The 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been announced by the Center for World-Class Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

Harvard University, USA, remains the number one in the world for the 13th consecutive year in the overall ranking. The top five universities in chemistry are UC Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, and Northwestern, all in the USA.

Top 20 Universities

Rank	Institution	Country	Score
1	Harvard University	USA	100.0
2	Stanford University	USA	73.3
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	70.4
4	University of California, Berkeley	USA	69.6
5	University of Cambridge	UK	68.8
6	Princeton University	USA	61.0
7	California Institute of Technology	USA	59.6
8	Columbia University	USA	58.8
9	University of Chicago	USA	57.1
10	University of Oxford	UK	56.6
11	Yale University	USA	54.5
12	University of California, Los Angeles	USA	50.7
13	Cornell University	USA	50.5
14	University of California, San Diego	USA	48.7
15	University of Washington	USA	47.8
16	Johns Hopkins University	USA	46.3
17	University of Pennsylvania	USA	46.1
18	University College London	UK	44.5
18	University of California, San Francisco	USA	44.5
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich	Switzerland	43.7

Top 10 Universities in Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Rank	Institution	Country	Score
1	University of California, Berkeley	USA	100.0
2	Harvard University	USA	98.8
3	Princeton University	USA	98.2
4	Stanford University	USA	96.4
5	California Institute of Technology	USA	92.6
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	92.0
7	University of Cambridge	UK	87.2
8	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich	Switzerland	78.6
9	The University of Tokyo	Japan	75.4
10	University of Colorado at Boulder	USA	73.8

Top 10 Universities in Chemistry

Rank	Institution	Country	Score
1	University of California, Berkeley	USA	100.0
2	Harvard University	USA	95.9
3	Stanford University	USA	95.2
4	California Institute of Technology	USA	86.8
5	Northwestern University	USA	82.9
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	USA	80.9
6	University of Cambridge	UK	80.9
8	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich	Switzerland	76.1
9	Kyoto University	Japan	74.9
10	University of Pennsylvania	USA	72.6

Methodology

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
• number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index – Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SCCI)
• per capita performance

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Source

• 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU),
  Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

 

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