World Top 150! Thumb up for SEU!

The 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy on August 15. China has 168 universities ranked in the Top 1000, among which 81 are in the Top 500, 6 are in the Top 100. Southeast University has risen to world Top 150 this year and it has also climbed to Top 7-13 among the national ranking.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (known as “ARWU” in short) was first released in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (known as “CWCU” in short), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, which is updated on an annual basis. Since 2009, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been published and copyrighted by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, which is a fully independent organization on higher education intelligence and not legally subordinated to any universities or government agencies.

ARWU has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy league table. Its ranking has been widely reported and enormously cited by authoritative media at various places and regions in the world for its objectiveness and stringency of ranking indicators and methods. The governments and universities of many countries even stipulate their strategic objectives and development planning in reference to ARWU as the standards, and also adopt diversified measures to increase their school’s international competitiveness.

ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics, the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, the number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and the per capita performance of the university concerned. More than 1800 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 are published.

In the ranking, “Double First-Class” universities take the dominance among the Top 500 universities. Among others, Southeast University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Central South University, Nanjing University and Xi’an Jiaotong University all have made progress and been successfully ranked Top 101-150 in the world together with Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Sun Yat-sen University.

The complete list and more details are available on ShanghaiRanking’s website http://www.ShanghaiRanking.com/.