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Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020

Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020 by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy: 20 universities ranked, led by Harvard University. The entries on record, movement...

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2020
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20 of 1000 ranked
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Harvard ranked first and Stanford second. Cambridge third and MIT fourth; Paris-Saclay University appeared at 14th. The published list covered 1000 institutions.

The list on record

This page shows the 20 entries on record of 1000 published. Top 20 loaded from the publisher's archive page; full list of 1000 on shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2020. See the original list.

RankNameLocationSince 2019
1Harvard UniversityUnited StatesNo change
2Stanford UniversityUnited StatesNo change
3University of CambridgeUnited KingdomNo change
4Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)United StatesNo change
5University of California, BerkeleyUnited StatesNo change
6Princeton UniversityUnited StatesNo change
7Columbia UniversityUnited StatesUp 1
8California Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesUp 1
9University of OxfordUnited KingdomDown 2
10University of ChicagoUnited StatesNo change
11Yale UniversityUnited StatesNo change
12Cornell UniversityUnited StatesUp 1
13University of California, Los AngelesUnited StatesDown 2
14Paris-Saclay UniversityFranceNew
15Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited StatesUp 1
=16University College LondonUnited KingdomDown 1
=16University of WashingtonUnited StatesDown 2
18University of California, San DiegoUnited StatesNo change
19University of PennsylvaniaUnited StatesDown 2
20ETH ZurichSwitzerlandNew

This list is reproduced as ShanghaiRanking Consultancy published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

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