UC Berkeley Among Best Colleges In World: U.S. News

BERKELEY, CA — U.S. News & World Report has ranked U.C. Berkeley among the Top 5 universities on Earth. The 5th annual rankings were released on Tuesday and compared 1,250 schools across 75 countries. The United States dominated the list with 227 schools making the list.

Stanford University was ranked the best college in California with an overall ranking of 3, while Berkeley was right behind at 4. Here’s the complete breakdown for our state:

Stanford University
Ranking: 3

UC Berkeley
Ranking: 4

California Institute of Technology
Ranking: 6

University of California Los Angeles
Ranking: 13

University of California San Francisco
Ranking: 15

University of California San Diego
Ranking: 17

University of California Santa Barbara
Ranking: 37

University of California Santa Cruz
Ranking: 58

University of California Davis
Ranking: 60

University of Southern California
Ranking: 62

University of California Irvine
Ranking: 78

University of California Riverside
Ranking: 151

San Diego State University
Ranking: 542

University of California Merced
Ranking: 644

California State University Fullerton
Ranking: 837

San Francisco State University
Ranking: 863

Loma Linda University
Ranking: 924

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The United States boasted four of the top five spots in the global rankings — Harvard University, as you might have guessed, ranked No. 1 — and eight of the top 10. Massachusetts was home to the top two in the world while California boasted three of the top six universities.

Across the 22 subject rankings, which evaluate the humanities, applied sciences, mathematics and more, Harvard ranked No. 1 in 10 subjects — more than any other school, the news outlet said.

Here are the country’s top 10 universities and their global ranks:

1. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (1)
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (2)
3. Stanford University, Stanford, CA (3)
4. University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (4)
5. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (6)
6. Columbia University, New York, NY (8)
7. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (9)
8. University of Washington, Seattle, WA (10)
9. Yale University, New Haven, CT (11)
10. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (12)

However, the U.S. performed among the best in four subjects: neuroscience and behavior, economics and business, computer science and engineering.

“When we first started publishing Best Global Universities, the rankings evaluated 500 schools in 11 countries,” Robert Morse, chief data strategist at U.S. News, said in a release. “Since then, we’ve added 750 schools and have expanded to 75 nations. One thing has remained the same: Schools that prioritize quality academic research remain at the top of the rankings.”

A pool of 1,372 universities were evaluated for the global rankings, which focused on academic research and reputation rather than their separate undergraduate or graduate programs. Thirteen separate ranking factors were used to determine the rankings, specifically: indicators that measure a school’s reputation and so-called bibliometric indicators that measure academic research performance, including citations and publications.
Click here to read more on the methodology.

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