The University of Sussex has once again been named as one of the world's top 150 universities, and in the top 15 in the UK.

The 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), published yesterday (Thursday 15 August) by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, puts Sussex between 100 and 150 globally, and 10-14 in the UK.

The University has remained within the world’s top 150 in the ARWU since it was first published in 2003.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Farthing, said: "Sussex is consistently ranked among the best universities in the world. We will continue to look at ways in which we can further develop our global reputation as a centre for research excellence and as an institution that welcomes talented students from around the world."

Sussex is also ranked in the top 75 universities in the world for studying natural sciences and mathematics, and in the top 150 globally for physics and chemistry.

Now in its 11th year, the ARWU is the longest-established international ranking system for universities.

The rankings are based on six criteria, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals; the number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific; the number of articles published in the journals of Nature andScience; the number of articles indexed in the Science Citation Index - Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index; and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution.

More than 1,200 universities are actually ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published.