The American University of Harvard repeated this year as the best in the world according to the Shanghai ranking of 2021, since it has maintained since the creation of this list in 2003.
According to the edition of Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) de 2021, published by Jiao Tong University, the ‘top 3’ is completed by another American university, Stanford, and a British one, Cambridge.
Within the first ten, the majority belong to the North American country, with the exception of the cited Cambridge and Oxford, another well-known British university, which ranks seventh, up from ninth last year.
You have to go down to number 13 to find the first on the list that does not belong to the United States or the United Kingdom, the French university of Paris-Saclay.
In 24th place is the University of Tokyo, the first Asian in the “ranking”, followed in 28th by Tsinghua (Beijing, China).
Among the indicators that it uses to classify two thousand centers annually – although it only publishes the best thousand every 15 August – is the number of students and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals (Mathematics), the number of articles published in scientific journals, and the impact of their research.
You have to go down to the fork of the stalls 101 to 150 to find the first Latin American, the Brazilian University of Sao Paulo.
In Argentina, the best classified is the University of Buenos Aires, which enters the range 201-300 of the “ranking”, the same one in which the one that is highest in the list of Mexico, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), also enters.
For its part, Chile is the University of Chile, further down the list (range 401-500), while you have to go down to the 801-900 band to find the best valued Colombian representative, the National University of Colombia.
In the case of Spain, only the University of Barcelona It ranks among the 151-200 best institutions of higher education in the world.
In the range between positions 201-300, the “ranking” places the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Complutense de Madrid and the University of Granada.
In 2020 it also included the University of Valencia, but in this latest edition it falls to the next bracket among the 301-400 best centers.
Together with that of Valencia, the Autonomous of Madrid, the Polytechnic of Valencia and the University of the Basque Country and, unlike last year, the Pompeu Fabra descends through the ranks.
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