She had been chasing after them for years. In search of international recognition, the University of Rennes has joined the top 500 of the prestigious shanghai ranking. Established for twenty years, this list draws up a ranking of the best universities in the world, which crowns the largest American teams each year. Far from Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which monopolize the first three places, the University of Rennes is content with an armchair between 401st and 500th place, i.e. 200 places better than last year. .
Created on January 1, 2023, the new entity shines particularly in the fields of mathematics, water and earth sciences. This result was highlighted by the Minister of Higher Education. In a press release, Sylvie Retailleau believes that this distinction “promotes the success of new models of French universities”.
Rennes-2 is not one of them
Long scattered, higher education establishments have tended to come together to move forward together. This is the case in the Breton capital where the new University of Renness brings together Rennes-1, the School of Advanced Studies in Public Health (EHESP), the National School of Chemistry of Rennes (ENSC), the Normal School of Rennes (ENS), the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes (INSA) and Sciences po. Wishing to keep its name, Rennes-2 University is not part of it but displays the status of “associate” with this experimental public establishment created on January 1, 2023.
For the president of the new entity, this leap in the Shanghai ranking “is recognition of the common scientific signature policy”, said David Alis. A total of 27 French universities have joined this Shanghai ranking. The highest ranked tricolor is Paris-Saclay (15th).