The new vintage of the Shanghai ranking, which lists the 1000 best universities in the world, was unveiled on August 15, 2022. And like in previous years, the African continent remains largely under-represented among the lucky ones. Only 18 African universities are in this year’s ranking.
American universities monopolize the first places. Harvard comes in first place for the 20th year in a row in the Shanghai ranking published on Monday August 15, 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 and two British universities occupy the top of the 2022 edition of this world ranking of the best institutions of higher education, carried out 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 the British Cambridge to fourth position.
Africa: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria and Ethiopia save the honor.
Then there are the American universities Berkeley (5th) and Princeton (6th) then the British Oxford (7th). A total of 39 American universities are in the top 100. The first non-Anglo-Saxon establishment with its 16th place, the University of Paris-Saclay lost three places compared to the 2021 ranking.
With only 18 universities, the African continent is the poor relation in the ranking. Africa remains in fact globally behind in this ranking. Only South Africa with 9 establishments, Egypt (7), Nigeria (1) and Ethiopia (1) manage to see their universities in the new ranking.
Created in 2003 by China’s Jiao Tong University, the list has been compiled since 2009 by the consultancy company Shanghai Ranking.
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 the journals Science and Nature. This year, more than 2,500 establishments were reviewed to establish a ranking of the top 1,000.
See the full ranking: https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2022