Manchester rises in university world rankings
The University of Manchester, UK, has risen six places in global rankings, confirming its position as a world-leading institution.
The Shanghai ranking has been published each year since 2003. Universities across the world are ranked based on six indicators, which include the number of award-winning faculty and alumni and the number of articles published in journals such as Nature and Science.
President and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell – who provides the foreword to the next edition of Pan European Networks: Science and Technology – said: “I am delighted to see that we are rising up the rankings, and the fantastic result shows that we are still on track to become one of the world’s leading universities by 2020. All credit must go to my colleagues across the university whose exceptional research underpins our position.”
The university entered the Shanghai rankings at a starting position of 89th in the world, climbing almost every year. It takes 35th place this year, which is a rise from 41st in 2015, achieving its highest position since the rankings began.
Manchester is in fifth position in the list of UK universities – after Cambridge, Oxford, UCL and ICL – and attributes its rise to an increase in the number of highly-cited researchers, including astrophysicist Professor Brian Cox, who said: “The University of Manchester’s place in intellectual history is, arguably, second to none. You start listing the names: Alan Turing, Bernard Lovell, Rutherford, Schuster … It’s a place where you can wander through knowledge.”
With 38,590 students and 10,400 faculty, making it the UK’s largest single-campus university, researchers at the University of Manchester are striving to be at the fore of innovative solutions to some of our biggest challenges and among the world’s very best higher education institutions.
It is also the home of the so-called ‘wonder material’ graphene, which now has its own flagship programme under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme.
