been awarded the 13th world rank in the 2021 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranking. It replaces University of Paris-Sud (Paris XI) in January 2020 which ranked 37 globally in 2019. The same year it also has been awarded the 32nd world rank in the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR). University Paris-Saclay was included in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. University Paris-Saclay was ranked 30 globally, 7th in Europe and 1st in France. It was ranked 1st in Europe for physics (5th internationally) and 1st internationally for mathematics. In the future, the Paris-Saclay cluster is hoped to help France secure a place among the world's top ten universities, and bring French education and research into the limelight. Nobel and Fields laureates Paris-Saclay University formally replaced several pre-existing Parisian universities, grande écoles and research institutes. These continue to exist as departments within the broader structure of Paris-Saclay. The list below therefore includes those pre-2019 laureates whose institutions were later subsumed by the university. We list their institutional affiliation at the time too. Jean Bourgain – Professor, IHES – Fields Medal – 1994 Ngô Bảo Châu – PhD and Professor, Paris-Sud University (IMO) – Fields Medal – 2010 Alain Connes – Professor, IHES – Fields Medal – 1982 Hugo Duminil-Copin - Master and Professor, IHES - Fields Medal - 2022 Cédric Villani - IHES-University of Lyon Chair - Fields Medal - 2010 Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot-Curie – Founders of the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, commissioners of the CEA – Nobel in Chemistry – 1935 Pierre Deligne – PhD and Professor, Paris-Sud University, IHES – Fields Medal – 1978 Alain Aspect – BA, PhD and Professor, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, Institut d'optique Graduate School, Paris-Sud University – Nobel in Physics – 2022 Albert Fert – Professor, Paris-Sud University (LPS, CNRS/Thales) – Nobel in Physics – 2007 Pierre-Gilles de Gennes – Professor, CEA, Paris-Sud University (LPS) – Nobel in Physics – 1991 Alexandre Grothendieck – Professor, IHES – Fields Medal – 1966 Maxim Kontsevich – Professor – Fields Medal – IHES – 1998 Laurent Lafforgue – PhD and Professor – Fields Medal – Paris-Sud University, IHES – 2002 René Thom – Professor, IHES – Fields Medal – 1958 Wendelin Werner – Professor – Fields Medal – Paris-Sud University (IMO) – 2006 Jean-Christophe Yoccoz – PhD and Professor, Paris-Sud University – Fields Medal –