Dalhousie has ranked in the top 300 universities globally and among the top 12 universities in Canada in the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
Dalhousie was one of more than 2,000 universities considered this year, and its ranking (201-300) places it among the top 15th percentile globally. ARWU publishes its ranking of the top 1,000 institutions each year.
Dalhousie's overall score in the ranking rose year-over-year based on improvements in two indicators tracked: highly cited researchers and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution.
Other indicators used in the ranking include the number of alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Field Medals, number of staff winning Nobel Prizes and Field Medals, number of articles published in Nature & Science and number of articles indexed in the Science Citation index.
Upward momentum
Dalhousie is joined by the University of Ottawa, Queen's University and Western University as placing top 201-300 globally and 9-12 nationally in this year’s ARWU ranking.
Dalhousie has climbed in ShankhaiRanking’s ARWU rankings since it first joined in 2016. It spent the first three years in the top 400 cohort before then moving into the top 300 in 2019, where it has placed since. Dalhousie ranks among the top 300 universities globally in the three international rankings that it actively participates in: the ARWU ranking, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings.
ShanghaiRanking also releases the Global Rankings of Academic Subjects each year. This year, Dalhousie finished in the top 50 in the world and second in Canada for oceanography, as well as top 100 in atmospheric science.
See also: Dalhousie climbs higher in QS World University Rankings as competitive pool swells