Law ranked in the top 50 worldwide in the ShanghaiRanking 2017

The School of Law has ranked in the top 50 worldwide and 6th in the UK in the ShanghaiRanking 2017.

The ranking uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Reuters, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance of a university. More than 1,200 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published.