Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 results

China continues to advance, but Japan dips in Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking based on research strength

August 15, 2015

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Results of the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (published 15 August)

Mainland China has continued to improve its performance in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, but the US and Europe still dominate the table.

China has 32 universities in the top 500 table, the same number as last year, but they are edging up the ranks. Seven of these are in the top 200, compared with six last year, now that Sun Yat-sen University has leaped from the 201-300 band to the 151-200 group. The country also still has six of its universities in the 201-300 band, after Jilin University moved up from the 301-400 band in last year��s table, which is based on research prowess and is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Meanwhile, Japan��s performance has declined this year. The country has 18 institutions represented, down from 19, after Waseda University dropped off the table. Japan��s universities are also falling out of the upper echelons of the ranking: the country has one fewer institution in the top 200 (seven, compared with eight last year) and one more in the 401-500 band (six, compared with five last year).

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Overall the US dominates the table, claiming more than half (51) the spots in the top 100. Harvard University is number one for the 13th?year in a row. The rest of the top 10 also remains unchanged from last year, comprising Stanford University; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Cambridge; Princeton University; the California Institute of Technology; Columbia University; the University of Chicago; and the University of Oxford.

The UK has nine universities in the top 100, one more than last year, with the University of Warwick (92nd) making its debut in the top fifth of the table. However, many of the top UK institutions have slipped down the list: Imperial College London has dropped one place to 23rd, the University of Manchester has dropped three places to 41st, and the University of Edinburgh has dropped two places to 47th.

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Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group, said that if the UK is to stay at the front of the pack, it must ��fend off fierce competition from countries like China and Germany��.

She added: ��Increasing funding in science, research and innovation is essential to keep our leading universities at the top of the table and to make sure the UK maximises its economic potential.��

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Below is a list of the top 100 institutions in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015 including links to the profiles of those institutions also featured in the ��VR��Ƶ World University Rankings 2014-15.

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015: top 100

Rank?	?Institution	Country
1?	?Harvard University	US
2?	?Stanford University	US
3?	?Massachusetts Institute of Technology	US
4?	?University of California, Berkeley	US
5?	?University of Cambridge	UK
6?	?Princeton University	US
7?	?California Institute of Technology	US
8?	?Columbia University	US
9?	?University of Chicago	US
10?	?University of Oxford	UK
11?	?Yale University	US
12?	?University of California, Los Angeles	US
13?	?Cornell University	US
14?	?University of California, San Diego	US
15?	?University of Washington	US
16?	?Johns Hopkins University	US
17?	?University of Pennsylvania	US
=18?	?University of California, San Francisco	US
=18?	?University College London	UK
20?	?ETH Z��rich �C Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich	Switzerland
21?	?University of Tokyo	Japan
22?	?University of Michigan	US
23?	?Imperial College London	UK
24?	?University of Wisconsin-Madison	US
25?	?University of Toronto	Canada
26?	?Kyoto University	Japan
=27?	?New York University	US
=27?	?Northwestern University	US
29?	?University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
30?	?University of Minnesota	US
31?	?Duke University	US
32?	?Washington University in St Louis	US
33?	?Rockefeller University	US
34?	?University of Colorado at Boulder	US
35?	?University of Copenhagen	Denmark
36?	?Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
37?	?University of Texas at Austin	US
38?	?University of California, Santa Barbara	US
39?	?University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US
40?	?University of British Columbia	Canada
=41?	?Paris-Sud University	France
=41?	?University of Manchester	UK
43?	?University of Maryland, College Park	US
=44?	?University of Melbourne	Australia
=44?	?University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	US
46?	?Heidelberg University	Germany
47?	?University of Edinburgh	UK
48?	?Karolinska Institute	Sweden
49?	?University of Southern California	US
50?	?University of California, Irvine	US
51?	?Technical University of Munich	Germany
52?	?Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	Germany
53?	?Vanderbilt University	US
54?	?University of Zurich	Switzerland
55?	?King��s College London	UK
56?	?Utrecht University	Netherlands
57?	?University of California, Davis	US
=58?	?University of Oslo	Norway
=58?	?University of Geneva	Switzerland
60?	?Pennsylvania State University	US
=61?	?Uppsala University	Sweden
=61?	?Carnegie Mellon University	US
=61?	?Purdue University?	US
=64?	?McGill University	Canada
=64?	?Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	US
66?	?University of Bristol	UK
=67?	?University of Helsinki	Finland
=67?	?Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
=67?	?Ohio State University	US
70?	?University of Pittsburgh	US
71?	?Ghent University	Belgium
72?	??cole Normale Sup��rieure	France
=73?	?Aarhus University	Denmark
=73?	?Boston University	US
=75?	?University of Groningen	Netherlands
=75?	?Brown University	US
=77?	?Australian National University	Australia
=77?	?University of Queensland	Australia
=77?	?Technion Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
=77?	?Nagoya University	Japan
=77?	?Stockholm University	Sweden
82?	?Leiden University	Netherlands
83?	?University of Florida	US
84?	?Rice University	US
85?	?Osaka University	Japan
86?	?Lomonosov Moscow State University	Russia
=87?	?University of Western Australia	Australia
=87?	?University of Strasbourg	France
=87?	?University of Basel	Switzerland
=90?	?KU Leuven	Belgium
=90?	?University of Arizona	US
92?	?University of Warwick	UK
=93?	?Arizona State University	US
=93?	?University of California, Santa Cruz	US
=93?	?University of Utah	US
96?	?McMaster University	Canada
97?	?University of Bonn	Germany
98?	?VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands
99?	?Michigan State University	US
100?	?Texas A&M University	US