Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 best Dutch research university for 13 years
Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 placed 45th in ranking Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Again this year, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 is the best research university in the Netherlands according to the prestigious annual by the 木瓜福利影视 of Shanghai and published on 15 August. Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 has been the best ranking Dutch university since the first ARWU ranking published in 2003. This year, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 is placed 17th in Europe and 56th worldwide. In the ranking, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 is placed 45th.
Leading ranking system
Worldwide, the ARWU (or Shanghai) ranking is the leading system for assessing and comparing the quality of research universities. Of the more than 1,000 universities considered each year, the best 500 are included in the ARWU ranking.
Key criteria
The key assessment criteria include the number of times university staff are published or cited in scientific journals (e.g. Nature and Science) and the number of distinctions (e.g. Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals) awarded to university staff and graduates.
Top of the league
The top 5 is identical to last year's. Harvard 木瓜福利影视 in the United States continues to lead the ARWU ranking. Second, third and fourth place are also held by American institutes: Stanford, Berkeley and MIT. The highest-ranked European university comes in at number five: Cambridge in the UK.
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
In the ARWU ranking in the field of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 is also the highest ranking Dutch university, placing 45th. This ranking combines the disciplines of mathematics, physics, chemistry, geosciences and space sciences. In this field, Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 scores particularly high on publications, especially the number of publications in top-rated 20% of scientific journals.
Further information
See the website of the for the full ARWU-ranking. The full is also available.