Top World University Rankings

Top World University Rankings October 26 US News World Report has released a ranking on the best global universities. Curious which universities have been ranked by US News World Report to be the best not only in American but around the world? Wonder no more because weve got the results of this ranking for our loyal readers. Securing the top ranking by US News is Harvard University. Placing second is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed by: University of California Berkeley (a nice, surprising ranking for Cal!), Stanford University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, California Institute of Technology, University of California Los Angeles, University of Chicago, and Columbia University. That rounds out US News' top ten for best global universities. Interestingly, only two Ivy League institutions made the top ten of this ranking Harvard and Columbia. After the top ten, its Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College London, Princeton University, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, University of Washington (perhaps the only ranking that puts the University of Washington ahead of the school were about to name next), Yale University, University of California San Diego, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, University College London, University of California San Francisco, Cornell University, University of Tokyo, and Northwestern University. That rounds out the top twenty-five. So the only Ivies not ranked in this particular ranking in the top twenty-five are: Brown University (#106) and Dartmouth College (we got tired of scrolling to find out where Dartmouth ranked after scanning the first 200 schools maybe they werent eligible!). If youre curious about the methodology behind these rankings, according to US News World Report, To be included in the 750, an institution had to first be among  the top 200  universities in the results of Thomson Reuters  global reputation survey​Next, an institution had to be among those that had published the most number of  Ã¢â‚¬â€¹articles during the most recent five years, de-duplicated with the top 200 from the reputation survey.  As a result of these criteria, many stand-alone graduate schools, including the  Rockefeller Institute of New York and University of California—San Francisco, were eligible to be  ranked and were included in the ranking universe.  The second step was to calculate the rankings using the 10 indicators and weights that U.S. News  chose to measure global research performance.  Each schools profile page on usnews.com  lists  numerical ranks,  out of 750,  for  the 10  indicators, allowing students to compare each schools standing in each indicator. What are your thoughts on this US News World Report university ranking? Let us know by posting a comment below. We look forward to hearing from you.