Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 Press Release

The 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Starting from 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world Top 500 universities annually based on transparent methodology and third-party data. It has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy one.
Harvard University remains the number one in the world for the 13^th year, other Top 10 universities are: Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Cambridge, Princeton, Caltech, Columbia, Chicago and Oxford. In Continental Europe, ETH Zurich (20^th) in Switzerland takes first place, and University of Copenhagen (35^th) in Denmark overtakes Pierre & Marie Curie (36^th) in France as the second best university in this region. University of Tokyo (21^st) and Kyoto University (26^th) keeps their leading positions in Asia. University of Melbourne (44^th) tops other universities in Oceania. More...