Top 10 universities in the world 2022

The 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world's top universities annually based on transparent methodology and objective third-party data. It has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy one. This year, more than 2500 institutions were scrutinized, and the best 1000 universities in the world are published.

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What is the best university in the world 2022?
Who is the No 1 University in world?
Which is the biggest university in the world 2022?
What is the #1 public university 2022?

Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 20th year. Stanford University remains at the No. 2 seat. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rises one position to the No. 3. Other Top 10 universities are Cambridge (4th), Berkeley (5th), Princeton (6th), Oxford (7th), Columbia (8th), Caltech (9th), and Chicago (10th).

In Continental Europe, Paris-Saclay University (16th) remains at the best position, followed by ETH Zurich (20th). Among Asian universities, The University of Tokyo (24th) keeps its leading position. Tsinghua University (26th) moves up two position, holding on to the second-best place in Asia. The University of Melbourne (32th) tops of other universities in Oceania for twelve consecutive years since 2011.

Four universities move up into the Top 50. Zhejiang University from Chinese Mainland ranked 36th, up from 52st last year. The University of Queensland from Australia rises four places to 47th. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (49th) and University of Maryland, College Park (50th) from United States both rise six places. Seven universities enter into the Top 100 list, including University of Pittsburgh (82th) and Brown University (99th) from United States, Erasmus University Rotterdam (87th) from Netherlands, University of Alberta (92th) from Canada, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (96th) from Chinese Mainland, The University of Hong Kong (96th) from China-Hong Kong, and Seoul National University (98th) from South Korea. There are eight new entrants appearing on the Top 500 list, 25 universities enter into Top 1000 for the first time.

TOP 100 Universities in ARWU 2022

2022 Rank2021 RankInstitutionCountry/Region11Harvard UniversityUnited States22Stanford UniversityUnited States34Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United States43University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom55University of California, BerkeleyUnited States66Princeton UniversityUnited States77University of OxfordUnited Kingdom88Columbia UniversityUnited States99California Institute of TechnologyUnited States1010University of ChicagoUnited States1111Yale UniversityUnited States1212Cornell UniversityUnited States1314University of California, Los AngelesUnited States1416Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States1515University of PennsylvaniaUnited States1613Paris-Saclay UniversityFrance1719University of WashingtonUnited States1817University College LondonUnited Kingdom1920University of California, San FranciscoUnited States2021ETH ZurichSwitzerland2118University of California, San DiegoUnited States2222University of TorontoCanada2325Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom2424The University of TokyoJapan2527New York UniversityUnited States2628Tsinghua UniversityChina2723Washington University in St. LouisUnited States2826University of Michigan-Ann ArborUnited States2929University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States3034Northwestern UniversityUnited States3132Duke UniversityUnited States3233The University of MelbourneAustralia3331University of Wisconsin - MadisonUnited States3445Peking UniversityChina3538The University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom3652Zhejiang UniversityChina3741The University of Texas at AustinUnited States3835The University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom3930University of CopenhagenDenmark4038PSL UniversityFrance4142Karolinska InstituteSweden4137Kyoto UniversityJapan4335Sorbonne UniversityFrance4442Rockefeller UniversityUnited States4442University of British ColumbiaCanada4440University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesUnited States4751The University of QueenslandAustralia4847King's College LondonUnited Kingdom4955University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States5056University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States5146University of Colorado at BoulderUnited States5248The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at DallasUnited States5361University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States5459Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina5450Utrecht UniversityNetherlands5652Technical University of MunichGermany5757University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States5748University of MunichGermany5954University of ZurichSwitzerland6069University of SydneyAustralia6170University of California, IrvineUnited States6260University of GenevaSwitzerland6263University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina6465The University of New South WalesAustralia6465Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States6664University of GroningenNetherlands6777Fudan UniversityChina6761University of OsloNorway6971Aarhus UniversityDenmark7057Heidelberg UniversityGermany7175National University of SingaporeSingapore7167The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer CenterUnited States7367McGill UniversityCanada7471Ghent UniversityBelgium7580Monash UniversityAustralia7684University of BonnGermany7790The Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael7873Université Paris CitéFrance7989Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina7976The Australian National UniversityAustralia8178University of BristolUnited Kingdom82101-150University of PittsburghUnited States8386Purdue University - West LafayetteUnited States8394Technion-Israel Institute of TechnologyIsrael8387University of BaselSwitzerland8392Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael87101-150Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands8881Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore8978Uppsala UniversitySweden9092McMaster UniversityCanada9074Stockholm UniversitySweden92101-150University of AlbertaCanada9282University of HelsinkiFinland9497University of FloridaUnited States9587KU LeuvenBelgium96101-150Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina96101-150The University of Hong KongChina-Hong Kong98101-150Seoul National UniversitySouth Korea99101-150Brown UniversityUnited States9996The University of Western AustraliaAustralia

Universities from the United States dominate this year’s Top 1000 list with 39 universities among the Top 100, 127 among the Top 500, and 196 among the Top 1000. The United Kingdom has 63 Top 1000 universities, and 38 of them are listed in the Top 500, 8 are listed in the Top 100.

Germany has four universities ranked in the Top 100, namely Technical University of Munich (TUM, 56th), the University of Munich (LMU Munich, 57th),Heidelberg University (Heidelberg, 70th), and University of Bonn (Bonn, 76th). It is worth mentioning that LMU Munich, TUM, and Heidelberg have been selected as Universities of Excellence under the Excellence Initiative since 2006/2007, and Bonn was selected first time as Universities of Excellence in 2019.

French universities maintain their competitive performance in this year’s league table, 28 of which are ranked in the Top 1000, 16 universities are ranked in the Top 500. Under the Initiatives of Excellence (Initiatives D’Excellence), Paris-Saclay (16th) , PSL (40th), Sorbonne (43th), and Université Paris Cité (78th) hold four positions in the Top 100.

China has 186 universities ranked in the Top 1000, including 83 Top 500 universities, 9 Top 100 universities. The number of universities from Chinese Mainland continues to grow. Most of the listed universities are supported by the “Double World-Class Project” (World-Class Universities and World-Class Subjects Project).

The complete list and detailed methodologies can be found at ShanghaiRanking’s website www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2022.

Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU): Starting from 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world's top universities annually based on a set of objective indicators and third-party data. ARWU has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy league table. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded™ and Social Sciences Citation Index™ in the Web of Science™, and per capita performance of a university. More than 2500 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1000 are published.

ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: ShanghaiRanking Consultancy is a fully independent organization dedicating to research on higher education intelligence and consultation. It has been the official publisher of the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2009.

What is the best university in the world 2022?

The best university in the world, for a 10th consecutive year, is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which earns perfect scores across the research and the employability indicator.

Who is the No 1 University in world?

List of top 1000 universities in the world.

Which is the biggest university in the world 2022?

For example, the India Gandhi National Open University has approximately 3 million students, and it claims to be the biggest university in the world.

What is the #1 public university 2022?

11, 2022 11:16 p.m. UCLA tied with UC Berkeley for first place on the U.S News & World Report's public university rankings, earning the No. 1 ranking for the sixth year in a row but breaking its four-year streak as the sole university at the top spot.