UNSWR global ranking

Colleges & Universities University of Michigan
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<p>The USNWR published its global rankings. It is as flawed as its undergraduate ranking because it over-emphasizes the importance of international faculty (hence NYU’s and BU’s lofty rankings), but at least the US universities are ranked fairly vis-a-vis each other as far as global importance and institutional quality is concerned:</p>

<p>Top 25 Global Universities:

  1. University of Cambridge
  2. Harvard University
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  4. Yale University
  5. University of Oxford
  6. Imperial College of London
  7. University College of London
  8. University of Chicago
  9. University of Pennsylvania
  10. Columbia University
  11. Stanford University
  12. California Institute of Technology
  13. Princeton University
  14. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  15. Cornell University
  16. Johns Hopkins University
  17. McGill University
  18. ETH Zurich
  19. Duke University
  20. University of Edinburgh
  21. University of California-Berkeley
  22. University of Hong Kong
  23. University of Toronto
  24. Northwestern University
  25. University of Tokyo</p>

<p>Top 25 US Universities:

  1. Harvard University
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. Yale University
  4. University of Chicago
  5. University of Pennsylvania
  6. Columbia University
  7. Stanford University
  8. California Institute of Technology
  9. Princeton University
  10. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  11. Cornell University
  12. Johns Hopkins University
  13. Duke University
  14. University of California-Berkeley
  15. Northwestern University
  16. University of California-Los Angeles
  17. Brown University
  18. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  19. Carnegie Mellon University
  20. New York University
  21. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  22. University of Washington
  23. University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
  24. Boston University
  25. University of Texas-Austin</p>
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<p>I read this before and found it interesting how WUSTL Vanderbilt and Emory dropped in this rankings compared to their USNWR rankings.</p>

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<p>Although they drop, it is not as bad as it looks, primarily because the overall ranking includes universities from all over the world. Among US universities, WUSTL is #27, Emory is #36 and Vanderbilt is #41.</p>

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<p>Alexandre, do you have data from previous years on the world rankings and how Michigan fared?</p>

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<p>Go Blue! Damn it’s nice to be born in Michigan XD haha</p>

<p>I’m so happy I got into a school that even made this list… look at the company we keep!</p>

<p>I still hate college rankings though…</p>

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<p>I agree scottj, I prefer rating universities rather than ranking them. I think comparing schools like Michigan to schools like Dartmouth or Georgetown is pointless and unfair to one or to the other depending on the metrics you use. Michigan’s peers are elite public universities such as Cal, Texas, UCLA, UIUC, UNC, UVa and Wisconsin and large private research universities such as Cornell, Northwestern and Penn.</p>

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<p>UM was 15 last year, if my memory is correct.</p>

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<p>Michigan has done well in international rankings USNWR, Times, QS, ARWU and Newsweek. Having lived my whole life outside the US, I knew it would. The University’s reputation in Europe and the Middle East is extremely strong. Unfortunately, like all rankings, the international rankings are flawed.</p>