The Complutense University of Madrid has managed to place itself among the 300 universities in the world in the 2019 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), popularly known as the Shanghai ranking. It is the first in Madrid among the twelve Spanish institutions that appear in this ranking. The University of Barcelona is the only one that manages to enter the group of the 200 best valued, by appearing in the range of 151-200. Already in the range between 201-300, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Granada appear.
Likewise, among the 301-400 best centers are the Autónoma de Madrid, the Polytechnic of Valencia, the University of the Basque Country and the University of Valencia. For their part, Pompeu Fabra University, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela and Seville are in the range of the 401-500 best universities on the planet.
The Shanghai ranking analyzes universities around the world by assessing the number of students who have achieved a Nobel prize in science or a Fields medal in mathematics, as well as their research published in magazines such as ‘Nature’ or ‘Science’, among other merits. The list that is released every August 15 classifies the most prominent institutions around the world.
One more year, the American university of Harvard leads the ranking, accompanied on the podium by other regulars: the University of Stanford (United States) in second position, and that of Cambridge (United Kingdom) in third place.
According to this 2021 ranking, the best European university is the University Paris-Saclay (France), which is placed in the thirteenth position, while in Asia the one with the best score is the University of Tokyo (Japan).
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