Shanghai league table ranks Warwick in top 100

Sir Nigel Thrift’s pledge to make the University a bigger player on the worldwide stage has come a step closer in the last week, with Warwick reaching number 92 on a global league table.

The Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which ranks universities based on their performances in academic research, has noted Warwick’s achievements in science and mathematics.

The University as a whole has jumped 96 places compared with last year, and has ranked 13th in Mathematics and 34th in Economics and Business.

Despite the fact that the ARWU is a typically science-focused scale, the University, which teaches a broad range of subjects, has been placed above specialist science institutions.

Warwick being included in the top 100 is a mark of achievement for the University and Sir Nigel Thrift, as the scale automatically excludes any university that doesn’t have Nobel Laureates, Fields Medalists, Highly Cited Researchers or papers published in Nature or Science.

Sir Thrift, whose targets for Warwick’s 50th year included placing Warwick on a worldwide platform, marked this achievement by saying, “This has been a year filled with stunning international ranking results for the University of Warwick and it is particularly fitting that this comes in the year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of our University.”

The Professor also noted the University’s success in other global scales, saying, “In the last year Warwick has been ranked as one of the world’s top 100 universities in the world in three tables: The QS annual World Univeristy Rankings, the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, and now the Shanghai Jiao Tong.

“We were also declared University of the Year by the UK’s the Times and Sunday Times newspapers.”

The highest ranking British Universities included Cambridge at number five, Oxford at number ten and the University College London at number 18.