world university rankings 2018 US

US loses out to UK and Asia in World University Rankings 2018


Times Higher Education publishes list of the top 1,000 global universities; US university makes list of top 10 for the first time in history.

US Rankings as determined by THE:

Rank 2018 Previous year Institution
=3 2 California Institute of Technology
=3 3 Stanford University
5 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6 6 Harvard University
7 7 Princeton University
9 =10 University of Chicago
=10 13 University of Pennsylvania
12 12 Yale University
13 17 Johns Hopkins University
14 16 Columbia University
15 14 University of California, Los Angeles
17 18 Duke University
18 =10 University of California, Berkeley
19 19 Cornell University
20 20 Northwestern University
21 21 University of Michigan
24 23 Carnegie Mellon University
=25 =25 University of Washington
=27 32 New York University
31 41 University of California, San Diego
33 =33 Georgia Institute of Technology
37 =36 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
43 45 University of Wisconsin-Madison
49 50 University of Texas at Austin
=50 =51 Brown University
=50 =57 Washington University in St Louis
53 48 University of California, Santa Barbara
=54 =51 University of California, Davis
=56 53 University of Minnesota
=56 56 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
60 70 Purdue University
66 =60 University of Southern California
69 67 University of Maryland, College Park
=70 64 Boston University
=70 =72 Ohio State University
77 68 Pennsylvania State University
=83 101 Michigan State University
=86 87 Rice University
89 =82 Dartmouth College
98 =82 Emory University
99 =98 University of California, Irvine
=100 =116 University of Colorado Boulder
=100 =80 University of Pittsburgh
=105 108 Vanderbilt University
=113 =121 University of Virginia
=117 150 Indiana University
=123 =104 Georgetown University
=126 131 Arizona State University
=143 134 University of Florida
=150 143 University of Notre Dame
=153 =151 University of Rochester
158 =126 Case Western Reserve University
=159 169 Texas A&M University
161 =156 University of Arizona
=162 146 University of California, Santa Cruz
168 NR University of Alabama at Birmingham
=169 =135 Tufts University
172 141 Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
186 =182 University of Miami
191 =165 University of Massachusetts
193 =182 Northeastern University
=198 =165 University of California, Riverside

For the full rankings, including the top 200 universities around the world, as well as more full methodology, click here.

Material from a press release was used in this report.

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