Stockholm University among the 150 best in the world
Stockholm University ranks 101–150 in the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), sharing the third place in Sweden with Lund University and University of Gothenburg. Highest ranked in Sweden is Karolinska Institutet followed by Uppsala University.
Photo: Ingmarie Andersson, Stockholm University.
Since 2003, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai ranking, presents an annual ranking of the world’s 1 000 top research universities. This year’s ranking is topped by three American universities: Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Karolinska Institutet is ranked first among Swedish universities, at place 43. Uppsala University is ranked second at place 88. Compared to last year’s ranking, Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University and Stockholm University have lost positions on the ranking list, while Lund University has risen from the range of 151–200 to 101–150. Universities ranking outside the top 100 do not receive an individual ranking or an overall score but are placed within a range.
ARWU measures the quality of research, including indicators such as the number of alumni and employed researchers who have won Nobel Prizes, the number of “highly cited” researchers and the number of articles published in the journals Nature and Science. In total, more than 2 500 universities are ranked and only the best 1000 are published.
2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities
Last updated: 2024-08-19
Source: Communications Office