Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014 results: Harvard takes first place

Asian universities are catching up with the West on research strength, but only slowly, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014

August 15, 2014

Results of the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (published 15 August)

The rankings, based on research prowess and compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, show that mainland China in particular has improved its performance.

It now has 32 universities in the top 500, up from 28 in the Download the full Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014 results and data

Below is a list of the top 100 institutions in the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014, including links to the profiles of those institutions also featured in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014.

Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014: top 100

Rank	Institution	Country
1	Harvard University	US
2	Stanford University	US
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	US
4	University of California, Berkeley	US
5	University of Cambridge	UK
6	Princeton University	US
7	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	US
8	Columbia University	US
9	University of Chicago	US
10	University of Oxford	UK
11	Yale University	US
12	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	US
13	Cornell University	US
14	University of California, San Diego	US
15	University of Washington	US
16	University of Pennsylvania	US
17	Johns Hopkins University	US
18	University of California, San Francisco	US
19	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland
20	University College London (UCL)	UK
21	The University of Tokyo	Japan
22	Imperial College London	UK
23	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	US
24	University of Toronto	Canada
25	University of Wisconsin - Madison	US
26	Kyoto University	Japan
	New York University (NYU)	US
28	Northwestern University	US
29	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
30	University of Minnesota: Twin Cities	US
31	Duke University	US
32	Washington University in St. Louis	US
33	Rockefeller University	US
34	University of Colorado at Boulder	US
35	Pierre and Marie Curie University	France
36	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	US
37	University of British Columbia	Canada
38	University of Manchester	UK
39	University of Texas at Austin	US
40	University of Copenhagen	Denmark
41	University of California, Santa Barbara	US
42	University of Paris Sud	France
43	University of Maryland	US
44	University of Melbourne	Australia
45	University of Edinburgh	UK
46	The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	US
47	Karolinska Institute	Sweden
48	University of California, Irvine	US
49	Heidelberg University	Germany
50	University of Munich	Germany
51	University of Southern California	US
52	Rutgers, The State University of New Jerse	US
53	Technical University Munich	Germany
54	Vanderbilt University	US
55	University of California, Davis	US
56	University of Zürich	Switzerland
57	Utrecht University	Netherlands
58	Pennsylvania State University - University Park	US
59	King’s College London	UK
60	Purdue University - West Lafayette	US
61	Uppsala University	Sweden
62	Carnegie Mellon University	US
63	University of Bristol	UK
64	The Ohio State University - Columbus	US
65	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus	US
66	University of Geneva	Switzerland
67	Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris	France
68	McGill University	Canada
69	University of Oslo	Norway
70	Ghent University	Belgium
71	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
72	Boston University	US
73	University of Helsinki	Finland
74	Aarhus University	Denmark
75	Brown University	US
76	The Australian National University	Australia
77	Leiden University	Netherlands
78	Osaka University	Japan
79	Stockholm University	Sweden
80	Technion-Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
81	University of Florida	US
82	Rice University	US
83	University of Groningen	Netherlands
84	Moscow State University	Russia
85	The University of Queensland	Australia
86	University of Arizona	US
87	University of Utah	US
88	Arizona State University	US
89	The University of Western Australia	Australia
90	McMaster University	Canada
91	University of Basel	Switzerland
92	University of Rochester	US
93	University of California, Santa Cruz	US
94	University of Bonn	Germany
95	University of Strasbourg	France
96	KU Leuven	Belgium
97	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne	Switzerland
98	Texas A&M University	US
99	Georgia Institute of Technology	US
100	VU University Amsterdam	Netherlands

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