Academic Ranking of World Universities - Rankings

Rankings

The table below contains the overall rankings as ordinal numbers (i.e., 1 is best, 2 is second best, etc.) from 2003 to 2012 for all universities that ranked in the top 100 in one of the years tabulated. The ranking is omitted for years in which the school did not land within the top 100. Note the full ranking contains over 500 universities. If a university is not listed in this table, it did not rank in the top 100 in any of the years tabulated.

University 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Aarhus University 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 93 97 98 86 86
Arizona State University 1000 1000 1000 100 96 93 94 81 78 79
Australian National University 49 53 53 54 57 59 59 59 70 64
Boston University 98 87 81 81 85 83 74 77 76 71
Brown University 49 82 86 85 70 71 69 65 65 65
California Institute of Technology 3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Carnegie Mellon University 61 62 62 56 60 62 59 58 55 51
Case Western Reserve University 51 65 65 70 78 83 87 97 97 99
Columbia University 10 9 9 7 7 7 7 8 8 8
Cornell University 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 13 13
Duke University 33 31 31 31 32 33 31 35 35 36
École normale supérieure - Paris 1000 85 93 99 83 73 70 71 69 73
Emory University 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 100 100 1000 1000
Free University of Berlin 95 1000 1000 99 83 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Goethe University Frankfurt 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 100 1000
Harvard University 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Hebrew University of Jerusalem 94 90 90 60 64 65 64 52 57 53
Humboldt University of Berlin 1000 95 95 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Imperial College London 17 23 23 23 23 27 26 26 24 24
Indiana University - Bloomington 1000 1000 1000 97 90 92 93 90 82 84
Johns Hopkins University 24 22 22 20 19 20 19 18 18 17
Karolinska Institutet 39 46 45 48 53 51 50 42 44 42
King's College London 75 77 77 83 83 81 65 63 68 68
Kyoto University 30 21 21 22 22 23 24 24 27 26
Lund University 93 92 92 90 97 97 1000 1000 1000 1000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 3 3
McGill University 79 61 61 62 63 60 65 61 64 63
McMaster University 86 88 88 90 87 89 91 88 89 92
Michigan State University 87 80 80 80 80 83 86 86 92 96
Moscow State University 1000 66 66 70 76 70 77 74 77 80
Nagoya University 68 97 97 98 94 1000 82 79 94 96
New York University 55 32 32 29 30 31 32 31 29 27
North Carolina State University 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Northwestern University 29 30 30 33 29 30 30 29 30 30
Ohio State University 81 73 73 66 61 62 62 59 63 65
Osaka University 53 54 54 61 67 68 71 75 82 83
Pennsylvania State University 40 43 43 42 43 42 45 43 45 49
Princeton University 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 7 7 7
Purdue University 80 71 71 73 68 65 65 69 61 56
Rice University 61 75 75 87 87 97 99 99 93 91
Rockefeller University 28 29 29 30 30 32 32 34 33 32
Rutgers University 38 44 44 46 47 54 55 54 59 61
Stanford University 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 2
Stockholm University 1000 97 97 84 86 86 88 79 81 81
ETH Zurich 25 27 27 27 27 24 23 23 23 23
Technical University of Munich 60 45 52 54 56 57 57 56 47 53
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 78
Texas A&M University 70 1000 1000 88 91 88 88 95 100 93
Tohoku University 64 69 69 76 76 79 84 84 97 1000
Tokyo Institute of Technology 1000 1000 1000 89 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Tufts University 83 99 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of Arizona 55 76 76 76 74 77 77 78 80 77
University of Basel 96 91 91 81 82 87 85 86 89 85
University of Birmingham 1000 93 93 90 92 91 94 99 1000 1000
University of Bonn 1000 99 99 1000 99 97 98 93 94 1000
University of Bristol 55 60 60 62 62 61 61 66 70 70
University of British Columbia 35 36 36 36 36 35 36 36 37 39
University of California, Berkeley 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 4 4
University of California, Davis 36 42 42 42 43 48 49 46 48 47
