Wang Jingli

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SHENZHEN University (SZU) was included in the top 300 in the 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, SZU announced yesterday.

This is the second time for SZU to enter the top 300, after it was included for the first time last year. The university ranked No. 28 among universities on the Chinese mainland, moving forward three spots from last year, said SZU.

The Southern University of Science and Technology was among the top 400, while the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen entered the top 1,000 for the first time this year in the ARWU.

AWRU presents the world’s top 1,000 research universities annually based on transparent methodology and objective third-party data.

A total of 157 universities from the Chinese mainland were included in this year’s ARWU list, with 35 included in the top 300.

The top five were Tsinghua University (28th globally), Peking University (45th), Zhejiang University (52nd), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (59th) and the University of Science and Technology of China (63rd).

A total of 14 universities from Guangdong Province were on the AWRU list this year. SZU took the third place, following Sun Yat-sen University and South China University of Technology.

Harvard University tops the ranking list for the 19th year in a row. Stanford University and the University of Cambridge remain in the No. 2 and No. 3 spots, respectively.

First published in 2003, 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 Clarivate Analytics and number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science.

More than 1,800 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 1,000 are published, according to the introduction published on ARWU’s official website.