On Tuesday, Oct. 25, U.S. News will release a significantly expanded edition of the Best Global Universities rankings. These rankings, now in their third year, are aimed at the increasing number of students who are enrolling in universities outside of their own country.
Visitors to usnews.com will be able to see which universities are the best globally, as well as those that are highly ranked in certain countries and regions and those that are leaders in key academic subject areas.
To allow prospective students to accurately compare institutions around the world, the rankings focus specifically on schools’ academic research and reputation overall — not their separate undergraduate or graduate programs. The 2017 edition will also show how U.S. universities — which U.S. News has been ranking separately for more than 30 years — stand globally.
One notable change this year is that the overall Best Global Universities rankings will encompass the top 1,000 universities, up from the top 750 last year. These institutions are spread across 65 countries, up from 57 countries in the previous edition. U.S. News will also continue to publish five regional rankings of the top universities in Africa, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe and Latin America.
Country-specific rankings will be published again this year. In the previous edition, U.S. News published 32 country rankings — including 12 countries with large numbers of ranked schools: Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For the 2017 edition, the total number goes up to 38, with the addition of six new country rankings.
In addition, U.S. News will once again publish the top global universities in 22 subject areas, including key fields such as engineering, computer science, and economics and business. For the 2017 edition, U.S. News will significantly increase the number of schools ranked in all subject areas, which will vary between 200 to 400 schools.
In total, more than 300 new schools will appear in the 2017 edition of the Best Global Universities.
To produce the global rankings, which are powered by Clarivate Analytics InCites TM, U.S. News uses a methodology that focuses on factors that measure research performance. The ranking indicators for the overall rankings include those that measure a university’s global and regional reputation and academic research performance using bibliometric indicators such as citations and publications.
U.S. News uses a separate methodology for the subject-specific rankings based on academic research performance in each subject. These rankings are not of academic majors, departments or a specific school at a university like a business or medical school. U.S. News uses various bibliometric measures, including publications and citations, as well as indicators for global and regional reputation in each specific subject.
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Coming Soon: 2017 Best Global Universities Rankings originally appeared on usnews.com
