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

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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]

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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]

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US News Best Global Universities—Top 10 (2015-2022)
Institution2022 [9] 2021 [10] 2020 [11] 2019 [12] 2018 [13] 2017 [14] 2016 [15] 2015 [16]
Flag of the United States.svg Harvard University 11111111
Flag of the United States.svg Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22222222
Flag of the United States.svg Stanford University 33333344
Flag of the United States.svg University of California, Berkeley 44444433
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg University of Oxford 55555655
Flag of the United States.svg Columbia University 667889910
Flag of the United States.svg University of Washington-Seattle 78101010---
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg University of Cambridge 89977766
Flag of the United States.svg California Institute of Technology 97666577
Flag of the United States.svg Johns Hopkins University 910111210---

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, Stanford and MIT have consistently topped the list, while two British institutions, Oxford and Cambridge, and three other U.S. universities – Berkeley, Columbia, and Caltech – have been ranked among the ten best since 2015.

US News Best Global Universities—Top 50 (2018-2022)
Institution2022 [9] 2021 [10] 2020 [11] 2019 [12] 2018 [13]
Flag of the United States.svg Harvard University 11111
Flag of the United States.svg Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22222
Flag of the United States.svg Stanford University 33333
Flag of the United States.svg University of California, Berkeley 44444
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg University of Oxford 55555
Flag of the United States.svg Columbia University 66788
Flag of the United States.svg University of Washington-Seattle 78101010
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg University of Cambridge 89977
Flag of the United States.svg California Institute of Technology 97666
Flag of the United States.svg Johns Hopkins University 910111210
Flag of the United States.svg University of California, San Francisco 1115151515
Flag of the United States.svg Yale University 1211121110
Flag of the United States.svg University of Pennsylvania 1314161619
Flag of the United States.svg University of California, Los Angeles 1413141313
Flag of the United States.svg University of Chicago 1515131414
Flag of the United States.svg Princeton University 1611899
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg University College London 1619212122
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg University of Toronto 1617182020
Flag of the United States.svg University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 1917171817
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Imperial College London 2020201817
Flag of the United States.svg University of California, San Diego 2121191716
Flag of the United States.svg Cornell University 2222232323
Flag of the United States.svg Duke University 2323222221
Flag of the United States.svg Northwestern University 2424242424
Flag of Australia (converted).svg University of Melbourne 2525262626
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Tsinghua University 2628365064
Flag of Switzerland.svg ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) 2626252525
Flag of Australia (converted).svg University of Sydney 2827273134
Flag of Singapore.svg National University of Singapore 2932343843
Flag of the United States.svg New York University 3029282828
Flag of the United States.svg Washington University in St. Louis 3133313232
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg The University of Edinburgh 3230282730
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg King's College London 3334373941
Flag of Singapore.svg Nanyang Technological University 3338434955
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg University of British Columbia 3531302927
Flag of Australia (converted).svg University of Queensland 3636424245
Flag of Denmark.svg University of Copenhagen 3734323437
Flag of the Netherlands.svg University of Amsterdam 3840405155
Flag of the United States.svg University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 3936333234
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Monash University 4048596268
Flag of Australia (converted).svg University of New South Wales 4151647069
Flag of the United States.svg University of Pittsburgh 4243474348
Flag of the United States.svg University of Texas at Austin 4338343632
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg King Abdulaziz University 44425176110
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Peking University 4551596865
Flag of Germany.svg Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 4646434640
Flag of France.svg Sorbonne University 464337-38
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 4848565763
Flag of Sweden.svg Karolinska Institute 4848515152
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Utrecht University 4854555657

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