swansea University	United Kingdom
401-500	Tehran University of Medical Sciences	Iran
401-500	University of Newcastle	United States
401-500	Thomas Jefferson University	United States
401-500	Tokyo University of Science	Japan
401-500	Tulane University	United States
401-500	Umeå University	Sweden
401-500	State University of New York	United States
401-500	University College Cork	Ireland
401-500	University of Bath	United Kingdom
401-500	University of Belgrade	Serbia
401-500	University of California, Merced	United States
401-500	University of Canterbury	New Zealand
401-500	University of Chile	Chile
401-500	University of Eastern Finland	Finland
401-500	University of Fribourg	Switzerland
401-500	University of Genoa	Italy
401-500	University of Graz	Austria
401-500	University of Halle-Wittenberg	Germany
401-500	University of Iceland	Iceland
401-500	University of Konstanz	Germany
401-500	University of KwaZulu-Natal	South Africa
401-500	University of Milan	Italy
401-500	University of Minho	Portugal
401-500	University of Montana	United States
401-500	University of North Texas	United States
401-500	University of Oklahoma	United States
401-500	University of Oviedo	Spain
401-500	University of Perugia	Italy
401-500	University of Potsdam	Germany
401-500	University of Pretoria	South Africa
401-500	University of Seville	Spain
401-500	University of the Balearic Islands	Spain
401-500	University of the Basque Country	Spain
401-500	University of Trento	Italy
401-500	University of Twente	Netherlands
401-500	Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	France
401-500	University of Warsaw	Poland
401-500	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	United States
401-500	University of Wyoming	United States
401-500	University of Zagreb	Croatia
401-500	University of Zaragoza	Spain
401-500	Utah State University	United States
401-500	Wake Forest University	United States
401-500	Wayne State University	United States
401-500	West Virginia University	United States
401-500	Zhengzhou University	China

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