The 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was released on Tuesday by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world’s top universities annually based on published methodology and third-party data. It, along with the Times and QS make up the big three rankings agencies. This year, more than 2500 institutions were scrutinized, and the best 1000 universities in the world are published.
Somewhat remarkably, not one of the top 10 moved from 2022.
These are:
1 Harvard University United States
2 Stanford University United States
3 Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) United States
4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
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
Closer to home, the top 10 looks like this:
35 The University of Melbourne
51 The University of Queensland
72 The University of New South Wales
73 University of Sydney
77 Monash University
84 The Australian National University
101-150 The University of Western Australia
151-200 The University of Adelaide
201-300 Curtin University
201-300 Deakin University
In Continental Europe, Paris-Saclay University (15th) rises one position and remains the best, followed by ETH Zurich (20th). Among Asian universities, Tsinghua University (22nd) moves up four positions and holds the best place in Asia for the first time. The University of Melbourne (35th) tops of other universities in Oceania for thirteen consecutive years since 2011.
Two Chinese universities make their first appearance in ARWU Top 100, namely Central South University (95th) and Nanjing University (96th). These join Tsinghua University (22), Peking University (29), Zhejiang University (33), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (46), Fudan University (56), University of Science and Technology of China (64), Sun Yat-sen University (73), The University of Hong Kong (88) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (91).
Overall, 35 universities are entering the Top 1000 for the first time.
