The ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities, aka. “Shanghai ranking”, analyzed more than 2 500 institutions and published a list of the 1 000 best universities in the world. Eight Belgian universities made it on the list.
KU Leuven took place 87, Ghent University place 98. The ULB Université libre de Bruxelles is in the 101-150 group, Catholic University of Louvain, University of Antwerp and Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the 201-300 group, University of Liege in the 401-500 group and Hasselt University in the 701-800 group.
Harvard, Standford, MIT, Cambridge and Berkeley took the top positions. In Europe, Paris-Saclay and ETH Zurich are the best on the 13th and 19th position. Germany has 51, France 27, the Netherlands 13, Greece 4 universities listed. One university of Lithuania (Vilnius, 401-500) and Estonia (Tartu, 501-600) are ranked.
In South East Europe, University of Belgrade is in the 501 – 600th group, University of Ljubljana and University of Zagreb are in the 601-700th place group. Bulgaria’s St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia is in the 901-1000 group.
Published by the Center for World Universities (CWCU) of the School of Education, Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, the rankings are updated annually. Since 2009, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has been published by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. It is an independent organization engaged in the analysis and collection of higher education data and is not legally subordinate to any university or government institution.
ARWU uses six indicators to rank universities worldwide, of which the number of former students and staff who have won Nobel Prizes, the number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate, the number of papers published in the journals Nature and Science, the number of papers indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index databases within the Web of Science, as well as university performance per capita.
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