U.S. News World University Rankings

Mainbackground

Theoriginofuniversityrankingscanbetracedbackto1870.TheannualreportoftheFederalBureauofEducationranksuniversitiesbasedonthedatatheyhave.Themodernuniversityrankingswerepublishedin1983by"U.S.News&WorldReport"(U.S.News&WorldReport).Theoriginalintentofuniversityrankingsistoevaluatethequalityofcollegesanduniversitiesandtodemonstratetheinfluenceofcollegesanduniversities.

"U.S.NewsandWorldReport"nationaluniversityrankingshavealwaysbeenthemostinfluentialAmericanuniversityrankings.Inthecontextoftheglobalizationofsociety,inordertomeettheneedsofcandidatesfromallovertheworldtochoosetheidealuniversityonaglobalscale,U.S.Newslaunchedtheglobaluniversityrankingsforthefirsttimein2014,includingthetop500universities.

Rankingindicator

Rankindicator

Weight(%)

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Globalacademicreputation

12.50

Regionalacademicreputation

12.50

Paperpublication

10

Books

2.50

Meeting

2.50

Standardizedpapercitationimpactindex

10

Numberofpapercitations

7.50

Thenumberofcitationsin"upto10%ofpublicationscited"

12.50

Publicationsaccountforthemostcited10%ofpublications"Ratio

10

Internationalcollaboration

5

Percentageoftotalpublicationswithinternationalcooperation

5

Thenumberofcitedpapersinthe"Top1%ofthemostcitedpapersinallpublications"intherepresentativefield

5

PublicationsPercentageof"thetop1%paperscitedinallpublications"

5

Referencematerials:(ReleasedonOctober21,2019)

Rankingresults

  • 2021USNewsWorldUniversityRankings

October20,2020,2021USNewsWorldUniversityTherankingispublished.ThetopthreeareHarvardUniversity,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,andStanfordUniversityintheUnitedStates.TherearetwoBritishuniversitiesinthetopten,OxfordUniversityranked5thandCambridgeUniversityranked9th.OnlytheUniversityofTokyoinJapanranksinthetop100,at73.

AtotaloffouruniversitiesinChinaareamongthetop100intheworld,includingTsinghuaUniversity(28),PekingUniversity(51),UniversityofHongKong(83),andTheChineseUniversityofHongKong(95).Inaddition,HongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnology(109),ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity(122),UniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChina(124),ZhejiangUniversity(135),andNanjingUniversity(148)areamongthetop150intheworld.

Relatedevents

July2019,UniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley,ScrippsCollege,MarshillUniversity(MarsHillUniversity),theUniversityofNorthCarolina-PembrokeandJohnson&WalesUniversity(Johnson&WalesUniversity)submittedtheirdataincorrectly,resultingintheiractualrankingshigherthantheoriginalrankings.RemovedfromtherankingofthebestuniversitiesintheUnitedStatesin2019,andallotherschools'rankingsonthelistremainunchanged.Amongthem,thedataonalumnidonationssubmittedbyMarshillUniversityandScrippsCollegeareincorrect;therankingsofhighschoolssubmittedbytheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatPembrokeareincorrect;JohnsonandtheUniversityofWaleshaveoverstatedtheirbudgetsforfinancialresources.

In2012,GeorgeWashingtonUniversitywasremovedfromthecorrespondinglistbyU.S.NewsduetoincorrecthighschoolrankingdatasubmittedbyGeorgeWashingtonUniversity.

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