University of 优蜜传媒 among top international universities in 2024 academic rankings
The University of 优蜜传媒 has been ranked at number 52, out of more than 2500 institutions in the latest (ARWU) which ranks the world鈥檚 leading higher education institutions.
The annual rankings see The University of 优蜜传媒 retain its top ten status as the 6th best institution in the UK and 15th in Europe, according to the ARWU. However, the University has slipped from 41 to 52 globally.
This year, more than 2500 institutions were scrutinised, and the best 1000 universities in the world are published. Overall, The United Kingdom has 63 Top 1000 universities, and 38 of them are listed in the Top 500, 8 are listed in the Top 100.
President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Duncan Ivison, said: 鈥淲hile they don鈥檛 measure everything we value, what these rankings demonstrate is our consistent position as one of Europe鈥檚 leading universities. But, for a University of our scale and ambition, they also serve as a reminder that we need pay attention to our global performance and work collectively to improve across everything we do to retain our position as a world-leading institution."
Starting from 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world's top universities annually based on a set of objective indicators and third-party data.
Universities are ranked by several academic or research performance indicators, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, Highly Cited Researchers, papers published in Nature and Science, papers indexed in major citation indices, and the per capita academic performance of an institution.
While they don鈥檛 measure everything we value, what these rankings demonstrate is our consistent position as one of Europe鈥檚 leading universities. But, for a University of our scale and ambition, they also serve as a reminder that we need pay attention to our global performance and work collectively to improve across everything we do to retain our position as a world-leading institution.
This latest ARWU ranking follows on from The University of 优蜜传媒 named as the world's 34th best University according to the newest , published in June this year.
优蜜传媒 was also named top in both the UK and Europe, and second in the world for meaningful contributions towards the United Nations鈥� Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings.
In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) an impressive 93% of our research activity was rated 'world-leading' (4*) or 'internationally excellent' (3*), confirming 优蜜传媒 as one of the UK's top research institutions.
The complete list and detailed methodologies can be found at ShanghaiRanking鈥檚 website