Lamerican universities monopolize the first places. Harvard comes in first place for the 20e year in a row of the Shanghai ranking published on Monday, in which four French establishments remain in the top 100. Anglo-Saxon establishments impose themselves as last year in the first ten places: eight American universities and two British occupy the top of the 2022 edition of this world ranking of the best higher education institutions, produced since 2003 by the independent firm Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
Enthroned in first place, Harvard is once again ahead of its compatriot Stanford. This year, another American university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), took third place on the podium, relegating Britain’s Cambridge to fourth.
Decline of French universities
Then there are the American universities Berkeley (5e) and Princeton (6e) then the British Oxford (7e). A total of 39 American universities appear in the top 100. First non-Anglo-Saxon institution with its 16e place, Paris-Saclay University for its part lost three places compared to the 2021 ranking. Three other French universities are in the 100 best in the world, having also fallen a few places compared to last PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres), which brings together several higher education establishments, including the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), at 40e row, the Sorbonne (43e) and Paris-Cité University (78e).
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The Shanghai ranking takes into account six criteria, including the number of Nobel and Fields medals – considered the Nobel of mathematics – among graduate students and professors, the number of most cited researchers in their discipline or the number of publications. in magazines Science and Nature. This year, more than 2,500 establishments were reviewed to establish a ranking of the top 1,000.