Université Paris Cité ranked among the world’s top 40 in the CWUR 2024 ranking

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has unveiled its 2024 ranking of the world’s top 2,000 universities. Université Paris Cité ranks 33rd, up six places compared to 2023, remains in the top 0.2% worldwide and is at the third position nationally.

Since 2012, the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has been publishing academic rankings of global universities that assesses the quality of education, employability, quality of faculty, and research without surveys and data provided by the universities. It evaluates the universities’ performance in research and education (see Methodology below).

Methodology

CWUR uses seven objectives and indicators grouped into four weighted criteria:

• Education: based on the academic success of alumni, measured by the number of graduates granted highly regarded academic distinctions (25%).
• Employability: based on the professional success of graduates, measured by the number of alumni that have held top positions in major companies (25 %).
• Faculty staff: measured by the number of faculty members who have won prestigious academic distinctions (10 %).
• Research:
  • Research output: measured by the total number of research papers (10%)
  • High-quality publications: measured by the number of research papers appearing in top-tier journals (10%)
  • Influence: measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly influential journals (10%)
  • Citations: measured by the number of highly cited research papers (10%)

Université Paris Cité in the international rankings:

• ARWU (Shanghai) : 69^th worldwide, 4^th in France
• Leiden – Top 10% most-cited publications (unsplit count): 35^th worldwide, 1^st in France
• THE (Times Higher Education): 152^th worldwide, 5^th in France.
• THE Young University ranking: 19^th worldwide, 5^th in France.
• QS World University ranking: 236^th worldwide, 7^th in France.

See the entire CWUR list