Harvard University drops to third place in new Leiden University global research ranking as Chinese institutions dominate top positions worldwide.

In the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025, Harvard falls to third behind China's Zhejiang and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, marking a ...

Harvard is still churning out research, but the global leaderboard it once dominated now has a new country on top. In the ...

Harvard University has slipped to third place in the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2025 in the Science category as Chinese universities ...

The results of six different ranking systems suggest that America’s traditional leadership among the world’s universities has ...

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling ...

Harvard has long defined academic excellence worldwide. But new global rankings suggest a different centre of gravity is ...

This outcome stands in sharp contrast to other global league tables such as QS World University Rankings or Times Higher Education (THE), where Indian institutions — especially the IITs and the Indian ...

Years of heavy investment in China and growing funding pressure in the US are changing who leads global academic research.

Eight of the world's top ten universities on the list are from China, with Zhejiang University ranking first, while Harvard University of the US - long a fixture at the top - fell to third place. The ...

THE 2026 engineering subject rankings name Harvard top globally, UK and US universities dominate, Indian Institute of Science ...