The first ten places are as they were last year taken by the Anglo-saxons with eight american universities and two british.
Harvard, head for the 18th consecutive year. American universities continue to dominate the Shanghai ranking, published Friday, in which four French institutions, including the Paris Saclay, make their first appearance in the top 100.
The first ten places are as they were last year taken by the Anglo-saxons with eight american universities and two british occupying the top of this ranking of the best institutions of higher realized since 2003 by the independent firm Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
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Sitting in first place, Harvard is ahead once again, his fellow Stanford and the british Cambridge. We then find the american MIT (4th), Berkeley (5th) and Princeton (6th).
the facility’s First non-common-law with his 14th-place, Paris-Saclay is also made its first appearance in the top 100 as the university of PSL (Paris sciences & lettres), at the 36th rank, that of Paris (65th) and Grenoble Alpes (99th). Accustomed to ranking, the Sorbonne grappille, it, few places to reach 39th place.
Third largest in the world
In a statement, the minister of higher Education Frédérique Vidal welcomed the fact that France now ranks as the 3rd largest in the world behind the United States and the United Kingdom and sees it as the result of the reforms in the higher.
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“The efforts initiated to enhance the outreach of our universities internationally are beginning to bear fruit. These new models of universities demonstrate their relevance and are now recognized abroad, testifying to the quality of our teaching and our research at the international level”, said the minister.
The Shanghai ranking takes into account six criteria, including the number of Nobel and Fields medals among the graduate students and professors, the number of researchers most cited in their discipline or the number of publications in the journals Science and Nature.
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If the cabinet presents this ranking as “the most reliable”, these criteria are denounced by many european leaders as a bias damaging to their institutions. In 2019, Frédérique Vidal had regretted that “some” of the choice of the classification “serve particularly the French universities”.
