Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the „Shanghai Ranking“ released it 2013 ranking listing the University of Cambridge overall on # 5. Cambridge is the first non-American university after Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley and MIT. Among the top 10 universities are only two non-US (Cambridge at # 5, Oxford at # 10). The next non-US university is ETH Zurich at # 20.

Across different fields Cambridge makes it to # 2 in Life and Agriculture Sciences Cambrige. In engineering it is # 14, in medical # 6, and social science # 16. Broken down further by subject, Cambridge ranks # 17 in „Economics / Business“ just after one other non-US university (London School of Economics and Political Science, #13). In Mathematics it is # 4, Physics # 8, Chemistry # 4 and Computer # 38.

Hence, Cambridge makes it to # 1 in the UK, just above Oxford and UCL.