For the 20th year in a row, Harvard University topped the Shanghai rankings of the world’s best universities this year amid the continued dominance of US institutions in the top spots by The Washington Post.
Universities in English-speaking countries are in the top 10 in the ranking released today Monday, just like last year, with 8 US universities and 2 British universities in this global ranking of the best institutions of higher education, compiled by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy since 2003. Harvard took first place in the ranking, again ahead of Stanford University in the US, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is also an American university, comes in third. British Cambridge took fourth place.
According to Agence France-Presse, the American universities Berkeley and Princeton ranked fifth and sixth, while the British University of Oxford came in seventh. A total of 39 US universities were ranked among the top 100 universities on the list.
As for the first institution outside of English-speaking countries, it is the University of Paris-Saclay, ranked 16th.
The Shanghai ranking takes into account six criteria, including the number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners among its alumni and professors, as well as the number of researchers whose names are frequently mentioned in their field, or even the number of articles published in the journal. journals “Science and nature”. This year, 2,500 educational institutions were surveyed to determine the top 1,000 among them.
