Brussels :  europe and arabs

For the twentieth year in a row, the American university Harvard has topped the Shanghai ranking of the best universities in the world. Ghent University is the Belgian first at spot 74 and KU Leuven is also in the top 100 with place 95. The two Flemish universities have lost ground. The ranking is traditionally dominated by American universities. Stanford University is in second place and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) rounds out the top three. The British University of Cambridge is the fourth largest institution from a country other than the US. Compatriot Oxford is in seventh place. The other institutions in the top ten are American: Berkeley (5), Princeton (6), Columbia (8), California Institute of Technology (9) and University of Chicago (10). The entire top 100 counts 39 American institutions. Université Paris-Saclay is the first non-Anglo-Saxon university on spot 16. In their own country, UGent (74) and KU Leuven (95) are in the top 100, but last year they did better with place 71 and 87 respectively. The Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is in place 101 and 150, while the French-speaking UCL and UAntwerp are in place 201 and 300. The University of Liège and the Free University of Brussels are located between places 301 and 400 and Hasselt University is between places 601 and 700. The University of Mons ranks between 801 and 900. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is annually distilled by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, an independent organization that focuses on higher education. More than 2,500 research institutions around the world have been analyzed for the ranking. Among the six criteria that Shanghai uses, there is the number of Nobel Prize winners, the number of most cited scientists in their discipline and the number of publications in the scientific journals Science and Nature. The ranking has been published since 2003.