Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) — 2025

Published by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, ARWU is one of the most-cited world university rankings, focused on research output and academic prestige.

61 UK universities in this world ranking · data refreshed 27 March 2026

Showing 61 universities

RankUniversityScore
#4University of Cambridge 68.6
#6University of Oxford 61.0
#14UCL (University College London) 48.5
#26Imperial College London 40.4
#37The University of Edinburgh 35.7
#46University of Manchester 33.6
#61King's College London, University of London 31.7
#98University of Bristol 26.4
#101University of Glasgow —
#101University of Liverpool —
#101University of Nottingham —
#101University of Warwick —
#151London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London —
#151University of Birmingham —
#151University of Exeter —
#151University of Leeds —
#151University of Sheffield —
#151University of Southampton —
#201Cardiff University —
#201Durham University —
#201London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London —
#201Newcastle University —
#201Queen Mary University of London —
#201University of Aberdeen —
#201University of Sussex —
#201University of York —
#301Lancaster University —
#301Queen's University Belfast —
#301University of Dundee —
#301University of East Anglia UEA —
#301University of Leicester —
#301University of St Andrews —
#401University of Bath —
#401University of Essex —
#401University of Kent —
#401University of Reading —
#401University of Surrey —
#501Bangor University —
#601Brunel University of London —
#601Liverpool John Moores University —
#601Manchester Metropolitan University —
#701City (City St George's, University of London) —
#701Heriot-Watt University —
#701Northumbria University, Newcastle —
#701Swansea University —
#701University of Greenwich —
#701University of Plymouth —
#701University of Stirling —
#701University of Strathclyde —
#801Birkbeck, University of London —

How Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is calculated

ARWU weights Nobel & Fields-medal alumni and staff, highly-cited researchers, papers in Nature and Science, indexed publications (SCIE/SSCI), and per-capita academic performance.

Official methodology →