Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is the world’s first comprehensive university ranking. Since its first release in 2003, this year is the 22nd edition. With its objective and transparent evaluation system, ARWU has become one of the pioneers of international university rankings and is widely recognized and cited. Governments and universities around the world are committed to improving the international competitiveness of their countries and universities by analyzing this ranking.
01 – Ranking objects
ARWU’s ranking covers the following types of universities:
– Universities whose teachers or alumni have won the Nobel Prize or the Fields Medal;
– Universities with highly cited scientists;
– Universities that have published papers as corresponding author units in Nature or Science in the past 10 years;
– Universities with a large number of papers included in the Science Citation Index (SCIE) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).
This ranking covers more than 2,500 universities around the world, and the published rankings are concentrated on the top 1,000 universities in the world.
02 – Ranking criteria
This ranking is based on six main indicators, including alumni awards, teacher awards, the number of highly cited scientists, N&S paper publications, international paper publications, and average teacher performance.
When ranking, the highest-scoring university is scored 100 points on each indicator, and other universities are scored in proportion to the highest value. If the data of any indicator is obviously abnormal, conventional statistical methods are used for processing.
03 – Impact on Schools and Applicants
In the latest ranking, a total of 5 universities in Oceania are among the top 100 in the world.
Specifically, they include:
– University of Melbourne: 37th
– University of Queensland: 63rd
– University of Sydney: 74th
– University of New South Wales: 77th
– Monash University: 82nd
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