Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where is HACK?

Another knock against this list... I struggle with the lack recognition of for LACs in international rankings. If the world only knew what special and magical schools they are missing out on and since LACs are dying the world may never know. Sad.

I think the world will keep spinning. Most LACs are perfectly fine and don’t do much research.
-LAC parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.

Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!

All 3 are low, surprisingly the was DCUM swears Rice is better than the schools ranked near it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.

Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!

I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats.

[Anonymous]

This is hilarious.

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Are you embarrassed Penn state is 71

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bucknell is not ranked. Once again USNWR is not credible.

Top 10 for “Schools with pipeline to The Street” though, so…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.

Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!

I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats.

You've got it completely backward. Northeastern is one of the most trustworthy schools.
They have been straightforward, open, and transparent, and never accused of cheating like many many other schools.
You should be suspicious of schools like Emory, UCBerkeley, Columbia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/c...nkings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-...e-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-univers...lsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/...ngs-michael-thaddeus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is HACK?

Another knock against this list... I struggle with the lack recognition of for LACs in international rankings. If the world only knew what special and magical schools they are missing out on and since LACs are dying the world may never know. Sad.

LACs do well in the high school rankings.

[Anonymous]

These are lower than expected...

Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are lower than expected...

Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219

Those darn chicken people shouldn't be competing with the likes of Purdue University.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are lower than expected...

Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219

And meanwhile the University of Washington in Seattle comes in as the 8th best university in the world. I can see why schools like Rice and Dartmouth score low - they hardly have any graduate students, but are still universities. But I am mystified by these rankings none the less. It reads like a list composed by a monkey throwing darts.

[Anonymous]

These lists are always hard to understand...UCSF is only graduate programs and mainly health sciences and Icahn School of Medicine is a medical school.

[Anonymous]

Surprised Cornell ranks so high globally (#16). Impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are lower than expected...

Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219

And meanwhile the University of Washington in Seattle comes in as the 8th best university in the world. I can see why schools like Rice and Dartmouth score low - they hardly have any graduate students, but are still universities. But I am mystified by these rankings none the less. It reads like a list composed by a monkey throwing darts.

Washington is highly ranked in many areas of research, especially statistics, data science, computer science. As someone in the biological statistics realm, it is only beaten by Harvard for accolades and research output. Nothing mystical about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are lower than expected...

Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219

And meanwhile the University of Washington in Seattle comes in as the 8th best university in the world. I can see why schools like Rice and Dartmouth score low - they hardly have any graduate students, but are still universities. But I am mystified by these rankings none the less. It reads like a list composed by a monkey throwing darts.

Not really, I take global reputation into account when discussing these schools. In Rices peer group its the weak.
WashU>Vanderbilt>Emory>CMU> Dartmouth>Rice> Georgetown> Notre Dame