2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities: Top 20 and UK placings

2013 ARWU University World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings

Alevel results day is an interesting time to publish a world ranking but who are we to criticise.

Anyway, don’t get too excited as it is unlikely the bookies will be losing their shirts on this one. Here is the top 20 in full. It is almost identical to last year’s with only one new entrant at number 20.

1	Harvard University
2	Stanford University
3	University of California, Berkeley
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
5	University of Cambridge
6	California Institute of Technology
7	Princeton University
8	Columbia University
9	University of Chicago
10	University of Oxford
11	Yale University
12	University of California, Los Angeles
13	Cornell University
14	University of California, San Diego
15	University of Pennsylvania
16	University of Washington
17	The Johns Hopkins University
18	University of California, San Francisco
19	University of Wisconsin – Madison
20	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

The full rankings have been published and are now available at the ARWU website

As last year (and the year before that and the year before that) there are really no surprises and almost no movement in the top 20 with Harvard retaining the number 1 spot for the seventh successive year and everyone else just about unchanged too. Probably for the best.

In terms of the UK placings, again very little change with only spme slight upward movement for a few institutions.

Let’s hope there will be a tad more excitement with the other league tables from QS and THE later in the year.