Athens U among global top 400 universities

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens remains in the 1.3% of the best universities worldwide according to the results of the Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the Shanghai Ranking (ARWU - "Shanghai Ranking")

In particular, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the "Shanghai Ranking", was announced by the independent non-profit organization ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Based on the results of the Ranking, one Greek University is in the top four hundred universities worldwide and a total of four Greek universities are among the 1000 best in the world. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens emerges as the leading Greek University for another year (positions 301-400). They are followed in positions 501-600 by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Crete in positions 601-700, and the University of Thessaly in positions 801-900.

This ranking is considered one of the three most important global rankings. Methodologically, every University that has graduates and professors awarded with the Nobel prize or other important prizes, researchers whose articles have a high scientific impact, and articles and publications in the important journals Nature and Science is evaluated. In addition, the table includes Universities with a significant number of publications that have been included in the Science-Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) database and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) database.

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Since the publication of the ranking began in 2003, more than 2,000 universities have been evaluated and ranked, and the top 500 table is created from among these. From the 2019 ranking onwards, a total of 2,500 top-ranking universities are...