Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

#137 (tied with U Liverpool, U Padua, and the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China)

UMD is #72 (tied with UW, UMN)

The methodology is very different from their ranking of US universities.

[Anonymous]

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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

All of those schools are worse than CMU, unless you're into some niche majors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

#137 (tied with U Liverpool, U Padua, and the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China)

UMD is #72 (tied with UW, UMN)

The methodology is very different from their ranking of US universities.

It has to be…how is it that a Med school is #40. It has to be based on the volume of research coming out, but obviously they don’t care that Icahn school of Medicine won’t have any research on a non-medical topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

#137 (tied with U Liverpool, U Padua, and the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China)

UMD is #72 (tied with UW, UMN)

The methodology is very different from their ranking of US universities.

It has to be…how is it that a Med school is #40. It has to be based on the volume of research coming out, but obviously they don’t care that Icahn school of Medicine won’t have any research on a non-medical topic.

Yes, research is part of the methodology.

these rankings – which focus exclusively on institutions' overall academic research and reputations and not on their separate undergraduate or graduate programs ..
The rankings assess academic research and reputation, but personal considerations – including location, campus culture, strength of particular programs and cost – are also very important considerations.

The second step was to calculate the rankings using the 13 indicators and weights that U.S. News chose to measure global research performance.

The survey results were used in two separate ranking indicators, as follows.

Global research reputation (12.5%): This indicator reflects the aggregation of the most recent five years of results of the Academic Reputation Survey for the best universities globally for research.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-...articles/methodology

[Anonymous]

Rankings are silly. Global rankings are even sillier. Stop the obsession.

[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.

And sports cars always fare poorly in pickup truck rankings. How strange.

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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!!!

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

It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??

[Anonymous]

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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

It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??

More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.

[Anonymous]

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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

It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??

More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.

+1. Northeastern also shot far further up the rankings because of it, and they more explicitly changed their practices to juice their ranking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you embarrassed Penn state is 71

Actually ranked 91 with an overall score of 71. Some really impressive subject rankings.


Pennsylvania State University is ranked #91 in Best Global Universities.

Subject Rankings
#101 in Agricultural Sciences
#24 in Arts and Humanities
#125 in Biology and Biochemistry (tie)
#99 in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (tie)
#128 in Cell Biology (tie)
#135 in Chemical Engineering (tie)
#121 in Chemistry
#120 in Civil Engineering
#201 in Clinical Medicine (tie)
#113 in Computer Science (tie)
#74 in Condensed Matter Physics (tie)
#133 in Ecology
#38 in Economics and Business
#29 in Education and Educational Research
#227 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (tie)
#201 in Endocrinology and Metabolism
#112 in Energy and Fuels
#105 in Engineering (tie)
#185 in Environmental Engineering
#73 in Environment/Ecology (tie)
#199 in Food Science and Technology (tie)
#232 in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
#37 in Geosciences (tie)
#135 in Green and Sustainable Science and Technology (tie)
#172 in Immunology
#48 in Materials Science
#57 in Mathematics
#115 in Mechanical Engineering (tie)
#71 in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
#102 in Microbiology (tie)
#105 in Molecular Biology and Genetics
#79 in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
#209 in Neuroscience and Behavior
#236 in Oncology (tie)
#156 in Optics
#422 in Pharmacology and Toxicology (tie)
#92 in Physical Chemistry (tie)
#34 in Physics (tie)
#35 in Plant and Animal Science
#88 in Polymer Science (tie)
#50 in Psychiatry/Psychology (tie)
#249in Public, Environmental and Occupational Health (tie)
#36 in Social Sciences and Public Health
#20 in Space Science
#164 in Surgery
#63 in Water Resources

[Anonymous]

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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

It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??

More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.

Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the US schools will lose ground with research funding being cut. I went to #41, UBC in Canada. It was not hard to get into back in the 90s. My nephew just got in and isn’t a star either. The google tells me acceptance rate is over 50%. Hopefully my kid will want to study in Canada.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

All of those schools are worse than CMU, unless you're into some niche majors.

CMU is the least prestigious there.

[Anonymous]

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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

It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??

More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.

Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?

It has a good retention rate. The other three things are middling for a “top” university.