2014 ARWU University World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings
It feels like a strange time to publish a world ranking but ideal holiday reading for many.
Anyway, as in previous years there is not a huge amount to get excited about as this is a league table where little changes. The full rankings have been published and are now available at the ARWU website
As in many previous years there are really very few surprises and almost no movement in the top 20 with Harvard retaining the number 1 spot for the eighth successive year and everyone else just about unchanged too although MIT and Berkeley swap places inside the top 5. Overall there is very little movement in top 20 apart from the new entry of UCL in 20th place.
| World Rank |
Institution* | Country /Region |
National Rank |
Total Score |
Score onAlumni Award HiCi N&S PUB PCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University |  |
1
|
100
|
100
|
| 2 | Stanford University | |
2
|
72.1
|
41.8
|
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | |
3
|
70.5
|
68.4
|
| 4 | University of California-Berkeley | |
4
|
70.1
|
66.8
|
| 5 | University of Cambridge |  |
1
|
69.2
|
79.1
|
| 6 | Princeton University | |
5
|
60.7
|
52.1
|
| 7 | California Institute of Technology | |
6
|
60.5
|
48.5
|
| 8 | Columbia University | |
7
|
59.6
|
65.1
|
| 9 | University of Chicago | |
8
|
57.4
|
61.4
|
| 9 | University of Oxford | |
2
|
57.4
|
51
|
| 11 | Yale University | |
9
|
55.2
|
48.8
|
| 12 | University of California, Los Angeles | |
10
|
51.9
|
30.2
|
| 13 | Cornell University | |
11
|
50.6
|
37.6
|
| 14 | University of California, San Diego | |
12
|
49.3
|
19.7
|
| 15 | University of Washington | |
13
|
48.1
|
21.7
|
| 16 | University of Pennsylvania | |
14
|
47.1
|
32.4
|
| 17 | The Johns Hopkins University | |
15
|
47
|
38.7
|
| 18 | University of California, San Francisco | |
16
|
45.2
|
0
|
| 19 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich |  |
1
|
43.9
|
30.2
|
| 20 | University College London | |
3
|
43.3
|
28.8
|
In terms of the UK placings, the only substantive changes are that Bristol and King’s swap places and Nottingham drops out of Top 100. Given the general stability of the table it is not entirely clear why this has happened.
| World Rank | ||
|---|---|---|
|
1
|
University of Cambridge | 5 |
|
2
|
University of Oxford | 9 |
|
3
|
University College London | 20 |
|
4
|
The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | 22 |
|
5
|
The University of Manchester | 38 |
|
6
|
The University of Edinburgh | 45 |
|
7
|
King’s College London | 59 |
|
8
|
University of Bristol | 63 |
|
9-17
|
Cardiff University | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
London School of Economics and Political Science | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
The University of Glasgow | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
The University of Sheffield | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
University of Birmingham | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
University of Leeds | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
University of Liverpool | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
University of Nottingham | 101-150 |
|
9-17
|
University of Southampton | 101-150 |
|
18-20
|
University of East Anglia | 151-200 |
|
18-20
|
University of Sussex | 151-200 |
|
18-20
|
University of Warwick | 151-200 |
Anyway, much summer fun to be had analysing this data.
