It’s a breakthrough year for universities based in mainland China, as two of its institutions have broken into the Top 100 for the first time in this year’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was released on Monday.
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“It reflects the vast amount work that’s been done over the last few years to really stimulate research within the university and particularly the much deeper engagement with the industry and community”, he said.
Berkeley led a list of four University of California campuses among the top 25 in the ARWU rankings. The University of Jyväskylä, in turn, fell out of the top 500 entirely.
The National University of Singapore also entered the top 100 for the first time, tying for 83rd with Canada’s McMaster University and the University of California, Santa Cruz in the U.S.
Berkeley has ranked among the top four institutions every year since 2003, the year the ARWU rankings debuted. This year, around half of the Top 100 comprises USA institutions.
The University of Oxford has been ranked as the seventh best university worldwide, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
Though less well known in the United Kingdom than the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings and the QS rankings, it is considered one of the world’s foremost ranking tables, with The Chronicle of Higher Education calling it “the best-known and most influential global ranking of universities”.
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Globally, Harvard University is the highest-ranking academic institute followed by Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, said ShanghaiRanking, an independent consultancy body behind the worldwide review.
