*This ranking is for the year 2020. See the newest, 2021, ranking here: https://snmcgannon.com/2021/10/26/ranking-of-nordic-universities-2021/

Rank	Institution	ARWU	QS	THE	USNWR	Average World Rank
1	University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰	33	76	84	34	56.75
2	University of Helsinki 🇫🇮	74	104	98	86	90.5
3	University of Oslo 🇳🇴	60	113	127	90	97.5
4	Uppsala University 🇸🇪	77	124	111	101	103.25
5	Aarhus University 🇩🇰	69	147	106	105	106.75
6	Lund University 🇸🇪	151	97	103	99	112.5
7	Stockholm University 🇸🇪	69	181	183	114	136.75
8	Technical University of Denmark 🇩🇰	151	103	187	155	149
9	University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪	101	202	191	135	157.25
10	KTH Royal Institute of Technology 🇸🇪	201	98	201	205	176.25
11	University of Bergen 🇳🇴	301	194	201	166	215.5
12	Chalmers University of Technology 🇸🇪	301	139	201	342	245.75
13	Aalto University 🇫🇮	401	127	201	264	248.25
14	Aalborg University 🇩🇰	301	305	201	250	264.25
15	Norwegian University of Science and Technology 🇳🇴	101	360	401	281	285.75
16	University of Southern Denmark 🇩🇰	301	353	251	301	301.5
17	University of Turku 🇫🇮	301	287	351	322	315.25
18	Umeå University 🇸🇪	401	333	351	322	351.75
19	Linköping University 🇸🇪	301	362	401	358	355.5
20	Tampere University 🇫🇮	501	409	301	361	393

This is a ranking of the top universities in the Nordic countries ranked relative to each other for the year 2020.

The ranking was created by using metadata sourced from the four prominent rankings of world universities (each ranking released in 2020): Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Times Higher Education (THE), U.S. News & World Report (USNWR), and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). 

Rank was determined on each list for every Nordic university ranked on each list. Then for each university all its rank placements were averaged across lists to create the new list of average ranking for each university. The universities were then ranked according to their average ranking. The university with the highest average is thus ranked 1st, the one with the second highest average 2nd, and so on.

Finally, the results were tabled, and are shown below. The leftmost column shows rank based on average, the “institution” column shows the institution ranked, the next four rightward columns (ARWU, THE, USNWR, QS) show the rank for each given institution in each of those selected world rankings, and the rightmost column (“Average World”) averages the four ranking lists’ rank placement for each university.

Only universities which were ranked on all four lists are counted. Notably, Karolinska Institute is unranked by QS, otherwise it would have placed 1st. Other universities which would have appeared (had they been ranked by all the rankings) are: Reykjavík University (Iceland) and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden).

If anything appears to be in error, please email me at tuulifunctional@snmcgannon.com.

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