TOP 100 Universities in ARWU 2021 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy

The 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, ARWU has been introducing the world’s top universities annually dependent on a straightforward approach and objective third-party information. It has been perceived as the forerunner of global university rankings and the most trustworthy one. This year, over 2000 trustworthy were examined, and the best 1000 universities in the world are published.

Harvard University beat the ranking list for the nineteenth year. Stanford University and the University of Cambridge stay at the No. 2 and No. 3 seats. Other Top 10 universities are MIT (fourth), Berkeley (fifth), Princeton (sixth), Oxford (seventh), Columbia (eighth), Caltech (ninth), and Chicago (tenth).

In Continental Europe, Paris-Saclay University (thirteenth) ascents one position, staying at the best position, followed by ETH Zurich (21th). Among Asian universities, The University of Tokyo (24th) keeps its leading position. Tsinghua University (28th) climbs one position, holding on to the second-best spot in Asia. The University of Melbourne (33th) tops of other universities in Oceania for eleven sequential years since 2011.

Two European universities climb into the Top 50. The University of Munich from Germany positioned 48th, up from 51st last year, and Utrecht University from the Netherlands rises two spots to 50th. Three universities go into the Top 100 list, including Sun Yat-sen University (89th) from the Chinese Mainland, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (90th), and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (94th) from Israel. Sun Yat-sen University has shown up in the Top 100. There are seven new participants from Asia and Oceania showing up on the Top 500 list. 38 universities enter into Top 1000 for the first time.

TOP 100 Universities in ARWU 2021

Universities from the United States dominate the current year’s Top 1000 list with 40 universities among the Top 100, 129 among the Top 500, and 200 among the Top 1000. The United Kingdom has 65 Top 1000 universities, and 38 of them are listed in the Top 500, 8 are listed in the Top 100.

Germany has four universities positioned in the Top 100, to be specific the University of Munich (LMU Munich, 48th), Technical University of Munich (TUM, 52th), Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, 57th), and University of (Bonn, 84th). It is worth focusing on that LMU Munich, TUM, and Heidelberg have been selected as Universities of Excellence under the Excellence Initiative since 2006/2007, and Bonn was selected first time as Universities of Excellence in 2019.

French universities keep up with their competitive performance in the current year’s league table, 30 of which are ranked in the Top 1000, 17 universities are positioned in the Top 500. Under the Initiatives of Excellence (Initiatives D’Excellence), Paris-Saclay (13th), Sorbonne (35th), PSL (38th), and University of Paris (73th) stand firm on four positions in the Top 100.

China has 180 universities positioned in the Top 1000, including 84 Top 500 universities, 7 Top 100 universities. The number of universities from the Chinese Mainland keeps on developing. Most of the listed universities are supported by the “Double World-Class Project” (World-Class Universities and World-Class Subjects Project).