Shanghai University Ranking

What is the Shanghai classification?

Shanghai Ranking of Universities and Colleges is one of the international university rankings, which started since 2003 AD, and is concerned with the ranking of universities at the academic level, and depends on many statistics which are distributed to all professors and universities, and we will mention in this article what is the ranking of universities in Shanghai? What criteria are used to rank universities? Besides mentioning some universities as the best international universities based on the Shanghai University Rankings

Ranking of universities in Shanghai:

Academic ranking of world universities This is the academic ranking of universities, because the Shanghai Higher Institute (Shanghai Ranking Consultancy Group) wanted to organize a ranking of universities at the world level through which the best international universities are identified.

At the beginning, the classification was concerned with evaluating the level of education in Chinese universities compared to other universities in the world, to determine the value and quality of higher education in China only, but then this academic classification is become one of the most approved. international classifications, on which all the countries of the world rely to evaluate and classify universities according to academic levels.

The UNESCO Foundation brings together more than 10,000 universities around the world. This ranking focuses on evaluating these universities and identifying the best universities globally. The ranking starts with the top 2000 universities, then after review and evaluation, 1000 universities representing the best among them are selected, then they are again reviewed and rated so that the top 500 universities, colleges and higher institutes around the world be selected.

What are the Shanghai University Ranking Criteria?

As we said before, the Shanghai Classification of Universities is known as the Academic International Ranking of Universities (ARWU), and this classification is done according to many classification criteria, which are as follows:

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  20% of the total grade awarded is attributed to the availability of Nobel Prize-winning professors or students.

  
  


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  The high pass rate of university graduates gives 10% of the total percentage.

  
  


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  Academic performance, efficiency and quality of scientific courses and study materials offered by the university, which accounts for 10% of the total.

  
  


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  Determined based on researchers for the past five years at 20%.

  
  


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  20% is determined based on the volume of scientific research and studies published in Science magazine as well as Nature magazine.

  
  


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  Universities and scientific research in science and media 20%

  
  

It should be noted that this academic classification is the most accredited among its peers globally, but it is used to rank only the top 500 universities globally.

We will mention, for example, the top fifteen universities according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of Universities for the year 2019-2020.

What are the best universities according to the Shanghai ranking?

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  It is ranked first by Harvard University in the United States of America.

  
  


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  The second place was taken by Stanford University in the United States of America.

  
  


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  The British University of Cambridge came third.

  
  


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  It is then followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America, which ranks fourth.

  
  


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  The University of Berkeley, in the United States, ranked fifth.

  
  


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  And in sixth place, Princeton University in the United States of America.

  
  


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  Britain's Oxford University placed seventh.

  
  


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  Columbia University in the United States ranked eighth.

  
  


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  Ninth place went to the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America

  
  


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  In tenth place was the University of Chicago, USA.

  
  


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  And eleventh place was for the University of California, USA.

  
  


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  And Bell University in the United States of America ranked twelfth.

  
  


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  While Cornell University in the United States of America ranked thirteenth.

  
  


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  The University of Washington in the United States ranks 14th in the ranking.

  
  


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  While the University of London in the UK ranks fifteenth.
  
  

  
  

Read also:

QS World University Rankings 2019

- World University Rankings 2020