(August 16, 2016) It was published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University a ranking which examines the 500 best universities in the world. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2016 (ARWU) Rome’s “Sapienza” confirms last year leadership, standing at the head of Italian universities to 163th position with a total score of 19.23, the only Italian university in the range 151-200 together with the University of Padua in 183th position with a 18.19 score. Following in the range 201-300 Politecnico di Milano and the Universities of Bologna and Florence, Milan and Pisa. The indicators taken into consideration by Arwu are rigorous and include Nobel Laureates and received academic awards, quality of research (papers published and quoted researchers) and performance compared to the number of members. “Sapienza confirms and consolidates its prestige high university in Europe and worldwide, ranking first among the Italian universities and among the first at European and international level – says the dean Eugenio Gaudio -. A closer look at the result is overall quite positive for the Italian university system, although it is not represented in the top 100 positions monopolized by wealthy Anglo-Saxon universities, sees about one third of the universities of the country (19 of 60) in the first 500 positions on 1200 surveyed universities and 17,000 estimated in the world “. (Red)
