These Massachusetts Universities Are Among The Best In The World: U.S. News & 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 with the top four spots on the list. It should come as no surprise that among the schools ranked as the best global universities by U.S. News, several are right here in Massachusetts.

In fact, the top two spots on the list are taken up by universities in Massachusetts. U.S. News named Harvard the best global university and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology took the number two spot.

The rankings evaluated 1,250 universities on the list across 74 countries, and 221 American universities made the cut. 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, 11 Massachusetts universities made the list:

Harvard University (1)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2)
Boston University (39)
University of Massachusetts-Amherst (126)
Tufts University (173)
Northeastern University (228)
Brandeis University (253)
University of Massachusetts-Worcester (448)
University of Massachusetts-Boston (529)
University of Massachusetts-Lowell (1003)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (unranked)

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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