To compile the list, specialists examine more than 1200 institutions of higher education, first resulting in a list of 500 and now 800 members. This year the best 1000 universities have been ranked. Unlike other rankings, the Shanghai Ranking places more emphasis on research and the dissemination of scientific results. Thus it is not surprising that ARWU has become one of the popular indicators of global performance among research universities.
Three of the indicators of rather high prestige (e.g. numbers of Nobel laureates/Field awards) apply to measuring publications (highly cited researchers in the 21 comprehensive fields of science, number of publications published by Nature and Science; number of publications by Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index), which contribute 60% to the overall score determining position of the institutions. This has been the first time the University of Debrecen has made its appearance on this list.
Rank              Institution                                                              Country
1.                   Harvard University                                                   United States
2.           Stanford University                                                  United States
3.                  University of Cambridge                                          United Kingdom
4.                   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)        United States
5.           University of California, Berkeley                 United States
6.                  Princeton University                          United States
7.                   University of Oxford                          United Kingdom
8.                   Columbia University                                                United States
9.           California Institute of Technology                United States
10.                 University of Chicago                                              United States
501-600.        Eötvös Loránd University                      Hungary
501-600.        University of Szeged                                                Hungary
601-700         Semmelweis University                        Hungary
701-800.        Budapest University of Technology and Economics  Hungary
901-1000       University of Debrecen                        Hungary
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