World University Rankings 2026

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see how well the University of Washington does on these global research university rankings.

Also noted that the top-3 US public universities are the same on both the US News "2026 Best Colleges" list and the Times Higher Education "2026 World University Rankings" list:

1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Top 4 on Times
1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4. Georgia Institute of Technology

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see how well the University of Washington does on these global research university rankings.

Also noted that the top-3 US public universities are the same on both the US News "2026 Best Colleges" list and the Times Higher Education "2026 World University Rankings" list:

1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Not really. It does well every year. If you’re in a quantitative field, it should be pretty obvious that Washington is a research powerhouse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see how well the University of Washington does on these global research university rankings.

Also noted that the top-3 US public universities are the same on both the US News "2026 Best Colleges" list and the Times Higher Education "2026 World University Rankings" list:

1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Top 4 on Times
1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4. Georgia Institute of Technology

No, University of Washington is 4th among US schools, and Georgia Tech is tied with University of Illinois for 5th. (I don't care about the ranking. I merely value accuracy.)

[Anonymous]

For those interested in Canadian schools:

21 - U of T
41 - McGill
45 - UBC

[Anonymous]

In the "Battle of the Washingtons" we have a winner!

University of Washington (Seattle) - 25
Washington University (St. Louis) - 67

U Dub for the win!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is the "Harvard of the South" UVA?

Wow, UVA haters quick on the draw again. 2nd post! Well done.

[Anonymous]

Ratings are based on:
15% teaching quality
15% teaching faculty to student ratios
30% research environment (reputation, income and productivity)
15% on research quality (strength, excellence, influence)
15% on research quality - citation index
4% on industry income / patents
7% international - # of international faculty, students and co-authorships

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is the "Harvard of the South" UVA?

Where's UVA? Ahead of Dartmouth and Georgetown...

166. UVA
180. Dartmouth
189. Tufts
194. Notre Dame
201. Georgetown

Just to put these rankings in perspective.

[Anonymous]

Top 20 for Teaching Quality / Reputation

1. MIT
2. Princeton
3. Stanford
4. Oxford (UK)
5. CIT
6. Cambridge (UK)
7. Harvard
8. Tsinghua (China)
9. Peking (China)
10. Tokyo (Japan)
11. Yale
12. Imperial (UK)
13. Chicago
14. Zurich (Switzerland)
15. UPenn
16. Columbia
17. UC Berkley
18. Kyoto (Japan)
19. UCLA
20. Cornell

[Anonymous]

UVA gets boosted here so much. Take a step outside of your bubble. The rest of the world doesn't know UVA. Where's your "elite" school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting to see how well the University of Washington does on these global research university rankings.

Also noted that the top-3 US public universities are the same on both the US News "2026 Best Colleges" list and the Times Higher Education "2026 World University Rankings" list:

1. University of California, Berkeley
2. University of California, Los Angeles
3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

I've noticed that, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA gets boosted here so much. Take a step outside of your bubble. The rest of the world doesn't know UVA. Where's your "elite" school?

Hmmm. The world seems to think it's more "elite" than Dartmouth and Georgetown. So there's that, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is the "Harvard of the South" UVA?

Where's UVA? Ahead of Dartmouth and Georgetown...

166. UVA
180. Dartmouth
189. Tufts
194. Notre Dame
201. Georgetown

Just to put these rankings in perspective.

UMD ranked 116. 🤩

[Anonymous]

So 64% based on research (mainly) and patents. I'm not saying that's a bad measure as I think that environment offers an interesting setting in several ways...but does explain why places like Notre Dame are much lower.

[Anonymous]

While not tippy top ranked, I am surprised how high schools like NYU, WashU, BU and Emory rank based on the stated criteria.

I guess I don't associate those schools with producing lots of research or patents, since none are particularly associated with STEM.