The 2024 academic Ranking of World Universities has just been published
French universities stand out in the world ranking of a thousand universities in the field of science and technology.
Three of them feature in the top 50.
Paris-Saclay is in third place, among the top 10 European universities.
The Shanghai ranking list assesses academic performance and the quality of research on the basis of six criteria:
- The number of alumni who have won a Nobel Prize or Fields Medal
- The number of Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medal winners among teaching and research staff
- The number of researchers most cited in their field, by university
- The number of articles published in the journals Nature and science
- Number of articles indexed by Thomson Scientific
- Academic performance of professors
For more information here is the link : ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities