U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking

The Best Global Universities ranking by U.S. News & World Report is an annual ranking of world universities. On October 28, 2014, U.S. News, which began ranking American universities in 1983, published its inaugural global ranking, assessing 500 universities in 49 countries. That first installment of the Best Global University Ranking was published without prior announcement, with U.S. News later clarifying that the rankings of that year were a trial balloon for the publication's entrance into the global university rankings field. After pre-announcing the rankings of next year, in 2016, the periodical formalized the global university rankings as part of its regular annual programming. Having made official the ranking methodology, it disclosed that it is based on 10 different indicators that measure universities' academic performance and reputations.[1] The ranking has since been revised and expanded to cover 1,500 institutions in 81 countries and now includes five regional and 28 subject rankings.[2] Employing 13 indicators and based largely on data provided by Clarivate, the U.S. News global ranking is methodologically different from its ranking of American institutions; global universities are rated using factors such as research reputation, academic publications, and the number of highly cited papers.[3][4]

This article is about the magazine's international ranking. For its ranking of American institutions, see U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Ranking.

Inside Higher Ed noted in 2014 that U.S. News is entering into the international college and university rankings area that is already "dominated by three major global university rankings": the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the QS World University Rankings.[5] U.S. News's chief data strategist Robert Morse stated "We're well-known in the field for doing academic rankings so we thought it was a natural extension of the other rankings that we're doing."[5] Morse pointed out that U.S. News is "the first American publisher to enter the global rankings space", given Times Higher Education and QS are both British, while the Academic Ranking of World Universities is Chinese.[5]

The Washington Post noted that some U.S. institutions rank lower on U.S. News's global ranking than on their domestic ranking, in particular Princeton, which was named top university in the U.S. in the 2015 domestic ranking but was ranked behind nine other U.S. universities (and three U.K. universities) in the 2015 global ranking. This was attributed to the global ranking concentrating on "research prowess", while the "undergraduate experience", for which uniform international data is hard to obtain, was not included.[6] Forbes, which, along with many others, has roundly criticized the U.S. News ranking of American colleges,[7] praised the U.S. News global ranking as being mostly based upon “objective measures” and representing a “worthy” evaluation scheme.[8]

Results
US News Best Global Universities—Top 10 (2015-2021)
Institution 2015[9] 2016[10] 2017[11] 2018[12] 2019[13] 2020[14] 2021[15]
Harvard University111111 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology222222 2
Stanford University443333 3
University of California, Berkeley334444 4
University of Oxford556555 5
Columbia University1099887 6
California Institute of Technology775666 7
University of Washington-Seattle---101010 8
University of Cambridge667779 9
Johns Hopkins University---101211 10

Note: Princeton University was ranked 8th in 2017 and 2020 and 9th in 2018 and 2019. Yale University tied with Johns Hopkins University and University of Washington for 10th in 2018.


American and British universities have occupied the top ten spots since the inaugural publication. Harvard and MIT have consistently topped the list, while two British institutions, Oxford and Cambridge, and four other U.S. universities – Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, and Caltech – have been ranked among the ten best since 2015.

US News Best Global Universities—Top 50 (2018-2021)
Institution 4yr.Avg. 2018[12] 2019[13] 2020[14] 2021[15]
Harvard University1111 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology222 2 2
Stanford University333 3 3
University of California, Berkeley444 4 4
University of Oxford555 5 5
Columbia University888 7 6
California Institute of Technology666 6 7
University of Washington-Seattle101010 10 8
University of Cambridge877 9 9
Johns Hopkins University111012 11 10
Princeton University999 8 11
Yale University111011 12 11
University of California, Los Angeles131313 14 13
University of Pennsylvania171916 16 14
University of California, San Francisco151515 15 15
University of Chicago141414 13 15
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor171718 17 17
University of Toronto192020 18 17
University College London212221 21 19
Imperial College London181718 20 20
University of California, San Diego171617 19 21
Cornell University232323 23 22
Duke University222122 22 23
Northwestern University242424 24 24
University of Melbourne262626 26 25
ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)252525 25 26
University of Sydney313431 27 27
Tsinghua University506450 36 28
New York University282828 28 29
The University of Edinburgh283027 28 30
University of British Columbia292729 30 31
National University of Singapore384338 34 32
Washington University in St. Louis323232 31 33
King's College London394139 37 34
University of Copenhagen343734 32 34
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill333432 33 36
University of Queensland434542 42 36
Nanyang Technological University495549 43 38
University of Texas at Austin343236 34 38
University of Amsterdam495551 40 40
University of Wisconsin Madison343135 37 41
King Abdulaziz University - - - 42
Sorbonne University3838- 37 43
University of Pittsburgh464843 47 43
The Ohio State University464646 45 45
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich434046 43 46
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities434241 47 47
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - - - 48
Karolinska Institute - - - 48
Monash University - - - 48

See also

References
  1. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings
  2. "Best Global Universities". U.S. News & World Report.
  3. Haynie, Devon. "U.S. News Releases Inaugural Best Global Universities Rankings". U.S. News & World Report.
  4. "How U.S. News Calculated the Best Global Universities Ranking". U.S. News & World Report.
  5. "'U.S. News' to Issue New Global University Rankings". Inside Higher Ed.
  6. Nick Anderson (28 October 2014). "U.S. News rolls out global university rankings, with some surprises". The Washington Post.
  7. Michael Nietzel (9 September 2019). "U.S. News Releases its Annual College Rankings. Here's what's wrong with them". Forbes.
  8. Michael Nietzel (26 October 2019). "U.S. News Releases its Best Global Universities Ranking: American Institutions are at the Top". Forbes.
  9. "US News Best Global Universities 2015". Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  10. "US News Best Global Universities 2016". Retrieved 2015-10-06.
  11. "US News Best Global Universities 2017". Retrieved 2016-10-25.
  12. "US News Best Global Universities 2018". Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  13. "US News Best Global Universities 2019". 2019-10-30.
  14. "US News Best Global Universities 2020". Retrieved 2020-09-16.
  15. "US News Best Global Universities 2021". Retrieved 2020-10-27.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.