Department of Chemistry ranked 29th in the world

The Department of Chemistry is ranked 29th in the world in chemistry in the 2015 the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), which was recently released by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. ARWU uses six 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 ranked by ARWU every year, and the best 500 are published. The University of Minnesota is ranked 30th overall.