China's rise in the Shanghai ranking list in 2023 Harvard University is the top-ranked institution for the 21st consecutive year. It is followed by Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. UK universities Cambridge and Oxford were ranked fourth and seventh respectively.To get more shanghai news, you can visit citynewsservice.cn official website. More than 2,500 universities are ranked by ARWU each year and the top 1,000 are published in the list, also known as the Shanghai Rankings. The annual ranking evaluates universities based on six criteria, including the number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, the number of highly cited researchers, and the number of papers published in Nature and Science. Many institutions, including Israel's Weizmann Institute, took to social media to celebrate their inclusion in the list. "Even in these complicated times for Israeli academia, the Weizmann Institute jumped from 83rd last year to 67th this year in the Shanghai ranking - another reason to be proud!" HESA President Alex Usher pointed out that the number of US institutions in the top 100 has dropped significantly since the first edition of the rankings in 2003. In this year's rankings, China has 214 universities in the top 1,000, up from 146 five years ago. In particular, China has gone from zero to 10 places in the top 100 in the last decade. This does not include the University of Hong Kong, which is also listed as a Chinese institution in the rankings at 87th place. Beijing's Tsinghua University was the top Asian institution in 22nd place."Europe, for all the palaver about excellence initiatives and so on, has hardly moved," Usher added. "There is a middle tier of countries with a solid core of top research institutions whose rankings don't move much from year to year: Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland." Overall, Spanish institutions are positioned lower in the rankings. Last year there were 40 institutions in the list, this year there are 38. Of these, 19 have fallen, 2 have risen and 19 have stayed the same. A professor at the University of Granada, ranked in the 201-300 category, wonders where the institution would rank with a budget similar to that of one of the largest institutions. The highest EU university in the list is France's Université Paris-Saclay in 15th place. "Our university has shown that its model is robust and internationally recognised," said Estelle Iacona, President of Université Paris-Saclay. "Our graduates can be proud of the national and international recognition of their degrees, and the laboratories that we manage and co-manage can also benefit from this recognition." Some stakeholders have questioned the criteria of the ranking, which is based on research quality and reputation.