University places among top international universities in 2024 academic rankings
15 Aug 2024
The University of Manchester has been ranked at number 52, out of more than 2500 institutions in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which ranks the world’s leading higher education institutions.
The annual rankings see The University of Manchester 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 gone from 41 to 52 globally.
More than 2500 institutions were reviewed this year, and the best 1000 universities in the world have been published. Overall, The United Kingdom has 63 Top 1000 universities, with 38 of them listed in the Top 500, and eight listed in the Top 100.
President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Duncan Ivison, said: “While they don’t measure everything we value, what these rankings demonstrate is our consistent position as one of Europe’s 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."
What is the AWRU and how are we ranked?
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.
Our other rankings this year
This latest ARWU ranking follows on from us being named as the world's 34th best University, according to the newest QS World University Rankings, published in June this year.
Manchester was also named top in both the UK and Europe, and second in the world for meaningful contributions towards the United Nations’ 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 Manchester as one of the UK's top research institutions.
The complete list and detailed methodologies can be found at ShanghaiRanking’s website http://www.shanghairanking.com/.