In a ranking of the top 2,500 universities in the world, the University of Washington has placed 17th, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Multiple criteria were measured to rank the universities, including the number of staff and alumni that have won Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, and a per capita performance of the universities.
The top 10 universities in the world are Harvard (1), Stanford (2), MIT (3), Cambridge (4), University of California, Berkley (5), Princeton (6), Oxford (7), Columbia (8), Cal-Tech (9) and University of Chicago (10).
Rankings past 100 are grouped and not listed for a specific rank, for example, Washington State University’s rank is 301-400.
Seattle University, Pacific Lutheran University, Western Washington University, Gonzaga, Central Washington University and Eastern Washington University were not ranked.
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