The soft subjects in university rankings are the most authoritative. The academic ranking of the world's soft science universities, or ARWU for short, was first published in 2003 by the World-class University Research Center of the College of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiaotong University. The academic rankings of the world's soft science universities are the same as those of American News, QS and Times Higher Education, and are recognized as the four authoritative world rankings.

On the whole, the ranking of soft science universities is objective, transparent and stable, but some critics believe that the ranking focuses on scientific research achievements and overemphasizes the fields of science and engineering and the publication of papers in famous American journals. Its index weight is: 10% alumni win the prize; 20% teachers win prizes: 20% highly cited scientists; 20% papers; 20% of international papers, 10% of teachers have performed.

As a ranking that pays attention to scientific research achievements everywhere, academic ranking of world universities, a soft science major, has been accused of placing too much emphasis on the field of science and technology. European and American academic circles also criticized it for paying too much attention to the number of Nobel Prizes won by alumni and ignoring the overall atmosphere and quality of students in colleges and universities. In addition, the ranking mainly uses well-known American journals and paper publishing platforms as data benchmarks, which also leads to the obvious performance of American universities in the ranking.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Academic Ranking of Soft Science in World Universities