The newly released Shanghai Ranking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2023 has ranked Sussex ahead of universities such as Durham, York, and Queen’s University, Belfast in the top 25 of UK institutions – and among the top 201-300 globally.

Our ranking position for the number of articles published in the important journals Nature and Science between 2018 and 2022 has also climbed by 20 places compared to last year.

The ARWU rankings methodology is based on a range of indicators including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers and research outputs, and per capita performance of a university.

The University also performed strongly in the citations indicator which measures the number of highly cited researchers selected by Clarivate Analytics. The researchers from Sussex include: Dr Constantin Blome, Professor Dave Goulson, Dr Paula Kivimaa, Professor Karoline Rogge, Professor Ian Scoones, Professor Adrian Smith, Professor Steven Sorrell, Professor Benjamin Sovacool, and Professor Anil Seth.

This year, the UK has 64 ARWU Top 1,000 universities listed, with 38 in the Top 500 and eight in the Top 100.