UvA in top 50 of ARWU Ranking for Social Sciences
Best university in the Netherlands for social sciences
The University of Amsterdam has been placed in the top 50 for the discipline of Social Sciences by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). This ranking of the world’s 500 best universities is published annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is therefore known as the Shanghai ranking.
In previous years Social Sciences at the UvA had been placed in the 51-75
range (with no individual rankings allocated), but this year the UvA placed
50th, making it the best university in the Netherlands for this discipline.
The ARWU ranking is drawn up based on the numbers of Nobel prizes, Fields Medals
held by staff members and alumni, numbers of citations, and numbers of articles
published in the scientific journals Nature and
Science.