Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014

The 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been announced by the Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

ARWU uses six indicators to rank world universities:

number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals
number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters
number of articles published in Nature and Science journals
number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index – Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index
per capita performance

Top 20 Universities


Rank	Overall		Chemistry

1	Harvard University	USA	University of California-Berkeley	USA
2	Stanford University	USA	Harvard University	USA
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	Stanford University	USA
4	University of California-Berkeley	USA	Northwestern University	USA
5	University of Cambridge	UK	University of Cambridge	UK

6	Princeton University	USA	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA
7	California Institute of Technology	USA	California Institute of Technology	USA
8	Columbia University	USA	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
9	University of Chicago	USA	Kyoto University	Japan
10	University of Oxford	UK	University of California, Los Angeles	USA

11	Yale University	USA	University of Pennsylvania	USA
12	University of California, Los Angeles	USA	Yale University	USA
13	Cornell University	USA	University of California, Santa Barbara	USA
14	University of California, San Diego	USA	University of Oxford	UK
15	University of Washington	USA	Columbia University	USA

16	University of Pennsylvania	USA	Technical University Munich	Germany
17	The Johns Hopkins University	USA	University of Strasbourg	France
18	University of California, San Francisco	USA	Rice University/ University of California, San Diego	USA
19	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	–	–
20	University College London	UK	The University of Tokyo	Japan

Top 5 Universities by Field


Natural Sciences and Mathematics	Engineering / Technology and Computer Sciences	Life and Agriculture Sciences	Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy	Social Sciences

Berkeley Harvard Princeton Stanford Caltech	MIT Stanford Berkeley UIUC UT Austin	Harvard Cambridge Stanford MIT UC San Francisco	Harvard UC San Francisco Washington (Seattle) Johns Hopkins Stanford	Harvard Chicago MIT Berkeley Columbia

Top 5 Universities by Subject


Mathematics	Physics	Chemistry	Computer Science	Economics / Business

Princeton Harvard Berkeley Pierre & Marie Curie Stanford	Berkeley Princeton MIT Harvard Caltech	Berkeley Harvard Stanford Northwestern (Evanston) Cambridge	Stanford MIT Berkeley Harvard Princeton	Harvard Chicago MIT Berkeley Princeton