In this year's ranking, Harvard University still ranks first, ranking first in the world for the 20th consecutive year, and Stanford University continues to rank second in the world. Massachusetts Institute of Technology rose to third place, Cambridge University retreated to fourth place, University of California, Berkeley, fifth place, Princeton University, sixth place, Oxford University, seventh place, and Columbia University, eighth place ... Among the top 20 universities in the world, American and British universities occupy 18 seats.

America's "big brother" status remains the same. Among the former 100 schools, the United States occupied 39.

As one of the four authoritative rankings recognized in the world, ARWU is the only purely academic university ranking.

The ARWU ranking attaches great importance to scientific research, so it is more important for science and engineering colleges than liberal arts colleges, while the academic indicators of ARWU examine the total amount of academic achievements, so the bigger the discipline, the more schools can occupy a place in the ARWU ranking.

In order to provide a relatively scientific and rigorous reference for China University to build a world-class higher education, the academic ranking of the World University of Soft Sciences adopts internationally comparable academic indicators and third-party data, including the number of alumni and teachers who won the Nobel Prize and Fields Prize, the number of highly cited scientists, the number of papers published in Nature and Science, the Science Citation Index (SCIE) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).