King's rises four places in Shanghai Rankings
King’s College London has risen four places in this year’s ‘Shanghai’ global university rankings.
King’s is in 46th place worldwide in the 2017 league table of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) – up from 50th last year.
Welcoming the news of this year’s results, Professor Ed Byrne, President and Principal of King’s, said: ‘King's has consolidated a place in the top 50 on this most rigorous of the largely research-based international rankings. This is an outstanding result for King’s as this is the way the rankings measure research proves challenging for us as an institution. As we continue to strengthen research outputs across the board, I would anticipate further steady improvement in the face of ever increasing international competition’.
The ARWU league table was originally compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ranks 500 universities from across the world based on six indicators. These include measuring the number of staff winning Nobel prizes and field medals, alumni and the number of articles published in major journals.
This year there are only two UK universities – Cambridge and Oxford, which break up the dominance of US institutions in the Shanghai Top 10 and a total of seven UK universities in the Top 50.
In June it was announced that the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's was ranked 2nd in the Shanghai Global Rankings of Academic Subjects 2017 and King’s Dental Institute was ranked 7th.