McGill has moved up the ladder in the annual Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), with the University jumping from 73rd in 2022, to 70th this year. The rankings were released by the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University on August 15.
ARWU uses several academic or research performance indicators to rate world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning major prizes; the number of highly cited researchers; the number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science; papers indexed in major citation indices; and the per capita academic performance of an institution.
Once again, McGill was particularly strong in the Quality of Education category, which calculates the number of alumni who have won Nobel Prizes or Field Prizes. The University ranked first among Canadian institutions in this indicator.
McGill’s strong performance in the Shanghai rankings comes on the heels of a positive result in the QS World University Rankings 2024 in which the University cracked the global top 30.
Consult the Academic Rankings of World Universities 2023