Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The variety of Saudi universities that discovered a spot within the Shanghai Rating shot up from seven in 2022 to 12 in 2023. 5 Saudi universities superior to the listing of the world’s prime 1,000 universities within the 2023 Tutorial Rating of World Universities (ARWU), which is also referred to as Shanghai Rating. The ARWU rating for 2023 was unveiled by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
The Saudi universities that superior to the rating for the primary time are the Riyadh-based Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman College, the biggest lady’s college on the earth, with a rating that falls between 601and 700. It was adopted by King Faisal College of Dammam, Al-Qassim College and Umm Al-Qura College between the rankings of 801 and 900, after which Al-Jouf College inside the 901-1000 rating.
The result of the classification confirmed the fixed care and follow-up pursued by the Saudi training system and universities over the previous years, which contributed to reaching the strategic objectives of the Kingdom’s Imaginative and prescient 2030, which displays the efforts which have been made.
Saudi universities achieved distinguished positions, as King Saud College maintained a place between 101-150 globally, adopted by King Abdulaziz College, which ranked between 151-200 globally, whereas Taif College superior considerably this 12 months by acquiring a place between 201- 300 in comparison with its 401-500 place within the earlier 12 months.
The Shanghai classification is without doubt one of the three most essential world classification companies, along with QS World College Rankings and British Instances Increased Schooling rankings.
Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world’s prime universities yearly primarily based on clear methodology and goal third-party knowledge. It has been acknowledged because the precursor of world college rankings and essentially the most reliable one. This 12 months, greater than 2500 establishments had been scrutinized, and the most effective 1000 universities on the earth are revealed. Harvard College tops the rating listing for the twenty first 12 months, adopted by Stanford College and Massachusetts Institute of Expertise (MIT).
As a worldwide classification physique, ARWU ranks world’s universities in accordance with a set of standards and requirements, together with the standard of training, the effectivity of school members, the outputs of scientific analysis, and the scale of the establishment.
The outcomes of the rating confirmed the continuation of academic successes that mirror the efforts which have been made and the excellence achieved by universities within the Kingdom over the previous years, which contributed to reaching the strategic goals of the Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030.