Harvard toujours en tête du classement de Shanghai
It has been a position on the podium that Harvard has never relinquished in twenty-two years: the American university once again clinches the top spot in the 2024 edition of the highly scrutinized Shanghai ranking, published on Thursday, August 15. Founded in 2003 by the Chinese university Jiao-Tong, this annual ranking primarily focuses on research work in hard sciences to distinguish the top 1,000 institutions deemed the most “performant” out of over 2,500 worldwide. A marker of the continued dominance of Anglo-Saxon institutions at the top of the ranking, Harvard shines there, as in the previous year, alongside two other US universities, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). They are followed by the British university Cambridge. Another English flagship, the University of Oxford, moves up one spot (6th), behind Berkeley (5th) and ahead of Princeton (7th).
France’s Progress in the Global Rankings
On the French side, the four institutions that were already in the top 100 worldwide are climbing the ranks. Leading these French universities, Paris-Saclay climbs three spots in the top 15. The institution, which experienced a tumultuous year amid a crisis for the election of its presidency, ranks for the first time in the 12th position globally, tied with the American university Cornell. Born from the merger of several faculties, grandes écoles, and national research organizations, the Paris-Saclay Francilian university stands out as the highest-ranked on the European continent, according to Shanghai Ranking, which has been compiling the rankings since 2009. The second institution on the Old Continent, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is a bit further back in 21st place. Alongside Paris-Saclay, the momentum is also positive for French institutions like Paris Sciences et lettres (PSL), climbing eight places (ranked 33rd), Sorbonne University (41st, up from 46th in 2023), and finally, the University of Paris Cité (60th, formerly 69th), resulting from the merger in 2019 of Paris-Descartes and Paris-Diderot universities, and the inclusion of the Paris Institute of Global Physics.
Factors for Ranking Determination
To compile its ranking, Shanghai Ranking relies on six criteria.
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