ARWU (Shanghai) Ranking
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (the Shanghai rankings) covers the world, and an Irish ranking can be produced from the national sub-set of the data. Universities are ranked sequentially for 1st-100th place; universities below 100th place are ranked only in bands of 100, down to 500th.
| World Rank 2012 |
World Rank 2011 |
World Rank 2010 |
World Rank 2009 |
World Rank 2008 |
World Rank 2007 |
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| 1 | TCD | 201-300 | 201-300 | 201-300 | 201-302 | 201-302 | 203-304 |
| 2-3 | UCC | 301-400 | 301-400 | 401-500 | 303-401 | 303-401 | 403-510 |
| 2-3 | UCD | 301-400 | 301-400 | 301-400 | 303-401 | 303-401 | 305-402 |
“The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis. ARWU uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index – Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution. More than 1000 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published on the web …” (more)
