Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Useless ranking.

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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/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-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.

Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.

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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/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-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.

Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.

dp.. At the top, I don't think graduation rates are that meaningful. What's more meaningful is whether the student was able to secure a good paying job. Look at Zuckerburg, for example. Officially, he did not graduate, but no one can say he is not successful.

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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/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-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?

Tactics such as having kids shuttled off to London or Oakland or any of these random satellite campuses and all the other ploys to game the rankings.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/

NE booster...you never, ever, ever do yourself any favors when you respond. You make everyone think less of the school, yet you just can't help yourself.

We love getting you riled up...and now wait for it everyone...

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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

You forgot:

#1 in Covering up Pedophilia

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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/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-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.

Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.

Only 24% submitted SAT scores and 7% ACT scores on the most recent CDS. Lol. It might not be in the top 75 if they actually looked at scores for everyone.

Its 4 year graduation rate is not that impressive. They don’t report to USNWR (suspicious, especially given their history) but their own data would have them tied for 44th. Lots of fifth years. Have to be good with that or really want the co-op.

Those earnings are only for kids that received federal student aid. But still $11k less than a school like BC.

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QS 2026 ranking also released couple of days ago.

https://www.qs.com/insights/articles/qs-world-university-rankings-results/

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Anonymous wrote:QS 2026 ranking also released couple of days ago.

https://www.qs.com/insights/articles/qs-world-university-rankings-results/

Imperial College at number 2. ETH Zurich at number 7. National University of Singapore at number at 8. University College London at number 9.

High school students in America have been waiting with bated breath for this ranking.

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This ranking is nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:QS 2026 ranking also released couple of days ago.

https://www.qs.com/insights/articles/qs-world-university-rankings-results/

Within the UK itself, this looks mostly right. A few could move a couple of spots up or down but the order otherwise seems mostly accurate.