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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where is UVA?[/quote]
#137 (tied with U Liverpool, U Padua, and the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China)[/quote]
UMD is #72 (tied with UW, UMN)

The methodology is very different from their ranking of US universities.[/quote]

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.[/quote]
Yes, research is part of the methodology.

[quote]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. [/quote]

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/articles/methodology[/quote]

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