Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has been ranked fourth among the Indian universities in the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2020, also known as Shanghai Ranking.
The AMU figures in the bracket of 801-900 ranking of all universities while among Indian institutions, it holds the eighth place on the list including Indian Institute of Science, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi and IIT Kharagpur.
Harvard University, USA, has topped the ARWU Ranking 2020, followed by Stanford University, USA, and University of Cambridge in second and third places.
On being featured in ARWU 2020, AMU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Tariq Mansoor extended his wishes to the faculty members and students for the achievement and for their efforts to take the university towards development and success.
“The AMU fraternity deserves congratulations for its resolve to take the university ahead while steadily pushing aside impediments caused by the Covid19 pandemic over the last year. It is gratifying to see the university emerge as a top-notch centre of higher learning,” the vice-chancellor tweeted.
Shafey Kidwai, Professor at Department of mass communication and journalism said, “the fact that AMU outperformed several top universities of the country and it managed to secure the place in the list just after the University of Calcutta, the University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, which is a matter of proud for the AMU fraternity. We all will work more enthusiastically on our academics”.
