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

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

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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.

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