University of California, Irvine 44 55 55 44 45 46 46 46 48 45
University of California, Los Angeles 15 16 16 14 13 13 13 13 12 12
University of California, Riverside 88 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of California, San Diego 14 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 15 15
University of California, San Francisco 13 17 17 18 18 18 18 18 17 18
University of California, Santa Barbara 26 35 35 35 35 36 35 32 33 34
University of Cambridge 5 3 2 2 4 4 4 5 5 5
University of Chicago 11 10 10 8 9 9 8 9 9 9
University College London 20 25 25 26 25 22 21 21 20 21
University of Colorado 31 34 34 34 34 34 34 32 32 33
University of Copenhagen 65 59 59 56 46 45 43 40 43 44
University of Edinburgh 43 47 47 52 53 55 53 54 53 51
University of Florida 75 67 67 53 51 58 58 68 72 72
University of Freiburg 1000 88 88 93 94 96 1000 1000 1000 99
University of Geneva 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 73 69
University of Ghent 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 90 89 89
University of Göttingen 91 79 79 85 87 90 90 93 86 1000
University of Groningen 84 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of Heidelberg 58 64 64 66 65 67 63 63 62 62
University of Helsinki 74 72 72 74 73 68 72 72 74 73
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 45 25 25 25 26 26 25 25 25 25
University of Illinois at Chicago 96 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of Iowa 90 1000 1000 95 97 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of Leiden 78 63 63 72 71 76 72 70 65 73
University of Manchester 89 78 53 50 48 40 41 44 38 40
University of Maryland, College Park 75 57 57 37 37 37 37 36 38 38
University of Melbourne 92 82 82 78 79 73 75 62 60 57
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 21 19 19 21 21 21 22 22 22 22
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 37 33 33 32 33 28 28 28 28 29
University of Munich 48 51 51 51 53 55 55 52 54 60
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 52 56 56 59 58 38 39 41 42 41
University of Nottingham 1000 80 80 79 81 82 83 84 85 86
University of Oslo 63 68 68 68 69 64 65 75 75 67
University of Oxford 9 8 8 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
University of Paris 6 (Pierre and Marie Curie University) 65 41 41 45 39 42 40 39 41 42
University of Paris 11 (Paris-Sud 11 University) 72 48 48 64 52 49 43 45 40 37
University of Pennsylvania 18 15 15 15 15 15 15 15 14 14
University of Pittsburgh 53 48 48 48 49 52 50 56 57 58
University of Queensland 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 86 90
Sapienza University of Rome 70 93 97 100 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of Rochester 72 52 52 74 75 73 77 82 84 86
University of Sheffield 68 69 69 69 72 77 81 88 97 1000
University of Southern California 40 48 48 47 50 50 46 46 46 46
University of Strasbourg 1000 82 82 96 99 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of Sydney 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 97 94 92 96 93
University of Texas at Austin 47 40 40 39 38 39 38 38 35 35
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 34 36 36 38 39 41 48 49 51 48
University of Tokyo 19 14 14 19 20 19 20 20 21 20
University of Toronto 23 24 24 24 23 24 27 27 26 27
University of Utah 81 95 95 94 93 79 80 82 79 82
Utrecht University 40 39 39 40 42 47 52 50 48 53
University of Vienna 84 86 86 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
University of Virginia 67 1000 1000 1000 1000 95 91 96 1000 1000
University of Washington 16 20 20 17 16 16 16 16 16 16
University of Western Australia 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 96
University of Wisconsin–Madison 27 18 18 16 17 17 17 17 19 19
University of Zurich 45 57 57 58 58 53 54 51 56 59
Uppsala University 59 74 74 65 66 71 76 66 67 73
Vanderbilt University 32 38 38 41 41 42 41 53 52 50
Washington University in St. Louis 22 28 28 28 28 29 29 30 31 31
Weizmann Institute of Science 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 93
Yale University 8 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

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