FROM Harvard in first place for the 20th year in a row, American universities still lead the way Shanghai rankingwhich has been made public.

Anglo-Saxon university institutions occupy, as they did last year, the top ten positions: eight American universities and two British are in the top positions in this world ranking of the best higher education institutions in 2022, which has been compiled since 2003 by an independent organization Shanghai rating consulting company.

From Greek Universities National and Kapodistrian University of Athens places 301-400 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki at positions 501-600, University of Crete at positions 601-700 and University of Thessaly at positions 801-900.

At the top of the list is Harvard again ahead of his also American university Stanford.

This year another American university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, MIT), ranked third on the list, sending a British university Cambridge.

Followed by American Universities Berkeley (5th place) and Princeton (6th) followed by her UK university Oxford (7th place).

In total, the top 100 of the Shanghai ranking includes 39 American universities.

The first non-Anglo-Saxon institution on the list is French University of Paris-Saclay in 16th place.

Shanghai is ranked based on six criteria, including the number of Nobel Prizes and Fields Prizes, considered Nobel Prizes in mathematics, that its alumni and professors have received, the number of researchers with the most citations in their field, or the number of publications. in reviews of science and nature.

More than 2,500 institutions were tested this year to rank the top 1,000.