THE GLOBAL INDEX #019
Number of ARWU top-1,000 universities2026
Counts universities in the ARWU 2026 top 1,000 by the original country or territory classification. This is a count of listed institutions, not all universities or a measure of teaching quality. Countries absent from the list are not assigned zero.
China234 universitiesTop 10
universities · 2026Complete ranking
Download CSV ↓| Rank | Country / territory | Value (universities) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | China | 234 | 2026 |
| 02 |  United States | 187 | 2026 |
| 03 |  United Kingdom | 57 | 2026 |
| 04 |  Germany | 51 | 2026 |
| 05 |  Italy | 42 | 2026 |
| 06 |  Canada | 30 | 2026 |
| 06 |  Spain | 30 | 2026 |
| 08 |  Australia | 29 | 2026 |
| 08 |  South Korea | 29 | 2026 |
| 10 |  France | 27 | 2026 |
| 11 |  Japan | 26 | 2026 |
| 12 |  India | 15 | 2026 |
| 13 |  Brazil | 14 | 2026 |
| 13 |  Saudi Arabia | 14 | 2026 |
| 13 |  Türkiye | 14 | 2026 |
| 16 |  Netherlands | 13 | 2026 |
| 17 |  Sweden | 12 | 2026 |
| 18 |  Austria | 11 | 2026 |
| 19 |  Switzerland | 9 | 2026 |
| 20 |  Belgium | 8 | 2026 |
| 20 |  South Africa | 8 | 2026 |
| 22 |  Finland | 7 | 2026 |
| 22 |  Hong Kong SAR China | 7 | 2026 |
| 22 |  Israel | 7 | 2026 |
| 22 |  Poland | 7 | 2026 |
| 26 |  Denmark | 6 | 2026 |
| 26 |  Egypt | 6 | 2026 |
| 26 |  Ireland | 6 | 2026 |
| 26 |  Iran | 6 | 2026 |
| 26 |  New Zealand | 6 | 2026 |
| 26 |  Portugal | 6 | 2026 |
| 32 |  Czechia | 5 | 2026 |
| 32 |  Malaysia | 5 | 2026 |
| 32 |  Norway | 5 | 2026 |
| 32 |  Russia | 5 | 2026 |
| 36 |  Greece | 4 | 2026 |
| 36 |  Hungary | 4 | 2026 |
| 36 |  Macao SAR China | 4 | 2026 |
| 36 |  Pakistan | 4 | 2026 |
| 40 |  Thailand | 3 | 2026 |
| 41 |  United Arab Emirates | 2 | 2026 |
| 41 |  Chile | 2 | 2026 |
| 41 |  Colombia | 2 | 2026 |
| 41 |  Morocco | 2 | 2026 |
| 41 |  Mexico | 2 | 2026 |
| 41 |  Singapore | 2 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Argentina | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Bulgaria | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Cyprus | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Estonia | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Ethiopia | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Croatia | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Iceland | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Lebanon | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Lithuania | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Luxembourg | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Qatar | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Serbia | 1 | 2026 |
| 47 |  Slovenia | 1 | 2026 |
No matching countries.
How this ranking works
For annual statistics, the default is the newest year covering at least 70% of the maximum available country coverage, and at least 20 economies where possible. A ranking uses one year or report edition; missing observations are not replaced with another year. Newer years with lower coverage can be selected.
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Source & definition
- Indicator definition
- Counts universities in the ARWU 2026 top 1,000 by the original country or territory classification. This is a count of listed institutions, not all universities or a measure of teaching quality. Countries absent from the list are not assigned zero.
- Unit
- universities
- Source & definition
- ShanghaiRanking · ARWU · 本站逐校加總 ·
arwu:2026-top1000
Original metadata
統計 ARWU 2026 世界前1,000名大學，依原始榜單的國家／地區分類逐校加總。這是上榜校數，不是所有大學的數量，也不等同教學品質；未出現在榜單中的國家不補零。
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"definition": "統計 ARWU 2026 世界前1,000名大學，依原始榜單的國家／地區分類逐校加總。這是上榜校數，不是所有大學的數量，也不等同教學品質；未出現在榜單中的國家不補零。",
"source_mapping": {
"excluded_source_entities": [
"China-Taiwan"
],
"name_mapping": []
},
"report_edition": 2026,
"source_universities": 1000,
"included_universities": 988.0,
"aggregation": "One university = one count, grouped by publisher regionLogo; no absent countries are zero-filled"
}