The third annual U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings were produced to provide insight into how universities compare globally. As an increasing number of students plan to enroll in universities outside of their own country, the Best Global Universities rankings – which focus specifically on schools' academic research and reputation overall and not on their separate undergraduate or graduate programs – can help those applicants accurately compare institutions around the world.
The Best Global Universities rankings also provide insight into how U.S. universities – which U.S. News has been ranking separately for more than 30 years – stand globally. All universities can now benchmark themselves against schools in their own country and region, become more visible on the world stage and find top schools in other countries to consider collaborating with.
The overall Best Global Universities rankings encompass the top 1,000 institutions spread across 65 countries – up from the top 750 universities in 57 countries ranked last year. The first step in producing these rankings, which are powered by Clarivate Analytics InCitesTM, involved creating a pool of 1,262 universities that was used to rank the top 1,000 schools.
To create the pool of 1,262, U.S. News first included the top 200 universities in the results of Clarivate Analytics' global reputation survey, described further below. Next, U.S. News added institutions that had published the largest number of articles during the most recent five-year period (2010-2014) that was used for the bibliometric data, de-duplicated with the top 200 from the reputation survey.
As a result of these criteria, many stand-alone graduate schools, including Rockefeller University and the University of California—San Francisco, were eligible to be ranked and were included in the ranking universe.
The second step was to calculate the rankings using the 12 indicators and weights that U.S. News chose to measure global research performance. Each school's profile page on usnews.com for the top 1,000 universities lists the overall global score as well as numerical ranks for the 12 indicators, allowing students to compare each school's standing in each indicator.
The indicators and their weights in the ranking formula are listed in the table below, with related indicators grouped together; an explanation of each follows.
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