These Maryland Universities Are Among The Best In The World

U.S. News & World report released a new set of rankings, designating the best global universities and the United States leads the way with some of the best higher education institutions in the world, claiming the top four spots on the list.

Among the universities ranked as the best global universities by U.S. News, it comes as no surprise that several of those schools are right here in Maryland. U.S. News ranked Johns Hopkins University in a tie for the tenth best global university, and the University of Maryland took the number 50 spot.

The rankings evaluated 1,250 universities on the list across 74 countries and 221 American universities made the list. To come up with the rankings, U.S. News first created a pool of universities using various sources, including a global reputation survey. The rankings were then calculated using 13 indicators and weights that U.S. News chose to measure global research performance. (You can see the full methodology here.)

Overall, three Maryland universities made the list's top 250:

• Johns Hopkins University (tie for 10)
• University of Maryland--College Park (50)
• University of Maryland--Baltimore (203)

According to U.S. News, the top 10 universities in the world are:

Harvard University (1)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2)
Stanford University (3)
University of California Berkeley (4)
University of Oxford (United Kingdom) (5)
California Institute of Technology (6)
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) (7)
Columbia University (8)
Princeton University (9)
Johns Hopkins University (10)
University of Washington Seattle (10)
Yale University (10)

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